{"id":97368,"date":"2012-02-06T00:21:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T06:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/ccha-blog\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2012-02-06T00:21:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T06:21:48","slug":"weekend-work-up-feb-6-2012-a-short-rotation-for-first-place-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2012\/02\/06\/weekend-work-up-feb-6-2012-a-short-rotation-for-first-place-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend work-up, Feb. 6, 2012: A short rotation for first place &#8212; for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just three weekends of play remaining, nothing will be decided until the very end.  Three things from this most recent weekend of play.<br \/>\n<strong>1.  The Ferris State-Western Michigan series at the end of February will determine the regular-season champion, unless &#8230; <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2.  &#8230;the Wolverines have something to say about it.<\/strong><br \/>\nOkay, so this is a twofer.<br \/>\nFor the second weekend in a row, the Broncos were on top of the CCHA standings after Friday&#8217;s play only to concede the spot to the Bulldogs the following night.  That&#8217;s because for the second weekend in a row, WMU split with one of the bottom two teams in the league. Last weekend, WMU lost a Saturday game to Bowling Green; this weekend, it was Alaska.  A 4-4-0 record in CCHA play to begin the second half has put the Broncos just within reach of first place.<br \/>\nThe Bulldogs hang on to first place by virtue of the Broncos&#8217; Saturday night slip and the single point Ferris State was able to secure in Friday&#8217;s 5-5 tie against Northern Michigan before beating the Wildcats on Saturday. Senior defenseman Aaron Schmit&#8217;s fourth goal of the season &#8212; his 12th career goal &#8212; unassisted at 10:13 in the third, knotted the game.<br \/>\nFSU is the steadiest team in college hockey right now, with the longest unbeaten streak (7-0-3) in the country.  In a league as tough as this season&#8217;s CCHA, that&#8217;s still not enough &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; especially when the Wolverines are playing as well as they are.  Michigan is as good as any team in the country right now, fueled by a solid defense and the outstanding second-half play of goaltender Shawn Hunwick.  With their second sweep of the second half, the Wolverines are 6-1-1 in conference play in 2012, and they&#8217;ll have something to say about who&#8217;s in first place at the end of February.<br \/>\n<strong>3.  No one is going to want to play Bowling Green in the first round of the CCHA playoffs.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn fact, no one wants to play them now.  For the second weekend in a row, the Falcons humbled a ranked team on a Saturday night.  Two weeks ago, it was Western Michigan.  This past Saturday, it was Notre Dame &#8212; and the Falcons came from behind on the road to do it.  Freshman Ryan Carpenter scored at 5:17 and 18:22 in the third period to lift BG over ND, keeping the Fighting Irish out of a tie with WMU for second place.<br \/>\nWith the split in South Bend, the Falcons are 3-3-2 in CCHA play in the second half.  That&#8217;s .500 hockey &#8212; same as second-place Western Michigan, with one fewer win but one more point in that same stretch of games.<br \/>\nWhat a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just three weekends of play remaining, nothing will be decided until the very end. Three things from this most recent weekend of play. 1. The Ferris State-Western Michigan series at the end of February will determine the regular-season champion, unless &#8230; 2. &#8230;the Wolverines have something to say about it. Okay, so this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[1300,1483],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekend work-up, Feb. 6, 2012: A short rotation for first place - for now - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With just three weekends of play remaining, nothing will be decided until the very end. Three things from this most recent weekend of play. 1. 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