2015 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament
| 2015 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
 2015 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament logo | |
| Dates | March 6–21, 2015 |
| Teams | 12 |
| Finals site | Herb Brooks Arena Lake Placid, New York |
| Champions | Harvard[1] (9th title) |
| Winning coach | Ted Donato[2] (2nd title) |
| MVP | Jimmy Vesey (Harvard) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
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
| Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #14 Quinnipiac† | 22 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 35 | 60 | 37 | 39 | 23 | 12 | 4 | 106 | 89 | |
| St. Lawrence | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 29 | 70 | 41 | 37 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 113 | 75 | |
| #15 Yale | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 60 | 37 | 33 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 86 | 54 | |
| #19 Colgate | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 26 | 53 | 51 | 38 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 102 | 82 | |
| Dartmouth | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 26 | 64 | 55 | 33 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 91 | 78 | |
| #11 Harvard* | 22 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 25 | 71 | 54 | 37 | 21 | 13 | 3 | 121 | 92 | |
| Cornell | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 22 | 45 | 46 | 31 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 57 | 68 | |
| Clarkson | 22 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 19 | 49 | 47 | 37 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 81 | 87 | |
| Rensselaer | 22 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 53 | 66 | 41 | 12 | 26 | 3 | 77 | 131 | |
| Union | 22 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 17 | 58 | 63 | 39 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 122 | 104 | |
| Brown | 22 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 44 | 80 | 31 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 65 | 112 | |
| Princeton | 22 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 75 | 30 | 4 | 23 | 3 | 39 | 99 | |
| 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 Template:12TeamBracket-NCAA3 Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
First round
(5) Darthmouth vs. (12) Princeton
| March 6[3] | Dartmouth | 3 – 2 | Princeton | Thompson Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | 06:00 - Matt Nelson (Siiro) | ||||||
| (Bligh, Mosey) Tyler Sikura - EA - 11:14 (Schierhorn, Patterson) Eric Robinson - PP - 12:00 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McNally, Pinkston) Eric Neiley - GW - 18:33 | Third period | 08:53 - Garrett Skrbich (Liss) | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 24 shots ) James Kruger | Goalie stats | Colton Phinney ( 23 saves / 26 shots ) | ||||||
| March 7[4] | Dartmouth | 2 – 0 | Princeton | Thompson Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Robinson, Sikura) Brad Schierhorn - GW - 16:59 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McNally, Pinkston) Eric Robinson - EN - 19:55 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 17 saves / 17 shots ) James Kruger | Goalie stats | Colton Phinney ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
| Dartmouth won series 2–0 | |
(6) Harvard vs. (11) Brown
| March 6[5] | Harvard | 6 – 2 | Brown | Bright Hockey Center | ||||
| (Vesey, Kerfoot) Kyle Criscuolo - PP - 03:57 (Esposito) Colin Blackwell - 12:33 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Hart, Criscuolo) Jimmy Vesey - GW - 03:23 (Esposito, Malone) Jake Horton - 04:03 |
Second period | 11:17 - PP - Matt Lorito (Lamacchia, Naclerio) | ||||||
| (Esposito, Malone) Colin Blackwell - 09:08 (Criscuolo, Anderson) Jimmy Vesey - 14:15 |
Third period | 16:54 - Nick Lappin (Lorito) | ||||||
| ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) Steve Michalek | Goalie stats | Tim Ernst ( 13 saves / 17 shots ) Tyler Steel ( 17 saves / 19 shots ) | ||||||
| March 7[6] | Harvard | 4 – 3 | Brown | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
| (Criscuolo) Jimmy Vesey - 07:51 (Vesey) Kyle Criscuolo - 09:48 (Criscuolo, Vesey) Brian Hart - 17:52 |
First period | 02:23 - Nick Lappin (Naclerio) | ||||||
