College ice hockey tournament
| 2015 Atlantic Hockey Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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| Dates | March 6–21, 2015 |
| Teams | 11 |
| Finals site | Blue Cross Arena Rochester, New York |
| Champions | RIT (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Wayne Wilson (2nd title) |
| MVP | Matt Garbowsky (RIT) |
| Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 2014 2016 → | |
The 2015 Atlantic Hockey Tournament was the 11th Atlantic Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 6 and March 21, 2015, at campus locations and at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. The tournament was won by the RIT Tigers. By winning the tournament, RIT earned Atlantic Hockey's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format
The tournament format changed this year because the Connecticut Huskies left the league for Hockey East, leaving 11 teams. Under the new format, the top five (instead of four) seeds all receive a bye into the quarterfinals, but the fifth seed doesn't host a quarterfinal series.
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 2015 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
| 2014–15 Atlantic Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
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| Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Robert Morris † | 28 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 42 | 106 | 66 | 37 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 133 | 90 | |
| Canisius | 28 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 36 | 78 | 60 | 37 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 95 | 82 | |
| #16 RIT * | 28 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 33 | 90 | 62 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 121 | 96 | |
| Bentley | 28 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 33 | 76 | 67 | 37 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 100 | 92 | |
| Mercyhurst | 28 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 31 | 90 | 87 | 39 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 116 | 122 | |
| Holy Cross | 28 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 29 | 68 | 61 | 37 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 84 | 87 | |
| Air Force | 28 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 29 | 82 | 82 | 41 | 16 | 21 | 4 | 119 | 130 | |
| Sacred Heart | 28 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 26 | 77 | 82 | 38 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 96 | 113 | |
| Army | 28 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 20 | 60 | 84 | 34 | 8 | 22 | 4 | 68 | 108 | |
| American International | 28 | 4 | 17 | 7 | 15 | 69 | 107 | 36 | 4 | 25 | 7 | 87 | 155 | |
| Niagara | 28 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 14 | 65 | 103 | 39 | 7 | 28 | 4 | 85 | 157 | |
| Championship: March 21, 2015 † indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
RIT and Bentley finished tied for third place; RIT is the third seed based on the third tiebreaker (head-to-head goal differential). Air Force and Holy Cross finished tied for sixth place; Holy Cross is the sixth seed based on the first tiebreaker (head-to-head results).
| First round March 6–8 | Quarterfinals March 13–15 | Semifinals March 20 | Championship March 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Robert Morris | 4 | 6 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Holy Cross | 1 | 2*** | 3 | 11 | Niagara | 2 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | Niagara | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | Robert Morris | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Mercyhurst | 4* | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Canisius | 2 | 2 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sacred Heart | 0 | 1 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | RIT | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Mercyhurst | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | RIT | 2 | 7 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Air Force | 6 | 10 | — | 7 | Air Force | 1 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | American International | 1 | 3 | — | 2 | Canisius | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | RIT | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Bentley | 0 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sacred Heart | 2 | 5 | — | 5 | Mercyhurst | 1* | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | Army | 0 | 2 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Results
First round
(6) Holy Cross vs. (11) Niagara
| March 6 | Holy Cross | 1 – 2 | Niagara | Hart Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Bolton, Barrett) Matt Scarth - PP - 12:04 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 04:29 - Kevin Patterson (Angiolella, Pietrobon) 10:10 - GW - Luke Edwards (Pietrobon, Angiolella) | ||||||
| ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) Matt Ginn | Goalie stats | Jackson Teichroeb ( 31 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
| March 7 | Holy Cross | 2 – 1 | 3OT | Niagara | Hart Center | Recap | ||
| (Moore, Barrett) Matt Scarth - PP - 05:56 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 01:00 - Stanislav Dzakhov (Sarcona, Smith) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McNamara, Pooley) T. J. Moore - GW - 11:40 | Third overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 50 saves / 51 shots ) Matt Ginn | Goalie stats | Jackson Teichroeb ( 58 saves / 60 shots ) | ||||||
| March 8 | Holy Cross | 3 – 5 | Niagara | Hart Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 03:48 - Larry Smith (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Moore, Pooley) Mike Barrett - 01:30 (Nagy, Youso) Tommy Dwyer - 13:34 (Beckman) Brett Lubanski - 15:15 |
Second period | 04:54 - PP - Kevin Patterson (Sarcona) 12:28 - PP - Keegan Harper (Sarcona, Patterson) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 02:03 - GW PP - Chris Lochner (Muto, Smith) 19:10 - EN - Hugo Turcotte (Kolenda) | ||||||
| ( 21 saves / 25 shots ) Matt Ginn | Goalie stats | Jackson Teichroeb ( 47 saves / 50 shots ) | ||||||
| Niagara won series 2–1 | |
(7) Air Force vs. (10) American International
| March 6 | Air Force | 6 – 1 | American International | Cadet Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Baskin, Ledford) A. J. Reid - 04:32 (Himley, Vosejpka) Ben Kucera - GW - 12:02 (Demers, Weissenhofer) Scott Holm - 12:47 |
First period | 16:22 - Austin Orszulak (May, MacMillan) | ||||||
| (Hartner, Kucera) Ben Carey - 05:59 (Gunner, Rostenkowski) Scott Holm - 06:37 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Reid, Ledford) Phil Boje - PP - 01:20 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 25 shots ) Chris Truehl | Goalie stats | Alex Murray ( 28 saves / 34 shots ) / Jacob Caffrey ( 2 saves / 2 shots ) | ||||||
| March 7 | Air Force | 10 – 3 | American International | Cadet Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (unassisted) Chad Demers - 01:11 (Carey, Holm) Cole Gunner - 17:06 (Gunner, Weissenhofer) Chad Demers - 18:32 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Kucera, Weissenhofer) Cole Gunner - GW PP - 00:54 (unassisted) Ben Carey - 12:05 (Reid, Ledford) Cole Gunner - 14:22 |
Second period | 01:08 - Johno May (Orszulak) | ||||||
| (Hartner, Abood) Ben Carey - 01:37 (Ledford, Abood) A. J. Reid - 02:17 (Ledford, Baskin) Phil Boje - 06:51 (Carey) Cole Gunner - 08:57 |
Third period | 13:11 - Nathan Sliwinski (May, Debrincat) 16:51 - Johno May (Gandara) | ||||||
| ( 21 saves / 22 shots ) Chris Truehl / ( 8 saves / 10 shots ) Connor Girard | Goalie stats | Hunter Leisner ( 15 saves / 19 shots ) / Alex Murray ( 23 saves / 28 shots ) / Jacob Caffrey ( 9 saves / 10 shots ) | ||||||
| Air Force won series 2–0 | |
(8) Sacred Heart vs. (9) Army
