Atlantic Hockey Showdown: Air Force Wins Battle of Goalies, Captures Atlantic Hockey Title

The Air Force Falcons captured the Atlantic Hockey Championship on Saturday night with a 2-1 victory in front of a nearly empty Blue Cross Arena in Rochester New York. This is most likely due to the fact that RIT did not make it to the finals for the first time in two years, RIT had won the past two Atlantic Hockey Championships. Senior Forward Ben Robillard was the only player able to crack Air Force's stingy defense while Junior Forwards Erik Baskin and Jordan Himley. Sophomore Goaltender Shane Starrett had 24 saves on 25 shots for Air Force while Freshman Francis Marotte had 12 saves on 13 shots in the loss for RMU. With the victory, Air Force receives an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament which will be starting next week. The Air Force Falcons will enter the NCAA tournament with a record of 26-9-5 and will play the Western Michigan Broncos in the first round.

Western Michigan will enter this game with a record of 22-15-5 and played Air Force at home in mid-November of this season, tying the Falcons 5-5 before beating them 4-1 on the very next night. The Broncos are led in scoring by forward Matheson Iacopelli who has 20 goals and 16 assists in 39 games played this season.

The Game will be played on Friday March 24th and can be seen on ESPN 3.

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Ottawa 67's Vs. London Knights February 20, 2017

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Steelheads Use Six Goal 3rd Period to Roll Over Petes

The Mississauga Steelheads defeated the Peterborough Petes 10-1 in front of 2,282 of their home fans. The Steelheads opened up the scoring at around the midway point of the first period and didn’t stop scoring until near the end of the second period, by that time the Steelheads where up 4-0. At 17:30 of the 2 nd period Peterborough’s Logan DeNoble scored his 32 nd goal of the season to break the Steelheads run, however this would be the only goal they would score all game. The Steelheads would continue to pour it on the in the third period, scoring six more goals before the end of the game. Mississauga was lead offensively by Michael McLeod 93 (3 goals, 3 assists) and Spencer Watson (2 goals, 2 assists) and rookie goaltender Jacob Ingham stopped 26 of 27 shots faced for the victory. Petes goaltender Scott Smith was left in for all 10 goals and only managed to stop 24 of 34 shots faced in the loss. This was the first win of the season over the Petes this

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