2017 Atlantic Hockey Tournament
2017 Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | |
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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) |
Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
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
Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||
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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![]() 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)
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