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.
| 2007 Atlantic Hockey Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 3–17, 2007 |
| Teams | 9 |
| Finals site | Blue Cross Arena Rochester, New York |
| Champions | Air Force (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Frank Serratore[1] (1st title) |
| MVP | Mike Phillipich (Air Force) |
Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
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
editThe 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
editNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| RIT†^ | 28 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 41 | 116 | 71 | 34 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 132 | 93 | |
| Sacred Heart | 28 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 38 | 91 | 74 | 36 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 118 | 99 | |
| Army | 28 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 35 | 82 | 69 | 34 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 94 | 87 | |
| Connecticut | 28 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 32 | 90 | 89 | 36 | 16 | 18 | 2 | 108 | 126 | |
| Air Force* | 28 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 31 | 94 | 70 | 40 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 132 | 107 | |
| Holy Cross | 28 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 23 | 87 | 94 | 35 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 96 | 123 | |
| Bentley | 28 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 22 | 75 | 101 | 35 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 90 | 136 | |
| Mercyhurst | 28 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 22 | 98 | 106 | 35 | 9 | 20 | 6 | 114 | 134 | |
| Canisius | 28 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 21 | 76 | 95 | 35 | 9 | 23 | 3 | 86 | 130 | |
| American International | 28 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 15 | 68 | 108 | 34 | 8 | 25 | 1 | 74 | 134 | |
| 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
editTeams are reseeded after the Quarterfinals
| Play-In[3] March 3 | Quarterfinals[4] March 10 | Semifinals[5] March 16 | Championship March 17 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Sacred Heart | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Canisius | 1 | 8 | American International | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | American International | 2 | 1 | Sacred Heart | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Air Force | 5* | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Army | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Bentley | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Air Force | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Army | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Connecticut | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Mercyhurst | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Army | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Connecticut | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Air Force | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Holy Cross | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Play-in
edit(8) Canisius vs. (9) American International
edit| March 3[6] | Canisius | 1 – 2 | American International | Buffalo State Sports Arena | Recap | |||
| (Kasch, Hudson) Jason Weeks - PP - 16:13 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 03:44 - Mark Pavli (Tendler, Fuqua) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 12:25 - GW - Mike McMillan (Richardson, Turco) | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Andrew Loewen | Goalie stats | Tom Fenton ( 28 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
Quarterfinals
edit(1) Sacred Heart vs. (9) American International
edit| March 10[7] | Sacred Heart | 4 – 0 | American International | Milford Ice Pavilion | Recap | |||
| (Ferraro, Boisvert) Nick Johnson - GW - 07:08 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (O'Brien, Grimson) Bear Trapp - PP - 05:00 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (O'Brien, Grimson) Kyle Tyll - 09:06 (Ferraro, Johnson) Bear Trapp - 14:15 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 16 saves / 16 shots ) Jason Smith | Goalie stats | Tom Fenton ( 24 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Army vs. (7) Bentley
edit| March 10[8] | Mercyhurst | 6 – 2 | Canisius | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (Bickley, Hollweg) Tim Manthey - PP - 12:39 | First period | 11:46 - 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 period | No scoring | ||||||
| Bryce Hollweg - EN SH - 18:07 | Third period | 06:57 - Dain Prewitt | ||||||
| ( 30 saves / 32 shots ) Josh Kassel | Goalie stats | Ray Jean ( 30 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
(3) Connecticut vs. (6) Mercyhurst
edit| March 10[9] | Connecticut | 5 – 4 | Mercyhurst | UConn Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Scherer, Stewart) William Crum - PP - 10:20 (Solberg) Michael Coppola - 11:59 (Schneider, Stewart) Matt Scherer - 12:41 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Brendan Olinyk - 16:44 | Second period | 03:48 - Scott Champagne (Cottreau) 12:32 - Cody Collins (Gourgon, Fennell) | ||||||
| (Stewart, Burns) William Crum - GW PP - 04:43 | Third period | 11:40 - Matt Pierce (Warren, Medernach) 18:18 - Ryan Toomey (Collins, Phillips) | ||||||
| ( 32 saves / 36 shots ) Beau Erickson | Goalie stats | Jordan Wakefield ( 31 saves / 36 shots ) | ||||||
(4) Air Force vs. (5) Holy Cross
edit| March 10[10] | Air Force | 3 – 0 | Holy Cross | Cadet Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Schiavone, Charbonneau) Theo Zacour - GW - 15:24 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Ehn) Mike Phillipich - 05:25 (Ehn, Phillipich) Greg Flynn - PP - 18:21 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 17 saves / 17 shots ) Ben Worker | Goalie stats | Charlie Lockwood ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
Semifinals
edit(1) Sacred Heart vs. (4) Air Force
edit| March 16[11] | Sacred Heart | 4 – 5 | OT | Air Force | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | 15:58 - Brett Nylander (Medenwaldt, Fairchild) | ||||||
| (Spencer) Bear Trapp - 07:33 | Second period | 00:41 - 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 period | 19:06 - EA - Billy Devoney (Phillipich, Hajner) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 08:04 - GW - Josh Print (Schaffer, Flynn) | ||||||
| ( 29 saves / 34 shots ) Jason Smith | Goalie stats | Ben Worker ( 20 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Army vs. (3) Connecticut
edit| March 16[12] | Army | 3 – 1 | Connecticut | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Hollweg, Bickley) Tim Manthey - PP - 16:42 | Second period | 11:56 - PP - Chris Myhro (Koidahl, Erickson) | ||||||
| (Meyer, Flicek) Chris Colvin - GW - 05:53 (Manthey, Flicek) Owen Meyer - PP - 16:06 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 33 saves / 34 shots ) Josh Kassel | Goalie stats | Beau Erickson ( 23 saves / 26 shots ) | ||||||
Championship
edit(2) Army vs. (4) Air Force
edit| March 17[13] | Army | 1 – 6 | Air Force | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 04:26 - Mike Phillipich (Ramsey, Ehn) 07:53 - GW PP - Andrew Ramsey (Phillipich, Mayra) | ||||||
| (Meyer, Flicek) Tim Manthey - PP - 12:59 | Third period | 04:39 - 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
edit- G Andrew Volkening (Air Force)
- D Tim Manthey (Army)
- F Mike Phillipich* (Air Force)
- F Bryce Hollweg (Army)
References
edit- ^ "Frank Serratore Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "RIT To Join Atlantic Hockey in 2006-07". Atlantic Hockey. December 15, 2004. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Atlantic Hockey 2006-07 Week 23". USCHO.com. March 3, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Atlantic Hockey 2006-07 Week 24". USCHO.com. March 10, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Atlantic Hockey 2006-07 Week 25". USCHO.com. March 17, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "American International 2, Canisius 1". USCHO.com. March 3, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Sacred Heart 4, American International 0". USCHO.com. March 10, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Army 6, Bentley 2". USCHO.com. March 10, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Connecticut 5, Mercyhurst 4". USCHO.com. March 10, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Air Force 3, Holy Cross 0". USCHO.com. March 10, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Air Force 5, Sacred Heart 4". USCHO.com. March 16, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Army 3, Connecticut 1". USCHO.com. March 16, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Air Force 6, Army 1". USCHO.com. March 17, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Atlantic Hockey Finals". Inside College Hockey. March 17, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2013.