2016 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2016 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 55th tournament in league history. It was played between March 4 and March 19, 2016. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, the team receives the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament features four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings receive a bye to the quarterfinal round. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth seeds, the sixth and eleventh seeds, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the one seed plays the lowest remaining seed, the second seed plays the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed plays the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed plays the fourth-lowest remaining seed another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the Semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game, and no third-place game is played. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings

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

2015–16 ECAC Hockey men's standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#2 Quinnipiac † *22161537844443324716385
#10 Yale2214533157373219948657
#9 Harvard221264287247341911411681
#17 St. Lawrence221183256850371914410684
Clarkson221093235251382015310195
Rensselaer22877234749401815797104
Dartmouth2211110226069351816194104
#18 Cornell2288622465034161177982
Union22610618536236131499196
Colgate226142144571371124295132
Brown22313612477031519775107
Princeton223163940713152336099
Championship: March 19, 2016
indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 8, 2016

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

  First Round[1]
March 4–6
Quarterfinals
March 11–13
Semifinals
March 18
Championship
March 19
                                             
  1 Quinnipiac 5 4 6 1 Quinnipiac 3  
5 Clarkson 3** 3* - 8 Cornell 2 5 3 7 Dartmouth 1  
12 Princeton 2 2 -
  2 Yale 3 1
6 Rensselaer 3 4 - 7 Dartmouth 4* 2     1 Quinnipiac 4
11 Brown 2 3 -   3 Harvard 1
  3 Harvard 5 8
7 Dartmouth 3* 3 4** 6 Rensselaer 2 2
10 Colgate 2 5 3
  4 St. Lawrence 3* 3** 3 Harvard 2*
8 Cornell 1 2* - 5 Clarkson 2 2 4 St. Lawrence 1  
9 Union 0 1 -

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

First round

(5) Clarkson vs. (12) Princeton

Clarkson won series 2–0

(6) Rensselaer vs. (11) Brown

Rensselaer won series 2–0

(7) Dartmouth vs. (10) Colgate

Dartmouth won series 2–1

(8) Cornell vs. (9) Union

Cornell won series 2–0

Quarterfinals

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (8) Cornell

Quinnipiac won series 2–1

(2) Yale vs. (7) Dartmouth

Dartmouth won series 2–0

(3) Harvard vs. (6) Rensselaer

Harvard won series 2–0

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

St. Lawrence won series 2–0

Semifinals

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (7) Dartmouth

(3) Harvard vs. (4) St. Lawrence

Championship

(1) Colgate vs. (3) Harvard

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s) [2][3]

Media

Television

ASN had the television rights to semifinals and championship game during the tournament.[4]

Broadcast Assignments

Semifinals & Championship

Streaming

Every game during the tournament was streamed through the ECAC Hockey's website.[5]

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References

  1. "ECAC men's Hockey 2015–16 Week 23". USCHO.com. 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  2. "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
  3. "Awards - NCAA (ECAC) All-Tournament Team". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
  4. "ECAC Hockey To Air on ASN". ecachockey.com. ECAC Hockey. 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  5. "2016 ECAC Men's Hockey Championship Fan Guide". ecachockey.com. ECAC Hockey. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
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