2017 Atlantic Hockey Tournament

2017 Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates	March 3-18, 2017
Teams	11
Finals site	Blue Cross Arena Rochester, New York
Champions	Air Force (6th title)
Winning coach	Frank Serratore (6th title)
MVP	(Air Force)
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The 2017 Atlantic Hockey Tournament is the 13th Atlantic Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 3 and March 18, 2017 at home campus locations and at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. The tournament champion Air Force was granted Atlantic Hockey's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format[]

The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round the sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds, as determined by the conference regular season standings, will play a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. The top five teams from the conference regular season standings receive a bye to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest-ranked first round winner, the second seed and second-highest-ranked first round winner, the third seed and highest-ranked first round winner, and the fourth seed and the fifth seed will play a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest remaining seeds will play a single game each, with the winners advancing to the championship game. The tournament champion will receive an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Standings[]

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2016–17 Atlantic Hockey standings v t
	Conference record								Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Canisius	28	18	4	6	42	90	53		39	21	11	7	107	85
#12 Air Force*	28	19	6	3	41	91	56		42	27	10	5	133	93
Army	28	15	10	3	33	77	56		37	18	14	5	100	78
Robert Morris	28	15	10	3	33	86	73		38	22	12	4	123	95
Holy Cross	28	11	10	7	29	78	78		36	14	15	7	99	106
RIT	28	13	15	0	26	90	79		37	14	22	1	108	111
Mercyhurst	28	11	13	4	26	82	83		39	15	20	4	106	123
Bentley	28	10	12	6	26	78	82		39	13	19	7	101	120
Sacred Heart	28	10	15	3	23	67	87		37	13	19	5	88	116
American International	28	7	14	7	21	63	91		36	8	20	8	82	122
Niagara	28	3	23	2	8	55	119		39	5	31	3	76	168
Championship: March 18, 2017 indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 6, 2017

Bracket[]

Army and Robert Morris finished tied for third. Army wins the 5th tiebreaker (record against #1 seed). RIT, Mercyhurst and Bentley finished tied for sixth place. RIT was seeded sixth with tie breakers over both (head-to-head wins and conference wins) while Mercyhurst was placed seventh (conference wins).

	First round March 3–5							Quarterfinals March 10–12							Semifinals March 17					Championship March 18
								1	Canisius	3	2	–			1	Canisius	2
	6	RIT	4	5	1			11	Niagara	0	1	–			4	Robert Morris	6
	11	Niagara	5	0	4
								2	Air Force	4	2	—
	7	Mercyhurst	4	5	–			8	Bentley	0	1	—								4	Robert Morris	1
	10	American International	3	0	–															2	Air Force	2
								3	Army	6	2	4
	8	Bentley	1	5	3**			7	Mercyhurst	4	3*	3
	9	Sacred Heart	4	2	2
								4	Robert Morris	6	3	—			2	Air Force	1
								5	Holy Cross	3	2	—			3	Army	0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results[]

First Round[]

(6) RIT vs. (11) Niagara[]

March 3[1]	RIT		4 – 5		Niagara	Gene Polisseni Center	Recap
(Logan, Mikowski) – 11:15 (Brubacher, Abt) – 14:48 (Abt, Valenzuela) – 18:10		First period			15:25 – (Kovachis, Cakebread)
No scoring		Second period			04:08 – EA – (Harper, Spriggs)
(Abt, Rotolo) – 10:25		Third period			16:05 – SH – (Curran) 19:03 – EA – (Rennaker, Sarcona) 19:49 – GW SH – (unassisted)
( 17 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats			( 35 saves / 39 shots )

March 4[2]	RIT		5 – 0		Niagara	Gene Polisseni Center
(unassisted) – GW SH – 06:15 (Cameron, Abt) – 13:25 (Kruper) – 19:42		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
(Girduckis, Brubacker) – 03:27 (Powell, Brubacher) – PP – 11:44		Third period			No scoring
( 19 saves / 19 shots )		Goalie stats			( 27 saves / 31 shots ) / ( 7 saves / 8 shots )

March 5[3]	RIT		1 – 4		Niagara	Gene Polisseni Center
No scoring		First period			01:00 – (Pietrobon, Muto) 03:49 – GW – (Curran, Dzakhov)
(Logan) – 05:00		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			05:10 – PP – (Delman, Boman) 16:56 – EN – (Harper, Teichroeb)
( 15 saves / 18 shots )		Goalie stats			( 42 saves / 43 shots )

