2025 Atlantic Hockey America men's tournament

The 2025 Atlantic Hockey America Tournament was the inaugural edition of the Atlantic Hockey America Tournament. It was played between February 28 and March 22, 2025. By winning the tournament, Bentley received Atlantic Hockey America's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.

2025 Atlantic Hockey America men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	February 28–March 22, 2025
Teams	11
Finals site	Hart Center Worcester, Massachusetts
Champions	Bentley (1st title)
Winning coach	Andy Jones (1st title)
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As this is the successor to the Atlantic Hockey postseason tournament, the league took possession of the Riley Trophy and it will continue to be awarded to the league's tournament champion.^[1]

Format

Similar to the preceding Atlantic Hockey tournament, this tournament featured four rounds of play, with all eleven conference teams participating. The top five teams, according to the conference standings, received byes to the quarterfinal round. The remaining six teams were arranged so that the sixth seed played the eleventh seed, the seventh seed played the tenth seed and the eighth seed played the ninth seed in the first round matches. The winners of the first-round games were reseeded for the quarterfinal round with the new eighth-, seventh-, and sixth-seeded teams facing the first-, second-, and third-place teams respectively. The fourth- and fifth-overall seeds were also set to play each other in the last quarterfinal round. The winners of the quarterfinal round were then reseeded so that the top remaining seed played the lowest remaining seed while the other two semifinalists met. The winners of the semifinal matches advanced to the championship to determine which team received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.^[2] The quarterfinal and semifinal rounds were best-of-three series while the championship and first round matches were single elimination. All matchups were hosted by the higher-seeded team.

Conference standings

2024–25 Atlantic Hockey America Standings v t e
	Conference record											Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	OW	OL	SW	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Holy Cross †	26	19	5	2	4	0	1	56	92	47		40	24	14	2	130	94
Sacred Heart	26	16	7	3	1	1	2	53	80	64		39	21	13	5	118	101
#19 Bentley *	26	16	9	1	1	2	1	51	79	57		40	23	15	2	115	83
Niagara	26	15	9	2	3	3	1	48	90	70		37	18	16	3	124	109
Army	26	14	10	2	2	0	2	44	84	74		38	16	20	2	105	117
Canisius	26	11	13	2	0	3	0	38	84	79		37	12	23	2	98	120
Air Force	26	11	13	2	2	3	1	37	59	58		40	16	21	3	86	112
American International	26	9	16	1	0	3	0	31	63	77		38	13	23	2	92	117
RIT	26	9	15	2	2	0	1	28	65	102		35	10	23	2	82	133
Robert Morris	26	7	15	4	1	2	1	27	72	86		35	10	20	5	95	115
Mercyhurst	26	4	19	3	1	0	2	16	59	113		35	4	27	4	77	150
Championship: March 22, 2025 † indicates conference regular season champion (DeGregorio Trophy) * indicates conference tournament champion (Riley Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals

	First Round February 28–March 1					Quarterfinals March 7–9							Semifinals March 14–16							Championship March 22
						1	Holy Cross	2	3	4*
	6	Canisius	2			8	American International	3	2	3
	11	Mercyhurst	0										1	Holy Cross	3*	5	-
													5	Army	2	1	-
						2	Sacred Heart	4	2	4
	7	Air Force	4**			7	Air Force	1	3	1
	10	Robert Morris	3																	1	Holy Cross	3
																				3	Bentley	6
						3	Bentley	4	2	-
	8	American International	2*			6	Canisius	0	0	-
	9	RIT	1										2	Sacred Heart	2	0	-
													3	Bentley	5	3	-
						4	Niagara	2	4	3
						5	Army	3**	3	4*

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

Note: All game times are local.

