2001 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2001 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 40th tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 17, 2001. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final five games were played at the Olympic Arena (subsequently renamed Herb Brooks Arena) in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, St. Lawrence received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and tenth seeds, the second and ninth seeds, the third seed and eighth seeds, the fourth seed and seventh seeds and the fifth seed and sixth seeds played a best-of-three series with the three highest-seeded winners advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two winners playing in the Four vs. Five matchup. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the winner of the four vs. five game 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 2001 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings

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
#15 Clarkson 22 15 5 2 32 81 45 35 21 11 3 123 91
#10 St. Lawrence* 22 13 6 3 29 83 70 37 20 13 4 127 120
Harvard 22 12 8 2 26 68 60 33 16 15 2 103 105
Cornell 22 11 8 3 25 44 44 33 16 12 5 73 72
Dartmouth 22 10 8 4 24 67 62 34 16 14 4 101 96
Rensselaer 22 11 9 2 24 62 54 34 17 15 2 107 89
Princeton 22 9 9 4 22 70 66 31 10 16 5 90 103
Yale 22 10 11 1 21 72 80 31 14 16 1 105 114
Union 22 8 12 2 18 54 75 34 12 18 4 88 115
Vermont 22 8 12 2 18 68 69 34 14 18 2 116 110
Colgate 22 8 13 1 17 60 67 34 10 20 4 95 112
Brown 22 2 16 4 8 43 80 29 4 21 4 63 107
Championship: St. Lawrence
indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round

  First Round[3]
March 9–11
Four vs. Five[4]
March 15
Semifinals
March 16
Championship
March 17
                                         
  1 Clarkson 3 3** 2   2 St. Lawrence 2  
10 Vermont 5 2 3* 5 Dartmouth 3*     5 Dartmouth 0  
  10 Vermont 2  
  2 St. Lawrence 6 4
9 Union 3 2
  3 Harvard 5 7     2 St. Lawrence 3
8 Yale 4 4     4 Cornell 1
  4 Cornell 3* 2
7 Princeton 2 1
Third Place
  5 Dartmouth 4 5 3 Harvard 2
6 Rensselaer 2 1 4 Cornell 5   3 Harvard 3*
5 Dartmouth 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(1) Clarkson vs. (10) Vermont

Vermont won series 2–1

(2) St. Lawrence vs. (9) Union

St. Lawrence won series 2–0

(3) Harvard vs. (8) Yale

Harvard won series 2–0

(4) Cornell vs. (7) Princeton

Cornell won series 2–0

(5) Dartmouth vs. (6) Rensselaer

Dartmouth won series 2–0

Four vs. Five

(5) Dartmouth vs. (10) Vermont

Semifinals

(2) St. Lawrence vs. (5) Dartmouth

(3) Harvard vs. (4) Cornell

Third place

(3) Harvard vs. (5) Dartmouth

Championship

(1) St. Lawrence vs. (4) Cornell

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[21]

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

References

  1. "St. Lawrence Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  2. "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
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  4. "ECAC men's Hockey 2000-01 Week 25". USCHO.com. 2001-03-17. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  5. "Vermont 5, Clarkson 3". USCHO.com. 2001-03-09. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  6. "Clarkson 3, Vermont 2". USCHO.com. 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  7. "Vermont 3, Clarkson 2". USCHO.com. 2001-03-11. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  8. "St. Lawrence 6, Union 3". USCHO.com. 2001-03-09. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  9. "St. Lawrence 4, Union 2". USCHO.com. 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  10. "Harvard 5, Yale 4". USCHO.com. 2001-03-09. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  11. "Harvard 7, Yale 4". USCHO.com. 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  12. "Cornell 3, Princeton 2". USCHO.com. 2001-03-09. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  13. "Cornell 2, Princeton 1". USCHO.com. 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  14. "Dartmouth 4, Rensselaer 2". USCHO.com. 2001-03-09. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  15. "Dartmouth 5, Rensselaer 1". USCHO.com. 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  16. "Dartmouth 3, Vermont 2". USCHO.com. 2001-03-15. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  17. "St. Lawrence 2, Dartmouth 0". USCHO.com. 2001-03-16. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  18. "Cornell 5, Harvard 2". USCHO.com. 2001-03-16. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  19. "Harvard 3, Dartmouth 2". USCHO.com. 2001-03-17. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  20. "St. Lawrence 3, Cornell 1". USCHO.com. 2001-03-17. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
  21. "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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