2016 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

2016 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 4–19, 2016
Teams	12
Finals site	Herb Brooks Arena Lake Placid, New York
Champions	Quinnipiac (1st title)
Winning coach	Rand Pecknold (1st title)
MVP	Connor Clifton (Quinnipiac)
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The 2016 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 55th tournament in league history. It will be played between March 4 and March 19, 2016. First Round and Quarterfinal games will be played at home team campus sites, while the final four games will be played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, the team will receive the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament will feature 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 2016 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

2015–16 ECAC Hockey men's standings
	Conference record								Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#2 Quinnipiac † *	22	16	1	5	37	84	44		43	32	4	7	163	85
#10 Yale	22	14	5	3	31	57	37		32	19	9	4	86	57
#9 Harvard	22	12	6	4	28	72	47		34	19	11	4	116	81
#17 St. Lawrence	22	11	8	3	25	68	50		37	19	14	4	106	84
Clarkson	22	10	9	3	23	52	51		38	20	15	3	101	95
Rensselaer	22	8	7	7	23	47	49		40	18	15	7	97	104
Dartmouth	22	11	11	0	22	60	69		35	18	16	1	94	104
#18 Cornell	22	8	8	6	22	46	50		34	16	11	7	79	82
Union	22	6	10	6	18	53	62		36	13	14	9	91	96
Colgate	22	6	14	2	14	45	71		37	11	24	2	95	132
Brown	22	3	13	6	12	47	70		31	5	19	7	75	107
Princeton	22	3	16	3	9	40	71		31	5	23	3	60	99
Championship: March 19, 2016 † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 8, 2016

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals Template:12TeamBracket-NCAA3 Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Media

Television

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

Broadcast Assignments

Semifinals & Championship

• Eric Frede & Colby Cohen

Streaming

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