Changes are coming for Division I men’s and women’s college hockey programs, the NCAA recently announced. Beginning this season, teams can schedule exhibition games against other Division I teams without seeking a waiver from the NCAA. In addition, teams will be able to start their full practices a week earlier. Division I teams are allowed to have eight hours of practice per week in September — four hours on the ice and four hours off the ice — before that expands to 20 hours per week the first full week of October. Now the men’s programs will be able to jump from eight hours to 20 hours for the last week of September.