# 2006 Atlantic Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

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 in Worcester, Massachusetts. By winning the tournament, Holy Cross received the Atlantic Hockey Association'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. 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
2005–06 Atlantic Hockey standingsvte :
| | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall |
| | GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #14 Holy Cross†* | 28 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 40 | 98 | 65 | 39 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 130 | 95 |
| Mercyhurst | 28 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 39 | 119 | 87 | 36 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 150 | 118 |
| Sacred Heart | 28 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 38 | 92 | 55 | 35 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 116 | 82 |
| Bentley | 28 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 27 | 75 | 82 | 37 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 94 | 117 |
| Army | 28 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 26 | 64 | 67 | 36 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 80 | 94 |
| Connecticut | 28 | 9 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 79 | 106 | 36 | 11 | 23 | 2 | 97 | 136 |
| Canisius | 28 | 8 | 18 | 2 | 18 | 68 | 87 | 35 | 10 | 23 | 2 | 87 | 114 |
| American International | 28 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 17 | 64 | 110 | 32 | 6 | 21 | 5 | 69 | 129 |
| Championship: Holy Cross † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll |||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the Quarterfinals
| Quarterfinals March 11 | Quarterfinals March 11 | Quarterfinals March 11 | Semifinals March 17 | Semifinals March 17 | Semifinals March 17 | Championship March 18 | Championship March 18 | Championship March 18 |
| 1 | Holy Cross | 3 | | | | | | |
| 8 | American International | 1 | | | | | | |
| 8 | American International | 1 | 1 | Holy Cross | 4 | | | |
| | | | 6 | Connecticut | 1 | | | |
| 3 | Sacred Heart | 1 | 6 | Connecticut | 1 | | | |
| 6 | Connecticut | 4 | | | | | | |
| 6 | Connecticut | 4 | | | | 1 | Holy Cross | 5 |
| | | | | | | 4 | Bentley | 2 |
| 4 | Bentley | 4** | | | | | | | 4 | Bentley | 2 |
| 5 | Army | 3 | | | | | | |
| 5 | Army | 3 | 4 | Bentley | 3** | | | |
| | | | 2 | Mercyhurst | 2 | | | |
| 2 | Mercyhurst | 7 | 2 | Mercyhurst | 2 | | | |
| 7 | Canisius | 2 | | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

### Championship
#### (1) Holy Cross vs. (4) Bentley
## Tournament awards
### All-Tournament Team

* G: Tony Quesada (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

* James Sixsmith (Holy Cross)