College ice hockey tournament
| 2002 MAAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 9–16, 2002 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Hart Center Worcester, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Quinnipiac (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Rand Pecknold (1st title) |
| MVP | Matt Craig (Quinnipiac) |
| MAAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 2001 2003 → | |
The 2002 MAAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 4th championship in the history of the conference. It was played between March 9 and March 16, 2002. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Hart Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, the home venue of the Holy Cross Crusaders. By winning the tournament Quinnipiac received MAAC's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament, their first appearance in the tournament.
Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play with each round being single-elimination. The teams that finish below eighth in the standings are ineligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third seed and sixth seeds, and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play with the winner advancing to the championship game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.
Conference standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
| 2001–02 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference standings | ||||||||||||||
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| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Mercyhurst† | 26 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 45 | 103 | 48 | 37 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 130 | 89 | |
| Quinnipiac* | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 35 | 89 | 57 | 38 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 129 | 110 | |
| Holy Cross | 26 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 33 | 95 | 69 | 34 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 120 | 109 | |
| Sacred Heart | 26 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 33 | 92 | 72 | 34 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 111 | 107 | |
| Canisius | 26 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 30 | 94 | 71 | 35 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 122 | 114 | |
| Connecticut | 26 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 27 | 86 | 89 | 36 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 104 | 129 | |
| Iona | 26 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 26 | 92 | 91 | 33 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 111 | 124 | |
| Army | 26 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 24 | 87 | 86 | 35 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 109 | 114 | |
| American International | 26 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 12 | 59 | 112 | 28 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 63 | 119 | |
| Fairfield | 26 | 4 | 19 | 3 | 11 | 53 | 91 | 32 | 6 | 23 | 3 | 72 | 121 | |
| Bentley | 26 | 4 | 20 | 2 | 10 | 57 | 121 | 32 | 4 | 26 | 2 | 69 | 150 | |
| Championship: Quinnipiac † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the quarterfinals
| Quarterfinals March 9 | Semifinals March 14 | Championship March 16 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Mercyhurst | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Army | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Mercyhurst | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Connecticut | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Holy Cross | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Connecticut | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Mercyhurst | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Quinnipiac | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Quinnipiac | 6** | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Iona | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Quinnipiac | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Sacred Heart | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Sacred Heart | 3* | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Canisius | 2 | ||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Mercyhurst vs. (8) Army
| March 9 | Mercyhurst | 2 – 1 | Army | Mercyhurst Ice Center | Recap | |||
| (Rynshoven) Louis Goulet - 19:39 | First period | 14:38 - Josh Morino (Boyle, Healey) | ||||||
| (Hansen, Tackaberry) Peter Rynshoven - GW - 10:18 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Peter Aubry ( 21 saves / 22 shots ) | Goalie stats | Scot Hamilton ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Quinnipiac vs. (7) Iona
| March 9 | Quinnipiac | 6 – 5 | 2OT | Iona | Northford Ice Pavilion | Recap | ||
| (Froehlich, Breen) Ryan Morton - 03:06 (Froehlich, Morton) Neil Breen - 07:54 |
First period | 06:59 - PP - Tim Krueckl (Kellogg) 11:28 - PP - Rob Kellogg (Lutz, Carter) 13:43 - PP - Tim Krueckl (Lutz, Carter) | ||||||
| (Olson) Chris White - PP - 04:24 (Craig, Olson) Chris White - 07:17 (Froehlich) Ryan Morton - 13:30 |
