Latest Eastern team takes hockey back to its ACHA roots

By PAUL DELANEY

Staff Reporter

It’s a place that most would never imagine as a “hockey school,” but Eastern Washington University appears to becoming just that.

Not only does the school field a club team competing in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League — at home there since 2011 — but now a second group returns to its roots in the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

“The best way to look at it is we’re fortunate enough to have enough quality hockey players (so) in essence we’re fielding two varsity hockey teams,” the team’s head coach, Pat Hanlon said.

The Eagles revisit the...