2014 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament
The 2014 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 53rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2014. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Union received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
2014 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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Dates | March 7–22, 2014 |
Teams | 12 |
Finals site | Herb Brooks Arena Lake Placid, New York |
Champions | Union[1] (3rd title) |
Winning coach | Rick Bennett[2] (3rd title) |
MVP | Daniel Carr[3] (Union) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
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 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The third place game was eliminated from the tournament starting in 2014.[4]
Conference standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||
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GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
#1 Union†* | 22 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 83 | 42 | 42 | 32 | 6 | 4 | 160 | 90 | |
#12 Colgate | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 72 | 59 | 39 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 108 | 104 | |
#7 Quinnipiac | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 78 | 43 | 40 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 141 | 81 | |
#16 Cornell | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 26 | 51 | 50 | 32 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 77 | 74 | |
Clarkson | 22 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 24 | 57 | 64 | 42 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 101 | 102 | |
Yale | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 24 | 71 | 56 | 33 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 106 | 82 | |
Rensselaer | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 21 | 57 | 57 | 37 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 104 | 100 | |
St. Lawrence | 22 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 18 | 70 | 78 | 38 | 15 | 19 | 4 | 122 | 131 | |
Brown | 22 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 17 | 48 | 62 | 31 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 75 | 87 | |
Dartmouth | 22 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 16 | 51 | 72 | 34 | 10 | 20 | 4 | 84 | 115 | |
Harvard | 22 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 44 | 52 | 31 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 69 | 83 | |
Princeton | 22 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 8 | 44 | 91 | 32 | 6 | 26 | 0 | 60 | 126 | |
Championship: Union † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014 |
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals
First Round[5] March 7–9 | Quarterfinals[6] March 14–16 | Semifinals[7] March 21 | Championship March 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | Union | 3 | 4 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Clarkson | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | Dartmoutn | 0 | 2 | – | ||||||||||||||
12 | Princeton | 3* | 0 | 2 | 1 | Union | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
4 | Cornell | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Colgate | 2 | 4 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Yale | 4 | 2 | – | 8 | St. Lawrence | 1 | 3 | – | ||||||||||||||
11 | Harvard | 0 | 1 | – | 1 | Union | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Colgate | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Quinnipiac | 6 | 5 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Rensselaer | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | Yale | 2 | 3 | – | ||||||||||||||
10 | Dartmouth | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | Colgate | 3** | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Quinnipiac | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Cornell | 2 | 1 | 1* | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | St. Lawrence | 3** | 3 | – | 5 | Clarkson | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
