2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament logo
Dates March 6–21, 2009
Teams 12
Finals site Times Union Center
Albany, New York
Champions Yale (1st title)
Winning coach Keith Allain (1st title)
MVP Sean Backman (Yale)
ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

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The 2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 6 and March 21, 2009 at campus locations and at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. Yale won its first ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and received ECAC Hockey's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Contents

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 2009 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

Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#10 Yale†* 22 15 5 2 32 74 48 34 24 8 2 113 76
#12 Cornell 22 13 6 3 29 56 41 36 22 10 4 92 74
#15 Princeton 22 14 8 0 28 53 40 35 22 12 1 99 74
St. Lawrence 22 11 7 4 26 71 48 38 21 12 5 124 92
Harvard 22 9 7 6 24 54 56 31 9 16 6 68 96
Dartmouth 22 11 9 2 24 63 60 31 14 14 3 88 87
Quinnipiac 22 9 10 3 21 62 46 39 18 18 3 124 110
Union 22 9 11 2 20 56 64 39 19 17 3 111 107
Clarkson 22 8 10 4 20 58 68 36 10 19 7 88 115
Colgate 22 6 11 5 17 45 58 37 12 18 7 89 109
Rensselaer 22 6 15 1 13 50 75 39 10 27 2 76 132
Brown 22 3 15 4 10 44 82 33 5 23 5 60 115
Championship: Yale
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll

Bracket

  First round
March 6–8		 Quarterfinals
March 13–15		 Semifinals
March 20		 Championship
March 21
                                             
  1  Yale 4 2 — 1  Yale 4  
5  Harvard 0 0 — 12  Brown 2 0 — 4  St. Lawrence 3  
12  Brown 1 2 —
  2  Cornell 0 4 4
6  Dartmouth 2 1 — 11  Rensselaer 1 0 3     1  Yale 5
11  Rensselaer 3* 3 —   2  Cornell 0
  3  Princeton 3 2 3
7  Quinnipiac 3* 4 4* 8  Union 2 5 1
10  Colgate 2 5* 3 Third place
  4  St. Lawrence 5 5 — 2  Cornell 4**
8  Union 5 7 — 7  Quinnipiac 3 3 — 3  Princeton 3   3  Princeton 2
9  Clarkson 3 2 — 4  St. Lawrence 2

First round

(5) Harvard vs. (12) Brown

Brown won series 2–0

(6) Dartmouth vs. (11) Rensselaer

Rensselaer won series 2–0

(7) Quinnipiac vs. (10) Colgate

Quinnipiac won series 2–1

(8) Union vs. (9) Clarkson

Union won series 2–0

Quarterfinals

(1) Yale vs. (12) Brown

Yale won series 2–0

(2) Cornell vs. (11) Rensselaer

Cornell won series 2–1

(3) Princeton vs. (8) Union

Princeton won series 2–1

(4) St. Lawrence vs. (7) Quinnipiac

St. Lawrence won series 2–0

Semifinals

(1) Yale vs. (4) St. Lawrence

(2) Cornell vs. (3) Princeton

Third place

(3) Princeton vs. (4) St. Lawrence

Championship

(1) Yale vs. (2) Cornell

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

MVP

References

  1. ^ a b Schott, Ken (2009-03-21). "ECAC Hockey tournament notebook". The Daily Gazette. http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/schott/2009/mar/21/ecac-hockey-tournament-notebook/. Retrieved 2009-03-22. 

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