1964 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1964 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 3rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 14, 1964.[4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Arena in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game Providence was invited to participate in the 1964 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. St. Lawrence, however, was passed over with Rensselaer chosen instead as the second eastern representative.
1964 ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | |
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Dates | March 6–14, 1964 |
Teams | 8 |
Finals site | Boston Arena Boston, Massachusetts |
Champions | Providence[1] (1st title) |
Winning coach | Tom Eccleston[2] (1st title) |
MVP | Bob Perani[3] (St. Lawrence) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on conference rankings, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the winner of the first and eighth matchup played the winner of the fourth and fifth matchup while the other two remaining teams played with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.
Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
1963–64 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
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Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
Providence†* | 19 | 16 | 3 | 0 | .842 | 88 | 56 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 110 | 80 | |
Army | 21 | 17 | 4 | 0 | .810 | 118 | 44 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 154 | 69 | |
Colgate | 21 | 15 | 6 | 0 | .714 | 99 | 48 | 27 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 109 | 59 | |
Harvard | 21 | 15 | 6 | 0 | .714 | 95 | 61 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 108 | 70 | |
Boston College | 24 | 16 | 7 | 1 | .688 | 126 | 74 | 28 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 144 | 90 | |
Dartmouth | 21 | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | 106 | 72 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 106 | 72 | |
Rensselaer | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | .667 | 91 | 50 | 26 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 121 | 69 | |
Clarkson | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | .656 | 86 | 48 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 135 | 76 | |
Northeastern | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | .636 | 114 | 81 | 24 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 116 | 92 | |
Vermont | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | .625 | 45 | 31 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 54 | 38 | |
Bowdoin | 20 | 12 | 8 | 0 | .600 | 87 | 66 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 87 | 66 | |
Brown | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | .591 | 97 | 72 | 24 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 104 | 78 | |
Norwich | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | .559 | 73 | 65 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 79 | 74 | |
St. Lawrence | 16 | 8 | 7 | 1 | .531 | 61 | 41 | 25 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 91 | 66 | |
New Hampshire | 25 | 13 | 12 | 0 | .520 | 89 | 112 | 25 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 89 | 112 | |
Cornell | 20 | 9 | 10 | 1 | .475 | 55 | 65 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 64 | 67 | |
Williams | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | .471 | 71 | 100 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 71 | 100 | |
Merrimack | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | .462 | 54 | 56 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 54 | 56 | |
Massachusetts | 16 | 6 | 8 | 2 | .438 | 55 | 60 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 55 | 60 | |
Boston University | 21 | 9 | 12 | 0 | .429 | 69 | 63 | 24 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 78 | 74 | |
Hamilton | 17 | 5 | 12 | 0 | .294 | 45 | 90 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 45 | 90 | |
Connecticut | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .286 | 24 | 54 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 42 | 74 | |
Colby | 20 | 5 | 14 | 1 | .275 | 63 | 110 | 19 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 68 | 115 | |
Princeton | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | .273 | 79 | 113 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 79 | 113 | |
American International | 15 | 4 | 11 | 0 | .267 | 69 | 97 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 104 | 103 | |
Middlebury | 20 | 4 | 16 | 0 | .200 | 57 | 125 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 60 | 136 | |
Yale | 20 | 4 | 16 | 0 | .200 | 48 | 97 | 22 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 52 | 102 | |
Amherst | 16 | 2 | 14 | 0 | .125 | 48 | 94 | 19 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 48 | 94 | |
MIT | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | .000 | 16 | 74 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 86 | |
Championship: Providence † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion |
Bracket
Quarterfinals March 6 |
Semifinals March 13 |
Championship March 14 | |||||||||||
1 | Providence | 3* | |||||||||||
8 | Colgate | 2 | |||||||||||
1 | Providence | 6 | |||||||||||
4 | Clarkson | 5 | |||||||||||
4 | Clarkson | 6 | |||||||||||
5 | Harvard | 4 | |||||||||||
1 | Providence | 3 | |||||||||||
7 | St. Lawrence | 1 | |||||||||||
2 | Army | 2 | |||||||||||
7 | St. Lawrence | 3 | |||||||||||
6 | Rensselaer | 1 | Third place | ||||||||||
7 | St. Lawrence | 3 | |||||||||||
3 | Boston College | 2 | 4 | Clarkson | 2 | ||||||||
6 | Rensselaer | 3 | 6 | Rensselaer | 7 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(4) Clarkson vs. (5) Harvard
March 6 | Clarkson | 6 – 4 | Harvard | Clarkson Arena |
Semifinals
(1) Providence vs. (4) Clarkson
March 13 | Providence | 6 – 5 | Clarkson | Boston Arena |
(6) Rensselaer vs. (7) St. Lawrence
March 13 | Rensselaer | 1 – 3 | St. Lawrence | Boston Arena |
Third Place
(4) Clarkson vs. (6) Rensselaer
March 14 | Clarkson | 2 – 7 | Rensselaer | Boston Arena |
Championship
(1) Providence vs. (7) St. Lawrence
March 14 | Providence | 3 – 1 | St. Lawrence | Boston Arena |
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
First Team
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Second Team
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References
- "Providence Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- "Thomas Eccleston Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
- "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.