1980 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1980 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 19th tournament in league history. It was played between March 11 and March 15, 1980.[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 Dartmouth received invitations to participate in the 1980 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

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.

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
Boston College† 22 18 3 1 .841 124 75 33 25 7 1 184 120
Providence 23 17 6 0 .739 104 82 32 21 11 0 148 123
Maine 22 10 11 1 .477 90 112 32 15 16 1 129 144
New Hampshire 24 9 15 0 .375 97 117 30 12 18 0 120 133
Boston University 22 8 14 0 .364 99 99 28 11 17 0 128 131
Northeastern 21 5 16 0 .238 77 120 27 7 20 0 103 149
West Region
Vermont 23 16 7 0 .696 98 81 35 23 12 0 156 135
Clarkson 21 14 7 0 .667 141 98 34 21 12 1 205 151
Rensselaer 22 14 8 0 .636 114 84 27 16 11 0 133 112
Colgate 21 10 10 1 .500 78 75 31 18 12 1 139 118
St. Lawrence 21 3 18 0 .143 54 113 32 6 26 0 97 178
Ivy Region
Dartmouth 22 15 6 1 .705 132 97 31 19 11 1 151 125
Cornell* 22 11 11 0 .500 109 108 31 16 15 0 150 146
Brown 22 9 11 2 .455 78 81 26 10 14 2 91 113
Princeton 21 9 12 0 .429 81 93 26 11 15 0 96 111
Harvard 21 7 11 3 .405 83 91 26 8 15 3 102 122
Yale 21 5 14 3 .295 96 118 26 7 16 3 112 135
Championship: Cornell
† 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 11		 Semifinals
March 14		 Championship
March 15
                           
  1  Boston College 1 2  Providence 5  
8  Cornell 5 8  Cornell 6  
  2  Providence 8
7  Colgate 3     3  Dartmouth 1
  8  Cornell 5
  3  Dartmouth 8
6  Rensselaer 0
Third Place
  4  Vermont 3 3  Dartmouth 6
5  Clarkson 8 5  Clarkson 4   2  Providence 6*
5  Clarkson 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Quarterfinals

(1) Boston College vs. (8) Cornell

(2) Providence vs. (7) Colgate

(3) Dartmouth vs. (6) Rensselaer

(4) Vermont vs. (5) Clarkson

Semifinals

(2) Providence vs. (8) Cornell

(3) Dartmouth vs. (5) Clarkson

Third Place

(2) Providence vs. (5) Clarkson

Championship

(3) Dartmouth vs. (8) Cornell


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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