{"id":97112,"date":"2013-12-08T19:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T01:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/atlantic-hockey-blog\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2013-12-08T19:34:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T01:34:36","slug":"three-things-atlantic-hockey-december-8-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2013\/12\/08\/three-things-atlantic-hockey-december-8-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Things: Atlantic Hockey – December 8, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three (OK, four, but they’re short) Things from Atlantic Hockey play this weekend:<\/p>\n

Rebound<\/h4>\n

On Friday, Canisius led host Army 3-2 after two periods before blowing the game open with five goals in the third to win, 8-2. The Griffs chased Black Knight goaltender Rob Tadazak with their sixth goal, the first career tally for rookie Shane Conacher (yes, relation).<\/p>\n

It’s always interesting to see how a team responds to a blowout loss. Would Army coach Brian Riley make wholesale changes? How would the Black Knights react, especially if they fell behind early?<\/p>\n

Riley elected to go back to Tadazak, and he and sophomore Shane Hearn led the Black Knights to a rebound 2-0 win on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Hearn got Army a lead it wouldn’t surrender midway through the second period, and added an insurance goal with 58 seconds left to seal the deal. Tadazak stopped all 15 shots he faced for the shutout. Those 15 shots were a season low for the Golden Griffins. Army surrendered 35 to Canisius the night before.<\/p>\n

“I am sure there are some people that would not come back to Tadazak tonight,” Riley said after the game<\/a>. “But he is a competitor, and he gave us a chance to win tonight and I was happy to see him bounce back the way he did.”<\/p>\n

Milestones<\/h4>\n

Usually it’s near the end of a season that you see players achieve career records or milestones, but a pair of achievements happened this past weekend:<\/p>\n