The 2009 Atlantic Hockey Tournament was the 6th Atlantic Hockey Tournament played between March 7 and March 21, 2009, at campus locations and at the

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won their third consecutive Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and received

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's automatic bid to the

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Format

The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the seventh and tenth seeds and eighth and ninth seeds play a single game with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest ranked first round winner, the second seed and highest ranked first round winner, the third and sixth seeds, and the fourth and fifth seeds play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion received an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Regular season standings

''Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against''

Bracket

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(7) Holy Cross vs. (10) American International

(8) Sacred Heart vs. (9) Connecticut

Quarterfinals

(1) Air Force vs. (8) Sacred Heart

(2) RIT vs. (7) Holy Cross

(3) Mercyhurst vs. (6) Army

(4) Bentley vs. (5) Canisius

Semifinals

(1) Air Force vs. (4) Bentley

(2) RIT vs. (3) Mercyhurst

Championship

(1) Air Force vs. (3) Mercyhurst

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

*G Andrew Volkening (Air Force) *D Gregg Flynn (Air Force) *D

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(Air Force) *F Cameron Burt (RIT) *F Matt Fairchild* (Air Force) *F Scott Pitt (Mercyhurst) * Most Valuable Player(s)

References

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