1994 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1994 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 33rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 19, 1994.[4] Preliminary and quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Olympic Arena (subsequently renamed Herb Brooks Arena) in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Harvard received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the preliminary round, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds each play a single game to determine the final qualifying teams for the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the first seed and lower ranked qualifier, the second and higher ranked qualifier, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played a modified best-of-three series, where the first team to receive 3 points moves on. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. 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. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings[5]

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
Harvard†* 22 16 2 4 36 107 60 33 24 5 4 155 89
Clarkson 22 13 5 4 30 92 67 34 20 9 5 147 114
Rensselaer 22 12 6 4 28 99 75 36 21 11 4 171 115
Brown 22 12 7 3 27 91 73 32 15 13 4 116 117
Vermont 22 10 6 6 26 86 75 33 15 12 6 127 113
Union 22 10 9 3 23 83 89 30 15 11 4 117 118
Colgate 22 10 10 2 22 97 90 33 14 17 2 144 137
Cornell 22 7 10 5 19 73 89 30 8 17 5 97 126
Princeton 22 7 12 3 17 63 80 28 10 15 3 88 101
St. Lawrence 22 8 14 0 16 74 95 31 10 21 0 99 134
Yale 22 5 16 1 11 58 102 27 5 21 1 73 133
Dartmouth 22 4 17 1 9 80 111 27 5 21 1 94 137
Championship: Harvard
† 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 two rounds

  Preliminary Round
March 8		 Quarterfinals
March 11-13		 Semifinals
March 18		 Championship
March 19
                                         
  1  Harvard 5 5 — 1  Harvard 5  
7  Colgate 4 8  Cornell 4 3 — 4  Brown 1  
10  St. Lawrence 3
  2  Clarkson 7 5 —
8  Cornell 5* 7  Colgate 6 2 —     1  Harvard 3
9  Princeton 4   3  Rensselaer 0
  3  Rensselaer 3 5 8
6  Union 4 1 3 Third Place
  4  Brown 5 3 3 2  Clarkson 2 2  Clarkson 6
5  Vermont 8 2 2 3  Rensselaer 6   4  Brown 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Preliminary Round

(7) Colgate vs. (10) St. Lawrence

(8) Cornell vs. (9) Princeton

Quarterfinals

(1) Harvard vs. (8) Cornell

Harvard won series 2–0

(2) Clarkson vs. (7) Colgate

Clarkson won series 2–0

(3) Rensselaer vs. (6) Union

Rensselaer won series 2–1

(4) Brown vs. (5) Vermont

Brown won series 2–1


Semifinals

(1) Harvard vs. (4) Brown

(2) Clarkson vs. (3) Rensselaer

Third place

(2) Clarkson vs. (4) Brown

Championship

(1) Harvard vs. (3) Rensselaer

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

References

  1. ↑ "Harvard Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Ronn Tomassoni 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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