Niagara won series 2–1

(7) Mercyhurst vs. (10) American International[]

March 3[4]	Mercyhurst		4 – 3		American International	Mercyhurst Ice Center
(Duszak, Riley) Derek Barach – 03:27 (Dsuzak, Wu) – PP – 12:14 (Baker, Lancaster) – 17:24		First period			18:20 – PP – (Christensen, Mueller)
(Enns, Charbonneau) Derek Barach – GW – 16:32		Second period			05:08 – (Christian, Demel) 06:00 – (Orszulak, Florian)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
( 29 saves / 32 shots )		Goalie stats			( 31 saves / 35 shots )

March 4[5]	Mercyhurst		5 – 0		American International	Mercyhurst Ice Center
No scoring		First period			No scoring
(Enns, Piacentini) – GW – 09:00 (Lancaster, Best) Derek Barach – PP – 11:19 (Barach, Lancaster) – 13:30 (Drouin, Barach) – PP – 17:41		Second period			No scoring
(Lammon, Whittaker) Joseph Duszak – 01:08		Third period			No scoring
( 24 saves / 24 shots )		Goalie stats			( 29 saves / 34 shots )

Mercyhurst won series 2–0

(8) Bentley vs. (9) Sacred Heart[]

March 3[6]	Bentley		1 – 4		Sacred Heart	John A. Ryan Arena
(Riggleman, Callin) – 10:46		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			02:13 – (McIlmurray, De Concilys) 10:15 – GW – (Jasper, Tsekos) 17:23 – Justin Danforth (Hladin, Nylen) 19:16 – EN – (Minello, Danforth)
( 29 saves / 32 shots )		Goalie stats			( 29 saves / 30 shots )

March 4[7]	Bentley		5 – 2		Sacred Heart	John A. Ryan Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			17:01 – (Tsekos)
(Desbiens, Gorowsky) – 06:39 (French) – 07:48		Second period			No scoring
(McMurphy, McDonald) – GW – 11:28 (Schmidt, Gorowsky) – 18:13 (unassisted) – EN – 19:29		Third period			02:13 – (McIlmurray, Doerksen)
( 30 saves / 32 shots )		Goalie stats			( 27 saves / 31 shots )

March 5[8]	Bentley		3 – 2	2OT	Sacred Heart	John A. Ryan Arena
(Gorowsky) – SH – 19:25		First period			12:42 – (Doherty, Danforth)
(Berry, DePourcq) – 08:55		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			12:53 – (Danforth, Minello)
(French, Desbiens) – GW – 00:30		Second overtime period			No scoring
( 29 saves / 31 shots )		Goalie stats			( 30 saves / 33 shots )

Bentley won series 2–1

Quarterfinals[]

(1) Canisius vs. (11) Niagara[]

March 10[9]	Canisius		3 – 0		Niagara	HarborCenter
(Chamberland, McLaughlin) – GW PP – 14:57		First period			No scoring
(Parrottino, Heath) – 03:32		Second period			No scoring
(Chamberland) – 01:48		Third period			No scoring
( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Charles Williams		Goalie stats			( 36 saves / 39 shots )

March 11[10]	Canisius		2 – 1		Niagara	HarborCenter	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
(Schmelzer, Parrottino) – PP – 03:06 (Mazza, Stief) – GW PP – 18:45		Third period			03:49 – PP – (Curran, Rennaker)
( 25 saves / 26 shots ) Charles Williams		Goalie stats			( 32 saves / 34 shots )

Canisius won series 2–1

(2) Air Force vs. (8) Bentley[]

March 10[11]	Air Force		4 – 0		Bentley	Cadet Ice Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
(Bailry, Serratore) – GW – 03:12 (Stone, Boje) – 08:26 (Feno, Boje) – 09:01		Second period			No scoring
(Feno) – EN SH – 17:06		Third period			No scoring
( 18 saves / 18 shots )		Goalie stats			( 10 saves / 13 shots ) / ( 12 saves / 12 shots )

March 11[12]	Air Force		2 – 1		Bentley	Cadet Ice Arena
(unassisted) – 05:59		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			10:10 – (Callin, Orr)
(Feno) – GW – 00:39		Third period			No scoring
( 13 saves / 14 shots )		Goalie stats			( 37 saves / 39 shots )

Air Force won series 2–0

(3) Army vs. (7) Mercyhurst[]

