1971 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

1971 ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates March 9–13, 1971
Teams 8
Finals site Boston Garden
Boston, Massachusetts
Champions Harvard[1] (2nd title)
Winning coach Cooney Weiland[2] (2nd title)
MVP Dave Hynes[3] (Harvard)
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

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The 1971 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 10th tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 13, 1971.[4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game Harvard was invited to participate in the 1971 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. Clarkson, however, was passed over with Boston University chosen instead as the second eastern representative.

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on winning percentage, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.

Conference Standings[5]

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

Conference Overall
GP W L T Pct. GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Boston University† 20 18 1 1 .925 139 42 31 28 2 1 210 60
Clarkson 19 16 2 1 .868 76 38 33 28 4 1 151 175
Cornell 20 17 3 0 .850 111 44 27 22 5 0 159 63
Harvard* 21 15 5 1 .738 124 55 27 18 8 1 146 74
Brown 19 13 6 0 .684 70 63 24 13 10 0 77 87
Providence 19 12 7 0 .632 94 70 28 17 11 0 141 106
Pennsylvania 19 11 8 0 .579 90 74 25 14 11 0 129 93
Rensselaer 14 7 5 2 .571 119 81 25 16 7 2 125 95
New Hampshire 20 11 9 0 .550 119 92 29 20 9 0 210 112
Boston College 21 9 12 0 .429 92 112 26 11 15 0 121 141
Army 11 3 7 1 .318 32 48 23 8 14 1 81 80
St. Lawrence 17 5 12 0 .294 57 73 24 10 14 0 105 97
Dartmouth 21 6 15 0 .286 76 106 24 9 15 0 96 114
Yale 20 5 15 0 .250 64 105 24 6 17 1 74 127
Colgate 17 4 13 0 .235 54 111 24 7 17 0 87 156
Northeastern 19 3 16 0 .158 35 122 29 7 22 0 77 175
Princeton 21 1 20 0 .048 54 140 23 1 22 0 56 155
Championship: Harvard
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Coaches Poll Top 10 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  Quarterfinals
March 9		 Semifinals
March 12		 Championship
March 13
                           
  1  Boston University 11 1  Boston University 2  
8  Rensselaer 0 4  Harvard 4  
  2  Clarkson 5
7  Pennsylvania 2     2  Clarkson 4
  4  Harvard 7
  3  Cornell 6
6  Providence 3
Third Place
  4  Harvard 4 2  Clarkson 4
5  Brown 3 3  Cornell 1   1  Boston University 6
3  Cornell 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Quarterfinals

(1) Boston University vs. (8) Rensselaer

(2) Clarkson vs. (7) Pennsylvania

(3) Cornell vs. (6) Providence

(4) Harvard vs. (5) Brown

Semifinals

(1) Boston University vs. (4) Harvard

(2) Clarkson vs. (3) Cornell

Third Place

(1) Boston University vs. (3) Cornell

Championship

(2) Clarkson vs. (4) Harvard


Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

First Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

Second Team

References

  1. ↑ "Harvard Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Ralph "Cooney" Weiland Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  3. ↑ "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  4. ↑ "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  5. ↑ "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  6. ↑ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.

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