Second period | 06:13 - Chad Hordhagen (Ruhl, Schroeder) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:37 - EA - Tim Krueckl (Williams, Bararuk) | ||||||
| (Morton, Breen) Chris White - GW - 06:18 | Second overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| Jamie Holden ( 8 saves / 12 shots ) / Justin Eddy ( 25 saves / 26 shots ) | Goalie stats | Scott Galenza ( 50 saves / 56 shots ) | ||||||
(3) Holy Cross vs. (6) Connecticut
| March 9 | Holy Cross | 5 – 6 | Connecticut | Hart Center | Recap | |||
| (Kealey, Smith) Patrick Rissmiller - 01:08 | First period | 08:49 - Ron D'Angelo (Ames, Nelson) 12:04 - Matt Grew (D'Angelo, Kamienski) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 05:43 - Patrick McLaughlin (Murphy, Miller) 11:11 - Evan Schwarz (Rhein, Herhal) 18:16 - Eric Nelson | ||||||
| (Coskren) Jeff Dams - 01:14 (Rissmiller, Irving) Brandon Doria - PP - 09:01 Patrick Rissmiller - 13:10 (Rissmiller, Doria) Greg Kealey - 16:59 |
Third period | 19:39 - GW - Kurt Kamienski (Grew, D'Angelo) | ||||||
| Derek Cunha ( 28 saves / 34 shots ) | Goalie stats | Artie Imbriano ( 39 saves / 44 shots ) | ||||||
(4) Sacred Heart vs. (5) Canisius
| March 9 | Sacred Heart | 3 – 2 | Canisius | Milford Ice Pavilion | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | 02:26 - PP - Steve Birch (Duggan, Deeves) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Metcalfe) Marc-Andre Fournier - 14:08 (Henck, Marks) Nick Nutcher - 14:39 |
Third period | 02:20 - Marc Bouffard (Lucas, Street) | ||||||
| (Hrapchak) Garrett Larson - GW - 10:31 | Overtime | No scoring | ||||||
| Eddy Ferhi ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | Goalie stats | Bryan Worosz ( 34 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
Semifinals
(1) Mercyhurst vs. (6) Connecticut
| March 14 | Mercyhurst | 5 – 0 | Connecticut | Hart Center | Recap | |||
| (Goulet, Rivers) Tom McMonagle - GW - 05:23 (Carter) Mike Muldoon - PP - 07:11 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Louis Goulet - SH - 10:24 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Nolan Brown - 03:32 (Kemp, Hansen) Peter Rynshoven - PP - 08:39 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Peter Aubry ( 28 saves / 28 shots ) | Goalie stats | Artie Imbriano ( 27 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Quinnipiac vs. (4) Sacred Heart
| March 14 | Quinnipiac | 3 – 2 | Sacred Heart | Hart Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 16:23 - Peter McRae (Spostio, Forsland) | ||||||
| (Winkler, Bennett) Brian Herbert - PP - 02:38 (White) Matt Craig - 03:36 (Olson, Blais) Matt Craig - GW - 06:33 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 04:19 - PP - Michael Reagan (Mokos, McRae) | ||||||
| Jamie Holden ( 33 saves / 35 shots ) | Goalie stats | Eddy Ferhi ( 22 saves / 25 shots ) | ||||||
Championship
(1) Mercyhurst vs. (2) Quinnipiac
| March 16 | Mercyhurst | 4 – 6 | Quinnipiac | Hart Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 04:42 - Rob Hammel (Bennett, Herbert) 10:48 - Ryan Morton (Olson, White) 15:42 - Matt Froehlich (Ennis, Breen) 18:14 - Matt Craig (White, Watkins) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Kemp, Rynshoven) Rich Hansen - PP - 01:55 (Olsen, King) David Wrigley - 05:36 (Rynshoven, Kemp) Adam Tackaberry - PP - 09:33 (Goulet, Rivers) Mike Muldoon - 15:57 |
Third period | 02:38 - GW PP - Matt Erhart (Breen, Winkler) 19:51 - EN - Ryan Olson | ||||||
| Peter Aubry ( 4 saves / 8 shots ) / Matt Cifelli ( 17 saves / 18 shots ) | Goalie stats | Jamie Holden ( 38 saves / 42 shots ) | ||||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
- F Matt Craig* (Quinnipiac)
- F Chris White (Quinnipiac)
- F Louis Goulet (Mercyhurst)
- D Matt Erhart (Quinnipiac)
- D Mike Muldoon (Mercyhurst)
- G Jamie Holden (Quinnipiac)
References
- "Quinnipiac Men's Team History". Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "MAAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "MAAC men's 2001-02 Results Week 24". Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "MAAC men's 2001-02 Results Week 25". Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "Mercyhurst 2, Army 1". USCHO.com. March 9, 2002. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "Quinnipiac 6, Iona 5". USCHO.com. March 9, 2002. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "Connecticut 6, Holy Cross 5". USCHO.com. March 9, 2002. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "Sacred Heart 3, Canisius 2". USCHO.com. March 9, 2002. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "Mercyhurst 5, Connecticut 0". USCHO.com. March 14, 2002. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "Quinnipiac 3, Sacred Heart 2". USCHO.com. March 14, 2002. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "Quinnipiac 6, Mercyhurst 4". USCHO.com. March 16, 2002. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- "QU Men's Hockey beats Mercyhurst and goes to NCAA's". The Quinnipiac Chronicle. March 21, 2002. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
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