2017 Atlantic Hockey men's ice hockey tournament
The 2017 Atlantic Hockey Tournament is the 13th Atlantic Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 3 and March 18, 2017 at home campus locations and at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. The tournament champion Air Force was granted Atlantic Hockey's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format
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 2017 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''Bracket
Army and Robert Morris finished tied for third. Army wins the 5th tiebreaker. RIT, Mercyhurst and Bentley finished tied for sixth place. RIT was seeded sixth with tie breakers over both while Mercyhurst was placed seventh.Note: * denotes overtime period
Tournament awards
[List of [Atlantic Hockey All-Tournament Team|All-Tournament Team]]
- G Shane Starrett*
- D Johnny Hrabovsky
- D
- F Jordan Himley
- F Tyler Ledford
- F Brady Ferguson