2017 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2017 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 56th tournament in league history. It was played between March 3 and March 18, 2017. 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 team receives the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

2017 ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
DatesMarch 3–18, 2017
Teams12
Finals siteHerb Brooks Arena
Lake Placid, New York
ChampionsHarvard (10th title)
Winning coachTed Donato (3rd title)
MVPMerrick Madsen (Harvard)
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

Format

The tournament features 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, and no third-place game is played. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2017 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

2016–17 ECAC Hockey men's standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#3 Harvard†*22164234854736286214677
#11 Union†2216423487563825103143113
#13 Cornell2213453170513521959981
St. Lawrence221264286144371713710488
#20 Quinnipiac2213812769554023152121101
Clarkson2210932367623918165124112
Princeton2281131963753415163103111
Yale22711418626733131559998
Dartmouth227132165980311018383111
Colgate22613315406237922678113
Rensselaer22616012527637828183138
Brown2231817478731425266132
Championship: March 18, 2017
indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 6, 2017

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

  First Round[1]
March 3–5		 Quarterfinals
March 10–12		 Semifinals
March 17		 Championship
March 18
                                             
  1 Harvard 6 4 - 1 Harvard 4  
5 Quinnipiac 6 5 - 8 Yale 4 3 - 5 Quinnipiac 1  
12 Brown 1 1 -
  2 Union 4 4* -
6 Clarkson 7 4 - 7 Princeton 1 3 -     1 Harvard 4
11 Rensselaer 4 2 -   3 Cornell 1
  3 Cornell 2 2 2
7 Princeton 2 4* 2 6 Clarkson 6 1 1
10 Colgate 3* 3 1
  4 St. Lawrence 2 1 2 2 Union 1
8 Yale 6 3* - 5 Quinnipiac 0 3 3 3 Cornell 4  
9 Dartmouth 1 2 -

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Media

Television

ASN had the television rights to semifinals and championship game during the tournament.[2]

Streaming

Every game during the tournament was streamed through the ECAC Hockey's website.[3]

References
  1. "ECAC men's Hockey 2016–17 Week 23". USCHO.com. 2017-03-05. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  2. "Championship Weekend Broadcast Information". ecachockey.com. ECAC Hockey. 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  3. "2017 ECAC Men's Hockey Championship Fan Guide". ecachockey.com. ECAC Hockey. 2016-12-12. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
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