{"id":784,"date":"2012-10-05T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/hockey-east-blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2012-10-05T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:11:32","slug":"hockey-east-picks-october-6-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2012\/10\/05\/hockey-east-picks-october-6-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey East picks, Oct. 6-10, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems almost unthinkable that the college hockey season is already upon us. This weekend (and week to come), there are three games involving Hockey East teams. So let&#8217;s kick off our season of predictions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, Oct. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quinnipiac at Maine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s pick: The Black Bears lost a lot but do return Dan Sullivan in net, which to me gives them an edge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maine 5, QU 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8217;s pick: I see Maine coming out ahead as well, but in a much lower scoring game. The Black Bears won&#8217;t have the 2011-2012 power play and first line lighting up the scoreboard so will need to win more in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maine 3, QU 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Merrimack at Union<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s pick: Though the Warriors are coming off two pretty solid seasons, Union is coming off its first Frozen Four appearance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Union 3, MC 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8217;s pick: Merrimack has been a feel-good story in Hockey East the last couple years, but I expect a tough time in the early going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Union 4, MC 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, Oct. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Merrimack at Northeastern <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s pick: The Hockey East slate begins both early and midweek this season. The fact that Merrimack will have one game under its belt will help the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MC 4, NU 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8217;s pick: I&#8217;m going with the Huskies at home. The Warriors are likely to need quite a few games under their belts before they effectively replace D-zone studs&#160;Joe Cannata and Karl Stollery.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>NU 4, MC 2<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems almost unthinkable that the college hockey season is already upon us. This weekend (and week to come), there are three games involving Hockey East teams. So let&#8217;s kick off our season of predictions. Saturday, Oct. 6 Quinnipiac at Maine Jim&#8217;s pick: The Black Bears lost a lot but do return Dan Sullivan in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[1425,934],"tags":[1236,1490],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hockey East picks, Oct. 6-10, 2012 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It seems almost unthinkable that the college hockey season is already upon us. 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