{"id":97050,"date":"2012-03-08T21:50:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/atlantic-hockey-blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2012-03-08T21:50:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:50:51","slug":"atlantic-hockey-picks-march-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2012\/03\/08\/atlantic-hockey-picks-march-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Hockey Picks March 9-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Final Regular Reason Record:<\/strong> 155-63-30 (.685)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>&#160;This Week&#8217;s Picks:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Atlantic Hockey Playoffs: Quarterfinals<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Best of Three Series<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Friday, March 2 &#8211; Sunday, March 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 8 Connecticut at No. 1 Air Force<\/strong> &#8211; While I think the other three series are toss-ups, this one favors the 19th-ranked Falcons, who swept the Huskies during the regular season and are 17-2 all-time in AHA postseason play. If the Falcons can stay out of the penalty box and keep the league-best UConn power play off the ice, I think they&#8217;ll sweep. <strong>Air Force in two.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 7 Robert Morris at No. 2 Niagara<\/strong> &#8211; For the seniors on each squad this will their 20th, 21st and possibly 22nd game against each other. I think it will go three, low scoring games, echoing the teams&#8217; games against each other this season (2-1, 2-1, 2-2). <strong>Niagara in three.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 6 Bentley at No. 3 Rochester Institute of Technology<\/strong> &#8211; The Tigers won a pair of close games (1-0, 2-1) at Bentley earlier in the season. RIT has never lost in the quarterfinal round, going 8-1 with all the games on home ice. I think this one is going three games as well, with the home team prevailing. <strong>RIT in three.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 5 Holy Cross at No. 4 Mercyhurst<\/strong> &#8211; These teams wound up tied in the standings but Holy Cross had to play last weekend due to a tie and overtime loss to the Lakers earlier in the season. Those games were close and these will be as well, but I&#8217;m picking the Crusaders to sweep. Holy Cross in two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take Me On<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to chime in by posting your picks in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Regular Reason Record: 155-63-30 (.685) &#160;This Week&#8217;s Picks: Atlantic Hockey Playoffs: Quarterfinals Best of Three Series Friday, March 2 &#8211; Sunday, March 4 No. 8 Connecticut at No. 1 Air Force &#8211; While I think the other three series are toss-ups, this one favors the 19th-ranked Falcons, who swept the Huskies during the regular [&hellip;]<\/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":[1425,934],"tags":[683,772,1478],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Atlantic Hockey Picks March 9-11 - 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