2014 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2014 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 53rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2014. 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, Union received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings receive 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 plays the lowest remaining seed, the second seed plays the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed plays the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed plays the fourth-lowest remaining seed another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the Semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game while the losers play in a third-place game. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

The third place game was eliminated from the tournament starting in 2014.[4]

Conference Standings

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2013–14 ECAC Hockey men's standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#1 Union*22183137834242326416090
#12 Colgate2213632972593920145108104
#7 Quinnipiac221264287843402410614181
#16 Cornell22117426515032171057774
Clarkson2211922457644221174101102
Yale221084247156331711510682
Rensselaer228952157573715166104100
St. Lawrence2271141870783815194122131
Brown22813117486231111737587
Dartmouth227132165172341020484115
Harvard22612416445231101746983
Princeton2241808449132626060126
Championship: Union
indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

  First Round[5]
March 7–9
Quarterfinals[6]
March 14–16
Semifinals[7]
March 21
Championship
March 22
                                             
  1 Union 3 4 1 Union 5  
5 Clarkson 2 4 3 10 Dartmoutn 0 2 4 Cornell 2  
12 Princeton 3* 0 2
  2 Colgate 2 4
6 Yale 4 2 8 St. Lawrence 1 3     1 Union 5
11 Harvard 0 1   2 Colgate 2
  3 Quinnipiac 6 5
7 Rensselaer 4 2 4 6 Yale 2 3
10 Dartmouth 1 3 5
  4 Cornell 2 1 1* 2 Colgate 3**
8 St. Lawrence 3** 3 5 Clarkson 1 4 0 3 Quinnipiac 2  
9 Brown 2 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

(5) Clarkson vs. (12) Princeton

Clarkson won series 2–1

(6) Yale vs. (11) Harvard

Yale won series 2–0

(7) Rensselaer vs. (10) Dartmouth

Dartmouth won series 2–1

(8) St. Lawrence vs. (9) Brown

St. Lawrence won series 2–0

(1) Union vs. (10) Dartmouth

Union won series 2–0

(2) Colgate vs. (8) St. Lawrence

Colgate won series 2–0

(3) Quinnipiac vs. (6) Yale

Quinnipiac won series 2–0

(4) Cornell vs. (5) Clarkson

Cornell won series 2–1

(1) Union vs. (4) Cornell

(2) Colgate vs. (3) Quinnipiac

(1) Union vs. (2) Colgate

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

[30]

References

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  3. "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
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  25. "Clarkson 4, Cornell 1". USCHO.com. 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
  26. "Cornell 1, Clarkson 0". USCHO.com. 2014-03-16. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
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  28. "Colgate 3, Quinnipiac 2". USCHO.com. 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
  29. "Union 5, Colgate 2". USCHO.com. 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
  30. "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
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