| 1967 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 7–11, 1967 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Cornell (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Ned Harkness (1st title) |
| MVP | Doug Ferguson (Cornell) |
| ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1966 1968 → | |
The 1967 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 6th tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 11, 1967. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Cornell and Boston University received invitations to participate in the 1967 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on conference rankings, qualified to participate in the tournament. 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 against one another. In the semifinals, the winner of the first and eighth matchup played the winner of the fourth and fifth matchup while the other two remaining teams played with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.
Conference standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning percentage; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against
| 1966–67 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
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| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Boston University† | 20 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .975 | 147 | 48 | 31 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 176 | 66 | |
| Cornell* | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .925 | 106 | 32 | 29 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 132 | 46 | |
| Boston College | 20 | 14 | 6 | 0 | .700 | 121 | 60 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 171 | 91 | |
| St. Lawrence | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | .633 | 66 | 64 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 122 | 84 | |
| Yale | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | .591 | 117 | 112 | 24 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 119 | 112 | |
| Clarkson | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | .567 | 78 | 65 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 127 | 84 | |
| New Hampshire^ | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | .556 | 32 | 34 | 25 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 115 | 71 | |
| Brown | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 88 | 64 | 24 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 135 | 98 | |
| Harvard | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | 97 | 86 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 106 | 88 | |
| Army | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | .455 | 41 | 47 | 27 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 151 | 104 | |
| Northeastern | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0 | .450 | 62 | 79 | 26 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 86 | 95 | |
| Colgate | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 | .313 | 41 | 87 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 88 | 130 | |
| Princeton | 20 | 6 | 14 | 0 | .300 | 85 | 106 | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 92 | 106 | |
| Providence | 15 | 2 | 13 | 0 | .133 | 37 | 111 | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 46 | 136 | |
| Dartmouth | 15 | 1 | 14 | 0 | .067 | 37 | 115 | 20 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 56 | 130 | |
| Rensselaer | 15 | 1 | 14 | 0 | .067 | 58 | 118 | 24 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 106 | 158 | |
| Championship: Cornell † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion ^ New Hampshire had been readmitted to the ECAC but played only a partial schedule and still qualified for the ECAC II playoffs | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
| Quarterfinals March 7 | Semifinals March 10 | Championship March 11 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Boston University | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Harvard | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Boston University | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | St. Lawrence | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | St. Lawrence | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Yale | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Boston University | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Brown | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 12 | Third place | |||||||||||
| 3 | Boston College | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston College | 9 | 3 | Boston College | 6 | |||||||||
| 6 | Clarkson | 2 | 4 | St. Lawrence | 4 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Boston University vs. (8) Harvard
| March 7 | Boston University | 6 – 2 | Harvard | Boston Arena | ||||
(2) Cornell vs. (7) Brown
| March 7 | Cornell | 11 – 2 | Brown | Lynah Rink | ||||
(3) Boston College vs. (6) Clarkson
| March 7 | Boston College | 9 – 2 | Clarkson | McHugh Forum | ||||
(4) St. Lawrence vs. (5) Yale
| March 7 | St. Lawrence | 4 – 2 | Yale | Appleton Arena | ||||
Semifinals
(1) Boston University vs. (4) St. Lawrence
| March 10 | Boston University | 6 – 2 | St. Lawrence | Boston Garden | ||||
(2) Cornell vs. (3) Boston College
| March 10 | Cornell | 12 – 2 | Boston College | Boston Garden | ||||
Third Place
(3) Boston College vs. (4) St. Lawrence
| March 11 | Boston College | 6 – 4 | St. Lawrence | Boston Garden | ||||
Championship
(1) Boston University vs. (6) Cornell
| March 11 | Boston University | 3 – 4 | Cornell | Boston Garden | ||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
First Team
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Second Team
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References
- "Cornell Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- "Ned Harkness Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
External links
- ECAC Hockey Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- 1966–67 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1966–67 NCAA Standings
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