2010 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2010 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 49th tournament in league history. It was played between March 5 and March 20, 2010. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Cornell received the ECAC Hockey automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

In the Quarterfinals series between Union and Quinnipiac the first match became the longest game played in NCAA history when the winning goal was scored in the 151st minute of play (the fifth overtime).

Format

The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth, sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest ranked first round winner, the second seed and second lowest ranked first round winner, the third seed and second highest ranked first round winner, and the fourth seed and highest ranked first round winner play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#6 Yale2215523292723421103141105
#9 Cornell*22145331744334219410767
Union2212642881603921126134100
Colgate2212822678703615156118119
St. Lawrence229852362614219167118121
Rensselaer2210932364583918174109108
Quinnipiac22111102271634020182123114
Princeton228122186576311216391103
Harvard22712317617033921382113
Dartmouth227123176979321019396115
Brown2261241664953713204103134
Clarkson22415311508437924492136
Championship: Cornell
indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

  First round[4]
March 5–7
Quarterfinals[5]
March 12–14
Semifinals[6]
March 19
Championship
March 20
                                             
  1 Yale 2 6 0 2 Cornell 3  
5 St. Lawrence 3* 3 3 11 Brown 3 3 1 11 Brown 0  
12 Clarkson 2 4* 2
  2 Cornell 5 3
6 Rensselaer 1 4 2 9 Harvard 1 0     2 Cornell 3
11 Brown 3 1 3   3 Union 0
  3 Union 2 3 2
7 Quinnipiac 3 3 2 7 Quinnipiac 3***** 1 1
10 Dartmouth 2 6 1 Third place
  4 Colgate 1 3 3 Union 3
8 Princeton 2 0 5 St. Lawrence 2 4 5 St. Lawrence 1   5 St. Lawrence 0
9 Harvard 4 3 11 Brown 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(5) St. Lawrence vs. (12) Clarkson

St. Lawrence won series 2–1

(6) Rensselaer vs. (11) Brown

Brown won series 2–1

(7) Quinnipiac vs. (10) Dartmouth

Quinnipiac won series 2–1

(8) Princeton vs. (9) Harvard

Harvard won series 2–0

Quarterfinals

(1) Yale vs. (11) Brown

Brown won series 2–1

(2) Cornell vs. (9) Harvard

Cornell won series 2–0

(3) Union vs. (7) Quinnipiac

Union won series 2–1

(4) Colgate vs. (5) St. Lawrence

St. Lawrence won series 2–0

Semifinals

(2) Cornell vs. (11) Brown

(3) Union vs. (5) St. Lawrence

Third place

(5) St. Lawrence vs. (8) Brown

Championship

(2) Cornell vs. (3) Union

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

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