9 | Brown | 2 | 2 | – |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
(5) Clarkson vs. (12) Princeton
March 7[8] | Clarkson | 2 – 3 | OT | Princeton | Cheel Arena | |||
No Scoring | First period | 04:19 - Kyle Rankin (Liau, Foster) | ||||||
(Sexton, McPherson) Will Frederick - PP - 03:34 (Boak, Zarbo) Pat Megannety - 19:51 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 06:15 - PP - Andrew Calof (Ambrosia, Rush) | ||||||
No scoring | First overtime period | 12:02 - GW - Andrew Ammon (Calof, Liau) | ||||||
( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Greg Lewis | Goalie stats | Colton Phinney ( 39 saves / 41 shots ) |
March 8[9] | Clarkson | 4 – 0 | Princeton | Cheel Arena | ||||
(McPherson, Powers) Jeff DiNallo - GW - 00:54 (Sexton, McPherson) Will Frederick - PP - 10:20 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Zarbo, Sinz) James de Haas - 04:22 (Sexton) James de Haas - 10:31 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Steve Perry | Goalie stats | Sean Bonar ( 33 saves / 37 shots ) |
March 7[10] | Clarkson | 2 – 3 | Princeton | Cheel Arena | ||||
(Zarbo) Jarrett Burton - PP - 02:13 (Geiger, DiNallo) Allan McPherson - 12:29 |
First period | 06:52 - Jonathan Liau (Brockett, Foster) | ||||||
(DiNallo) Will Frederick - GW PP - 12:49 | Second period | 10:00 - PP - Kyle Rankin (Ambrosia, Calof) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Steve Perry | Goalie stats | Colton Phinney ( 32 saves / 35 shots ) |
Clarkson won series 2–1 | |
(6) Yale vs. (11) Harvard
March 7[11] | Yale | 4 – 0 | Harvard | Ingalls Rink | ||||
(Agostino, Killian) Jesse Root - GW - 07:47 (Learned, Ruffolo) Gus Young - 09:56 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Obuchowski, Lyon) Cody Learned - SH - 05:44 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Ruffolo, O'Gara) Carson Cooper - 16:31 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Alex Lyon | Goalie stats | Steve Michalek ( 11 saves / 14 shots ) / Raphael Girard ( 13 saves / 14 shots ) |
March 8[12] | Yale | 2 – 1 | Harvard | Ingalls Rink | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 16:42 - PP - Brian Hart (Malone, Newell) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Day, Root) Stu Wilson - EA - 10:31 (Root, Hayden) Kenny Agostino - GW PP - 11:09 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 18 saves / 19 shots ) Alex Lyon | Goalie stats | Raphael Girard ( 37 saves / 39 shots ) |
Yale won series 2–0 | |
(7) Rensselaer vs. (10) Dartmouth
March 7[13] | Rensselaer | 4 – 1 | Dartmouth | Houston Field House | ||||
(Neal, Zalewski) Ryan Haggerty - PP - 04:39 (unassisted) Ryan Haggerty - GW - 10:01 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Bubela, Neal) Jacob Laliberte - 02:29 | Second period | 08:53 - Jesse Beamish (Simpson, Hartley) | ||||||
(Miller) Zach Schroeder - 01:06 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 29 saves / 30 shots ) Scott Diebold | Goalie stats | Charles Grant ( 33 saves / 37 shots ) |
March 8[14] | Rensselaer | 2 – 3 | Dartmouth | Houston Field House | ||||
No Scoring | First period | 07:13 - PP - Eric Neiley (Opperman, Sikura) | ||||||
(Neal) Jacob Laliberte - 08:43 (Neal, Zalewski) Ryan Haggerty - PP - 11:55 |
Second period | 09:51 - Jesse Beamish (unassisted) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 13:46 - GW - Eric Neiley (Opperman, Hartley) | ||||||
( 36 saves / 39 shots ) Scott Diebold | Goalie stats | Charles Grant ( 20 saves / 22 shots ) |
March 8[15] | Rensselaer | 4 – 5 | Dartmouth | Houston Field House | ||||
(Higgs, Zalewski) Ryan Haggerty - 03:39 (Haggerty) Mike Zalewski - 16:00 |
First period | 06:38 - SH - Tim O'Brien (unassisted) | ||||||
(McGowan, Leonard) Chris Bradley - 15:43 (Schroeder) Mark McGowan - 18:50 |
Second period | 18:05 - Rick Pinkston (McNally, Neiley) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 02:10 - Eric Neiley (McNally, Opperman) 08:48 - Brandon McNally (Neiley) 17:46 - GW - Brad Schierhorn (O'Brien) | ||||||