First Round

(6) Canisius vs. (11) Mercyhurst

March 1, 2025 5:00 pm

Canisius

2–0 (1–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Mercyhurst

LECOM Harborcenter Attendance: 293

Game reference
	Ben Bonisteel	Goalies	Carter McPhail	Referees: Ronald Morello Brendan Blanchard Linesmen: Brendan Lewis Brian Kimmins
	(unassisted) Kyle Haskins (11) – GW – 09:50 1–0 (Alton McDermott) Grant Porter (10) – 49:37 2–0
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	33	Shots	16

(7) Air Force vs. (10) Robert Morris

March 1, 2025 5:00 pm

Air Force

4–3 (2OT) (1–2, 1–0, 1–1, 0–0, 1–0)

Robert Morris

Cadet Ice Arena Attendance: 1,355

Game reference
	Guy Blessing	Goalies	Croix Kochendorfer	Referees: Andrew Bethmann William McGoldrick Linesmen: Owen Ells Gregg Leonardo
	0–1 06:16 – Tanner Klimpke (9) (van Why, Garvey) (Sajevic, Stitz) Will Dawson (2) – 11:27 1–1 1–2 13:57 – PP – Michael Felsing (7) (Craig, Klimpke) (Stitz, Hedden) Clayton Cosentino (8) – PP – 26:08 2–2 (Dawson, Morque) Sam Stitz (8) – 44:57 3–2 3–3 50:24 – Tanner Klimpke (10) (Craig, Wilson) (Hedden, Cosentino) Anthony Yu (2) – GW – 93:30 4–3
	4 min	Penalties	9 min
	54	Shots	37

(8) American International vs. (9) RIT

February 28, 2025 6:05 pm

American International

2–1 (OT) (0–0, 0–1, 1–0, 1–0)

RIT

MassMutual Center Attendance: 171

Game reference
	Chase Clark	Goalies	Ethan David	Referees: Andy O'Brien Christopher Leavitt Linesmen: Patrick Philbin Cameron Carlson
	0–1 26:21 – Philippe Jacques (4) (Hobbs, Whyte) (Malinowski, Lindberg) John Lundy (9) – 43:14 1–1 (Geschwind, Rylance) Casey McDonald (2) – GW – 66:01 2–1
	2 min	Penalties	2 min
	35	Shots	32

Quarterfinals

(1) Holy Cross vs. (8) American International

March 7, 2025 7:00 pm

Holy Cross

2–3 (0–1, 0–2, 2–0)

American International

Hart Center Attendance: 614

Game reference
	Thomas Gale	Goalies	Chase Clark	Referees: Ron Morello Christopher Leavitt Linesmen: Conor Foley Steven Riley Jr.
	0–1 10:45 – Alfred Lindberg (7) (Khokhlachev, Sertti) 0–2 27:11 – Josh Barnes (14) (Khokhlachev) 0–3 28:50 – GW – Oscar Geschwind (5) (Rylance, McDonald) (Oliphant) Jack Seymour (6) – 46:32 1–3 (Stockfish, Kursonis) Matt DeBoer (2) – EA – 58:24 2–3
	10 min	Penalties	25 min
	36	Shots	19

March 8, 2025 7:00 pm

Holy Cross

3–2 (2–1, 0–1, 1–0)

American International

Hart Center Attendance: 678

Game reference
	Thomas Gale	Goalies	Chase Clark	Referees: Ron Morello Christopher Leavitt Linesmen: Conor Foley Steven Riley Jr.
	(Kursonis, Oliphant) Liam McLinskey (21) – PP – 04:55 1–0 (Abgrall, McLinskey) Mack Oliphant (3) – SH – 11:08 2–0 2–1 11:37 – Brett Rylance (7) (unassisted) 2–2 23:28 – Casey McDonald (3) (Mexico, Rylance) (Phillips, DeBoer) Jack Stockfish (15) – GW – 56:19 3–2
	15 min	Penalties	26 min
	34	Shots	29

March 9, 2025 5:00 pm

Holy Cross

4–3 (OT) (1–0, 1–2, 1–1, 1–0)

American International

Hart Center Attendance: 852

Game reference
	Thomas Gale	Goalies	Chase Clark	Referees: Ron Morello Christopher Leavitt Linesmen: Conor Foley Steven Riley Jr.
	(unassisted) Brody Gagno (1) – SH – 10:58 1–0 1–1 24:30 – PP – John Lundy (10) (Stella, Serdachny) (Phillips, Oliphant) Liam McLinskey (22) – PP – 29:00 2–1 2–2 32:53 – Justin Mexico (3) (Lundy, Posma) (Kursonis, Oliphant) Matt DeBoer (11) – PP – 41:10 3–2 3–3 59:25 – PP EA – Brett Bamber (7) (Serdachny, Beljo) (McLinskey, Elias) Michael Abgral (7) – GW – 60:51 4–3
	14 min	Penalties	4 min
	34	Shots	23

