| 1973 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 6–10, 1973 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Cornell (5th title) |
| Winning coach | Dick Bertrand (1st title) |
| MVP | Carlo Ugolini (Cornell) |
| ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1972 1974 → | |
The 1973 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 12th tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 10, 1973. 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 1973 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 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
| 1972–73 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Cornell†* | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | .806 | 81 | 60 | 29 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 156 | 92 | |
| Harvard† | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | .806 | 117 | 62 | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 141 | 79 | |
| Boston College | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | .711 | 118 | 88 | 30 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 188 | 121 | |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | .636 | 90 | 78 | 27 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 115 | 97 | |
| New Hampshire | 19 | 11 | 8 | 0 | .579 | 93 | 87 | 29 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 129 | 121 | |
| Clarkson | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | .550 | 101 | 82 | 33 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 176 | 137 | |
| Rensselaer | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | .550 | 87 | 67 | 31 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 142 | 124 | |
| Boston University^ | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .528 | 100 | 51 | 29 | 11 | 17 | 1 | 174 | 86 | |
| Brown | 19 | 10 | 9 | 0 | .526 | 72 | 75 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 84 | 96 | |
| Northeastern | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | 93 | 98 | 29 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 144 | 125 | |
| St. Lawrence | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | .444 | 87 | 89 | 28 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 149 | 131 | |
| Dartmouth | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | .425 | 74 | 85 | 24 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 106 | 93 | |
| Yale | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1 | .367 | 47 | 69 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 102 | 89 | |
| Providence | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | .353 | 62 | 79 | 25 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 107 | 110 | |
| Colgate | 17 | 5 | 12 | 0 | .294 | 58 | 94 | 25 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 107 | 165 | |
| Princeton | 21 | 3 | 18 | 0 | .143 | 55 | 123 | 23 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 66 | 127 | |
| Army | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | .100 | 28 | 64 | 27 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 121 | 136 | |
| Championship: Cornell † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion ^ Boston University was required to forfeit 11 after the season for using an ineligible player | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the first round
| Quarterfinals March 6 | Semifinals March 9 | Championship March 10 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Rensselaer | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Clarkson | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Harvard | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Clarkson | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston College | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston College | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | New Hampshire | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston College | 5 | Third Place | |||||||||||
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Boston University | 3 | 5 | Pennsylvania | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 7 | 7 | Clarkson | 4 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Cornell vs. (8) Rensselaer
| March 6 | Cornell | 9 – 3 | Rensselaer | Lynah Rink | ||||
(2) Harvard vs. (7) Clarkson
| March 6 | Harvard | 4 – 7 | Clarkson | Donald C. Watson Rink | ||||
(3) Boston College vs. (6) New Hampshire
| March 6 | Boston College | 4 – 2 | New Hampshire | McHugh Forum | ||||
(4) Boston University vs. (5) Pennsylvania
| March 6 | Boston University | 3 – 7 | Pennsylvania | Walter Brown Arena | ||||
Semifinals
(1) Cornell vs. (7) Clarkson
| March 9 | Cornell | 9 – 4 | Clarkson | Boston Garden | ||||
(3) Boston College vs. (5) Pennsylvania
| March 9 | Boston College | 5 – 3 | Pennsylvania | Boston Garden | ||||
Third Place
(5) Pennsylvania vs. (7) Clarkson
| March 10 | Pennsylvania | 0 – 4 | Clarkson | Boston Garden | ||||
Championship
(1) Cornell vs. (3) Boston College
| March 10 | Cornell | 3 – 2 | Boston College | Boston Garden | ||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
None
MOP
- Carlo Ugolini (Cornell)
References
- "Cornell Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- "Dick Bertrand 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
- 1972–73 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1972–73 NCAA Standings
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