1973 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1973 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 12th tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 10, 1973.[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 both, Cornell and Boston College received invitations to participate in the 1973 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

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
Cornell†* 18 14 3 1 .806 81 60 29 23 5 1 156 92
Harvard† 18 14 3 1 .806 117 62 22 17 4 1 141 79
Boston College 19 13 5 1 .711 118 88 30 22 7 1 188 121
Pennsylvania 22 13 7 2 .636 90 78 27 16 9 2 115 97
New Hampshire 19 11 8 0 .579 93 87 29 16 10 3 129 121
Clarkson 20 11 9 0 .550 101 82 33 18 15 0 176 137
Rensselaer 20 11 9 0 .550 87 67 31 16 15 0 142 124
Boston University^ 18 9 8 1 .528 100 51 29 11 17 1 174 86
Brown 19 10 9 0 .526 72 75 23 11 12 0 84 96
Northeastern 21 10 11 0 .476 93 98 29 17 12 0 144 125
St. Lawrence 18 9 8 1 .444 87 89 28 15 13 0 149 131
Dartmouth 20 8 11 1 .425 74 85 24 12 11 1 106 93
Yale 15 5 9 1 .367 47 69 23 12 10 1 102 89
Providence 17 6 11 0 .353 62 79 25 11 14 0 107 110
Colgate 17 5 12 0 .294 58 94 25 11 14 0 107 165
Princeton 21 3 18 0 .143 55 123 23 5 18 0 66 127
Army 10 1 9 0 .100 28 64 27 9 17 1 121 136
Championship: Cornell
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
^ Boston University was required to forfeit 11 after the season for using an ineligible player
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Coaches Poll Top 10 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  Quarterfinals
March 6		 Semifinals
March 9		 Championship
March 10
                           
  1  Cornell 9 1  Cornell 9  
8  Rensselaer 3 7  Clarkson 4  
  2  Harvard 4
7  Clarkson 7     1  Cornell 3
  3  Boston College 2
  3  Boston College 4
6  New Hampshire 2
Third Place
  4  Boston University 3 3  Boston College 5
5  Pennsylvania 7 5  Pennsylvania 3   5  Pennsylvania 0
7  Clarkson 4

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Quarterfinals

(1) Cornell vs. (8) Rensselaer

(2) Harvard vs. (7) Clarkson

(3) Boston College vs. (6) New Hampshire

(4) Boston University vs. (5) Pennsylvania

Semifinals

(1) Cornell vs. (7) Clarkson

(3) Boston College vs. (5) Pennsylvania

Third Place

(5) Pennsylvania vs. (7) Clarkson

Championship

(1) Cornell vs. (3) Boston College


Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

None

MOP


References

  1. ↑ "Cornell Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Dick Bertrand 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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