2011 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

2011 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates March 4–19, 2011
Teams 12
Finals site Boardwalk Hall
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Champions Yale (2nd title)
Winning coach Keith Allain (2nd title)
MVP Ryan Rondeau (Yale)
ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

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The 2011 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 4 and March 19, 2011 at campus locations and at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Yale won its second ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and received ECAC Hockey's automatic bid to the 2011 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 2011 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
#4 Union 22 17 3 2 36 75 43 40 26 10 4 144 84
#3 Yale 22 17 4 1 35 84 46 36 28 7 1 151 74
#18 Dartmouth 22 12 8 2 26 70 48 34 19 12 3 111 87
Cornell 22 11 9 2 24 57 53 34 16 15 3 86 88
Princeton 22 11 9 2 24 69 70 32 17 13 2 105 88
#20 Rensselaer 22 11 9 2 24 67 52 38 20 13 5 110 90
Clarkson 22 9 12 1 19 58 78 36 15 19 2 98 117
Quinnipiac 22 6 9 7 19 49 62 39 16 15 8 95 102
Brown 22 8 12 2 18 55 70 31 10 16 5 83 107
Harvard 22 7 14 1 15 49 61 34 12 21 1 77 98
St. Lawrence 22 6 15 1 13 53 73 40 13 22 5 101 124
Colgate 22 4 15 3 11 51 81 42 11 28 3 107 142
Championship:
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Top 20 Poll

Bracket

  First round
March 4–6		 Quarterfinals
March 11–13		 Semifinals
March 18		 Championship
March 19
                                             
  1  Union 4 2 3 2  Yale 4  
5  Rensselaer 4 2 1 12  Colgate 1 4 4 12  Colgate 0  
12  Colgate 2 5 2**
  2  Yale 3 5 4
6  Princeton 4 2 1 11  St. Lawrence 4* 2 0     2  Yale 6
11  St. Lawrence 1 3 2   4  Cornell 0
  3  Dartmouth 2 2 4
7  Clarkson 1 4 — 10  Harvard 3 1 3
10  Harvard 2 6 — Third place
  4  Cornell 2 0 3 3  Dartmouth 0
8  Quinnipiac 4 4 — 8  Quinnipiac 1 1 2 4  Cornell 3   3  Dartmouth 5
9  Brown 0 0 — 12  Colgate 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First Round

(5) Rensselaer vs. (12) Colgate

Colgate wins series 2-1

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

St. Lawrence wins series 2-1

(7) Clarkson vs. (10) Harvard

Havard wins series 2-0

(8) Quinnipiac vs. (9) Brown

Quinnipiac wins series 2-0

Quarterfinals

(1) Union vs. (12) Colgate

Colgate Wins Series 2-1

(2) Yale vs. (11) St. Lawrence

Series tied 1-1

(3) Dartmouth vs. (10) Harvard

Series tied 1-1

(4) Cornell vs. (8) Quinnipiac

Series tied 1-1

Semifinals

(2) Yale vs. (12) Colgate

(3) Dartmouth vs. (4) Cornell

Championship

(1) Yale vs. (4) Cornell

3rd Place Game

(3) Dartmouth vs. (12) Colgate

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[1]

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

References

  1. ↑ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.

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