2008 Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2008 Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 5th conference tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 16, 2008. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while all 'Final Five' 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 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams. All quarterfinal matchups were best-of-three series with the top three remaining seeds receiving byes into the semifinal round and the lowest two remaining seeds playing in a four-vs-five match. All rounds after the quarterfinals were conducted as single-elimination games. The winner of the four-vs-five game would advance to the semifinals to play the highest remaining seed while the other two remaining seeds faced off in the other semifinal game. The winners of the semifinal games advanced to play each other in a championship game with the tournament champion receiving an automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings[4]

Note: 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
Army 28 17 8 3 37 84 51 37 19 14 4 101 73
RIT 28 15 8 5 35 87 72 37 19 12 6 116 109
Air Force* 28 14 9 5 33 89 65 39 21 12 6 130 91
Sacred Heart 28 14 11 3 31 91 79 38 16 19 3 111 116
Mercyhurst 28 11 10 7 29 83 89 41 15 19 7 112 133
Canisius 28 10 13 5 25 80 79 37 11 20 6 93 121
Connecticut 28 11 14 3 25 62 84 37 13 21 3 79 126
Bentley 28 9 13 6 24 81 88 36 9 21 6 89 124
Holy Cross 28 9 15 4 22 66 85 36 10 19 7 88 114
American International 28 8 17 3 19 67 98 36 8 23 5 83 135
Championship: Air Force
indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll

Bracket[5]

Teams are reseeded after the Quarterfinals

  Quarterfinals[6]
March 7-9
Four vs. Five[7]
March 14
Semifinals
March 15
Championship
March 16
                                         
  1 Army 4 5   1 Army 2  
10 American International 0 2 4 Sacred Heart 1     5 Mercyhurst 4  
  5 Mercyhurst 4  
  2 RIT 5* 5*
9 Holy Cross 4 4
  3 Air Force 9 3     3 Air Force 5**
8 Bentley 2 1     5 Mercyhurst 4
  4 Sacred Heart 6 2 4
7 Connecticut 5 3* 1
  5 Mercyhurst 4 2* 2 RIT 0
6 Canisius 1 1 3 Air Force 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Quarterfinals

(1) Army vs. (10) American International

Army won series 2–0

(2) RIT vs. (9) Holy Cross

RIT won series 2–0

(3) Air Force vs. (8) Bentley

Air Force won series 2–0

(4) Sacred Heart vs. (7) Connecticut

Sacred Heart won series 2–1

(5) Mercyhurst vs. (6) Canisius

Mercyhurst won series 2–0

Four vs. Five

(4) Sacred Heart vs. (5) Mercyhurst

Semifinals

(1) Army vs. (5) Mercyhurst

(2) RIT vs. (3) Air Force

Championship

(3) Air Force vs. (5) Mercyhurst

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[23]

* Most Valuable Player(s)

References

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