1978 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1978 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 17th tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 11, 1978.[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 College and Providence received invitations to participate in the 1978 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
Boston University† 22 21 1 0 .955 135 85 32 30 2 0 199 126
Cornell 22 16 5 1 .750 161 79 27 20 6 1 195 100
Clarkson 23 16 7 0 .696 139 109 30 19 11 0 174 145
Rensselaer 21 13 8 0 .619 100 83 29 19 9 1 162 117
Boston College* 23 14 9 0 .609 117 116 34 24 10 0 186 147
Brown 23 13 9 1 .587 101 78 29 14 14 1 117 102
Providence 23 12 9 2 .565 116 95 34 17 15 2 172 146
New Hampshire 25 14 11 0 .560 154 124 30 18 12 0 197 150
Yale 26 12 13 1 .481 92 114 26 12 13 1 92 114
Harvard 23 10 13 0 .435 87 112 26 12 14 0 99 122
Dartmouth 23 9 14 0 .391 97 114 26 11 15 0 107 129
Vermont 23 9 14 0 .391 94 108 31 15 16 0 139 137
St. Lawrence 22 8 14 0 .364 91 124 30 12 18 0 124 152
Princeton 21 7 13 1 .357 83 89 25 9 14 2 102 102
Northeastern 24 7 16 1 .313 131 128 28 10 17 1 155 142
Pennsylvania 21 5 14 2 .286 82 123 26 7 17 2 98 145
Colgate 25 4 20 1 .180 81 180 28 5 22 1 91 187
Championship: Boston College
† 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  Boston University 6* 1  Boston University 1  
8  New Hampshire 5 7  Providence 5  
  2  Cornell 5
7  Providence 8     5  Boston College 4
  7  Providence 2
  3  Clarkson 2
6  Brown 6
Third Place
  4  Rensselaer 6 5  Boston College 6
5  Boston College 7* 6  Brown 4   1  Boston University 8
3  Brown 4

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Quarterfinals

(1) Boston University vs. (8) New Hampshire

(2) Cornell vs. (7) Providence

(3) Clarkson vs. (6) Brown

(4) Rensselaer vs. (5) Boston College

Semifinals

(1) Boston University vs. (7) Providence

(5) Boston College vs. (6) Brown

Third Place

(1) Boston University vs. (6) Brown

Championship

(5) Boston College vs. (7) Providence

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

None

MOP


References

  1. ↑ "Boston College Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Len Ceglarski 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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