This mirrors a thread on the Bantam board, but I thought it worth discussing here. Multiple sources report that a significant change is coming to the CAHA schedule next season. Clubs in So Cal will play a full slate of SCAHA games (one game against each team) each of which will count towards the CAHA standings. Once a month, a small group of teams will travel north for a weekend of games against the 4 NorCal teams.
In other words, SCAHA games no longer are exhibitions, but rather they now "count" towards CAHA playoff eligibility, and CAHA weekends with all teams assembling in one location for each weekend are no more. The season structure becomes essentially the same as SCAHA A/BB/B divisions, plus one weekend tournament in NorCal.
This presumably will reduce the number of league scheduled games by around a third. For sake of comparison, in 2015-16, the So Cal PWAA teams played 12 or 13 SCAHA games plus 16 CAHA weekend games. Next season, if all declared teams actually field, that will be reduced to 20 league games. I can think of a number of pros and cons to this.