2013 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2013 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 8 and March 23, 2013 at campus locations and at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. Union College was the winner of the tournament for the second year in a row and received the ECAC Hockey's automatic bid to the 2013 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 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Regular season 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
#2 Quinnipiac 221723377332 43308513072
Rensselaer 221273276149 371814510688
#1 Yale 221291256062 372212310796
#10 Union * 221084246452 402213512385
Dartmouth 22994225657 34151459488
St. Lawrence 22994226068 3818164107109
Brown 22796205451 36161469085
Princeton 228104205260 31101657289
Cornell 228113194955 34151638391
Clarkson 228113195867 36920789113
Colgate 226133155266 3614184109102
Harvard 226142144565 321019373101
Championship: March 23, 2013
indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 25, 2013

Bracket

  First round
March 8–10
Quarterfinals
March 15–17
Semifinals
March 22
Championship
March 23
                                             
  1 Quinnipiac 2 10 3** 1 Quinnipiac 0  
5 Dartmouth 1 4 6 9 Cornell 3 0 2 7 Brown 4  
12 Harvard 2 1 3
  2 Rensselaer 1 6 2
6 St. Lawrence 4 4 7 Brown 3 2 3     4 Union 3
11 Colgate 2 1   7 Brown 1
  3 Yale 6 3
7 Brown 3 4 6 St. Lawrence 1 2
10 Clarkson 0 3 Third place
  4 Union 4 5 3 Yale 0
8 Princeton 0 2 5 Dartmouth 1 2 4 Union 5   1 Quinnipiac 3
9 Cornell 4 4 3 Yale 0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First Round

(5) Dartmouth vs. (12) Harvard

Dartmouth wins series 2-1

(6) St. Lawrence vs. (11) Colgate

St. Lawrence wins series 2-0

(7) Brown vs. (10) Clarkson

Brown wins series 2-0

(8) Princeton vs. (9) Cornell

Cornell wins series 2-0

Quarterfinals

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (9) Cornell

Quinnipiac Wins Series 2-1

(2) Rensselaer vs. (7) Brown

Brown Wins Series 2-1

(3) Yale vs. (6) St. Lawrence

Yale Wins Series 2-0

(4) Union vs. (5) Dartmouth

Union Wins Series 2-0

Semifinals

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (7) Brown

(3) Yale vs. (4) Union

3rd Place Game

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (3) Yale

Championship

(4) Union vs. (7) Brown

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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