2018 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament


The 2018 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 57th tournament in league history. It was played between March 2 and March 17, 2018. 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 Princeton received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2018 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 2018 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

2017–18 ECAC Hockey men's standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#8 Cornell22173236613233256210252
Union221651337048382115211598
#12 Clarkson221255297449402311612275
Harvard221183256850331514410485
Dartmouth2211101235569351617283107
Colgate22109323494640171768788
#15 Princeton*22101022277793619134131110
Yale221011121675931151518788
Quinnipiac2291122059563816184105106
Brown22714115456331819467104
Rensselaer22416210458637627473129
St. Lawrence2231817437637827280122
Championship: March 17, 2018
indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated February 26, 2018

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

  First Round[1]
March 2–4
Quarterfinals[2]
March 9–11
Semifinals[3]
March 17
Championship
March 18
                                             
  1 Cornell 9 2 1 Cornell 1  
5 Dartmouth 2 2 2 9 Quinnipiac 1 0 7 Princeton 4  
12 St. Lawrence 1 4 1
  2 Union 3 2
6 Colgate 3 0 2 7 Princeton 5 3     7 Princeton 2*
11 Rensselaer 1 1 0   3 Clarkson 1
  3 Clarkson 1 3 5
7 Princeton 8 7 6 Colgate 2 0 1
10 Brown 2 1
  4 Harvard 1 7 4 3 Clarkson 5*
8 Yale 1 1 5 Dartmouth 4 1 2 4 Harvard 4  
9 Quinnipiac 5 4

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

First round

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

Dartmouth won series 2–1

(6) Colgate vs. (11) Rensselaer

Colgate won series 2–1

(7) Princeton vs. (10) Brown

Princeton won series 2–0

(8) Yale vs. (9) Quinnipiac

Quinnipiac won series 2–0

Quarterfinals

(1) Cornell vs. (9) Quinnipiac

Cornell won series 2–0

(2) Union vs. (7) Princeton

Princeton won series 2–0

(3) Clarkson vs. (6) Colgate

Clarkson won series 2–1

(4) Harvard vs. (5) Dartmouth

Harvard won series 2–1

Semifinals

(1) Cornell vs. (7) Princeton

(3) Clarkson vs. (4) Harvard

Championship

(3) Clarkson vs. (7) Princeton

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

[5][6]

References

  1. "ECAC men's Hockey 2017–18 Week 23". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  2. "ECAC men's Hockey 2017–18 Week 24". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  3. "ECAC men's Hockey 2017–18 Week 25". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  4. "Harvard 4, Colgate 2". USCHO.com. 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
  5. "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
  6. "Awards - NCAA (ECAC) All-Tournament Team". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
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