Three things I learned from following Atlantic Hockey this week:<\/p>\n
Playing at home matters.<\/strong> The AHA is only 5-30-4 in non-conference play, but just seven of those 39 games have been played in Atlantic Hockey rinks. In those games, the league is a respectable 2-3-2. So again, that’s 3-27-2 on the road, and 2-3-2 at home. It’s tough for some schools to attract non-league opponents to come into their home rinks. So far, only Niagara, Rochester Institute of Technology, Robert Morris and Army have hosted non-league home games. But eventually, every AHA team except Sacred Heart and American International will host a non-conference game this season.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Who’s Hot:<\/strong> Holy Cross, which defeated No. 7 Boston University on Saturday at Agganis Arena. The Crusaders, who pulled off a huge upset of top-ranked Minnesota in the 2006 NCAA tournament, became the first AHA team to beat BU.<\/p>\n “It’s fantastic for this group of guys because none of these guys were here for Minnesota,” Holy Cross coach Paul Pearl said after the game. “This is a testament to these guys working hard.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Who’s Not:<\/strong> Coming off an emotional overtime win against St. Lawrence in front over 10,000 fans last Saturday, the Tigers managed to score just one goal in a pair of games last week. A 3-1 loss at Canisius snapped an eight-game winning streak for the Tigers over the Golden Griffins, and on Saturday RIT was pounded 5-0 at home by Union. It was the largest margin of defeat on home ice for the Tigers in 17 years. RIT has yet to score a goal at Frank Ritter Arena in two games so far this season, the first time it has suffered consecutive shutouts at home in the program’s 42-year history.<\/p>\n Tiger coach Wayne Wilson says he isn’t worried…yet. ” “It’s funny how those things work,” he said after Saturday’s game. “The next game could be a big scoring game. We’ve got to work hard to get our goals. We can’t be pretty and hope things happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three things I learned from following Atlantic Hockey this week: Playing at home matters. The AHA is only 5-30-4 in non-conference play, but just seven of those 39 games have been played in Atlantic Hockey rinks. In those games, the league is a respectable 2-3-2. So again, that’s 3-27-2 on the road, and 2-3-2 at […]<\/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