| 2018 Atlantic Hockey Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 2–17, 2018 |
| Teams | 11 |
| Finals site | Blue Cross Arena Rochester, New York |
| Champions | Air Force (7th title) |
| Winning coach | Frank Serratore (7th title) |
| MVP | Billy Christopoulos (Air Force) |
Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2018 Atlantic Hockey Tournament is the 14th Atlantic Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 2 and March 17, 2018 at home campus locations and at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. It was the last tournament at Blue Cross Arena before the tournament moved to HarborCenter in Buffalo, New York. By winning the tournament, Air Force earned Atlantic Hockey's automatic bid to the 2018 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 2018 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 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Mercyhurst† | 28 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 36 | 90 | 81 | 37 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 124 | 111 | |
| Canisius | 28 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 34 | 94 | 76 | 38 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 117 | 108 | |
| Holy Cross | 28 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 30 | 80 | 70 | 36 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 97 | 100 | |
| Army | 28 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 30 | 80 | 70 | 36 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 93 | 91 | |
| #14 Air Force * | 28 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 30 | 73 | 64 | 43 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 115 | 94 | |
| RIT | 28 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 27 | 91 | 90 | 37 | 15 | 20 | 2 | 114 | 127 | |
| Robert Morris | 28 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 27 | 79 | 78 | 41 | 18 | 20 | 3 | 119 | 118 | |
| American International | 28 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 26 | 63 | 75 | 39 | 15 | 20 | 4 | 88 | 116 | |
| Niagara | 28 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 23 | 76 | 90 | 36 | 11 | 22 | 3 | 93 | 123 | |
| Bentley | 28 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 23 | 72 | 87 | 37 | 13 | 18 | 6 | 96 | 114 | |
| Sacred Heart | 28 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 22 | 79 | 96 | 39 | 13 | 22 | 4 | 107 | 135 | |
| Championship: March 17, 2018 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion (Riley Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 5, 2018 | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
| First round March 2–4 | Quarterfinals March 9–11 | Semifinals March 16 | Championship March 17 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Mercyhurst | 4 | 3* | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | RIT | 5* | 3 | 0 | 11 | Sacred Heart | 2 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | Sacred Heart | 4 | 4*** | 2 | 1 | Mercyhurst | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Robert Morris | 5* | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Canisius | 8 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | American International | 1 | 2* | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Robert Morris | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Air Force | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Holy Cross | 1 | 1 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Robert Morris | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Robert Morris | 4 | 5 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Bentley | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Canisius | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Air Force | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Army | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | American International | 4 | 4** | — | 5 | Air Force | 5 | 0 | 1* | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | Niagara | 1 | 3 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Results
First round
(6) RIT vs. (11) Sacred Heart
| March 2[1] | RIT | 5 – 4 | OT | Sacred Heart | Gene Polisseni Center | Recap | ||
