| 1977 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 8–12, 1977 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Boston University (5th title) |
| Winning coach | Jack Parker (4th title) |
| MVP | Rick Meagher (Boston University) |
| ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1976 1978 → | |
The 1977 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 16th tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 12, 1977. 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 New Hampshire received invitations to participate in the 1977 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
| 1976–77 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Clarkson† | 23 | 19 | 4 | 0 | .826 | 146 | 87 | 34 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 222 | 127 | |
| New Hampshire | 27 | 21 | 6 | 0 | .778 | 182 | 121 | 39 | 27 | 12 | 0 | 245 | 181 | |
| Cornell | 23 | 16 | 6 | 1 | .717 | 160 | 102 | 29 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 204 | 134 | |
| Boston University* | 24 | 16 | 7 | 1 | .688 | 142 | 110 | 34 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 198 | 160 | |
| Boston College | 23 | 13 | 9 | 1 | .587 | 125 | 106 | 30 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 174 | 130 | |
| Rensselaer | 24 | 14 | 10 | 0 | .583 | 138 | 131 | 30 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 184 | 168 | |
| Brown | 21 | 12 | 9 | 0 | .571 | 121 | 95 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 145 | 118 | |
| Providence | 25 | 14 | 11 | 0 | .560 | 124 | 105 | 30 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 146 | 128 | |
| Harvard | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | .545 | 92 | 78 | 26 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 108 | 95 | |
| Dartmouth | 24 | 11 | 12 | 1 | .479 | 136 | 118 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 146 | 124 | |
| Vermont | 23 | 10 | 13 | 0 | .435 | 105 | 103 | 30 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 141 | 122 | |
| Colgate | 24 | 10 | 14 | 0 | .417 | 110 | 144 | 28 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 128 | 170 | |
| Northeastern | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | .409 | 92 | 125 | 27 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 121 | 141 | |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | 7 | 17 | 0 | .292 | 93 | 148 | 26 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 105 | 157 | |
| Yale | 23 | 5 | 17 | 1 | .239 | 73 | 130 | 25 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 84 | 140 | |
| St. Lawrence | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | .150 | 86 | 147 | 28 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 134 | 182 | |
| Princeton | 24 | 3 | 20 | 1 | .146 | 70 | 143 | 25 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 72 | 150 | |
| Championship: Boston University † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the first round
| Quarterfinals March 8 | Semifinals March 11 | Championship March 12 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Clarkson | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Providence | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Clarkson | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Boston University | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | New Hampshire | 4* | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Brown | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | New Hampshire | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Boston University | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Cornell | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Rensselaer | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | New Hampshire | 10** | Third Place | |||||||||||
| 3 | Cornell | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Boston University | 8 | 1 | Clarkson | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 | Boston College | 7 | 3 | Cornell | 5 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Clarkson vs. (8) Providence
| March 8 | Clarkson | 6 – 3 | Providence | Walker Arena | ||||
(2) New Hampshire vs. (7) Brown
| March 8 | New Hampshire | 4 – 3 | OT | Brown | Snively Arena | |||
(3) Cornell vs. (6) Rensselaer
| March 8 | Cornell | 7 – 5 | Rensselaer | Lynah Rink | ||||
(4) Boston University vs. (5) Boston College
| March 8 | Boston University | 8 – 7 | Boston College | Walter Brown Arena | ||||
Semifinals
(1) Clarkson vs. (4) Boston University
| March 11 | Clarkson | 6 – 7 | Boston University | Boston Garden | ||||
(2) New Hampshire vs. (3) Cornell
| March 11 | New Hampshire | 10 – 9 | 2OT | Cornell | Boston Garden | |||
Third Place
(1) Clarkson vs. (3) Cornell
| March 12 | Clarkson | 4 – 5 | Cornell | Boston Garden | ||||
Championship
(2) New Hampshire vs. (4) Boston University
| March 12 | New Hampshire | 6 – 8 | Boston University | Boston Garden | ||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
None
MOP
- Rick Meagher (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
- 1976–77 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1976–77 NCAA Standings
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