# 2025 Atlantic Hockey America men's tournament

The 2025 Atlantic Hockey America Tournament is the inaugural edition of the Atlantic Hockey America Tournament. It will be played between February 28 and March 22, 2025.
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

2024–25 Atlantic Hockey America Standingsvte :
| | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall 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 | 37 | 22 | 13 | 2 | 119 | 85 |
| Sacred Heart | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 53 | 80 | 64 | 37 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 116 | 93 |
| Bentley | 26 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 79 | 57 | 36 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 100 | 75 |
| 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 | 36 | 16 | 18 | 2 | 102 | 109 |
| 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 Updated: March 10, 2025 |||||||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals
| First Round February 28–March 1 | First Round February 28–March 1 | First Round February 28–March 1 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Semifinals March 14–16 | Semifinals March 14–16 | Semifinals March 14–16 | Semifinals March 14–16 | Semifinals March 14–16 | Championship March 22 | 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 | Bentley |
| | | | 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.