At first glance, it’s pretty tough to glean positives from a weekend where a team posts back-to-back losses. Despite two straight losses to the RIT Tigers this weekend, that’s exactly where Bentley finds themselves.<\/p>\n
The Falcons lost, 6-3, to the Tigers on Saturday night, providing the back end of a four-point weekend for the visitors from Atlantic Hockey’s western sector, but along the way, they’re finding that they’re still a solid team, despite one very large missing piece.<\/p>\n
For the second straight night, RIT used special teams to pave their road to victory. On a power play in the first six minutes, Caleb Cameron popped a puck over the defense to Erik Brown. A bounce and a swat later, the Tigers found themselves up 1-0 on a fluky type play.<\/p>\n
Later in the period, Bentley found themselves on a five-on-three power play and couldn’t manage a shot. Toward the end of the ensuing five-on-four, after the Tigers got a player back, Abbott Girduckis found Myles Powell for a short-handed goal that gave RIT a 2-0 lead. Later in the period, with Bentley back on a power play, Girduckis and Powell did it again, beating an odd-man rush to put the Tigers up 3-0 with six seconds left.<\/p>\n
Bentley bounced back with an early goal in the second, but surrendered two more goals late in the period for a 5-1 lead after two. The Falcons refused to go away, scoring twice early in the third to cut the lead to 5-3 before an empty-net goal sealed their fate.<\/p>\n
“I honestly thought our penalty kill was pretty good,” said Bentley coach Ryan Soderquist. “We did give up a goal, but it was a bad bounce. That’s not a concern of mine right now, and I think we’ll be okay there. Our power play is in tough shape right now, but that falls on my shoulders. With the five-on-three, we simply didn’t make plays that we should make, and we need to execute and get on the same page.”<\/p>\n
The positive to glean is that Bentley, this early in the season, is capable of hanging with the league’s two-time defending champions. If they can take away the two major mistakes on the power play, the game becomes a 3-3 game.<\/p>\n
“I think our five-on-five play was pretty even,” said Soderquist. “I felt like our five-on-five shot totals were pretty even. I thought we played well there; our issues are with special teams, and special teams and goaltending are where you win games. Our power play was minus-2 and we gave up a power-play goal, so that makes us minus-3 and we lost by three.”<\/p>\n
Atlantic Hockey roundup<\/strong><\/p>\n No. 15 Ohio State 6, at Niagara 2<\/strong> No. 19 Penn State 4, Canisius 2<\/strong> Yale 4, Sacred Heart 1<\/strong> Army West Point 2, at Robert Morris 1<\/strong> Mercyhurst 6, AIC 3<\/strong> At first glance, it’s pretty tough to glean positives from a weekend where a team posts back-to-back losses. Despite two straight losses to the RIT Tigers this weekend, that’s exactly where Bentley finds themselves. The Falcons lost, 6-3, to the Tigers on Saturday night, providing the back end of a four-point weekend for the visitors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22529"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Buckeyes remained undefeated thanks to two first-period goals. Leading 3-1 after two, they iced their fifth victory with three goals in the first five minutes of the third period, sweeping the Purple Eagles in New York.<\/p>\n
\nAfter Canisius scored to take a 1-0 lead, the Nittany Lions took a 2-1 lead in the first period before opening up a 3-1 lead. Canisius added a short-handed goal to cut the lead to one before the end of the second, but they couldn’t tie up Penn State, which won for the second straight night.<\/p>\n
\nThe Bulldogs overcame a Jeff Carroll goal to lead 3-1 in the first period to win their home opener. Of the 18 penalties called, three came in the first, with the remaining whistles crossing the second and third period.<\/p>\n
\nThe Colonials outshot the Black Knights by a 36-17 difference, including a 21-6 third period margin. Parker Gahagen out-dueled Francis Marotte and protected what was a 2-0 lead, only allowing the one third-period goal to give his team the weekend split.<\/p>\n
\nLester Lancaster scored twice as the Lakers opened a 6-0 lead in the second period. AIC scored three times to rally, but it wasn’t enough as Mercyhurst earned the home ice split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"