Polls, Awards, and Honors -- Week of October 26, 2015

After sweeping Air Force at home on the opening weekend for Baxter Arena, we're going to use this post to catalog the awards and honors for this week, and report poll results.

First up is the USCHO poll, released at 11 a.m. on Monday.

The USA Today / USA Hockey Magazine poll quickly followed. It was nice to see that UNO didn't drop in the poll, as some had surmised they might.

Here's the OMavs story about the poll results:
http://www.omavs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=31400&ATCLID=210453503

Update as of 5 p.m. 10/26/15: UNO Hockey did not garner any winners this week in the NCHC "Players of the Week" honors.

Two Mav FANS garnered recognition from the National Collegiate Hockey Conference this week -- we shared "Co-Sporting Ngin Fan of the Week" honors with Caitlin and Carl Harms. Here's the Tweets:

Congrats to our 1st @SportNgin #NCHCFan of the Week, newlywed @Carlos_Harms, who saw @UNO_Hockey open @BaxterArena! https://t.co/TwEgPYpApm

— The NCHC (@TheNCHC) October 27, 2015

And congrats to our 2nd @SportNgin #NCHCFan of the Week, @Mavpuck, who celebrated an anniversary with @UNO_Hockey! https://t.co/Wf5UjLH27c

— The NCHC (@TheNCHC) October 27, 2015

Two Mavs made the "Top 5 Plays of the Week" for Oct. 23-24:
http://www.nchc.tv/nchc/video/nchc-nchc-top-5-plays-of-the-week---s3,-episode-3-10-27-15



Watch for Austin Ortega's goal at the :55 mark (his is goal #3 in the highlights) and Steven Spinner made UNO Hockey history with the first goal in Baxter Arena history -- watch it at the 1:36 mark of the video.

And the Mavs are #1 in The NCHC power rankings, from Along The Board:
http://alongtheboards.com/2015/10/nchc-power-rankings-omahas-hot-start-continues/