The minor conferences are the CHA and the Atlantic Hockey Association. Many of the members of these conferences are new to Division I hockey post-1998. Originally, the CHA was built with teams that needed a conference that could compete with the other traditional conferences, moreso than Atlantic Hockey. Atlantic Hockey, formerly MAAC, was built to be a cost-containment league. They allow their teams to participate at the Division I level without having to provide the full compliment of 18 scholarships that are prevalent among the major conferences.