| (Powell, Valenzuela) Adam Brubacher – PP – 01:13 (Norrish, Brown) Gabe Valenzuela – PP – 09:11 (Dupuis, Powell) Adam Brubacher – 13:00 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Norrish, Powell) Dan Willett – 07:36 | Second period | 02:47 – Stephen Hladin (Kennedy, Rakhmatov) 04:38 – Matt Tugnutt (Kennedy, Bavaro) 10:55 – Marc Johnstone (McIlmurray, Crocock) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 15:53 – Mike Crocock (Hladin, Cotton) | ||||||
| (Brown, Valenzuela) Abbott Girduckis – GW – 00:23 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 28 shots ) Logan Drackett | Goalie stats | Brett Magnus ( 28 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| March 3[2] | RIT | 3 – 4 | 3OT | Sacred Heart | Gene Polisseni Center | Recap | ||
| (Hamacher, Norrish) Myles Powell – 07:04 (Norrish, Brubacher) Myles Powell – PP – 15:06 |
First period | 08:12 – Jackson Barliant (Cotton, Hladin) 15:38 – Marc Johnstone (Tsekos, McIlmurray) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Valenzuela, Girduckis) Erik Brown – 04:29 | Third period | 18:54 – Austin McIlmurray (Tugnutt, Tsekos) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third overtime period | 02:19 – GW – Jackson Barliant (Hladin) | ||||||
| ( 28 saves / 32 shots ) Logan Drackett | Goalie stats | Brett Magnus ( 46 saves / 49 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4[3] | RIT | 0 – 2 | Sacred Heart | Gene Polisseni Center | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 12:06 – GW – Mike Crocock (Tsekos, Johnstone) 19:26 – PP – Austin McIlmurray (Allan, Tsekos) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Logan Drackett | Goalie stats | Brett Magnus ( 32 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
| Sacred Heart won series 2–1 | |
(7) Robert Morris vs. (10) Bentley
| March 2[4] | Robert Morris | 3 – 1 | Bentley | 84 Lumber Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Moore, Ferguson) Alex Tonge – 13:10 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Moore, Dorowicz) Brandon Watt – GW PP – 19:04 (Ferguson) Alex Tonge – EN – 19:56 |
Third period | 19:50 – Kyle Schmidt (Jago, Santerno) | ||||||
| ( 37 saves / 38 shots ) Francis Marotte | Goalie stats | Aidan Pelino ( 31 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| March 3[5] | Robert Morris | 3 – 4 | Bentley | 84 Lumber Arena | Recap | |||
| (Tonge, Moore) Luke Lynch – PP – 01:57 | First period | 09:58 – Charlie Marchand (Zuffante, DePourcq) 19:34 – Jonathan Desbiens (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Lynch, Graham) Daniel Mantenuto – 10:27 (Lynch) Matthew Graham – 13:56 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 01:00 – PP – Luke Santerno (Solovyev, Jago) 02:23 – GW PP – Kyle Schmidt (Santerno, Jago) | ||||||
| ( 30 saves / 34 shots ) Francis Marotte | Goalie stats | Aidan Pelino ( 29 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4[6] | Robert Morris | 3 – 2 | Bentley | 84 Lumber Arena | Recap | |||
| (Watt, Dorowicz) Michael Louria – 13:46 (Lynch, Bontje) Alex Tonge – SH – 17:55 |
First period | 18:40 – PP – Kyle Schmidt (Desbiens, Jago) | ||||||
| (Watt) Daniel Mantenuto – GW – 15:18 | Second period | 10:57 – PP – Charlie Marchand (Desbiens, Jago) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 31 saves / 33 shots ) Francis Marotte | Goalie stats | Aidan Pelino ( 25 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
| Robert Morris won series 2–1 | |
(8) American International vs. (9) Niagara
| March 2[7] | American International | 4 – 1 | Niagara | MassMutual Center | Recap | |||
| (Polin, Christensen) Darius Davidson – 07:16 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Christensen, Jaks) Hugo Reinhardt – GW PP – 12:07 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Jaks, Kapcheck) Hugo Reinhardt – PP – 07:36 (Mellberg, Dudley) Brennan Kapcheck – EN – 17:57 |
Third period | 14:13 – Noah Delmas (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 35 saves / 35 shots ) Stefano Durante | Goalie stats | Brian Wilson ( 18 saves / 21 shots ) | ||||||
| March 3[8] | American International | 4 – 3 | 2OT | Niagara | MassMutual Center | Recap | ||