| March 6 | Sacred Heart | 2 – 0 | Army | Milford Ice Pavilion | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Luczyk, Doerksen) Alec Butcher - GW - 06:16 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Sabatini, Butcher) Evan Jasper - 16:05 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 20 saves / 20 shots ) Alex Vazzano | Goalie stats | Parker Gahagen ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
| March 7 | Sacred Heart | 5 – 2 | Army | Milford Ice Pavilion | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Brightbill, Minello) Ben Lake - 04:27 (Nylen) Brian Sheehan - 05:54 (Rayner, Kennedy) Alec Butcher - GW - 09:40 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (George, Doherty) Justin Danforth - 03:03 (Kennedy, Nylen) Jordan Minello - EN - 18:17 |
Third period | 02:34 - PP - Mac Lalor (Alvarez, Pham) 15:07 - Brendan McGuire (Llaurado) | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Alex Vazzano | Goalie stats | Parker Gahagen ( 31 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| Sacred Heart won series 2–0 | |
Quarterfinals
(1) Robert Morris vs. (11) Niagara
| March 13 | Robert Morris | 4 – 2 | Niagara | 84 Lumber Arena | Recap | |||
| (Cope, Denham) Scott Jacklin - 08:17 | First period | 16:47 - Patrick Conte (Edwards, Turcotte) 17:37 - PP - Kevin Patterson (Kohls, Harper) | ||||||
| (Jones) Timmy Moore - 03:05 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Wilson, Jones) Spencer Dorowicz - GW - 02:48 (Gibson, Cope) Brandon Denham - EN - 18:44 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 38 saves / 40 shots ) Dalton Izyk | Goalie stats | Jackson Teichroeb ( 36 saves / 39 shots ) | ||||||
| March 14 | Robert Morris | 6 – 3 | Niagara | 84 Lumber Arena | Recap | |||
| (Rey, Lynch) Greg Gibson - 03:33 (Jacklin, Wilson) Zac Lynch - PP - 18:44 (Wydo, Wilson) Scott Jacklin - PP - 19:34 |
First period | 14:10 - Hugo Turcotte (Kolenda, Harper) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 01:46 - Matt Chiarantano (Lochner, Turcotte) 09:05 - Keegan Harper (Conte, Nasca) | ||||||
| (unassisted) Zac Lynch - GW SH - 04:30 (Denham, Rey) Greg Gibson - 07:48 (Ferguson) David Friedmann - EN - 17:08 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) Dalton Izyk | Goalie stats | Jackson Teichroeb ( 38 saves / 43 shots ) | ||||||
| Robert Morris won series 2–0 | |
(2) Canisius vs. (8) Sacred Heart
| March 13 | Canisius | 2 – 0 | Sacred Heart | Harborcenter | Recap | |||
| (Murray, Sheeran) Jack Stander - GW - 14:58 (Stander, McCrank) Ralph Cuddemi - 19:15 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 19 shots ) Keegan Asmundson | Goalie stats | Alex Vazzano ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) | ||||||
| March 14 | Canisius | 2 – 1 | Sacred Heart | Harborcenter | Recap | |||
| (Roe, Murray) Cody Freeman - 01:22 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Freeman, Cuddemi) Chris Rumble - 02:40 | Third period | 05:03 - Drew George (Danforth) | ||||||
| ( 32 saves / 33 shots ) Keegan Asmundson | Goalie stats | Alex Vazzano ( 12 saves / 14 shots ) | ||||||
| Canisius won series 2–0 | |
(3) RIT vs. (7) Air Force
| March 13 | RIT | 2 – 1 | Air Force | Gene Polisseni Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Norrish, McGowan) Matt Garbowsky - PP - 15:19 | Second period | 14:14 - PP - Chad Demers (Rostenkowski, Holm) | ||||||
| (Abt, Kuqali) Josh Mitchell - GW PP - 04:57 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 26 shots ) Jordan Ruby | Goalie stats | Chris Truehl ( 22 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
| March 14 | RIT | 7 – 3 | Air Force | Gene Polisseni Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Garbowsky, Norrish) Brad McGowan - PP - 00:49 (Norrish, Mitchell) Matt Garbowsky - PP - 13:57 |
Second period | 09:02 - PP - Ben Kucera (Reid, Baskin) | ||||||
| (Skirving) Brad McGowan - 00:27 (Mitchell, Norrish) Brad McGowan - GW - 08:17 (Kuqali, Garbowsky) Josh Mitchell - EN - 14:34 (Mitchell, Norrish) Brad McGowan - EN - 16:24 (Kuqali, Golberg) Myles Powell - PP - 18:01 |
