2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 2 and March 17, 2012 at campus locations and at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. The winner of the tournament received ECAC Hockey's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth, sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest-ranked first-round winner, the second seed and second-lowest-ranked first-round winner, the third seed and second-highest-ranked first-round winner, and the fourth seed and highest-ranked first-round winner play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest seeds play a single game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third-place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Regular season standings

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
#3 Uniondagger* 22 14 4 4 32 76 38 41 26 8 7 143 75
#10 Cornell 22 12 4 6 30 66 46 35 19 9 7 100 79
#18 Harvard 22 8 5 9 25 61 59 34 13 10 11 106 100
Colgate 22 11 10 1 23 60 57 39 19 17 3 121 113
Quinnipiac 22 9 8 5 23 60 57 40 20 14 6 122 98
Yale 22 10 10 2 22 74 61 35 16 16 3 123 106
Clarkson 22 9 9 4 22 57 60 39 16 17 6 105 109
St. Lawrence 22 10 11 1 21 50 64 36 14 19 3 88 120
Dartmouth 22 8 11 3 19 63 74 33 13 16 4 93 102
Rensselaer 22 7 12 3 17 43 61 39 12 24 3 78 111
Princeton 22 6 12 4 16 58 72 32 9 16 7 85 105
Brown 22 5 13 4 14 54 75 32 9 18 5 75 97
Championship: Union 3, Harvard 1
dagger indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

  First round
March 2–4		 Quarterfinals
March 9–11		 Semifinals
March 16		 Championship
March 17
                                             
  1  Union 3 4 — 1  Union 6  
5  Quinnipiac 1 3 4 10  Rensselaer 2 2 — 4  Colgate 2  
12  Brown 4 0 2
  2  Cornell 4** 3 —
6  Yale 4 4 7 9  Dartmouth 3 1 —     1  Union 3
11  Princeton 2 5* 3   3  Harvard 1
  3  Harvard 1 4** 8
7  Clarkson 1 4*** 1 6  Yale 2* 3 2
10  Rensselaer 5 3 4 Third place
  4  Colgate 4 2 4 2  Cornell 1
8  St. Lawrence 3 1 — 5  Quinnipiac 2 4 0 3  Harvard 6   2  Cornell 3
9  Dartmouth 6 4 — 4  Colgate 0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[1]

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

References

  1. ↑ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.

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