The Lightning Holiday Classic college hockey tournament appears to be no more. Although not greatly attended, it did get Tampa Bay’s name out there in the college hockey market place, which is somewhat important since the area is hosting the 2012 Frozen Four NCAA tournament.

Apparently, the tournament is being moved to an Chicago suburb in early January.

UPDATE: Wanted to pass along some information in regards to this post. The tournament is indeed not happening. Seems that it became a bit too cost prohibitive and the schools participating this year - reportedly of which Notre Dame was responsible for acquiring - just weren’t attractive enough to try and draw interest in the four-school tournament. Lower than hoped attendence numbers certainly didn’t help, so new ownership opted not to continue hosting the event.