2004 Atlantic Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

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

ConferenceOverall
GPWLTPTSGFGAGPWLTGFGA
Holy Cross†*241743378354362210411789
Mercyhurst24167133105713620142145122
Quinnipiac24126630675335151468787
Sacred Heart2412842887683614175107114
Connecticut2491052389863512167115127
Canisius249114226773341016884107
Bentley24713418557132919479103
Army246153155584331218382107
American International24317410499734525471138
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[2]
March 12
Quarterfinals
March 13
Semifinals
March 14
Championship[3]
March 20
1Holy Cross5
8Army39American International0
9American International41Holy Cross4
6Canisius1
3Quinnipiac0
6Canisius1*
1Holy Cross4
4Sacred Heart0
2Mercyhurst5
7Bentley4
2Mercyhurst2
4Sacred Heart3
4Sacred Heart3
5Connecticut0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Play-in

(8) Army vs. (9) American International

March 9[4]Army3 – 4American InternationalTate RinkRecap 
(Picone) Jon Boyle - 06:40
(Mayfield, Cruthers) Chris Casey - PP - 08:41
First period05:47 - Troy Johnston (Walbert, Valdes)
13:28 - Jay Fennessy
No scoringSecond period10:13 - John Levesque (McConnell, Miller)
(Mayfield, Rudd) Chris Casey - 14:21Third period10:10 - GW PP - Guillaume Caron (Walbert)
( 21 saves / 25 shots ) Brad RobertsGoalie statsFrank Novello ( 34 saves / 37 shots )


Quarterfinals

(1) Holy Cross vs. (9) American International

March 13[5]Holy Cross5 – 0American InternationalTate RinkRecap 
(O'Grady, Kealey) Jeff Dams - GW - 07:03First periodNo scoring
(McGregor, Napert-Frenette) Andrew McKay - 19:46Second periodNo scoring
(Dams) Greg Kealey - PP - 01:09
(Sixsmith) Greg Kealey - 06:43
Matt Conway - 13:14
Third periodNo scoring
( 28 saves / 28 shots ) Tony QuesadaGoalie statsFrank Novello ( 44 saves / 49 shots )


(2) Mercyhurst vs. (7) Bentley

March 13[6]Mercyhurst5 – 4BentleyTate RinkRecap 
(Carter, Rynshoven) Adam Tackaberry - 01:41First periodNo scoring
(Hansen, Champagne) T. J. Kemp - 11:31Second period03:46 - 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 period07:33 - Brendan McCartin (Plattner)
( 14 saves / 17 shots ) Andy Franck / ( 6 saves / 7 shots ) Jordan WakefieldGoalie statsSimon St. Pierre ( 26 saves / 31 shots )


(3) Quinnipiac vs. (6) Canisius

March 13[7]Quinnipiac0 – 1OTCanisiusTate RinkRecap 
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
No scoringFirst overtime period01:37 - GW - Justin Carre
( 30 saves / 31 shots ) Jamie HoldenGoalie statsBryan Worosz ( 27 saves / 27 shots )


(4) Sacred Heart vs. (5) Connecticut

March 12[8]Sacred Heart3 – 0ConnecticutTate RinkRecap 
(Billinghurst, Chmiel) Peter Giatrelis - GW PP - 04:19First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
(Connerty, Chmiel) William Billinghurst - 11:15
(Molinaro) Garrett Larson - EN - 18:17
Third periodNo scoring
( 26 saves / 26 shots ) Kevin LaPointeGoalie statsScott Tomes ( 26 saves / 28 shots )


Semifinals

(1) Holy Cross vs. (6) Canisius

March 14[9]Holy Cross4 – 1CanisiusTate RinkRecap 
(Bianchi, Kealey) Jeff Dams - 00:31First periodNo scoring
(Walker, Coskren) Jonas Tomiuck - GW PP - 14:48Second periodNo scoring
(Coskren, Dams) Greg Kealey - PP - 10:27
Greg Kealey - EN SH - 18:52
Third period06:31 - Rob Martin (Corcoran, Cohen)
( 24 saves / 25 shots ) Tony QuesadaGoalie statsBryan Worosz ( 21 saves / 24 shots )


(2) Mercyhurst vs. (4) Sacred Heart

March 14[10]Mercyhurst2 – 3Sacred HeartNorthford Ice PavilionRecap 
No ScoringFirst period14:22 - Pierre-Luc O'Brien (Ferraro, Wright)
Kyle Gourgon - 02:55
(Martin, Reynolds) Erik Johnson - SH - 05:33
Second period04:06 - Konn Hawkes (Larson, Molinaro)
16:48 - Pierre-Luc O'Brien
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
( 27 saves / 30 shots ) Jordan WakefieldGoalie statsKevin LaPointe ( 22 saves / 24 shots )


Championship

(1) Holy Cross vs. (4) Sacred Heart

March 20[11]Holy Cross4 – 0Sacred HeartTate RinkRecap 
(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 scoringSecond periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
( 28 saves / 28 shots ) Tony QuesadaGoalie statsKevin 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)

* Most Valuable Player(s)

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References