2020-21 Atlantic Hockey Season

This is the 2020-21 Atlantic Hockey Conference season. This is the conference's 16th season under this name and the conference's 21st season overall.
==Membership Changes==
On November 9th the Rochester Institute of Technology announced the cancellation of all winter sports including men's and women's ice hockey.https://wp-admin.uscho.com/2020/11/09/rit-men-women-become-first-d-i-college-hockey-teams-to-cancel-2020-21-season/
==Membership==
School 	Hockey Arena 	Location 	Capacity
Air Force Falcons 	Cadet Ice Arena 	Colorado Springs, CO 	2,502
American International Yellow Jackets	MassMutual Center 	Springfield, MA 	6,679
Army Black Knights 	Tate Rink 	West Point, NY 	2,648
Bentley Falcons 	Bentley Multipurpose Arena 	Watertown, MA 	1,200
Canisius Golden Griffins 	HarborCenter 	Buffalo, NY 	1,800
Holy Cross Crusaders 	Hart Center 	Worcester, MA 	1,600
Mercyhurst Lakers 	Mercyhurst Ice CenterErie Insurance Arena (Alternate)	Erie, PA 	1,5006,833
Niagara Purple Eagles 	Dwyer Arena 	Lewiston, NY 	1,400
Robert Morris Colonials 	Colonials ArenaPPG Paints Arena(alternate) 	Neville Island, PAPittsburgh	1,20018,387
RIT Tigers 	Gene Polisseni Center 	Henrietta, NY 	4,300
RIT (alternate) 	Blue Cross Arena 	Rochester, NY 	10,556
Sacred Heart Pioneers 	Webster Bank Arena 	Bridgeport, Connecticut 	8,412
Tournament 	HarborCenter 	Buffalo, New York 	1,800
==Standings==
==Riley Cup Conference Tournament==
===Usual Format===
All teams qualify. The top 5 seeds earn a bye to the quarterfinals. The 6th place team played the 11th place team and 7-10, 8-9 also being paired off in a best-of-three series. The teams are re-seeded for the best-of-three quarterfinals, with 1 playing 8 and 2-7, 3-6, 4-5 also being paired off in a best-of-three series. The winners advance to the single game semifinals with those winners advancing to the conference championship game. The semifinal and final rounds will be held at the HarborCenter in Buffalo, New York on March 20-21, 2020. The conference tournament champion earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
===Revised Format for 2021===
All 11 teams will again qualify for the tournament, with the first round being played between eight teams, with five teams getting byes to the second round. From there, eight teams remain for quarterfinals, semis and finals.
One change is that the first round will be single-elimination, unlike best-of-3, as it normally is. The quarterfinal round will stay best-of-3, while the semis and finals will be single games, as usual.
This year, the teams split into divisions, with play only against teams within that division, to help mitigate travel and COVID-19 concerns. It will stay that way for the early rounds of the league's postseason tournament. In the semis, the lower-seeded team from one division will play the higher-seeded team from the other, and vice versa.
The top two teams from each division will receive byes. Then, the best third-place team will also receive a bye, while the other will play Air Force in the first round. Air Force has been the only team not confined to a particular division pod during regular-season play.https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2021/02/19_Atlantic-Hockey-Announces.php
==Bracket==
Teams are reseeded for the semifinals
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
==References==
Category:2021 in ice hockey
Category:Atlantic Hockey