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.
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.
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. 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
Bracket Note: Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals.
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Results Note: All game times are local.
First Round (6) Canisius vs. (11) Mercyhurst
(7) Air Force vs. (10) Robert Morris
(8) American International vs. (9) RIT
Quarterfinals (1) Holy Cross vs. (8) American International
Holy Cross wins series 2–1
(2) Sacred Heart vs. (7) Air Force
Sacred Heart wins series 2–1
(3) Bentley vs. (6) Canisius
Bentley wins series 2–0
(4) Niagara vs. (5) Army
Army wins series 2–1
Semifinals (1) Holy Cross vs. (5) Army
Holy Cross wins series 2–0
(2) Sacred Heart vs. (3) Bentley
Bentley wins series 2–0
Championship (1) Holy Cross vs. (3) Bentley
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)
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