College ice hockey tournament
| 2004 Atlantic Hockey Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 12–20, 2004 |
| Teams | 9 |
| Finals site | Tate Rink West Point, New York |
| Champions | Holy Cross (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Paul Pearl (1st title) |
| MVP | Greg Kealey (Holy Cross) |
| Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments 2005 → | |
The 2004 Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the inaugural Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 12 and March 20, 2004. All games were played at the Tate Rink in West Point, New York, the home venue of the Army Black Knights. By winning the tournament, Holy Cross received the Atlantic Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, the first appearance in team history.
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 2004 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
| 2003–04 Atlantic Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Holy Cross†* | 24 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 83 | 54 | 36 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 117 | 89 | |
| Mercyhurst | 24 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 33 | 105 | 71 | 36 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 145 | 122 | |
| Quinnipiac | 24 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 67 | 53 | 35 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 87 | 87 | |
| Sacred Heart | 24 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 28 | 87 | 68 | 36 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 107 | 114 | |
| Connecticut | 24 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 23 | 89 | 86 | 35 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 115 | 127 | |
| Canisius | 24 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 22 | 67 | 73 | 34 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 84 | 107 | |
| Bentley | 24 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 18 | 55 | 71 | 32 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 79 | 103 | |
| Army | 24 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 15 | 55 | 84 | 33 | 12 | 18 | 3 | 82 | 107 | |
| American International | 24 | 3 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 49 | 97 | 34 | 5 | 25 | 4 | 71 | 138 | |
| Championship: Holy Cross † 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
| Play-In March 12 | Quarterfinals March 13 | Semifinals March 14 | Championship March 20 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Holy Cross | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Army | 3 | 9 | American International | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | American International | 4 | 1 | Holy Cross | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Canisius | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Quinnipiac | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Canisius | 1* | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Holy Cross | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sacred Heart | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mercyhurst | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Bentley | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mercyhurst | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sacred Heart | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sacred Heart | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Connecticut | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Play-in
(8) Army vs. (9) American International
| March 9 | Army | 3 – 4 | American International | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (Picone) Jon Boyle - 06:40 (Mayfield, Cruthers) Chris Casey - PP - 08:41 |
First period | 05:47 - Troy Johnston (Walbert, Valdes) 13:28 - Jay Fennessy | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 10:13 - John Levesque (McConnell, Miller) | ||||||
| (Mayfield, Rudd) Chris Casey - 14:21 | Third period | 10:10 - GW PP - Guillaume Caron (Walbert) | ||||||
| ( 21 saves / 25 shots ) Brad Roberts | Goalie stats | Frank Novello ( 34 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
Quarterfinals
(1) Holy Cross vs. (9) American International
| March 13 | Holy Cross | 5 – 0 | American International | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (O'Grady, Kealey) Jeff Dams - GW - 07:03 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McGregor, Napert-Frenette) Andrew McKay - 19:46 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Dams) Greg Kealey - PP - 01:09 (Sixsmith) Greg Kealey - 06:43 Matt Conway - 13:14 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 28 saves / 28 shots ) Tony Quesada | Goalie stats | Frank Novello ( 44 saves / 49 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Mercyhurst vs. (7) Bentley
| March 13 | Mercyhurst | 5 – 4 | Bentley | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (Carter, Rynshoven) Adam Tackaberry - 01:41 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Hansen, Champagne) T. J. Kemp - 11:31 | Second period | 03:46 - Paul Markarian (McCartin) 10:24 - Brendan McCartin (Markarian, Lovell) 17:35 - Brendan McCartin (Markarian, Lovell) | ||||||
| (Borrelli, Reynolds) Erik Johnson - 09:24 (Champagne) David Wrigley - EA PP - 15:24 (Wrigley, Kemp) Rich Hansen - GW PP - 16:17 |
Third period | 07:33 - Brendan McCartin (Plattner) | ||||||
| ( 14 saves / 17 shots ) Andy Franck / ( 6 saves / 7 shots ) Jordan Wakefield | Goalie stats | Simon St. Pierre ( 26 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
(3) Quinnipiac vs. (6) Canisius
| March 13 | Quinnipiac | 0 – 1 | OT | Canisius | 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 | 01:37 - GW - Justin Carre | ||||||
| ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) Jamie Holden | Goalie stats | Bryan Worosz ( 27 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
(4) Sacred Heart vs. (5) Connecticut
| March 12 | Sacred Heart | 3 – 0 | Connecticut | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (Billinghurst, Chmiel) Peter Giatrelis - GW PP - 04:19 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Connerty, Chmiel) William Billinghurst - 11:15 (Molinaro) Garrett Larson - EN - 18:17 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 26 shots ) Kevin LaPointe | Goalie stats | Scott Tomes ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
Semifinals
(1) Holy Cross vs. (6) Canisius
| March 14 | Holy Cross | 4 – 1 | Canisius | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (Bianchi, Kealey) Jeff Dams - 00:31 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Walker, Coskren) Jonas Tomiuck - GW PP - 14:48 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Coskren, Dams) Greg Kealey - PP - 10:27 Greg Kealey - EN SH - 18:52 |
Third period | 06:31 - Rob Martin (Corcoran, Cohen) | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 25 shots ) Tony Quesada | Goalie stats | Bryan Worosz ( 21 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Mercyhurst vs. (4) Sacred Heart
| March 14 | Mercyhurst | 2 – 3 | Sacred Heart | Northford Ice Pavilion | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 14:22 - Pierre-Luc O'Brien (Ferraro, Wright) | ||||||
| Kyle Gourgon - 02:55 (Martin, Reynolds) Erik Johnson - SH - 05:33 |
Second period | 04:06 - Konn Hawkes (Larson, Molinaro) 16:48 - Pierre-Luc O'Brien | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 30 shots ) Jordan Wakefield | Goalie stats | Kevin LaPointe ( 22 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
Championship
(1) Holy Cross vs. (4) Sacred Heart
| March 20 | Holy Cross | 4 – 0 | Sacred Heart | Tate Rink | Recap | |||
| (Napert-Frenette) Andrew McKay - GW - 05:06 (Dams, Sixsmith) Greg Kealey - 09:54 |
First period | (Coskren, Sixsmith) Jeff Dams - PP - 08:15 (Napert-Frenette, Irving) Andrew McKay - PP - 16:15 | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 28 saves / 28 shots ) Tony Quesada | Goalie stats | Kevin LaPointe ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
- G Tony Quesada (Holy Cross)
- D Konn Hawkes (Sacred Heart)
- D R. J. Irving (Holy Cross)
- F Pierre-Luc O'Brien (Sacred Heart)
- F Greg Kealey* (Holy Cross)
- F Jeff Dams (Holy Cross)
References
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- "American International 4, Army 3". USCHO.com. March 12, 2004. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- "Holy Cross 5, American International 0". USCHO.com. March 14, 2004. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- "Mercyhurst 5, Bentley 4". USCHO.com. March 13, 2004. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- "Canisius 1, Quinnipiac 4". USCHO.com. March 13, 2004. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- "Sacred Heart 3, Connecticut 0". USCHO.com. March 13, 2004. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- "Holy Cross 4, Canisius 1". USCHO.com. March 14, 2004. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- "Sacred Heart 3, Mercyhurst 2". USCHO.com. March 14, 2004. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- "Holy Cross 4, Sacred Heart 0". USCHO.com. March 20, 2004. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- "2004 Atlantic Hockey Championship". Inside College Hockey. March 20, 2004. Archived from the original on December 17, 2010. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
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