# 1999 MAAC men's ice hockey tournament

The 1999 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 1st championship since the founding of the ice hockey conference in 1997. It was played between March 13 and March 20, 1999. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Hart Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, the home venue of the Holy Cross Crusaders.

## Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play with each round being single-elimination. In the first round, the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third seed and sixth seeds, and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play with the winner advancing to the championship game. The tournament champion does not receive an automatic bid to the 1999 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
1998–99 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 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 |
| Quinnipiac† | 28 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 46 | 131 | 63 | 34 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 161 | 81 |
| Holy Cross* | 28 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 41 | 107 | 63 | 35 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 126 | 89 |
| Connecticut | 28 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 40 | 106 | 70 | 34 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 122 | 95 |
| Canisius | 28 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 29 | 112 | 82 | 36 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 143 | 119 |
| American International | 28 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 26 | 92 | 93 | 32 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 101 | 113 |
| Iona | 28 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 25 | 116 | 115 | 33 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 145 | 143 |
| Sacred Heart | 28 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 15 | 81 | 128 | 31 | 7 | 23 | 1 | 86 | 139 |
| Fairfield | 28 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 186 | 32 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 64 | 227 |
| Championship: Holy Cross † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Coaches Poll Top 10 Poll |||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the quarterfinals
| Quarterfinals March 13 | Quarterfinals March 13 | Quarterfinals March 13 | Semifinals March 19 | Semifinals March 19 | Semifinals March 19 | Championship March 20 | Championship March 20 | Championship March 20 |
| 1 | Quinnipiac | 13 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Fairfield | 2 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Fairfield | 2 | 1 | Quinnipiac | 2 | | | |
| | | | 4 | Canisius | 5 | | | |
| 4 | Canisius | 7 | 4 | Canisius | 5 | | | |
| 5 | American International | 4 | | | | | | |
| 5 | American International | 4 | | | | 4 | Canisius | 3 |
| | | | | | | 2 | Holy Cross | 4 |
| 2 | Holy Cross | 3 | | | | | | | 2 | Holy Cross | 4 |
| 7 | Sacred Heart | 1 | | | | | | |
| 7 | Sacred Heart | 1 | 2 | Holy Cross | 4* | | | |
| | | | 3 | Connecticut | 3 | | | |
| 3 | Connecticut | 6 | 3 | Connecticut | 3 | | | |
| 6 | Iona | 5 | | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

### Championship
#### (2) Holy Cross vs. (4) Canisius
## Tournament awards
### MVP

* Mike Maguire (Holy Cross)