The best offense is … a good defense? It was for Air Force on Friday night as the Falcons drummed Holy Cross, 7-2, in an Atlantic Hockey Conference game at Cadet Arena. Four defensemen scored goals, two during a five-goal…
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Air Force showed plenty of resolve in rallying late to tie the score, but Niagara scored in the final minute of overtime to pull out a 4-3 Atlantic Hockey Conference victory on Friday night at Niagara Falls, N.Y. Marshall Bowery…
Freshman Willie Reim scored with 3:25 to play in regulation to lift Air Force into a 1-1 tie with Atlantic Hockey leader Robert Morris at Pittsburgh. The Falcons (4-7-1, 4-3-1-1 AHC) gained a second conference point when junior Max Harper…
Friday’s game checked quite a few necessary boxes for Air Force in no particular order. Power-play goal? Check. Solid goaltending? Check. Overcome adversity in the third period? Check. Rediscover Falcon hockey? In process. The result was a 4-2 Atlantic Hockey…
One and three are two prime numbers Air Force’s hockey team could do without right now. One as in one power-play goal on 34 chances in the Falcons’ first eight games. Three is the percent of the time Air Force…
Saturday was a day of firsts for Air Force’s hockey team, and the most important one was the Falcons’ first victory of the season, a 4-3 Atlantic Hockey cliffhanger over Sacred Heart at Bridgeport, Conn. Junior winger Shawn Knowlton scored…
If you can get past the video-game like goal and shots on goal totals, there were some other signs that Air Force might be onto something this season. The Falcons took apart Trinity Western, 8-0, and outshot their exhibition guests…
When the chips are down, who will Air Force’s hockey team turn to during the 2019-20 season? The Falcons typically groom players to take starring roles when they’re upperclassmen, and this season’s roster would seem to be no exception. 2019-20…
If someone had put me in a headlock before Air Force’s 2018-19 hockey season and asked me which player I thought would garner the most three stars selections I would have said, “That’s easy – senior Billy Christopoulos.” It wasn’t…
The numbers aren’t pretty – collectively no goals for the past 14 games. And two of the three members had no goals all season. Yet there was Air Force’s fourth line scoring the decisive goal off the stick of junior…