Third period | 16:05 - PP EA - Cole Gunner (Weissenhofer) 19:52 - Max Hartner (McDonald, Michalke) | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) Jordan Ruby | Goalie stats | Chris Truehl ( 36 saves / 41 shots ) | ||||||
| RIT won series 2–0 | |
(4) Bentley vs. (5) Mercyhurst
| March 13 | Bentley | 0 – 1 | OT | Mercyhurst | John A. Ryan Arena | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 04:46 - GW - Ryan Misiak (Bahntge, Shiplo) | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 28 shots ) Jayson Argue | Goalie stats | Brandon Wildung ( 40 saves / 40 shots ) | ||||||
| March 14 | Bentley | 5 – 3 | Mercyhurst | John A. Ryan Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 19:35 - Chris Bodo (Misiak, Shiplo) | ||||||
| (Eiserman, McDonald) Alex Grieve - 01:16 (Gladiuk, Blomquist) Max French - PP - 02:17 (Buchanan, Maher) Kyle Schmidt - 03:57 (McDonald, Grieve) Kyle Schmidt - GW - 11:59 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) Kyle Schmidt - EN - 18:24 | Third period | 06:10 - PP - Kyle Just (Bahntge, Zay) 19:54 - EA - Chris Bodo (Bahntge, Just) | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Jayson Argue | Goalie stats | Brandon Wildung ( 25 saves / 29 shots ) / Spencer Bacon ( 7 saves / 7 shots ) | ||||||
| March 15 | Bentley | 2 – 3 | Mercyhurst | John A. Ryan Arena | Recap | |||
| (Gladiuk, McDonald) Matt Blomquist - 05:25 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Switzer, French) Andrew Gladiuk - 03:23 | Third period | 12:12 - Matthew Zay (Bahntge, Todd) 12:26 - Chris Bodo (Nagtzaam, Frischmon) 19:54 - GW - Nardo Nagtzaam (Frischmon, Bodo) | ||||||
| ( 32 saves / 35 shots ) Jayson Argue | Goalie stats | Brandon Wildung ( 35 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
| Mercyhurst won series 2–1 | |
Semifinals
(1) Robert Morris vs. (5) Mercyhurst
| March 20 | Robert Morris | 3 – 4 | OT | Mercyhurst | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | ||
| (Jacklin, Wydo) Zac Lynch - PP - 08:12 | First period | 04:47 - PP - Kyle Just (Mastrodicasa, Bahntge) 06:50 - PP - Ryan Misiak (Nagtzaam, Shiplo) | ||||||
| (Gibson, Wilson) Cody Wydo - 19:19 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Rey, Denham) Scott Jacklin - 14:41 | Third period | 19:25 - EA - Chris Bodo (Zay, Just) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 03:04 - GW - Zac Frischmon (Nagtzaam, Mastrodicasa) | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 29 shots ) Dalton Izyk | Goalie stats | Brandon Wildung ( 59 saves / 62 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Canisius vs. (3) RIT
| March 20 | Canisius | 1 – 2 | RIT | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 19:37 - Brad McGowan (Garbowsky) | ||||||
| (Jessey, Cuddemi) Shane Conacher - 10:07 | Second period | 15:15 - GW - Danny Smith (Miller, Abt) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) Keegan Asmundson | Goalie stats | Jordan Ruby ( 27 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
Championship
(3) RIT vs. (5) Mercyhurst
| March 21 | RIT | 5 – 1 | Mercyhurst | Blue Cross Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Golberg, Cameron) Matt Abt - 02:03 (Garbowsky, McGowan) Josh Mitchell - GW - 09:51 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Norrish, Kuqali) Andrew Miller - 14:55 (Mitchell, Garbowsky) Brad McGowan - 17:21 (Mitchell, Norrish) Brad McGowan - EN - 18:42 |
Third period | 02:55 - Stephen Hrehoriak (Gettinger, Sienerth) | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 28 shots ) Jordan Ruby | Goalie stats | Brandon Wildung ( 31saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
- G Brandon Wildung (Mercyhurst)
- D Brady Norrish (RIT)
- D Matt Abt (RIT)
- F Matt Garbowsky* (RIT)
- F Brad McGowan (RIT)
- F Andrew Miller (RIT)
References
- "RIT defeats Mercyhurst to claim second Atlantic Hockey Championship". Atlantic Hockey Association. March 21, 2015. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
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