2007 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2007 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 46th tournament in league history. It was played between March 2 and March 17, 2007. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Clarkson received the ECAC Hockey automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings receive a bye to the quarterfinal round. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth seeds, the sixth and eleventh seeds, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the one seed plays the lowest remaining seed, the second seed plays the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed plays the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed plays the fourth-lowest remaining seed another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the Semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game while the losers play in a third-place game. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2007 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
#14 St. Lawrence 22 16 5 1 33 73 55 39 23 14 2 122 104
#7 Clarkson* 22 13 4 4 30 74 53 39 25 9 5 136 93
Dartmouth 22 12 7 3 27 69 60 33 18 12 3 105 93
Cornell 22 10 8 4 24 64 55 31 14 13 4 90 78
Quinnipiac 22 10 8 4 24 74 63 40 21 14 5 140 106
Harvard 22 10 10 2 22 67 65 33 14 17 2 88 90
Princeton 22 10 10 2 22 69 63 34 15 16 3 102 100
Colgate 22 7 12 3 17 53 60 40 15 21 4 100 105
Rensselaer 22 6 11 5 17 55 84 36 10 18 8 88 130
Yale 22 8 13 1 17 56 72 31 11 17 3 78 98
Brown 22 6 12 4 16 65 69 32 11 15 6 96 95
Union 22 7 14 1 15 54 74 36 14 19 3 103 119
Championship: Clarkson
indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

  First Round[4]
March 2–4
Quarterfinals[5]
March 9–10
Semifinals[6]
March 16
Championship
March 17
                                             
  1 St. Lawrence 6 5 1 St. Lawrence 0  
5 Quinnipiac 3 5* 8 Colgate 1 1 5 Quinnipiac 4  
12 Union 1 4
  2 Clarkson 3 2
6 Princeton 3 2* 4 7 Harvard 0 1     5 Quinnipiac 2
11 Brown 4* 1 3   2 Clarkson 4
  3 Dartmouth 6 3
7 Harvard 5 2 6 Princeton 2 2
10 Yale 2 1 Third Place
  4 Cornell 0 2 2 Clarkson 5
8 Colgate 3 4 5 Quinnipiac 1* 3 3 Dartmouth 4   1 St. Lawrence 5
9 Rensselaer 1 1 3 Dartmouth 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(5) Quinnipiac vs. (12) Union

Quinnipiac won series 2–0

(6) Princeton vs. (11) Brown

Princeton won series 2–1

(7) Harvard vs. (10) Yale

Harvard won series 2–0

(8) Colgate vs. (9) Rensselaer

Colgate won series 2–0

Quarterfinals

(1) St. Lawrence vs. (8) Colgate

St. Lawrence won series 2–0

(2) Clarkson vs. (7) Harvard

Clarkson won series 2–0

(3) Dartmouth vs. (6) Princeton

Dartmouth won series 2–0

(4) Cornell vs. (5) Quinnipiac

Quinnipiac won series 2–0

Semifinals

(1) St. Lawrence vs. (5) Quinnipiac

(2) Clarkson vs. (3) Dartmouth

Third place

(1) St. Lawrence vs. (3) Dartmouth

Championship

(2) Clarkson vs. (5) Quinnipiac

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[28]

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

References

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  2. "George Roll Year-by-Year Coaching Record". Retrieved 2013-07-15.
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  12. "Harvard 5, Yale 2". USCHO.com. 2007-03-02. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  13. "Harvard 2, Yale 1". USCHO.com. 2007-03-03. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  14. "Colgate 3, Rensselaer 1". USCHO.com. 2007-03-02. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  15. "Colgate 4, Rensselaer 1". USCHO.com. 2007-03-03. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
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  17. "Colgate 1, St. Lawrence 0". USCHO.com. 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  18. "Clarkson 3, Harvard 0". USCHO.com. 2007-03-09. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  19. "Clarkson 2, Harvard 1". USCHO.com. 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  20. "Dartmouth 6, Princeton 2". USCHO.com. 2007-03-09. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  21. "Dartmouth 3, Princeton 2". USCHO.com. 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  22. "Quinnipiac 1, Cornell 0". USCHO.com. 2007-03-09. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  23. "Dartmouth 6, Rensselaer 0". USCHO.com. 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  24. "Quinnipiac 4, St. Lawrence 0". USCHO.com. 2007-03-16. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  25. "Clarkson 5, Dartmouth 4". USCHO.com. 2007-03-16. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  26. "St. Lawrence 5, Dartmouth 3". USCHO.com. 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  27. "Clarkson 4, Quinnipiac 2". USCHO.com. 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  28. "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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