Holy Cross wins series 2–1

(2) Sacred Heart vs. (7) Air Force

March 7, 2025 7:00 pm

Sacred Heart

4–1 (1–1, 2–0, 1–0)

Air Force

Martire Family Arena Attendance: 1,788

Game reference
	Ajeet Gundarah	Goalies	Guy Blessing	Referees: Matthew Fuller Ryan Sweeney Linesmen: Joshua Cleary Dylan Lewis
	(Driscoll, Guerra) Tyler Ghirardosi (7) – 04:02 1–0 1–1 18:44 – Anthony Yu (4) (Schwartz, Cunningham) (Hlusiak, Rubin) John Jaworski (11) – GW – 23:14 2–1 (Guerra, Ghirardosi) Max Dorrington (12) – 26:54 3–1 (Jaworski) Tyler Ghirardosi (8) – EN – 59:48 4–1
	16 min	Penalties	2 min
	23	Shots	30

March 8, 2025 7:00 pm

Sacred Heart

2–3 (2OT) (1–0, 0–1, 1–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Air Force

Martire Family Arena Attendance: 2,215

Game reference
	Ajeet Gundarah	Goalies	Guy Blessing	Referees: Matthew Fuller Ryan Sweeney Linesmen: Joshua Cleary Dylan Lewis
	(Sansbury, VanRooyan) Reid Pabich (12) – 03:21 1–0 1–1 18:44 – Andrew DeCarlo (5) (Jacobs, Hedden) (Driscoll, Sansbury) Matthew Guerra (11) – 43:53 2–1 2–2 48:52 – SH – Mitchell Digby (3) (Oliphant, McCormick) 2–3 99:27 – GW – Austin Schwartz (12) (Chris Hedden, Gibbons)
	4 min	Penalties	10 min
	34	Shots	58

March 9, 2025 5:00 pm

Sacred Heart

4–1 (0–0, 1–0, 3–1)

Air Force

Martire Family Arena Attendance: 1,709

Game reference
	Ajeet Gundarah	Goalies	Guy Blessing	Referees: Matthew Fuller Ryan Sweeney Linesmen: Joshua Cleary Dylan Lewis
	(Pabich) John Jaworski (12) – 38:22 1–0 (Rubin) Jake Bongo (3) – GW – 44:09 2–0 (Jaworski) Reid Pabich (13) – EN – 55:18 3–0 (Joughin, Driscoll) Cole Galata (6) – EN – 56:35 4–0 4–1 58:51 – Clayton Cosentino (9) (Hedden, Schwartz)
	8 min	Penalties	2 min
	31	Shots	30

Sacred Heart wins series 2–1

(3) Bentley vs. (6) Canisius

March 7, 2025 7:00 pm

Bentley

4–0 (2–0, 1–0, 1–0)

Canisius

Bentley Arena Attendance: 1,389

Game reference
	Connor Hasley	Goalies	Ben Bonisteel	Referees: Brendan Blanchard William McGoldrick III Linesmen: Cameron Carlson Patrick Philbin
	(Main, Merritt) Nik Armstrong-Kingkade (9) – GW – 03:13 1–0 (unassisted) Nick Bochen (2) – 19:45 2–0 (Doyle, Kramer) Jake Black (3) – 25:15 3–0 (Hodges, Bochen) Jake Black (4) – 46:28 4–0
	8 min	Penalties	4 min
	31	Shots	26

March 8, 2025 7:00 pm

Bentley

2–0 (0–0, 0–0, 2–0)