| (Debrincat, Reinhardt) Darius Davidson – 19:19 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Jaks, Kocur) Shawn McBride – PP – 18:20 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Reinhardt, Christensen) Jared Pike – PP – 11:18 | Third period | 04:45 – PP – Kris Spriggs (Delmas) 06:01 – Kris Spriggs (Kendall) 14:21 – Derian Plouffe (Cooley) | ||||||
| (Reinhardt, Kapcheck) Blake Christensen – GW PP – 08:02 | Second overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) Stefano Durante | Goalie stats | Brian Wilson ( 33 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
| American International won series 2–0 | |
Quarterfinals
(1) Mercyhurst vs. (11) Sacred Heart
| March 9[9] | Mercyhurst | 4 – 2 | Sacred Heart | Mercyhurst Ice Center | Recap | |||
| (Enns, Duszak) Jonathan Charbonneau – 09:49 | First period | 02:35 – PP – Marc Johnstone (Bavaro, Allan) | ||||||
| (Duszak, Best) Jonathan Charbonneau – PP – 05:02 (Lancaster, Wildung) Jonathan Charbonneau – GW – 16:48 |
Second period | 02:35 – Marc Johnstone (Bavaro, Allan) | ||||||
| (Elliot, Baker) Michael Verboom – 04:27 | Third period | 06:53 – PP – Zach Tsekos (Rakhmatov, Bavaro) | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) Brandon Wildung | Goalie stats | Brett Magnus ( 26 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
| March 10[10] | Mercyhurst | 3 – 2 | OT | Sacred Heart | Mercyhurst Ice Center | Recap | ||
| No scoring | First period | 05:49 – PP – Austin McIlmurray (Tsekos, Allan) | ||||||
| (Duszak, Charbonneau) Tommaso Bucci – 05:38 (Duszak, Lammon) Jonathan Charbonneau – 06:22 |
Second period | 02:42 – Stephen Hladin (Barliant, Cotton) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Duszak, Piacentini) Jonathan Charbonneau – GW PP – 09:39 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 35 saves / 37 shots ) Brandon Wildung | Goalie stats | Brett Magnus ( 43 saves / 46 shots ) | ||||||
| Mercyhurst won series 2–0 | |
(2) Canisius vs. (8) American International
| March 9[11] | Canisius | 8 – 1 | American International | HarborCenter | Recap | |||
| (Hutchison, Edmondson) Matt McLeod – 08:02 (Hoover, Meyer) Félix Chamberland – GW – 12:05 (Schmelzer, Jaeckle) Dylan McLaughlin – 16:51 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Murray) Dylan McLaughlin – 00:27 (Meyer, Chamberland) Matt Hoover – PP – 13:12 |
Second period | 05:41 – Blake Christensen (Debrincat, Luka) | ||||||
| (Hutchison, McLaughlin) Jimmy Mazza – PP – 00:24 (Hutchison, Long) Matt McLeod – SH – 11:39 (Stander, Meyer) Matt Hoover – 13:53 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 34 saves / 35 shots ) Daniel Urbani | Goalie stats | Stefano Durante ( 10 saves / 15 shots ) / Zackarias Skog ( 7 saves / 10 shots ) | ||||||
| March 10[12] | Canisius | 1 – 2 | OT | American International | HarborCenter | Recap | ||
| No scoring | First period | 04:52 – PP – Jānis Jaks (Kapcheck, Pike) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Meyer, Mazza) Cameron Heath – 02:36 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 02:42 – GW – Shawn McBride (Demel, Pike) | ||||||
| ( 44 saves / 46 shots ) Daniel Urbani | Goalie stats | Stefano Durante ( 23 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
| March 11[13] | Canisius | 3 – 0 | American International | HarborCenter | Recap | |||
| (Stander, Hutchison) Jesse Pereira – GW – 07:37 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Stief, Heath) Matt Hoover – PP – 07:01 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McLaughlin) Jeff Murray – 07:31 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 26 shots ) Daniel Urbani | Goalie stats | Stefano Durante ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) | ||||||
| Canisius won series 2–1 | |
(3) Holy Cross vs. (7) Robert Morris
| March 9[14] | Holy Cross | 1 – 4 | Robert Morris | Hart Recreation Center | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 00:25 – Matthew Graham (Lynch, Mantenuto) | ||||||
| (Trapp, Pooley) T. J. Moore – PP – 00:50 | Second period | 06:35 – GW PP – Brady Ferguson (Lynch, Israel) 16:25 – Nick Prkusic (Ghantous, Israel) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:56 – EN – Alex Tonge (Moore) | ||||||
