{"id":98420,"date":"2015-11-02T00:14:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T06:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wcha-blog\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2015-11-02T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T06:14:50","slug":"three-things-we-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2015\/11\/02\/three-things-we-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things we learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three things we thought we learned about the WCHA the weekend &#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>1. Bottom&#8217;s up<\/h4>\n<p>Yes, I know it&#8217;s early, but it surprising to look at the WCHA standings and see Alabama Huntsville and Alaska Anchorage sitting in a tie for third place right now. Huntsville won twice at Lake Superior State &#8212; in overtime on Friday and by shutout on Saturday. The sweep was the first on the road for the Chargers since Oct. 16-17, 2009 at Air Force. Anchorage, meanwhile, was shut out on Sunday against a good Bowling Green team &#8211; but not before extending an unbeaten streak to five games, its longest since late in the 2011 season. A little early season confidence could be a good thing for these teams.<\/p>\n<h4>2. One unbeaten<\/h4>\n<p>Minnesota State swept Alaska to go to 4-0-0 in conference play (after an 0-4-0 start in out-of-league play) and is the only WCHA team that doesn&#8217;t have a conference loss. Interestingly, the Mavericks swept the two teams that gave them the most fits as season ago, Bemidji State and Alaska, who, combined, went 4-4-1 against MSU last year. The Mavericks looked like last year&#8217;s team on Friday, scoring five goals and limiting the Nanooks to just 15 shots on goal. The grinded out a 2-1 win on Saturday.<\/p>\n<h4>3. Done with each other<\/h4>\n<p>In a quirk of the schedule, Michigan Tech and Ferris State are done playing each other for the season, as they played twice in three weeks. It&#8217;s too bad, too, as they split the two series, with three of the games &#8212; both this past weekend &#8212; being one-goal games. The Huskies won on Malcom Gould&#8217;s overtime goal on Friday and the Bulldogs rebounded thanks to goalie Darren Smith&#8217;s 36 save performance and Andrew Dorantes&#8217; late-third-period game-winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three things we thought we learned about the WCHA the weekend &#8230; 1. Bottom&#8217;s up Yes, I know it&#8217;s early, but it surprising to look at the WCHA standings and see Alabama Huntsville and Alaska Anchorage sitting in a tie for third place right now. 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