| 1968 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 5–9, 1968 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Cornell (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Ned Harkness (2nd title) |
| MVP | Ken Dryden (Cornell) |
| ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1967 1969 → | |
The 1968 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 7th tournament in league history. It was played between March 5 and March 9, 1968. 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 College received invitations to participate in the 1968 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
| 1967–68 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Cornell†* | 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | .950 | 144 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 187 | 43 | |
| Clarkson | 16 | 11 | 5 | 0 | .688 | 91 | 68 | 24 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 159 | 85 | |
| St. Lawrence | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | .676 | 86 | 73 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 124 | 90 | |
| Harvard | 21 | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | 123 | 74 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 139 | 88 | |
| Boston University | 21 | 13 | 6 | 2 | .667 | 116 | 61 | 32 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 174 | 89 | |
| Brown | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | .650 | 116 | 63 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 135 | 79 | |
| Boston College | 23 | 14 | 8 | 1 | .630 | 113 | 79 | 31 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 155 | 116 | |
| Princeton | 23 | 13 | 9 | 1 | .587 | 92 | 79 | 24 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 93 | 85 | |
| New Hampshire^ | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | .538 | 49 | 50 | 29 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 159 | 77 | |
| Colgate | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | .529 | 67 | 65 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 96 | 83 | |
| Rensselaer | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | .471 | 80 | 70 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 109 | 94 | |
| Army | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | .417 | 46 | 50 | 24 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 110 | 84 | |
| Yale | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | .273 | 43 | 117 | 24 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 50 | 120 | |
| Northeastern | 17 | 4 | 13 | 0 | .250 | 56 | 89 | 24 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 87 | 126 | |
| Providence | 16 | 3 | 13 | 0 | .188 | 32 | 114 | 25 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 67 | 149 | |
| Dartmouth | 21 | 2 | 19 | 0 | .095 | 55 | 115 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 67 | 120 | |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | 1 | 15 | 0 | .063 | 22 | 154 | 24 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 42 | 180 | |
| 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 5 | Semifinals March 8 | Championship March 9 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Princeton | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Boston University | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Harvard | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Boston University | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Boston College | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Clarkson | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Brown | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Clarkson | 5 | Third place | |||||||||||
| 6 | Boston College | 6** | ||||||||||||
| 3 | St. Lawrence | 6 | 2 | Clarkson | 4 | |||||||||
| 6 | Boston College | 7* | 5 | Boston University | 1 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Cornell vs. (8) Princeton
| March 5 | Cornell | 6 – 1 | Princeton | Lynah Rink | ||||
(2) Clarkson vs. (7) Brown
| March 5 | Clarkson | 7 – 3 | Brown | Clarkson Arena | ||||
(3) St. Lawrence vs. (6) Boston College
| March 5 | St. Lawrence | 6 – 7 | OT | Boston College | Appleton Arena | |||
(4) Harvard vs. (5) Boston University
| March 5 | Harvard | 3 – 6 | Boston University | Donald C. Watson Rink | ||||
Semifinals
(1) Cornell vs. (5) Boston University
| March 8 | Cornell | 7 – 2 | Boston University | Boston Garden | ||||
(2) Clarkson vs. (6) Boston College
| March 8 | Clarkson | 5 – 6 | 2OT | Boston College | Boston Garden | |||
Third Place
(2) Clarkson vs. (5) Boston University
| March 9 | Clarkson | 4 – 1 | Boston University | Boston Garden | ||||
Championship
(1) Cornell vs. (6) Boston College
| March 9 | Cornell | 6 – 3 | Boston College | 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
- 1967–68 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1967–68 NCAA Standings
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