The 2006 AHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 3rd
Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 11 and March 18, 2006. Opening round games were played at home team campus sites, while the semifinals and championship games were played at the
Holy Cross home venue:
Hart Center
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in
Worcester, Massachusetts
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. By winning the tournament,
Holy Cross received the
Atlantic Hockey Association
The Atlantic Hockey Association (AHA) is an NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey conference which operates primarily in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference. Unlike several other ...
's automatic bid to the
2006 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. This was the final year in which the AHA championship game was played at a non-neutral site.
Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. All games in the tournament are
single-elimination
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...
. In the quarterfinals, the first and eighth seeds, 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
2006 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''
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the Quarterfinals
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Holy Cross vs. (8) American International
(2) Mercyhurst vs. (7) Canisius
(3) Sacred Heart vs. (6) Connecticut
(4) Bentley vs. (5) Army
Semifinals
(1) Holy Cross vs. (6) Connecticut
(2) Mercyhurst vs. (4) Bentley
Championship
(1) Holy Cross vs. (4) Bentley
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
*G:
Tony Quesada
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(Holy Cross)
*D:
Jaye Judd (Bentley)
*D:
Jamie Hunt (Mercyhurst)
*F:
Tom Dickhudt (Bentley)
*F:
Pierre Napert-Frenette (Holy Cross)
*F:
James Sixsmith (Holy Cross)
MVP
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*
James Sixsmith (Holy Cross)
References
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Aha tournament
Atlantic Hockey men's ice hockey tournament