2017 Atlantic Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

2017 Atlantic Hockey Men's ice hockey tournament
DatesMarch 3–18, 2017
Teams11
Finals siteBlue Cross Arena
Rochester, New York
ChampionsAir Force (6th title)
Winning coachFrank Serratore (6th title)
MVPShane Starrett (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

2016–17 Atlantic Hockey standings
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 –
6 RIT 4 5 1 11 Niagara 0 1 –
11 Niagara 5 0 4 1 Canisius 2
4 Robert Morris 6
2 Air Force 4 2 —
8 Bentley 0 1 —
4 Robert Morris 1
2 Air Force 2
3 Army 6 2 4
7 Mercyhurst 4 5 – 7 Mercyhurst 4 3* 3
10 American International 3 0 – 2 Air Force 1
3 Army 0
4 Robert Morris 6 3 —
8 Bentley 1 5 3** 5 Holy Cross 3 2 —
9 Sacred Heart 4 2 2

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) Jordan Peacock – 11:15
(Brubacher, Abt) Danny Smith – 14:48
(Abt, Valenzuela) Liam Kerins – 18:10 		First period 15:25 – Kris Spriggs (Kovachis, Cakebread)
No scoring Second period 04:08 – EA – Stephen Pietrobon (Harper, Spriggs)
(Abt, Rotolo) Erik Brown – 10:25 Third period 16:05 – SH – Vinny Muto (Curran)
19:03 – EA – Johnny Curran (Rennaker, Sarcona)
19:49 – GW SH – Sam Rennaker (unassisted)
( 17 saves / 22 shots ) Mike Rotolo Goalie stats Jackson Teichroeb ( 35 saves / 39 shots )
March 4[2] RIT 5 – 0 Niagara Gene Polisseni Center  
(unassisted) Myles Powell – GW SH – 06:15
(Cameron, Abt) Ryan Kruper – 13:25
(Kruper) Darren Brady – 19:42 		First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Girduckis, Brubacker) Danny Smith – 03:27
(Powell, Brubacher) Matt Abt – PP – 11:44 		Third period No scoring
( 19 saves / 19 shots ) Mike Rotolo Goalie stats Jackson Teichroeb ( 27 saves / 31 shots ) / Joe O'Brien ( 7 saves / 8 shots )
March 5[3] RIT 1 – 4 Niagara Gene Polisseni Center  
No scoring First period 01:00 – Kris Spriggs (Pietrobon, Muto)
03:49 – GW – Sam Rennaker (Curran, Dzakhov)
(Logan) Jordan Peacock – 05:00 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 05:10 – PP – Stanislav Dzakhov (Delman, Boman)
16:56 – EN – Stanislav Dzakhov (Harper, Teichroeb)
( 15 saves / 18 shots ) Mike Rotolo Goalie stats Jackson Teichroeb ( 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) Taylor Best – PP – 12:14
(Baker, Lancaster) Michael Verboom – 17:24 		First period 18:20 – PP – Martin Mellberg (Christensen, Mueller)
(Enns, Charbonneau) Derek Barach – GW – 16:32 Second period 05:08 – Kyle Stephan (Christian, Demel)
06:00 – Hugo Reinhardt (Orszulak, Florian)
No scoring Third period No scoring
( 29 saves / 32 shots ) Brandon Wildung Goalie stats Zackarais Skog ( 31 saves / 35 shots )
March 4[5] Mercyhurst 5 – 0 American International Mercyhurst Ice Center  
No scoring First period No scoring
(Enns, Piacentini) Stephen Hrehoriak – GW – 09:00
(Lancaster, Best) Derek Barach – PP – 11:19
(Barach, Lancaster) Jonathan Charbonneau – 13:30
(Drouin, Barach) Jack Riley – PP – 17:41 		Second period No scoring
(Lammon, Whittaker) Joseph Duszak – 01:08 Third period No scoring
( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Brandon Wildung Goalie stats Zackarais Skog ( 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) Alexey Soloyev – 10:46 First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 02:13 – Mike Crocock (McIlmurray, De Concilys)
10:15 – GW – Vito Bavaro (Jasper, Tsekos)
17:23 – Justin Danforth (Hladin, Nylen)
19:16 – EN – Stephen Hladin (Minello, Danforth)
( 29 saves / 32 shots ) Aiden Pelino Goalie stats Brett Magnus ( 29 saves / 30 shots )
March 4[7] Bentley 5 – 2 Sacred Heart John A. Ryan Arena Recap  
No scoring First period 17:01 – Vito Bavaro (Tsekos)
(Desbiens, Gorowsky) Max French – 06:39
(French) Chris Buchanan – 07:48 		Second period No scoring
(McMurphy, McDonald) Kyle Schmidt – GW – 11:28
(Schmidt, Gorowsky) Max French – 18:13
(unassisted) Max French – EN – 19:29 		Third period 02:13 – Jeff Caroll (McIlmurray, Doerksen)
( 30 saves / 32 shots ) Jayson Argue Goalie stats Brett Magnus ( 27 saves / 31 shots )
March 5[8] Bentley 3 – 2 2OT Sacred Heart John A. Ryan Arena  
(Gorowsky) Max French – SH – 19:25 First period 12:42 – Jordan Minello (Doherty, Danforth)
(Berry, DePourcq) Matt Riggleman – 08:55 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 12:53 – Ruslan Rakhmatov (Danforth, Minello)
(French, Desbiens) Ryner Gorowsky – GW – 00:30 Second overtime period No scoring
( 29 saves / 31 shots ) Jayson Argue Goalie stats Brett Magnus ( 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) Jimmy Mazza – GW PP – 14:57 First period No scoring
(Parrottino, Heath) Dylan McLaughlin – 03:32 Second period No scoring
(Chamberland) Nick Hutchison – 01:48 Third period No scoring
( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Charles Williams Goalie stats Jackson Teichroeb ( 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) Felix Chamberland – PP – 03:06
(Mazza, Stief) Ryan Schmelzer – GW PP – 18:45 		Third period 03:49 – PP – Vinny Muto (Curran, Rennaker)
( 25 saves / 26 shots ) Charles Williams Goalie stats Jackson Teichroeb ( 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) Phil Boje – GW – 03:12
(Stone, Boje) Evan Feno – 08:26
(Feno, Boje) Dan Bailey – 09:01 		Second period No scoring
(Feno) Matt Koch – EN SH – 17:06 Third period No scoring
( 18 saves / 18 shots ) Shane Starrett Goalie stats Jayson Argue ( 10 saves / 13 shots ) / Aidan Pelino ( 12 saves / 12 shots )
March 11[12] Air Force 2 – 1 Bentley Cadet Ice Arena  
(unassisted) Jordan Himley – 05:59 First period No scoring
No scoring Second period 10:10 – Andrew McDonald (Callin, Orr)
(Feno) Ben Kucera – GW – 00:39 Third period No scoring
( 13 saves / 14 shots ) Shane Starrett Goalie stats Aidan Pelino ( 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) Joe Shecter – 03:53 First period 12:57 – PP – Joseph Duszak (Barach, Charbonneau)
(Soucie, Nick) Dominic Franco – PP – 07:42
(Evancho, Andrle) Nick DeCenzo – 15:35 		Second period 02:52 – Kyle Dutra (Sienerth, Bucci)
(Nick, Franco) Brendan Soucie – 03:29
(unassisted) Michael Wilson – PP – 05:41
(Fidler, Franco) Brendan Soucie – 10:41 		Third period 04:12 – Jonathan Charbonneau (Riley, Todd)
18:01 – EA – Stephen Hrehoriak (Dutra, Drouin)
( 37 saves / 41 shots ) Parker Gahagen Goalie stats Brandon Wildung ( 29 saves / 34 shots ) / Colin DeAugustine ( 7 saves / 8 shots )
