2015 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2015 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 54th tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 21, 2015. 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, the Harvard Crimson received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The teams that finished above fifth place in the standings received 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 played the lowest remaining seed, the second seed played the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed played the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed played the fourth-lowest remaining seed another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advanced to the Semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed played the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams played against each other. The winners of the semifinals played in the championship game while the losers played in a third-place game. All series after the quarterfinals were single-elimination games. The tournament champion received an automatic bid to the 2015 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

2014–15 ECAC Hockey men's standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#14 Quinnipiac221633356037392312410689
St. Lawrence221471297041372014311375
#15 Yale22126428603733181058654
#19 Colgate221174265351382212410282
Dartmouth22128226645533171249178
#11 Harvard*221183257154372113312192
Cornell2299422454631111465768
Clarkson22811319494737122058187
Rensselaer228122185366411226377131
Union2281311758633919182122104
Brown22514313448031820365112
Princeton222182625753042333999
Championship: March 21, 2015
indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 9, 2015

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

  First Round[3]
March 6–8
Quarterfinals[4]
March 13–15
Semifinals[5]
March 20
Championship
March 21
                                             
  1 Quinnipiac 4*** 2 3 1 Quinnipiac 2  
5 Dartmouth 3 2 10 Union 3 3 2 6 Harvard 5  
12 Princeton 2 0
  2 St. Lawrence 1 5
6 Harvard 6 4 9 Rensselaer 0 1     4 Colgate 2
11 Brown 2 3   6 Harvard 4
  3 Yale 2 2 2
7 Cornell 2 0 6 Harvard 3 0 3**
10 Union 4 7
  4 Colgate 3 3 2 St. Lawrence 3
8 Clarkson 2 5 1 5 Dartmouth 1 2 4 Colgate 4*  
9 Rensselaer 3 0 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

(5) Dartmouth vs. (12) Princeton

Dartmouth won series 2–0

(6) Harvard vs. (11) Brown

Harvard won series 2–0

(7) Cornell vs. (10) Union

Union won series 2–0

(8) Clarkson vs. (9) Rensselaer

Rensselaer won series 2–1

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (10) Union

Quinnipiac won series 2–1

(2) St. Lawrence vs. (9) Rensselaer

St. Lawrence won series 2–0

(3) Yale vs. (6) Harvard

Harvard won series 2–1

(4) Colgate vs. (5) Dartmouth

Colgate won series 2–0

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (6) Harvard

(2) St. Lawrence vs. (4) Colgate

(4) Colgate vs. (6) Harvard

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

  • F Jimmy Vesey* (Harvard)
  • F Mike Borkowski (Colgate)
  • F Darcy Murphy (Colgate)
  • D Spiro Goulakos (Colgate)
  • D Patrick McNally (Harvard)
  • G Steve Michalek (Harvard)

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

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