1984 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1984 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 23rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 2 and March 10, 1984.[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, Rensselaer received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play. 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 a two-game series to determine the winner. In the two games no overtime was permitted and if the two teams remained tied after the two games then a 10-minute mini-game would be played where a sudden-death overtime was allowed if the scheduled time did not produce a victor.[5] After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. 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 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings[6]

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 21 15 6 0 .714 88 72 39 26 13 0 175 141
Boston University 21 15 6 0 .714 75 63 40 28 11 1 167 120
New Hampshire 21 13 8 0 .619 94 73 38 20 17 1 169 139
Providence 21 12 7 2 .619 84 78 35 21 12 2 143 122
Northeastern 21 10 10 1 .500 104 97 29 16 12 1 144 124
Maine 21 7 14 0 .333 75 109 34 14 20 0 130 161
West Region
Rensselaer†* 20 17 3 0 .850 117 53 38 32 6 0 218 113
Clarkson 20 14 6 0 .700 97 63 34 21 11 2 156 110
Colgate 20 10 9 1 .525 83 89 35 20 14 1 171 149
St. Lawrence 20 10 10 0 .500 108 80 32 19 13 0 175 126
Vermont 20 6 13 1 .325 89 97 29 10 18 1 127 132
Ivy Region
Harvard 21 10 9 1 .524 68 61 27 10 14 3 84 90
Yale 21 10 10 1 .500 76 73 26 12 13 1 91 92
Cornell 21 9 12 1 .429 83 94 26 11 15 0 106 113
Brown 21 5 15 1 .262 59 109 26 6 19 1 70 135
Princeton 21 5 15 1 .262 81 103 25 6 18 1 101 126
Dartmouth 21 3 18 1 .143 58 119 26 3 23 0 71 148
Independent
Army^ - - - - - - - 34 28 5 1 241 104
Massachusetts–Lowell^ - - - - - - - 34 15 16 3 138 164
Championship: Rensselaer
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
^ Both Army and Massachusetts-Lowell 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 2-3		 Semifinals
March 9		 Championship
March 10
                               
  1  Rensselaer 8 5 — 1  Rensselaer 5  
8  Colgate 5 3 — 5  Clarkson 1  
  2  Boston College 6 3 1
7  Providence 3 5 0     1  Rensselaer 5
  3  Boston University 2
  3  Boston University 3 5 1*
6  New Hampshire 8 2 0
Third Place
  4  Harvard 1 2 — 2  Boston College 4
5  Clarkson 3 2 — 3  Boston University 6   2  Boston College 1
5  Clarkson 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Quarterfinals

(1) Rensselaer vs. (8) Colgate

Rensselaer won series 2–0

(2) Boston College vs. (7) Providence

Boston College won series 2–1

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

Boston University won series 2–1

(4) Harvard vs. (5) Clarkson

Clarkson won series 1–0–1

Semifinals

(1) Rensselaer vs. (5) Clarkson

(2) Boston College vs. (3) Boston University

Third Place

(2) Boston College vs. (5) Clarkson

Championship

(1) Rensselaer vs. (3) Boston University

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[7]

None

MOP


References

  1. ↑ "Rensselaer Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Mike Addesa 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. ↑ "College Hockey Notebook; Road to Final a 3-Way Route". The New York Times. 1988-03-08. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  6. ↑ "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  7. ↑ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.

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