2020-21 NEHC Men's Season

This was to be the 2020-21 New England Hockey Conference Men's season. This is the league's sixth season under this name. The league was previously known as ECAC East.

The conference would announce the cancellation of both men's and women's hockey for the 2020-21 playing season.

Babson, Castleton, and New England College would attempt to play a non-conference schedule along with several other men's Division III programs in New England.

Membership Changes

 * The Suffolk Rams men's ice hockey team leaves the conference as the university joins the Commonwealth Coast Conference as its' all sports home as the university is adding a women's team for the 2020-21 season.


 * On May 5, 2020 the Johnson and Wales Wildcats men's ice hockey team announced the team would be moving its' home games to the New England Sports Village in Attleboro, Massachusetts starting with the 2020-21 season.

Conference Tournament
The tournament is cancelled along with the rest of the conference season.

Format
The top eight teams qualify for the single elimination tournament. All games are held at the higher seeded team's rink. The tournament winner earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.