March 11[14] Army 2 – 3 OT Mercyhurst Tate Rink  
(Nick) Conor Andrle – PP – 15:50 First period 08:27 – Matthew Whittaker (Ferriero, Duszak)
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Reuschlein, Fidler) Brendan Soucie – 14:18 Third period 09:33 – PP – Josh Lammon (Whittaker, Wu)
No scoring First overtime period 00:33 – GW PP – Matthew Whittaker (Lancaster, Best)
( 33 saves / 36 shots ) Parker Gahagen Goalie stats Brandon Wildung ( 38 saves / 40 shots )
March 12[15] Army 4 – 3 Mercyhurst Tate Rink  
No scoring First period No scoring
(Reuschlein, Wilkinson) Matt Riggleman – PP – 08:55
(Andrle, Pham) Zach Evancho – 15:20 		Second period 12:53 – Philippe Drouin (Duszak, Todd)
13:03 – Wes baker (Lancaster, Verboom)
13:41 – Josh Lammon (Wu, Whittaker)
(unassisted) Trevor Fidler – 00:57
(Mansfield, Maruya) Mike Preston – GW – 11:02 		Third period No scoring
( 40 saves / 43 shots ) Parker Gahagen / ( 9 saves / 9 shots ) Cole Bruns Goalie stats Colin DeAugustine ( 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 – Mike Barrett (Moore, Lopez)
(Leavens, Israel) Alex Tonge – PP – 12:36 Second period No scoring
(Moore, Ghantous) Spencer Dorowicz – 01:50
(Bontje) Brady Ferguson – SH – 02:32
(Lynch, Mann) Daniel Mantenuto – GW – 06:11
(Mantenuto, Leavens) Alex Tonge – 09:36
(Robillard, Dagnal) Kyle Horsman – 16:14 		Third period 13:35 – SH – Ryan Ferrill (unassisted)
17:54 – Mitch Collett (Robinson, Mackie)
( 16 saves / 19 shots ) Francis Marotte Goalie stats Paul Berrafato ( 21 saves / 27 shots )
March 11[17] Robert Morris 3 – 2 Holy Cross 84 Lumber Arena  
No scoring First period No scoring
(Ferguson, Israel) Daniel Leavens – PP – 08:37
(Tonge, Ferguson) Daniel Leavens – 16:34 		Second period No scoring
(Bontje) Brady Ferguson – GW EN – 18:42 Third period 16:09 – Mitch Mollett (Mulcahy, Skelly)
19:36 – EA – Peter Crinella (Pooley, Trapp)
( 22 saves / 24 shots ) Francis Marotte Goalie stats Paul Berrafato ( 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 – Spencer Dorowicz (Watt, Ghantous)
19:48 – Daniel Mantanuto (unassisted)
No scoring Second period 12:40 – GW – Brady Ferguson (Leavens, Tonge)
(Hoover, Edmondson) Nick Hutchison – PP – 04:45
(McLaughlin, Jerry) David Parrottino – EA – 18:03 		Third period 14:31 – PP – Brady Ferguson (Leavens)
17:20 – EN – Alex Tonge (Ghantous, Marotte)
18:54 – EN SH – Brady Ferguson (Leavens)
( 19 saves / 23 shots ) Charles Williams Goalie stats Francis Marotte ( 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) Ben Kucera – GW – 11:03 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period No scoring
( 29 saves / 29 shots ) Shane Starrett Goalie stats Parker Gahagan ( 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) Erik Baskin – 01:15 First period No scoring
(Ledford) Jordan Himley – GW – 19:29 Second period 16:02 – Ben Robillard (Israel)
No scoring Third period No scoring
( 24 saves / 25 shots ) Shane Starrett Goalie stats Francis Marotte ( 12 saves / 14 shots )


Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

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