( 34 saves / 39 shots ) Scott Diebold | Goalie stats | Charles Grant ( 35 saves / 39 shots ) |
Dartmouth won series 2–1 | |
(8) St. Lawrence vs. (9) Brown
March 7[16] | St. Lawrence | 3 – 2 | 2OT | Brown | Appleton Arena | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Ward, Dahl) Kyle Essery - 04:42 (Bayreuther, Carey) Greg Carey - PP - 18:46 |
Second period | 14:00 - Zach Pryzbek (Hathaway, Lamacchia) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 19:05 - EA - Nick Lappin (Hathaway, Naclerio) | ||||||
(Wick, Raley) Eric Sweetman - GW - 01:27 | Second overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Matt Weninger | Goalie stats | Tyler Steel ( 43 saves / 46 shots ) |
March 8[17] | St. Lawrence | 3 – 2 | Brown | Appleton Arena | ||||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Dahl, Carey) Eric Sweetman - PP - 05:13 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Essery, Hughes) Gavin Bayreuther - 04:36 (Hagen, Ward) Woody Hudson - GW - 05:52 |
Third period | 04:10 - Garnet Hathaway (Pryzbek) 10:10 - Ryan Jacobson (Middleton, Doane) | ||||||
( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Matt Weninger | Goalie stats | Tyler Steel ( 25 saves / 28 shots ) |
St. Lawrence won series 2–0 | |
(1) Union vs. (10) Dartmouth
March 14[18] | Union | 3 – 0 | Dartmouth | Achilles Center | ||||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Vecchione, Gostisbehere) Michael Pontarelli - GW PP - 01:12 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(unassisted) Daniel Carr - PS - 17:23 (Gostisbehere, Vecchione) Daniel Carr - EN - 18:34 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 32 saves / 32 shots ) Colin Stevens | Goalie stats | Charles Grant ( 39 saves / 41 shots ) |
March 15[19] | Union | 4 – 2 | Dartmouth | Achilles Center | ||||
(Ciampini, Carr) Mike Vecchione - 04:34 | First period | 11:38 - PP - Brandon McNally (Opperman, Neiley) 13:01 - PP - Tim O'Brien (Beamish, Mosey) | ||||||
(Vecchione) Daniel Carr - 18:45 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Taylor, Sullivan) Max Novak - GW - 09:09 (Vecchione) Daniel Ciampini - EN - 19:08 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 33 saves / 35 shots ) Colin Stevens | Goalie stats | Charles Grant ( 27 saves / 30 shots ) |
Union won series 2–0 | |
(2) Colgate vs. (8) St. Lawrence
March 14[20] | Colgate | 2 – 1 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | ||||
(Spink, Borkowski) Tyson Spink - PP - 02:29 (Spink, Spink) Kevin Lough - GW PP - 05:09 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 14:20 - Justin Baker (Carey, Raley) | ||||||
( 22 saves / 23 shots ) Charles Finn | Goalie stats | Matt Weninger ( 29 saves / 31 shots ) |
March 15[21] | Colgate | 4 – 3 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | ||||
(Borowski, Gentzler) Darcy Murphy - 02:22 | First period | 01:40 - Woody Hudson (Ward, Smolcynski) 15:13 - PP - Greg Carey (Bayreuther, Wick) | ||||||
(Wilson, Black) Darcy Murphy - PP - 08:43 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Johnston, Black) Joe Wilson - 05:00 (Wilson, Johnston) Darcy Murphy - GW PP - 09:25 |
Third period | 16:46 - Greg Carey (Wick, Carey) | ||||||
( 23 saves / 26 shots ) Charles Finn | Goalie stats | Matt Weninger ( 20 saves / 24 shots ) |
Colgate won series 2–0 | |
(3) Quinnipiac vs. (6) Yale
March 14[22] | Quinnipiac | 6 – 2 | Yale | TD Bank Sports Center | Recap | |||
(Sherbinin) Tim Clifton - 05:10 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Tolkinen, Peca) Travis St. Denis - 04:00 (Toews) Connor Jones - GW - 05:17 (Tolkinen, Jones) Bryce Van Brabant - 10:33 |
Second period | 16:39 - PP - Ryan Obuchowski (Root, Fallen) | ||||||
(Samuels-Thomas) Travis St. Denis - 19:50 (Schutt) Connor Clifton - 10:24 |
Third period | 02:19 - PP - John Hayden (Wilson, Obuchowski) | ||||||
( 17 saves / 19 shots ) Michael Garteig | Goalie stats | Alex Lyon ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) / Patrick Spano ( 5 saves / 7 shots ) |
