Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

AHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Conference Hockey Championship
Sport	Ice hockey
Conference	Atlantic Hockey Association
Format	Single-elimination / best two-of-three tournament
Current stadium	Blue Cross Arena
Current location	Rochester, New York
Played	2004-present
Last contest	2013 Atlantic Hockey Tournament
Current champion	Canisius
Most championships	Air Force (5)
Official website	Atlantic Hockey Online

The AHA Tournament was the conference tournament for the Atlantic Hockey Association. The winner of the tournament received an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.

The tournament was first held in 2004 after the cessation of the MAAC men's ice hockey tournament, the first year of conference play. The final four games were held at Tate Rink in West Point, New York in 2004. The tournament championship moved to the Northford Ice Pavilion in Northford, Connecticut for 2005 then to the Hart Center in Worcester, Massachusetts for 2006. Starting with the 2007 tournament, the final four was moved to a neutral site, the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York, the home of the AHL's Rochester Americans.

The AHA Tournament format begins as a single-game elimination three-round format, with an additional play-in game for the teams the finished eighth and ninth.

After Quinnipiac leaves to join the ECAC, the 8-team conference drops the play-in game from the tournament.

With Air Force and RIT joining the conference, but with RIT's ineligibility for the conference tournament, a play-in game was added for one year.

The opening round becomes a best-of-three with 5 separate series played between all ten of the conference teams with the two remaining lowest-seeded teams playing in a final-five game to determine the last semifinalist. All series after the opening round are single-elimination.

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