March 10[13]	Army		6 – 4		Mercyhurst	Tate Rink
(Andrle, Pham) – 03:53		First period			12:57 – PP – Joseph Duszak (Barach, Charbonneau)
(Soucie, Nick) – PP – 07:42 (Evancho, Andrle) – 15:35		Second period			02:52 – (Sienerth, Bucci)
(Nick, Franco) – 03:29 (unassisted) Michael Wilson – PP – 05:41 (Fidler, Franco) – 10:41		Third period			04:12 – (Riley, Todd) 18:01 – EA – (Dutra, Drouin)
( 37 saves / 41 shots )		Goalie stats			( 29 saves / 34 shots ) / ( 7 saves / 8 shots )

March 11[14]	Army		2 – 3	OT	Mercyhurst	Tate Rink
(Nick) – PP – 15:50		First period			08:27 – (Ferriero, Duszak)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
(Reuschlein, Fidler) – 14:18		Third period			09:33 – PP – (Whittaker, Wu)
No scoring		First overtime period			00:33 – GW PP – (Lancaster, Best)
( 33 saves / 36 shots )		Goalie stats			( 38 saves / 40 shots )

March 12[15]	Army		4 – 3		Mercyhurst	Tate Rink
No scoring		First period			No scoring
(Reuschlein, Wilkinson) – PP – 08:55 (Andrle, Pham) – 15:20		Second period			12:53 – (Duszak, Todd) 13:03 – (Lancaster, Verboom) 13:41 – (Wu, Whittaker)
(unassisted) – 00:57 (Mansfield, Maruya) – GW – 11:02		Third period			No scoring
( 40 saves / 43 shots ) / ( 9 saves / 9 shots )		Goalie stats			( 30 saves / 34 shots )

Army won series 2–1

(4) Robert Morris vs. (5) Holy Cross[]

March 10[16]	Robert Morris		6 – 3		Holy Cross	84 Lumber Arena
No scoring		First period			17:35 – PP – (Moore, Lopez)
(Leavens, Israel) – PP – 12:36		Second period			No scoring
(Moore, Ghantous) – 01:50 (Bontje) – SH – 02:32 (Lynch, Mann) – GW – 06:11 (Mantenuto, Leavens) – 09:36 (Robillard, Dagnal) – 16:14		Third period			13:35 – SH – (unassisted) 17:54 – (Robinson, Mackie)
( 16 saves / 19 shots )		Goalie stats			( 21 saves / 27 shots )

March 11[17]	Robert Morris		3 – 2		Holy Cross	84 Lumber Arena
No scoring		First period			No scoring
(Ferguson, Israel) – PP – 08:37 (Tonge, Ferguson) – 16:34		Second period			No scoring
(Bontje) – GW EN – 18:42		Third period			16:09 – (Mulcahy, Skelly) 19:36 – EA – (Pooley, Trapp)
( 22 saves / 24 shots )		Goalie stats			( 19 saves / 21 shots )

Robert Morris won series 2–0

Semifinals[]

(1) Canisius vs. (4) Robert Morris[]

March 17[18]	Canisius		2 – 6		Robert Morris	Blue Cross Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			12:01 – (Watt, Ghantous) 19:48 – (unassisted)
No scoring		Second period			12:40 – GW – (Leavens, Tonge)
(Hoover, Edmondson) – PP – 04:45 (McLaughlin, Jerry) – EA – 18:03		Third period			14:31 – PP – (Leavens) 17:20 – EN – (Ghantous, Marotte) 18:54 – EN SH – (Leavens)
( 19 saves / 23 shots ) Charles Williams		Goalie stats			( 27 saves / 29 shots )

(2) Air Force vs. (3) Army[]

March 17[19]	Air Force		1 – 0		Army	Blue Cross Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
(Hrabovsky, Giesler) – GW – 11:03		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
( 29 saves / 29 shots )		Goalie stats			( 22 saves / 23 shots )

Championship[]

(2) Air Force vs. (4) Robert Morris[]

March 18[20]	Air Force		2 – 1		Robert Morris	Blue Cross Arena	Recap
(Himley, Ledford) – 01:15		First period			No scoring
(Ledford) – GW – 19:29		Second period			16:02 – (Israel)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
( 24 saves / 25 shots )		Goalie stats			( 12 saves / 14 shots )

Tournament awards[]

All-Tournament Team[]

• G * (Air Force)
• D (Air Force)
• D
• F (Air Force)
• F (Air Force)
• F (Robert Morris)

* Most Valuable Player(s)

References[]