How I'd Change ECAC Hockey

Last weekend's nonconference games against SLU were, in part, due to the fact that both schools have a hard time finding nonconference opponents this late in the season.
That's because every other conference plays more games than ECAC Hockey.
Here's a breakdown of how many conference games the other leagues play:
Atlantic Hockey 28
CCHA 28
CHA 20 (had only five teams last year, however)
ECAC Hockey 22
Hockey East 27
WCHA 28

As you can see, ECAC Hockey is well behind its peers. Part of this is due to the Ivy League teams, which limit the number of total games in a year they wish to play for academic reasons.

Here is how I'd solve this problem in a way I think appeals to both factors, split the conference into two divisions: Ivy and non-Ivy (I'd name the non-Ivy after a retired or deceased famous coach who was at a non-Ivy school)

So the conference would look like this:
Ivy Division (Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Brown)
Other Division (SLU, Clarkson, Colgate, Union, RPI, Quinnipiac)

As for the schedule, for the Ivy teams it would remain the same, two games against each other and two games against the other division. For the new division, they'd add one extra game against each of the other five teams, with the home site rotating each year. So if Clarkson played two home games against Colgate one year, the next year they'd have two games at Colgate.

How would the playoffs work?
I'd just seed them similar to now, but the top two teams in each conference would get the first-round byes. You have two options here. You can pit No. 3 Ivy vs. No. 6 non-Ivy, etc, or you can keep the playoffs strictly to divisions and send two Ivy's and two non-Ivy's to Albany.

Anyway, that's what I'd do to fix the scheduling issues and bring the ECAC more up to par with it's peers. I welcome comments on this from others.