March 15[23] | Quinnipiac | 5 – 3 | Yale | TD Bank Sports Center | Recap | |||
(Jones, Jones) Sam Anas - 03:00 (Tolkinen, Peca) Travis St. Denis - 05:31 (Scherbinin, Peca) Tommy Schutt - 17:11 |
First period | 14:31 - PP - John Hayden (Agostino, Root) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 02:56 - Mike Doherty (Witek) 12:27 - John Hayden (Root, Agostino) | ||||||
(Van Brabant, Smith) Jordan Samuels-Thomas -GW PP - 04:40 (Jones) Sam Anas - 08:40 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 23 saves / 26 shots ) Michael Garteig | Goalie stats | Alex Lyon ( 29 saves / 34 shots ) |
Quinnipiac won series 2–0 | |
(4) Cornell vs. (5) Clarkson
March 14[24] | Cornell | 2 – 1 | Clarkson | Lynah Rink | ||||
(Lowry, McCarron) Kirill Gotovets - 11:33 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(McCarron, Ferlin) Kirill Gotovets - GW PP - 02:31 | Second period | 14:49 - PS - Jordan Boucher (unassisted) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 28 saves / 29 shots ) Andy Iles | Goalie stats | Steve Perry ( 31 saves / 32 shots ) |
March 15[25] | Cornell | 1 – 4 | Clarkson | Lynah Rink | ||||
No Scoring | First period | 07:00 - PP - Jeff DiNallo (McPherson, Sexton) | ||||||
(Bardreau, Ferlin) Patrick McCarron - 11:09 | Second period | 05:52 - GW - Christian Powers (Geiger, McPherson) 07:33 - PP - James de Haas (DiNallo, Sexton) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 19:52 - EN - Jarrett Burton (Frederick) | ||||||
( 11 saves / 14 shots ) Andy Iles | Goalie stats | Steve Perry ( 23 saves / 24 shots ) |
March 16[26] | Cornell | 1 – 0 | OT | Clarkson | Lynah Rink | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
(Lewis, Ryan) Brian Ferlin - GW - 12:32 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 23 saves / 23 shots ) Andy Iles | Goalie stats | Steve Perry ( 25 saves / 26 shots ) |
Cornell won series 2–1 | |
(1) Union vs. (4) Cornell
March 21[27] | Union | 5 – 2 | Cornell | Herb Brooks Arena | Recap | |||
(Pontarelli, Coatta) Cole Ikkala - 09:24 (Wilkins, Bodie) Kevin Sullivan - PP - 17:47 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Hatch, Sullivan) Max Novak - GW - 17:20 (Carr, Bodie) Mike Vecchione - 18:32 |
Second period | 05:56 - Christian Hilbrich (unassisted) 18:18 - Joakim Ryan (Willcox, Knisley) | ||||||
(unassisted) Daniel Carr - EN - 18:37 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 24 saves / 26 shots ) Colin Stevens | Goalie stats | Andy Iles ( 26 saves / 30 shots ) |
(2) Colgate vs. (3) Quinnipiac
March 21[28] | Colgate | 3 – 2 | 2OT | Quinnipiac | Herb Brooks Arena | Recap | ||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(unassisted) Andrew Black - 19:18 | Second period | 02:54 - Connor Jones (Jones) 15:37 - Sam Anas (Peca, Toews) | ||||||
(Spink) Kyle Baun - EA - 19:04 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
(Baun, Kulevich) Tyson Spink - GW - 00:58 | Second overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 30 saves / 32 shots ) Charles Finn | Goalie stats | Michael Garteig ( 33 saves / 36 shots ) |
(1) Union vs. (2) Colgate
March 22[29] | Union | 5 – 2 | Colgate | Herb Brooks Arena | ||||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Sullivan, Gostisbehere) Matt Hatch - 11:17 (Novak, Bodie) Daniel Carr - PP - 13:51 (Carr, Taylor) Daniel Ciampini - GW - 15:40 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Carr, Ciampini) Mike Vecchione - 07:30 (Hatch) Max Novak - EN - 17:47 |
Third period | 12:49 - Spiro Goulakos (Johnston) 17:16 - EA - Darcy Murphy (Kulevich, Spink) | ||||||
( 31 saves / 33 shots ) Colin Stevens | Goalie stats | Charles Finn ( 24 saves / 28 shots ) |
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
- F Daniel Carr* (Union)
- F Tyson Spink (Colgate)
- F Mike Vecchione (Union)
- D Mathew Bodie (Union)
- D Shayne Gostisbehere (Union)
- G Colin Stevens (Union)
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External links
- ECAC Hockey Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine