1982 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

1982 ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates March 9–13, 1982
Teams 8
Finals site Boston Garden
Boston, Massachusetts
Champions Northeastern[1] (1st title)
Winning coach Fern Flaman[2] (1st title)
MVP Mark Davidner[3] (Northeastern)
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

← 1981

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The 1982 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 21st tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 13, 1982.[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 winning the tournament, Northeastern received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

This was the last ECAC Hockey tournament won by an East Region team. All teams from that division would later break from the conference to form Hockey East.

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The three teams that were division champions automatically qualified for the tournament while the remaining five seeds were given to the teams with the highest winning percentage. The top four seeds were given out to the three division champions and the top qualifier and assorted based upon winning percentage. The remaining four seeds were assigned to the other qualifiers and assorted based upon winning percentage. 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. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

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
East Region
Northeastern* 21 14 6 1 .690 125 89 36 25 9 2 212 140
New Hampshire 22 15 7 0 .682 116 91 36 22 14 0 176 159
Boston College 21 13 8 0 .619 85 79 30 19 11 0 131 105
Providence 21 13 8 0 .619 119 80 33 20 12 1 162 114
Boston University 22 9 10 3 .477 102 91 28 14 11 3 133 102
Maine 21 3 18 0 .143 67 155 29 8 21 0 113 189
West Region
Clarkson† 20 15 4 1 .775 106 63 35 26 8 1 185 108
St. Lawrence 21 12 8 1 .595 88 74 31 19 11 1 152 116
Colgate 20 11 8 1 .575 96 77 30 19 10 1 177 109
Vermont 22 8 12 2 .409 95 115 29 11 16 2 133 153
Rensselaer 20 16 12 2 .350 76 96 29 9 18 2 110 135
Ivy Region
Harvard 21 11 8 2 .571 106 85 30 13 15 2 126 109
Yale 21 11 9 1 .548 77 76 26 15 10 1 113 93
Cornell 22 10 11 1 .477 92 80 26 12 13 1 107 91
Princeton 21 7 12 2 .381 81 103 26 9 14 3 105 124
Dartmouth 21 6 14 1 .310 85 119 26 10 15 1 113 140
Brown 21 6 15 0 .286 75 121 26 8 18 0 100 155
Independent
Army^ - - - - - - - 36 25 11 0 260 171
Championship: Northeastern
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
^ Army had been accepted into ECAC Hockey but had not begun a conference schedule
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  Clarkson 7 1  Clarkson 1  
8  Colgate 4 4  Harvard 7  
  2  Northeastern 5
7  St. Lawrence 3     2  Northeastern 5
  4  Harvard 2
  3  New Hampshire 4
6  Providence 2
Third Place
  4  Harvard 2 2  Northeastern 4
5  Boston College 0 3  New Hampshire 2   1  Clarkson 5
3  New Hampshire 6

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Quarterfinals

(1) Clarkson vs. (8) Colgate

(2) Northeastern vs. (7) St. Lawrence

(3) New Hampshire vs. (6) Providence

(4) Harvard vs. (5) Boston College

Semifinals

(1) Clarkson vs. (4) Harvard

(2) Northeastern vs. (3) New Hampshire

Third Place

(1) Clarkson vs. (3) New Hampshire

Championship

(2) Northeastern vs. (4) Harvard


Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

None

MOP


References

  1. ↑ "Northeastern Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Fern Flaman 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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