2007 Atlantic Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

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The 2007 AHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 4th Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 3 and March 17, 2007. Opening round games were played at home team campus sites, while the semifinals and championship games were played at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. By winning the tournament, Air Force received Atlantic Hockey's automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

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Both Air Force and Rochester joined Atlantic Hockey for the 2006-07 season; however, due to their reclassification from Division III to Division I status, RIT was ineligible for the 2007 conference tournament. Because of this the tournament was returned to the same format it had been in 2004 and 2005, comprising all nine teams. This would be changed the following year when RIT would compete as a full D-I program. [2]

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play and a play-in game. All games in the tournament are single-elimination. The play-in game consists of the eighth and ninth seeds competing to decide the final qualifier. In the quarterfinals, the first seed plays the winner of the play-in game while the second and seventh seeds, the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds play to determine who advances to the semifinals. of the four remaining teams, the highest and lowest remaining ranked teams play each other with the other two teams facing one another to determine the championship participants. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

RIT was ineligible to play in the tournament and all teams were reseeded accordingly.

Conference standings

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

2006–07 Atlantic Hockey standings
ConferenceOverall
GPWLTPTSGFGAGPWLTGFGA
RIT†^2820714111671342111213293
Sacred Heart 281774389174362111411899
Army 28158535826934171259487
Connecticut 28151123290893616182108126
Air Force*28131053194704019165132107
Holy Cross 289145238794351020596123
Bentley 28111702275101351222190136
Mercyhurst 2891542298106359206114134
Canisius 28916321769535923386130
American International 287201156810834825174134
Championship: Air Force
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
^ RIT was ineligible for the postseason
Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the Quarterfinals

Play-In [3]
March 3 		Quarterfinals [4]
March 10 		Semifinals [5]
March 16 		Championship
March 17
1 Sacred Heart4
8 Canisius 1 8 American International 0
9 American International21 Sacred Heart 4
4 Air Force5*
2 Army6
7 Bentley 2
4 Air Force6
2 Army 1
3 Connecticut5
6 Mercyhurst 4
2 Army3
3 Connecticut 1
4 Air Force3
5 Holy Cross 0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Play-in

(8) Canisius vs. (9) American International

March 3 [6] Canisius1 – 2American International Buffalo State Sports Arena Recap  
(Kasch, Hudson) Jason Weeks - PP - 16:13First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period03:44 - Mark Pavli (Tendler, Fuqua)
No scoringThird period12:25 - GW - Mike McMillan (Richardson, Turco)
( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Andrew Loewen Goalie stats Tom Fenton ( 28 saves / 29 shots )

Quarterfinals

(1) Sacred Heart vs. (9) American International

March 10 [7] Sacred Heart4 – 0American International Milford Ice Pavilion Recap  
(Ferraro, Boisvert) Nick Johnson - GW - 07:08First periodNo scoring
(O'Brien, Grimson) Bear Trapp - PP - 05:00Second periodNo scoring
(O'Brien, Grimson) Kyle Tyll - 09:06
(Ferraro, Johnson) Bear Trapp - 14:15		Third periodNo scoring
( 16 saves / 16 shots ) Jason Smith Goalie stats Tom Fenton ( 24 saves / 28 shots )

(2) Army vs. (7) Bentley

March 10 [8] Mercyhurst6 – 2Canisius Tate Rink Recap  
(Bickley, Hollweg) Tim Manthey - PP - 12:39First period11:46 - Kane Osmars (Pellarin, Olson)
(Bickley, McKelvie) Tim Manthey - PP - 03:37
(Meyer, Flicek) Bryce Hollweg - GW - 05:20
(Fearing) Lyle Gal - 09:44
(McDougall, Rowe) Jeff Fearing - 17:42		Second periodNo scoring
Bryce Hollweg - EN SH - 18:07Third period06:57 - Dain Prewitt
( 30 saves / 32 shots ) Josh Kassel Goalie stats Ray Jean ( 30 saves / 35 shots )

(3) Connecticut vs. (6) Mercyhurst

March 10 [9] Connecticut5 – 4Mercyhurst UConn Ice Arena Recap  
(Scherer, Stewart) William Crum - PP - 10:20
(Solberg) Michael Coppola - 11:59
(Schneider, Stewart) Matt Scherer - 12:41		First periodNo scoring
Brendan Olinyk - 16:44Second period03:48 - Scott Champagne (Cottreau)
12:32 - Cody Collins (Gourgon, Fennell)
(Stewart, Burns) William Crum - GW PP - 04:43Third period11:40 - Matt Pierce (Warren, Medernach)
18:18 - Ryan Toomey (Collins, Phillips)
( 32 saves / 36 shots ) Beau EricksonGoalie stats Jordan Wakefield ( 31 saves / 36 shots )

(4) Air Force vs. (5) Holy Cross

March 10 [10] Air Force3 – 0Holy Cross Cadet Ice Arena Recap  
(Schiavone, Charbonneau) Theo Zacour - GW - 15:24First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
(Ehn) Mike Phillipich - 05:25
(Ehn, Phillipich) Greg Flynn - PP - 18:21		Third periodNo scoring
( 17 saves / 17 shots ) Ben Worker Goalie stats Charlie Lockwood ( 31 saves / 34 shots )

Semifinals

(1) Sacred Heart vs. (4) Air Force

March 16 [11] Sacred Heart4 – 5OTAir Force Blue Cross Arena Recap  
No ScoringFirst period15:58 - Brett Nylander (Medenwaldt, Fairchild)
(Spencer) Bear Trapp - 07:33Second period00:41 - PP - Mike Phillipich (Charbonneau, Ehn)
14:20 - Matt Fairchild (Medenwaldt, Nylander)
(O'Brien, Grimson) Paul Ferraro - PP - 01:18
(Giosa) Dave Jarman - 04:06
(Jarman) Eric Giosa - 07:50		Third period19:06 - EA - Billy Devoney (Phillipich, Hajner)
No scoringFirst overtime period08:04 - GW - Josh Print (Schaffer, Flynn)
( 29 saves / 34 shots ) Jason Smith Goalie stats Ben Worker ( 20 saves / 24 shots )

(2) Army vs. (3) Connecticut

March 16 [12] Army3 – 1Connecticut Blue Cross Arena Recap  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(Hollweg, Bickley) Tim Manthey - PP - 16:42Second period11:56 - PP - Chris Myhro (Koidahl, Erickson)
(Meyer, Flicek) Chris Colvin - GW - 05:53
(Manthey, Flicek) Owen Meyer - PP - 16:06		Third periodNo scoring
( 33 saves / 34 shots ) Josh Kassel Goalie statsBeau Erickson ( 23 saves / 26 shots )

Championship

(2) Army vs. (4) Air Force

March 17 [13] Army1 – 6Air Force Blue Cross Arena Recap  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period04:26 - Mike Phillipich (Ramsey, Ehn)
07:53 - GW PP - Andrew Ramsey (Phillipich, Mayra)
(Meyer, Flicek) Tim Manthey - PP - 12:59Third period04:39 - Josh Frider (Flynn, Reese)
09:33 - Josh Frider (Devoney, Zacour)
15:25 - Josh Schaffer (Hajner, Print)
17:15 - PP - Andrew Ramsey (Phillipich, Mayra)
( 21 saves / 27 shots ) Josh Kassel Goalie stats Andrew Volkening ( 23 saves / 24 shots )

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

[14]

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