With Wednesday’s tie between Bentley and Air Force in the books, there are ten games left in the Atlantic Hockey regular season.<\/p>\n
Here are each team’s chances heading into the final weekend, updated with Wednesday’s tie:<\/p>\n
1. Robert Morris<\/strong> T2. Air Force<\/strong> T2. Holy Cross<\/strong> T2. Rochester Institute of Technology<\/strong> 5. Mercyhurst<\/strong> 6. Canisius<\/strong> T7. Bentley<\/strong> T7. Sacred Heart<\/strong> 9. Army West Point<\/strong> 10. Niagara<\/strong> 11. American International<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With Wednesday’s tie between Bentley and Air Force in the books, there are ten games left in the Atlantic Hockey regular season. Here are each team’s chances heading into the final weekend, updated with Wednesday’s tie: 1. Robert Morris Games left: at Canisius, home against Canisius Can finish: 1st-4th Outlook: The Colonials control their own […]<\/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
\nGames left: at Canisius, home against Canisius
\nCan finish: 1st-4th
\nOutlook: The Colonials control their own destiny, and can clinch their second consecutive regular season title with a win. A single point guarantees them at least a share of the title. They are already ensured of a home quarterfinal series.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: At Niagara (2x)
\nCan finish: 1st-5th
\nOutlook: The Falcons are tied for second with RIT and Holy Cross, but hold tiebreakers with both.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: at Sacred Heart; home against Sacred Heart
\nCan finish: 1st-5th
\nOutlook: Like Air Force and RIT, the Crusaders still have an outside chance to win the regular season title. CHC’s tiebreaker with RIT is yet to be determined because they are even all the way to the fifth tiebreaker, which is winning percentage against the No. 1 seed, then No. 2 if still tied, etc.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: home against Mercyhrust; at Mercyhurst
\nCan finish: 1st-5th. The Tigers are among a group of four (Air Force, Holy Cross, RIT and Mercyhurst) that have clinched a bye but not home ice in the quarterfinals, which goes to the top four seeds. They lose tiebreakers to Robert Morris and Air Force and cannot end in a tie in the standings with Mercyhurst.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: at RIT; home against RIT
\nCan finish: 2nd-5th.
\nOutlook: If the Lakers fail to get three points, they can finish no higher than fifth. They hold the tiebreaker with Air Force, and lose to Robert Morris and Holy Cross.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: home against Robert Morris; at Robert Morris
\nCan finish: 6th-8th
\nOutlook: Since Bentley and Army play each other this weekend, both can’t tie or pass Canisius, so that means the Golden Griffins have clinched home ice in the first round. Canisius holds tiebreakers over the Falcons but not the Black Knights or Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: at Army West Point; home against Army West Point
\nCan finish: 6th-9th
\nOutlook: The Falcons are competing with Army and Sacred Heart for two of the three remaining home ice slots in the first round. Bentley has the tiebreaker with Sacred Heart, but not Canisius. Army and Bentley cannot end up tied.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: home against Holy Cross; at Holy Cross
\nCan finish: 6th-9th
\nOutlook: See Bentley. SHU loses in a tiebreaker to Bentley and Army West Point, but wins against Canisius.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: home against Bentley; at Bentley
\nCan finish: 6th-9th
\nOutlook: See Bentley and Canisius. The Black Knights have the tiebreaker advantage over Sacred Heart and Canisius. Army and Bentley cannot finish tied.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: home against Air Force (2x)
\nCan finish: 10th
\nOutlook: Niagara is locked into the tenth seed regardless of what happens this weekend. The Purple Eagles will travel to the No. 7 seed for the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n
\nGames left: none
\nCan finish: 11th
\nThe Yellow Jackets are currently even in points with Niagara, but have no games left and lose the tiebreaker, so they will finish last and travel to the No. 6 seed.<\/p>\n