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

2011–12 ECAC Hockey standings
Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#3 Union* 221444327638 41268714375
#10 Cornell 221246306646 35199710079
#18 Harvard 22859256159 34131011106100
Colgate 2211101236057 3919173121113
Quinnipiac 22985236057 402014612298
Yale 2210102227461 3516163123106
Clarkson 22994225760 3916176105109
St. Lawrence 2210111215064 361419388120
Dartmouth 228113196374 331316493102
Rensselaer 227123174361 391224378111
Princeton 226124165872 32916785105
Brown 225134145475 3291857597
Championship: Union 3, Harvard 1
indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
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)

(5) Quinnipiac vs. (12) Brown

Quinnipiac wins series 2-1

(6) Yale vs. (11) Princeton

Yale wins series 2-1

(7) Clarkson vs. (10) Rensselaer

Rensselaer wins series 2-1

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

Dartmouth wins series 2-0

(1) Union vs. (10) Rensselaer

Union Wins Series 2-0

(2) Cornell vs. (9) Dartmouth

Cornell Wins Series 2-0

(3) Harvard vs. (6) Yale

Harvard Wins Series 2-1

(4) Colgate vs. (5) Quinnipiac

Colgate Wins Series 2-1

(1) Union vs. (4) Colgate

(2) Cornell vs. (3) Harvard

(3) Dartmouth vs. (12) Colgate

(1) Yale vs. (4) Cornell

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

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References

  1. "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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