Canisius

Bentley Arena Attendance: 1,204

Game reference
	Connor Hasley	Goalies	Ben Bonisteel	Referees: Brendan Blanchard William McGoldrick III Linesmen: Cameron Carlson Patrick Philbin
	(Bakkevig, Hodges) Arlo Merritt (8) – GW – 43:29 1–0 (Hjartarson, Main) Ethan Leyh (14) – EN – 58:23 2–0
	2 min	Penalties	2 min
	32	Shots	25

Bentley wins series 2–0

(4) Niagara vs. (5) Army

March 7, 2025 7:00 pm

Niagara

2–3 (2OT) (1–0, 1–1, 0–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Army

Dwyer Arena Attendance: 603

Game reference
	Pierce Charleson	Goalies	J. J. Cataldo	Referees: Mark Dungan Andrew O'Brien Linesmen: Joseph Gladnick James Rogosky
	(Ahearn, Ott) Tyler Wallace (14) – 11:12 1–0 1–1 25:40 – Ben Ivey (4) (Forselius, Keefer) (Prohorenkovs, Hoskin) Jay Ahearn (17) – 28:26 2–1 2–2 43:58 – Adam Marshall (7) (Gilbert, Woodring) 2–3 94:39 – GW PP – Mac Gadowsky (13) (Woodring, Forselius)
	20 min	Penalties	10 min
	50	Shots	67

March 8, 2025 7:00 pm

Niagara

4–3 (1–0, 1–1, 2–2)

Army

Dwyer Arena Attendance: 618

Game reference
	Pierce Charleson	Goalies	J. J. Cataldo	Referees: Mark Dungan Andrew O'Brien Linesmen: Joseph Gladnick James Rogosky
	(B. Roloson, Rødne) Kyler Kleven (3) – 12:33 1–0 1–1 21:58 – Mac Gadowsky (14) (Baez) (Hoskin, R. Roloson) Jay Ahearn (18) – PP – 31:31 2–1 (Kleven, Carlin) Lars Rødne (10) – 42:30 3–1 (Young) Grayson Dietrich (5) – GW SH – 44:08 4–1 4–2 55:20 – Mac Gadowsky (15) (unassisted) 4–3 59:46 – EA – Ben Ivey (7) (Gadowsky, Patterson)
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	29	Shots	39

March 9, 2025 5:00 pm

Niagara

3–4 (OT) (1–0, 0–2, 2–1, 0–1)

Army

Dwyer Arena Attendance: 608

Game reference
	Pierce Charleson	Goalies	J. J. Cataldo	Referees: Mark Dungan Andrew O'Brien Linesmen: Joseph Gladnick James Rogosky
	(Hackett) Spencer Young (7) – 11:25 1–0 1–1 22:59 – SH – Nik Hong (10) (Marshall) 1–2 39:52 – Ben Ivey (8) (Gadowsky, Groebner) (Prohorenkovs) Jay Ahearn (19) – 42:50 2–2 2–3 48:04 – Easton Zueger (2) (Ivey) (Ahearn, R. Roloson) Shane Ott (9) – EA – 57:54 3–3 3–4 62:45 – GW PP – Barron Woodring (10) (Ivey, Gadowsky)
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	37	Shots	42

Army wins series 2–1

Semifinals

(1) Holy Cross vs. (5) Army

March 14, 2025 7:00 pm

Holy Cross

3–2 (OT) (2–1, 0–1, 0–0, 1–0)

Army

Hart Center Attendance: 2,157

Game reference
	Thomas Gale	Goalies	J. J. Cataldo	Referees: Ryan Sweeney Brendan Blanchard Linesmen: Joe Sherman Brendan Lewis
	(Gelatt) Matthew Kursonis (8) – 01:49 1–0 1–1 17:10 – Mac Gadowsky (16) (Baez, Sacco) (DeBoer, McLinskey) Devin Phillips (9) – PP – 17:10 2–1 2–2 30:20 – PP – Barron Woodring (11) (Gadowsky, Ivey) (Stockfish, Gagno) Devin Phillips (10) – GW – 63:15 3–2
	10 min	Penalties	8 min
	39	Shots	47

March 15, 2025 7:00 pm

Holy Cross

5–1 (2–0, 2–1, 1–0)