| (Malone, Esposito) Colin Blackwell - GW - 01:07 | Second period | 13:34 - Davey Middleton (Lappin, Pryzbek) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 11:07 - Nick Lappin (Naclerio) | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) Steve Michalek | Goalie stats | Tim Ernst ( 24 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
| Harvard won series 2–0 | |
(7) Cornell vs. (10) Union
| March 6[7] | Cornell | 2 – 4 | Union | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 07:36 - Max Novak (DeSimone, Taylor) 14:07 - Matt Wilkins (Vecchione) 16:39 - GW - Daniel Ciampini (Novak, Scarfo) | ||||||
| (Bardreau) Christian Hilbrich - PP - 13:07 (Bliss) Matt Buckles - EA - 19:30 |
Third period | 8:41 - SH - Mike Vecchione | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 23 shots ) Mitch Gillam ( 2 saves / 2 shots ) Hayden Stewart |
Goalie stats | Colin Stevens ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
| March 7[8] | Cornell | 0 – 7 | Union | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 09:38 - GW - Spencer Foo (Wilkins, Vecchione) 11:02 - Michael Pontarelli (Coatta, Bennett) 16:02 - PP - Eli Lichtenwald (Ciampini, Taylor) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 05:45 - Mike Vecchione (Wilkins) 16:01 - PP - Spencer Foo (Pontarelli, Scarfo) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 08:36 - PP - Matt Wilkins (Gingras, Taylor) 19:03 - Sam Coatta (Hynes) | ||||||
| ( 15 saves / 19 shots ) Mitch Gillam ( 5 saves / 8 shots ) Hayden Stewart |
Goalie stats | Colin Stevens ( 29 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
| Union won series 2–0 | |
(8) Clarkson vs. (9) Rensselaer
| March 6[9] | Clarkson | 2 – 3 | Rensselaer | Cheel Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Zarbo, Amorosa) Pat Megannety - 04:30 | Second period | 09:18 - Milos Bubela (Schroeder, Curadi) | ||||||
| (Di Nallo, Fossen) Brett Gervais - EA - 19:49 | Third period | 1:25 - Mark Miller (Bell) 16:50 - GW - Milos Bubela | ||||||
| ( 14 saves / 17 shots ) Greg Lewis | Goalie stats | Jason Kasdorf ( 36 saves / 38 shots ) | ||||||
| March 7[10] | Clarkson | 5 – 0 | Rensselaer | Cheel Arena | ||||
| (Asselin) Jeff Di Nallo - GW - 01:35 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Amorosa, Megannety) Joe Zarbo 01:17 (Fossen, Vigneault) Troy Josephs - 04:25 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Josephs, Fossen) Sam Vigneault - 00:26 (Megannety, Gervais) Joe Zarbo - 01:35 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Steve Perry | Goalie stats | Jason Kasdorf ( 24 saves / 28 shots ) Scott Diebold ( 3 saves / 4 shots ) | ||||||
| March 8 [11] | Clarkson | 1 – 3 | Rensselaer | Cheel Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 07:45 - Mark Miller (McGowan, DeVito) 08:05 - GW - Zach Schroeder (Bubela, Liljegren) 16:12 - Jimmy DeVito (Bourbonnais, Wood) | ||||||
| (Vigneault, Fossen) Joe Zarbo - EA - 17:06 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 7 saves / 10 shots ) Steve Perry ( 10 saves / 10 shots ) Greg Lewis |
Goalie stats | Jason Kasdorf ( 33 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| Rensselaer won series 2–1 | |
Quarterfinals
(1) Quinnipiac vs. (10) Union
| March 13 | Quinnipiac | 4 – 3 | 3OT | Union | TD Bank Sports Center | |||
| March 14 | Quinnipiac | 2 – 3 | Union | TD Bank Sports Center | ||||
| March 15 | Quinnipiac | 3 – 1 | Union | TD Bank Sports Center | ||||
| Quinnipiac won series 2–1 | |
(2) St. Lawrence vs. (9) Rensselaer
| March 13 | St. Lawrence | 1 – 0 | Rensselaer | Appleton Arena | ||||
| March 14 | St. Lawrence | 5 – 1 | Rensselaer | Appleton Arena | ||||
| St. Lawrence won series 2–0 | |
(3) Yale vs. (6) Harvard
| March 13 | Yale | 2 – 3 | Harvard | Ingalls Rink | ||||
| March 14 | Yale | 2 – 0 | Harvard | Ingalls Rink | ||||
| March 15 | Yale | 2 – 3 | 2OT | Harvard | Ingalls Rink | |||
| Harvard won series 2–1 | |
(4) Colgate vs. (5) Dartmouth
| March 13 | Colgate | 3 – 1 | Dartmouth | Starr Rink | ||||
| March 14 | Colgate | 3 – 2 | Dartmouth | Starr Rink | ||||
| Colgate won series 2–0 | |
Semifinals
(1) Quinnipiac vs. (6) Harvard
| March 20[12] | Quinnipiac | 2 – 5 | Harvard | Herb Brooks Arena | Recap |
(2) St. Lawrence vs. (4) Colgate
| March 20[13] | St. Lawrence | 3 – 4 | OT | Colgate | Herb Brooks Arena | Recap |
Championship
(4) Colgate vs. (6) Harvard
| March 21[14] | Colgate | 2 – 4 | Harvard | Herb Brooks Arena | Recap |
References
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