{"id":97035,"date":"2012-01-08T21:21:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/atlantic-hockey-blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2012-01-08T21:21:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:21:59","slug":"every-second-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2012\/01\/08\/every-second-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Every second counts"},"content":{"rendered":"
Three things I learned from Atlantic Hockey this weekend:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Every second counts<\/strong> – There was plenty of high drama in this weekend’s Robert Morris – Bentley series. On Friday, the Falcons got the game winner from freshman Alex Grieve with 9.7 seconds remaining for a 2-1 win. On Saturday, it was the Colonials’ turn for some last-minute heroics when another rookie, freshman Cody Wydo, tied the game at 2-2 with just two ticks on the clock. That one ended in a tie.<\/p>\n 2. One weekend can make for a dramatic shift in the standings<\/strong> – That goal by Wydo kept Robert Morris in sole possesion of third place, but there’s a logjam near the top of the standings with seven teams within five points of the lead. Air Force fell out of first place for the first time in over a month, getting just one point at Holy Cross while Mercyhurst cruised to a sweep of Sacred Heart and into first place.<\/p>\n 3. The east scheduling “pod” gained some momentum<\/strong> – There’s only two weekends left of east-west play before the league settles into the home stretch of inter-pod play. The west had been dominating the east-west matchups, going 24-6-6 against the east. But this weekend the east played to a 4-4-2 draw, including Holy Cross and Bentley taking three points from Air Force and Robert Morris, respectively and UConn sweeping Niagara.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Getting my vote<\/strong><\/p>\n Here’s my ballot for Monday’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s poll:<\/p>\n 1. Minnesota Duluth Three things I learned from Atlantic Hockey this weekend: 1. Every second counts – There was plenty of high drama in this weekend’s Robert Morris – Bentley series. On Friday, the Falcons got the game winner from freshman Alex Grieve with 9.7 seconds remaining for a 2-1 win. On Saturday, it was the Colonials’ turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[772,1478],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n2. Notre Dame
\n3. Boston College
\n4. Ohio State
\n5. Minnesota
\n6. Boston University
\n7. Merrimack
\n8. Western Michigan
\n9. Colorado College
\n10. Cornell
\n11. Ferris State
\n12. Mass-Lowell
\n13. Union
\n14. Denver
\n15. Colgate
\n16. Michigan
\n17. North Dakota
\n18. Yale
\n19. Michigan State
\n20. Air Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"