Army

Hart Center Attendance: 1,341

Game reference
	Thomas Gale	Goalies	J. J. Cataldo	Referees: Ryan Sweeney Brendan Blanchard Linesmen: Joe Sherman Brendan Lewis
	(DeBoer, McLinskey) Matthew Kursonis (9) – PP – 10:51 1–0 (Gelatt, McLinskey) Michael Abgrall (8) – GW – 14:46 2–0 (DeBoer, Elias) Jack Seymour (7) – 26:22 3–0 (Abgrall, Oliphant) Ty Gagno (4) – SH – 27:07 4–0 4–1 38:33 – Nik Hong (11) (Patterson, Willey) (unassisted) Liam McLinskey (23) – EN – 59:35 5–1
	8 min	Penalties	19 min
	21	Shots	30

Holy Cross wins series 2–0

(2) Sacred Heart vs. (3) Bentley

March 14, 2025 7:00 pm

Sacred Heart

2–5 (2–0, 0–2, 0–3)

Bentley

Martire Family Arena Attendance: 2,301

Game reference
	Ajeet Gundarah	Goalies	Connor Hasley	Referees: Matthew Fuller Christopher Leavitt Linesmen: Conor Foley Patrick Philbin
	(Pabich, Sansbury) John Jaworski (13) – 03:28 1–0 (Driscoll) Mikey Adamson (12) – 11:56 2–0 2–1 34:18 – PP – Oskar Bakkevig (9) (Castagna, Leyh) 2–2 35:44 – PP – Nik Armstrong-Kingkade (10) (Black, Hodges) 2–3 48:51 – GW – A. J. Hodges (6) (Salo, Duerr) 2–4 50:40 – A. J. Hodges (7) (Main) 2–5 59:47 – EN – A. J. Hodges (8) (Bochen)
	21 min	Penalties	2 min
	22	Shots	35

March 15, 2025 5:00 pm

Sacred Heart

0–3 (0–1, 0–0, 0–2)

Bentley

Martire Family Arena Attendance: 2,700

Game reference
	Ajeet Gundarah	Goalies	Connor Hasley	Referees: Matthew Fuller Christopher Leavitt Linesmen: Conor Foley Patrick Philbin
	0–1 00:56 – GW – Ethan Leyh (15) (Armstrong-Kingkade, Hodges) 0–2 58:10 – EN – Oskar Bakkevig (10) (unassisted) 0–3 59:44 – EN – Ethan Leyh (16) (unassisted)
	9 min	Penalties	4 min
	26	Shots	36

Bentley wins series 2–0

Championship

(1) Holy Cross vs. (3) Bentley

March 22, 2025 7:00 pm

Holy Cross

3–6 (2–0, 0–3, 1–3)

Bentley

Hart Center Attendance: 2,717

Game reference
	Thomas Gale	Goalies	Connor Hasley	Referees: Brendan Blanchard Ryan Sweeney Linesmen: Brendan Lewis Joe Sherman
	(Kursonis, Elias) Liam McLinskey (24) – PP – 13:54 1–0 (McLinskey, Oliphant) Matthew Kursonis (10) – PP – 16:52 2–0 2–1 26:34 – Tucker Hodgson (3) (Helledy, Hjartarson) 2–2 27:11 – EA – Nik Armstrong-Kingkade (11) (Castagna, Bochen) 2–3 30:38 – Nick Bochen (9) (Armstrong-Kingkade) (McLinskey, Oliphant) Devin Phillips (11) – PP – 46:53 3–3 3–4 49:16 – GW – Sam Duerr (8) (Armstrong-Kingkade, Leyh) 3–5 54:38 – A. J. Hodges (8) (Hjartarson) 3–6 57:08 – EN – Nik Armstrong-Kingkade (8) (Leyh)
	2 min	Penalties	6 min
	20	Shots	30

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

• F: Liam McLinskey (Holy Cross)
• F: A. J. Hodges (Bentley)
• F: Nik Armstrong-Kingkade (Bentley)
• D: Mac Gadowsky (Army)
• D: Nick Bochen (Bentley)
• G: Connor Hasley* (Bentley)

* Most Outstanding Player(s) ^[3]