1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 11th tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 11, 1972.[4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Boston University and Cornell received invitations to participate in the 1972 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on winning percentage, 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 highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.

Conference Standings[5]

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

Conference Overall
GP W L T Pct. GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Cornell† 20 17 3 0 .850 117 58 29 23 6 0 175 82
Harvard 21 16 4 1 .786 118 62 26 17 8 1 127 76
Boston University* 20 15 4 1 .775 88 53 31 26 4 1 155 69
Pennsylvania 21 14 7 0 .667 107 75 25 16 9 0 122 90
New Hampshire 18 12 6 0 .667 82 61 30 20 10 0 140 109
Clarkson 20 12 8 0 .600 96 74 30 20 10 0 158 102
Rensselaer 17 9 7 1 .559 64 62 27 17 9 1 123 84
Providence 17 9 8 0 .529 73 75 24 14 9 1 106 102
Dartmouth 18 9 8 1 .528 81 78 24 13 10 0 120 103
Boston College 21 10 11 0 .476 93 106 30 14 16 0 130 155
Brown 21 9 11 1 .452 70 75 23 10 12 1 78 84
St. Lawrence 18 5 12 1 .306 63 78 26 10 14 2 100 108
Yale 17 5 12 0 .294 70 105 24 10 14 0 108 128
Colgate 19 5 14 0 .263 52 94 26 8 18 0 83 122
Princeton 19 5 14 0 .263 52 108 23 5 18 0 62 127
Northeastern 20 3 17 0 .150 68 118 26 6 20 0 102 145
Army 10 1 9 0 .100 29 44 25 11 14 0 99 88
Championship: Boston University
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Coaches Poll Top 10 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  Quarterfinals
March 7		 Semifinals
March 10		 Championship
March 11
                           
  1  Cornell 11 1  Cornell 6  
8  Providence 1 5  New Hampshire 3  
  2  Boston University 8
7  Rensselaer 2     1  Cornell 1
  2  Boston University 4
  3  Harvard 6*
6  Clarkson 5
Third Place
  4  Pennsylvania 3 2  Boston University 3
5  New Hampshire 5 3  Harvard 1   3  Harvard 1
5  New Hampshire 4

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Quarterfinals

(1) Cornell vs. (8) Providence

(2) Boston University vs. (7) Rensselaer

(3) Harvard vs. (6) Clarkson

(4) Pennsylvania vs. (5) New Hampshire

Semifinals

(1) Cornell vs. (5) New Hampshire

(2) Boston University vs. (3) Harvard

Third Place

(3) Harvard vs. (5) New Hampshire

Championship

(1) Cornell vs. (2) Boston University

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

First Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

Second Team

  • F Bill Hanson (Cornell)
  • F Guy Smith (New Hampshire)
  • F Carlo Ugolini (Cornell)
  • D Mark Noonan (Harvard)
  • D Ric Jordan (Boston University)
  • G Bob Smith (New Hampshire)

References

  1. ↑ "Boston University Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Jack Kelley Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  3. ↑ "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  4. ↑ "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  5. ↑ "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  6. ↑ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.

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