| 1972 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 7–11, 1972 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Boston University (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Jack Kelley (1st title) |
| MVP | John Danby (Boston University) |
| ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1971 1973 → | |
The 1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 11th tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 11, 1972. 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, Boston University and Cornell received invitations to participate in the 1972 NCAA Division I 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 winning percentage, 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 highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play 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
| 1971–72 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
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| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Cornell† | 20 | 17 | 3 | 0 | .850 | 117 | 58 | 29 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 175 | 82 | |
| Harvard | 21 | 16 | 4 | 1 | .786 | 118 | 62 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 127 | 76 | |
| Boston University* | 20 | 15 | 4 | 1 | .775 | 88 | 53 | 31 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 155 | 69 | |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | 107 | 75 | 25 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 122 | 90 | |
| New Hampshire | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | .667 | 82 | 61 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 140 | 109 | |
| Clarkson | 20 | 12 | 8 | 0 | .600 | 96 | 74 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 158 | 102 | |
| Rensselaer | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | .559 | 64 | 62 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 123 | 84 | |
| Providence | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | .529 | 73 | 75 | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 106 | 102 | |
| Dartmouth | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .528 | 81 | 78 | 24 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 120 | 103 | |
| Boston College | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | 93 | 106 | 30 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 130 | 155 | |
| Brown | 21 | 9 | 11 | 1 | .452 | 70 | 75 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 78 | 84 | |
| St. Lawrence | 18 | 5 | 12 | 1 | .306 | 63 | 78 | 26 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 100 | 108 | |
| Yale | 17 | 5 | 12 | 0 | .294 | 70 | 105 | 24 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 108 | 128 | |
| Colgate | 19 | 5 | 14 | 0 | .263 | 52 | 94 | 26 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 83 | 122 | |
| Princeton | 19 | 5 | 14 | 0 | .263 | 52 | 108 | 23 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 62 | 127 | |
| Northeastern | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | .150 | 68 | 118 | 26 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 102 | 145 | |
| Army | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | .100 | 29 | 44 | 25 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 99 | 88 | |
| Championship: Boston University † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the first round
| Quarterfinals March 7 | Semifinals March 10 | Championship March 11 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Providence | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | New Hampshire | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Boston University | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Rensselaer | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Boston University | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 6* | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Clarkson | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Boston University | 3 | Third Place | |||||||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Pennsylvania | 3 | 3 | Harvard | 1 | |||||||||
| 5 | New Hampshire | 5 | 5 | New Hampshire | 4 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Cornell vs. (8) Providence
| March 7 | Cornell | 11 – 1 | Providence | Lynah Rink | ||||
(2) Boston University vs. (7) Rensselaer
| March 7 | Boston University | 8 – 2 | Rensselaer | Walter Brown Arena | ||||
(3) Harvard vs. (6) Clarkson
| March 7 | Harvard | 6 – 5 | OT | Clarkson | Donald C. Watson Rink | |||
(4) Pennsylvania vs. (5) New Hampshire
| March 7 | Pennsylvania | 3 – 5 | New Hampshire | Class of 1923 Arena | ||||
Semifinals
(1) Cornell vs. (5) New Hampshire
| March 10 | Cornell | 6 – 3 | New Hampshire | Boston Garden | ||||
(2) Boston University vs. (3) Harvard
| March 10 | Boston University | 3 – 1 | Harvard | Boston Garden | ||||
Third Place
(3) Harvard vs. (5) New Hampshire
| March 11 | Harvard | 1 – 4 | New Hampshire | Boston Garden | ||||
Championship
(1) Cornell vs. (2) Boston University
| March 11 | Cornell | 1 – 4 | Boston University | Boston Garden | ||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
First Team
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Second Team
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References
- "Boston University Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- "Jack Kelley 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
- 1971–72 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1971–72 NCAA Standings
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