| 1974 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 5–9, 1974 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Boston University (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Jack Parker (1st title) |
| MVP | Ed Walsh (Boston University) |
| ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1973 1975 → | |
The 1974 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 13th tournament in league history. It was played between March 5 and March 9, 1974. 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 Harvard received invitations to participate in the 1974 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
| 1973–74 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| New Hampshire† | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | .750 | 113 | 71 | 31 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 171 | 105 | |
| Harvard | 21 | 15 | 6 | 0 | .714 | 166 | 109 | 29 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 155 | 113 | |
| Boston University* | 20 | 14 | 6 | 0 | .700 | 167 | 89 | 31 | 23 | 8 | 0 | 190 | 95 | |
| Cornell | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | .675 | 135 | 108 | 27 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 146 | 110 | |
| St. Lawrence | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | .559 | 79 | 83 | 28 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 125 | 123 | |
| Dartmouth | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | .545 | 93 | 104 | 25 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 99 | 100 | |
| Providence | 19 | 9 | 9 | 1 | .500 | 83 | 103 | 26 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 115 | 113 | |
| Rensselaer | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | .471 | 101 | 116 | 30 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 141 | 142 | |
| Clarkson | 21 | 9 | 11 | 1 | .452 | 70 | 89 | 27 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 97 | 115 | |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | 9 | 12 | 0 | .429 | 67 | 71 | 24 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 75 | 87 | |
| Boston College | 19 | 8 | 11 | 0 | .421 | 89 | 98 | 28 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 137 | 138 | |
| Northeastern | 19 | 7 | 10 | 2 | .421 | 74 | 88 | 27 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 116 | 124 | |
| Brown | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | .389 | 63 | 69 | 23 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 87 | 86 | |
| Princeton | 20 | 7 | 12 | 1 | .375 | 62 | 100 | 24 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 87 | 117 | |
| Yale | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | .278 | 60 | 91 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 80 | 114 | |
| Colgate | 20 | 5 | 14 | 1 | .275 | 73 | 104 | 28 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 122 | 133 | |
| Championship: Boston University † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the first round
| Quarterfinals March 5 | Semifinals March 8 | Championship March 9 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | New Hampshire | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Rensselaer | 7* | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Harvard | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Rensselaer | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Harvard | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Providence | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Harvard | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston University | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston University | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Dartmouth | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston University | 7 | Third Place | |||||||||||
| 4 | Cornell | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Cornell | 5 | 4 | Cornell | 8 | |||||||||
| 5 | St. Lawrence | 3 | 8 | Rensselaer | 2 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) New Hampshire vs. (8) Rensselaer
| March 5 | New Hampshire | 6 – 7 | OT | Rensselaer | Snively Arena | |||
(2) Harvard vs. (7) Providence
| March 5 | Harvard | 9 – 3 | Providence | Donald C. Watson Rink | ||||
(3) Boston University vs. (6) Dartmouth
| March 5 | Boston University | 8 – 0 | Dartmouth | Walter Brown Arena | ||||
(4) Cornell vs. (5) St. Lawrence
| March 5 | Cornell | 5 – 3 | St. Lawrence | Lynah Rink | ||||
Semifinals
(2) Harvard vs. (8) Rensselaer
| March 8 | Harvard | 7 – 2 | Rensselaer | Boston Garden | ||||
(3) Boston University vs. (4) Cornell
| March 8 | Boston University | 7 – 3 | Cornell | Boston Garden | ||||
Third Place
(4) Cornell vs. (8) Rensselaer
| March 9 | Cornell | 8 – 2 | Rensselaer | Boston Garden | ||||
Championship
(2) Harvard vs. (3) Boston University
| March 9 | Harvard | 2 – 4 | Boston University | Boston Garden | ||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
None
MOP
- Ed Walsh (Boston University)
References
- "Boston University Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- "Jack Parker 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
- 1973–74 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1973–74 NCAA Standings
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