1995 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1995 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 34th tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 18, 1995.[4] Preliminary and quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Olympic Arena (subsequently renamed Herb Brooks Arena) in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Rensselaer received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the preliminary round, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds each play a single game to determine the final qualifying teams for the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the first seed and lower ranked qualifier, the second and higher ranked qualifier, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played a modified best-of-three series, where the first team to receive 3 points moves on. 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 1995 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings[5]

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
Clarkson† 22 14 5 3 31 116 70 38 23 10 4 195 125
Brown 22 13 7 2 28 78 76 30 15 12 3 108 109
Harvard 22 12 9 1 25 79 68 30 14 14 2 107 99
Colgate 22 12 9 1 25 98 78 37 20 16 1 158 144
Vermont 22 11 9 2 24 85 61 35 19 14 2 134 106
Rensselaer* 22 10 9 3 23 75 78 37 19 14 4 127 123
Princeton 22 9 10 3 21 81 83 35 18 13 4 123 117
St. Lawrence 22 10 12 0 20 83 110 33 15 17 1 116 150
Cornell 22 8 10 4 20 72 76 30 11 15 4 105 115
Union 22 6 12 4 16 70 87 29 9 16 4 100 116
Dartmouth 22 7 13 2 16 80 111 27 9 16 2 95 136
Yale 22 6 13 3 15 65 84 28 8 17 3 91 115
Championship: Rensselaer
† 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 two rounds

  Preliminary Round
March 7		 Quarterfinals
March 10-12		 Semifinals
March 17		 Championship
March 18
                                         
  1 Clarkson 6 7 — 1 Clarkson 1  
7 Princeton 5 9 Cornell 2 2 — 7 Princeton 2  
10 Union 2
  2 Brown 3 3 2
8 St. Lawrence 2 7 Princeton 4 2 3**     6 Rensselaer 5
9 Cornell 6   7 Princeton 1
  3 Harvard 2 1 —
6 Rensselaer 2 3 — Third Place
  4 Colgate 2 2 3 4 Colgate 1 1 Clarkson 10
5 Vermont 5 0 1 6 Rensselaer 2   4 Colgate 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)


Preliminary Round

(7) Princeton vs. (10) Union

(8) St. Lawrence vs. (9) Cornell

Quarterfinals

(1) Clarkson vs. (9) Cornell

Clarkson won series 2–0

(2) Brown vs. (7) Princeton

Princeton won series 2–1

(3) Harvard vs. (6) Rensselaer

Rensselaer won series 1–0–1

(4) Colgate vs. (5) Vermont

Colgate won series 2–1


Semifinals

(1) Clarkson vs. (7) Princeton

(4) Colgate vs. (6) Rensselaer

Third place

(1) Clarkson vs. (4) Colgate

Championship

(6) Rensselaer vs. (7) Princeton

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

References

  1. ↑ "Rensselaer Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Dan Fridgen 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 (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
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