{"id":132711,"date":"2022-02-21T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=132711"},"modified":"2022-02-21T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:37:48","slug":"sweeps-hard-to-come-by-four-conferences-up-for-grabs-weekend-review-college-hockey-podcast-season-4-episode-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/21\/sweeps-hard-to-come-by-four-conferences-up-for-grabs-weekend-review-college-hockey-podcast-season-4-episode-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweeps hard to come by, four conferences up for grabs: Weekend Review college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Jim Connelly, Derek Schooley, and Ed Trefzger look at this past weekend&#8217;s games and news.<\/p>\n<p>This podcast is sponsored by DCU \u2013 Digital Federal Credit Union \u2013 at <a href=\"https:\/\/dcu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dcu.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topics include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sweeps were hard to come by this past weekend for top-20 teams<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Quinnipiac\u2019s loss to Harvard probably keeps them from top four in PairWise<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 AIC, Minnesota State clinch their respective regular-season titles, but no other conference is close to a clinch<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What team feels best poised for a late-season run?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Can special teams be the magic formula?<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to this podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/uscho-weekend-review\/id1437717449?mt=2\">on Apple podcasts<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/3185675\/episodes\/feed\">your favorite podcast app<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/uscholive\">Spreaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=48820491&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>About the hosts<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Jim Connelly<\/strong> is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. 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