| ( 40 saves / 43 shots ) Paul Berrafato | Goalie stats | Francis Marotte ( 39 saves / 40 shots ) | ||||||
| March 10[15] | Holy Cross | 1 – 5 | OT | Robert Morris | Hart Recreation Center | Recap | ||
| No scoring | First period | 07:08 – PP – Matthew Graham (Lynch, Mantenuto) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 04:57 – GW – Timmy Moore (Kapcheck, Pike) 19:46 – PP – Timmy Moore (Lynch, Ferguson) | ||||||
| (Lopez, Coughlin) T. J. Moore – 00:30 | Third period | 07:10 – PP – Luke Lynch (Ferguson, Tonge) 17:15 – EN – Luke Lynch (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 29 shots ) Paul Berrafato | Goalie stats | Francis Marotte ( 37 saves / 38 shots ) | ||||||
| Robert Morris won series 2–0 | |
(4) Army vs. (5) Air Force
| March 9[16] | Army | 3 – 5 | Air Force | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (MacAfee, Zimmerman) Dominic Franco – PP – 13:06 | First period | 11:02 – PP – Evan Giesler (Mirageas, Koch) | ||||||
| (Andrle, Box) Michael Wilson – 08:04 | Second period | 10:21 – Jordan Himley (Bailey, Boje) 13:29 – Kyle Haak (Mirageas, Kucera) | ||||||
| (unassisted) Brendan Soucie – 07:32 | Third period | 04:29 – GW – Marshall Bowery (Tomlak) 19:32 – EN – Erik Baskin (Ledford) | ||||||
| ( 20 saves / 24 shots ) Cole Bruns | Goalie stats | Billy Christopoulos ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) | ||||||
| March 10[17] | Army | 1 – 0 | Air Force | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (Franco, Pham) Zach Evancho – GW PP – 08:29 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 33 saves / 33 shots ) Cole Bruns | Goalie stats | Billy Christopoulos ( 17 saves / 18 shots ) | ||||||
| March 11[18] | Army | 3 – 0 | OT | Air Force | Tate Rink | Recap | ||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 06:38 – GW – Tyler Ledford (Baskin) | ||||||
| ( 39 saves / 40 shots ) Cole Bruns | Goalie stats | Billy Christopoulos ( 15 saves / 15 shots ) | ||||||
| Air Force won series 2–1 | |
Semifinals
(1) Mercyhurst vs. (7) Robert Morris
| March 16[19] | Mercyhurst | 4 – 5 | OT | Robert Morris | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | ||
| (Barach, Lancaster) Kane Elliot – 19:09 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 04:44 – PP – Brady Ferguson (Israel) 09:03 – Brady Ferguson (Louria, Giles) | ||||||
| (Duszak) Taylor Best – 08:01 (Enns) Derek Barach – 12:08 (Lancaster, Baker) Joseph Duszak – 13:18 |
Third period | 14:31 – Daniel Mantenuto (Graham, Powers) 19:15 – PP – Brady Ferguson (Louria, Lynch) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 06:42 – Michael Louria (Tonge) | ||||||
| ( 37 saves / 42 shots ) Brandon Wildung | Goalie stats | Francis Marotte ( 41 saves / 45 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Canisius vs. (5) Air Force
| March 16[20] | Canisius | 0 – 3 | Air Force | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 06:12 – GW PP – Kyle Haak (Mirageas, Himley) 16:13 – Erik Baskin (Levin, Ledford) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 05:51 – Matt Serratore (Mirageas, Haak) | ||||||
| ( 34 saves / 37 shots ) Daniel Urbani | Goalie stats | Billy Christopoulos ( 24 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
Championship
(5) Air Force vs. (7) Robert Morris
| March 17[21] | Air Force | 5 – 1 | Robert Morris | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | |||
| (Himley, Serratore) Kyle Haak – 02:06 (Tomlak, Sommer) Jonathan Kopacka – GW – 02:56 (Boje) Jordan Himley – PP – 15:34 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) Evan Giesler – 05:07 | Second period | 15:52 – PP – Nick Prkusic (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Boje, Abood) Kyle Haak – EN – 14:00 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 35 saves / 36 shots ) Billy Christopoulos | Goalie stats | Francis Marotte ( 13 saves / 17 shots ) / Andrew Pikul ( 14 saves / 14 shots ) | ||||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
- G Billy Christopoulos* (Air Force)
- D Zack Mirageas (Air Force)
- D Jonathan Kopacka (Air Force)
- F Kyle Haak (Air Force)
- F Jordan Himley (Air Force)
- F Brady Ferguson (Robert Morris)
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