1979 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1979 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 18th tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 10, 1979.[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, New Hampshire and Dartmouth received invitations to participate in the 1979 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
Boston University† 23 17 4 2 .783 101 76 30 21 7 2 138 106
New Hampshire* 25 17 5 3 .740 151 103 35 22 10 3 203 148
Cornell 22 16 6 0 .727 129 88 29 21 8 0 166 114
Dartmouth 22 14 7 1 .659 104 78 30 19 9 2 144 102
Clarkson 22 13 9 0 .591 135 106 31 19 12 0 184 136
Providence 24 13 9 2 .583 105 102 28 16 10 2 134 123
Yale 22 12 9 1 .568 105 91 27 13 12 2 129 125
Vermont 21 11 10 0 .524 97 98 30 12 18 0 122 141
Northeastern 22 11 11 0 .500 94 107 27 12 15 0 112 129
Brown 21 10 11 0 .476 86 89 25 11 14 0 105 108
Boston College 22 10 12 0 .455 106 112 30 16 14 0 167 141
Colgate 20 7 13 0 .350 97 124 28 15 13 0 166 144
Rensselaer 25 8 16 1 .340 124 136 28 10 17 1 141 145
Harvard 22 5 16 1 .250 86 109 26 7 18 1 108 131
St. Lawrence 24 5 18 1 .229 81 132 31 8 21 2 118 162
Princeton 21 2 15 4 .190 71 119 26 5 17 4 95 138
Championship: New Hampshire
† 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 6		 Semifinals
March 9		 Championship
March 10
                           
  1  Boston University 4 1  Boston University 3  
8  Vermont 3 4  Dartmouth 5  
  2  New Hampshire 9
7  Yale 2     2  New Hampshire 3
  4  Dartmouth 2
  3  Cornell 6*
6  Providence 5
Third Place
  4  Dartmouth 2* 2  New Hampshire 4
5  Clarkson 1 3  Cornell 2   1  Boston University 4
3  Cornell 7

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Quarterfinals

(1) Boston University vs. (8) Vermont

(2) New Hampshire vs. (7) Yale

(3) Cornell vs. (6) Providence

(4) Dartmouth vs. (5) Clarkson

Semifinals

(1) Boston University vs. (4) Dartmouth

(2) New Hampshire vs. (3) Cornell

Third Place

(1) Boston University vs. (3) Cornell

Championship

(2) New Hampshire vs. (4) Dartmouth


Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

None

MOP


References

  1. ↑ "New Hampshire Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Charlie Holt 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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