THE WEEK AHEAD
Eight teams are in action in the first weekend of the season with exclusively conference games.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Bentley at Air Force
7:05 p.m. MT
Cadet Ice Arena
USAFA, Colo.
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• Teams split their four meetings last year, with each winning twice on the road
• First games pitting Bentley assistant coach Gudge Gentzler against his brother, Air Force freshman forward Duke Gentzler
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Sacred Heart at #18/RV Army West Point
7 p.m. ET
Tate Rink
West Point, N.Y.
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• The preseason favorites meet the first-place team as Army looks to bounce back from its first AHA loss
• Teams boast the top two power plays in the conference, with Army at 39.1% (third nationally) and Sacred Heart at 18.8%
Holy Cross at Niagara
7 p.m. ET
Dwyer Arena
Niagara University, N.Y.
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• The home team has won the last five meetings between the schools (one in a shootout)
• Niagara, which hasn’t played a league game since Oct. 3, faces conference opponents in its next 10 games
Bentley at Air Force
7:05 p.m. MT
Cadet Ice Arena
USAFA, Colo.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Canisius at RIT
5 p.m. ET
Gene Polisseni Center
Rochester, N.Y.
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• Teams play a single game this weekend and will meet again at Canisius on the last day of the regular season, Feb. 27
• Canisius plays its ninth of 10 straight road games
• Last conference game for RIT before four straight against ECAC Hockey foes
Holy Cross at Niagara
6 p.m. ET
Dwyer Arena
Niagara University, N.Y.
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Sacred Heart at #18/RV Army West Point
7 p.m. ET
Tate Rink
West Point, N.Y.
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Rankings listed are from the USCHO.com Poll / USA Hockey Poll
TEAM NOTES
AIR FORCE
• Head coach Frank Serratore earned his 543rd career victory on Nov. 7 vs. Army, passing legendary Army coach Jack Riley on the career coaching wins list for all games. Serratore ranks 24th in career coaching wins in all games and 14th in all-time Division I coaching wins.
• Senior goaltender Dominik Wasik (Superior, Colo.) earned his fifth career shutout by stopping all 25 he faced in the 2-0 win over Army on Saturday. His 287 saves this season are the third most in the nation.
ARMY WEST POINT
• Freshman Noah Mertz (Coventry, R.I.) has all five of his points on the Black Knights’ league-leading power play.
• Army has killed off 11 straight shorthanded situations over its last six games. The Black Knights have only allowed seven goals in that time overall, one of them into an empty net.
BENTLEY
• Freshman Saxton Tess (Dallas, Texas) scored his first career goal in overtime, his second point of the game, in Bentley’s 4-3 win over RIT Friday.
• Bentley has averaged 4.2 goals in its five victories and scored just one combined in its five losses.
CANISIUS
• After this weekend’s single game against RIT, Canisius will face Niagara three times in a five-day span Nov. 20-24.
• Seven different players have scored the Golden Griffins’ last seven goals.
HOLY CROSS
• Although he was held to one assist last weekend, Owen Kim (North Vancouver, B.C.) still leads all AHA skaters in scoring by three points with 13 (6G-7A). He is the only conference player with at least 4 GP averaging more than a point per game.
• The Crusaders are outscoring opponents 11-5 in the second period.
NIAGARA
• Niagara leads the AHA in team faceoff percentage (51.7%), the only team north of 50% overall. Marshall Finnie (Lethbridge, Alta.) leads the conference with 125 faceoff wins.
RIT
• Matthew Wilde’s (Mississauga, Ont.) hat trick against Bentley was the first in the conference this season and the first of his career. He added two goals Saturday to move into a tie with Holy Cross’s Kim for the AHA lead with six goals this season.
• Wilde has 73 points (43G-30A) in three seasons at RIT and 77 points (44G-33A) in his collegiate career, including last season at UMass.
ROBERT MORRIS
• The Colonials swept Long Island despite being outshot 81-45 in the two-game series. Charlie Schenkel (Toronto, Ont.) surpassed 1,000 career saves on Friday night and recorded his second career shutout on Saturday.
• #1/1 Wisconsin’s 7-0-1 start has included only one one-goal game beyond its shootout win at Minnesota: its 1-0 home win vs. Robert Morris on Oct. 3.
SACRED HEART
• Junior goaltender Jack Spicer (Rockville, Md.), who hadn’t made a start in his first two-plus years at Sacred Heart, has won three games in a row with a 2.00 goals-against average and a .944 save percentage in that time.
• Sophomore Gavin Bryant (Ingersoll, Ont.) had his third career three-point game Saturday vs. Canisius. He has three multiple-point games in 10 outings this season.
STAT OF THE WEEK
Bentley’s
Alec Leonard (Toronto, Ont.) and Canisius’s
FJ Buteau (Montreal, Que.) are two of only five defensemen nationwide to lead their teams in scoring outright (the others are Kai Graves, Princeton; Michael Hagens, Vermont; and Ty Hanson, Minnesota Duluth).
Most Points, AHA Defensemen
9 – Will Elias, Holy Cross
8 – FJ Buteau, Canisius
7 – Nolan Cunningham, Air Force
7 – Alec Leonard, Bentley
7 – Aiden VanRooyan, Sacred Heart
6 – Theo Lemieux, Niagara
5 – Noah Mertz, Army West Point
THE AHA SHOW
The Atlantic Hockey America Show is published each Thursday during the season on AHA’s YouTube page and wherever you find podcasts.
This week, host
Mike Puzzanghera welcomes AHA Forward of the Week
Matthew Wilde to discuss his successful return to the Tigers.
Last week's episode:
Listen to "Nov. 5, 2026: Holy Cross's Bill Riga" on Spreaker.