Atlantic Hockey
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Atlantic Hockey is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. Unlike several other Division I hockey conferences, Atlantic Hockey has no women's division. From 1997 to 2003, Atlantic Hockey was known as the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).
There are currently nine member schools:
- American International College
- United States Military Academy (Army)
- Bentley College
- Canisius College
- University of Connecticut (women compete in Hockey East)
- 1-time Atlantic Hockey champions
- College of the Holy Cross (women compete in the Division III ECAC East)
- 2-time Atlantic Hockey champions
- Mercyhurst College (women compete in College Hockey America)
- 2-time Atlantic Hockey champions
- Quinnipiac University (women compete in College Hockey America)
- 1-time Atlantic Hockey champions
- Sacred Heart University (women compete as a Division I independent)
Quinnipiac will leave both of its current hockey conferences in July 2005 and join the ECAC Hockey League. Rochester Institute of Technology will leave the Division III ECAC West in 2005 and will join Atlantic Hockey in 2006 after a season as an independent in Division I (men only).
List of Championship Games
From 1999 to 2003, the conference tournament was operated by the MAAC.
- 1999 Holy Cross def. Canisius 4-3 (Worcester, MA)
- 2000 Connecticut def. Iona 6-1 (Storrs, CT)
- 2001 Mercyhurst def. Quinnipiac 6-5 (Storrs, CT)
- 2002 Quinnipiac def. Mercyhurst 6-4 (Worcester, MA)
- 2003 Mercyhurst def. Quinnipiac 4-3 (West Point, NY)
- 2004 Holy Cross def. Sacred Heart 4-0 (West Point, NY)
- 2005 Mercyhurst def. Quinnipiac 3-2 (Northford, CT)