| 1978 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 7–11, 1978 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Boston College (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Len Ceglarski (1st title) |
| MVP | Joe Mullen (Boston College) |
| ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1977 1979 → | |
The 1978 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 17th tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 11, 1978. 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 College and Providence received invitations to participate in the 1978 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
| 1977–78 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Boston University† | 22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .955 | 135 | 85 | 32 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 199 | 126 | |
| Cornell | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | .750 | 161 | 79 | 27 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 195 | 100 | |
| Clarkson | 23 | 16 | 7 | 0 | .696 | 139 | 109 | 30 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 174 | 145 | |
| Rensselaer | 21 | 13 | 8 | 0 | .619 | 100 | 83 | 29 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 162 | 117 | |
| Boston College* | 23 | 14 | 9 | 0 | .609 | 117 | 116 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 0 | 186 | 147 | |
| Brown | 23 | 13 | 9 | 1 | .587 | 101 | 78 | 29 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 117 | 102 | |
| Providence | 23 | 12 | 9 | 2 | .565 | 116 | 95 | 34 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 172 | 146 | |
| New Hampshire | 25 | 14 | 11 | 0 | .560 | 154 | 124 | 30 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 197 | 150 | |
| Yale | 26 | 12 | 13 | 1 | .481 | 92 | 114 | 26 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 92 | 114 | |
| Harvard | 23 | 10 | 13 | 0 | .435 | 87 | 112 | 26 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 99 | 122 | |
| Dartmouth | 23 | 9 | 14 | 0 | .391 | 97 | 114 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 107 | 129 | |
| Vermont | 23 | 9 | 14 | 0 | .391 | 94 | 108 | 31 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 139 | 137 | |
| St. Lawrence | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | .364 | 91 | 124 | 30 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 124 | 152 | |
| Princeton | 21 | 7 | 13 | 1 | .357 | 83 | 89 | 25 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 102 | 102 | |
| Northeastern | 24 | 7 | 16 | 1 | .313 | 131 | 128 | 28 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 155 | 142 | |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | 5 | 14 | 2 | .286 | 82 | 123 | 26 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 98 | 145 | |
| Colgate | 25 | 4 | 20 | 1 | .180 | 81 | 180 | 28 | 5 | 22 | 1 | 91 | 187 | |
| Championship: Boston College † 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 | Boston University | 6* | ||||||||||||
| 8 | New Hampshire | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Boston University | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Providence | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Providence | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Boston College | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Providence | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Clarkson | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Brown | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Boston College | 6 | Third Place | |||||||||||
| 6 | Brown | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Rensselaer | 6 | 1 | Boston University | 8 | |||||||||
| 5 | Boston College | 7* | 6 | Brown | 4 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Boston University vs. (8) New Hampshire
| March 7 | Boston University | 6 – 5 | OT | New Hampshire | Walter Brown Arena | |||
(2) Cornell vs. (7) Providence
| March 7 | Cornell | 8 – 5 | Providence | Lynah Rink | ||||
(3) Clarkson vs. (6) Brown
| March 7 | Clarkson | 2 – 6 | Brown | Walker Arena | ||||
(4) Rensselaer vs. (5) Boston College
| March 7 | Rensselaer | 6 – 7 | OT | Boston College | Houston Field House | |||
Semifinals
(1) Boston University vs. (7) Providence
| March 10 | Boston University | 1 – 5 | Providence | Boston Garden | ||||
(5) Boston College vs. (6) Brown
| March 10 | Boston College | 6 – 4 | Brown | Boston Garden | ||||
Third Place
(1) Boston University vs. (6) Brown
| March 11 | Boston University | 8 – 4 | Brown | Boston Garden | ||||
Championship
(5) Boston College vs. (7) Providence
| March 11 | Boston College | 4 – 2 | Providence | Boston Garden | ||||
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team
None
MOP
- Joe Mullen (Boston College)
References
- "Boston College Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- "Len Ceglarski 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
- 1977–78 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1977–78 NCAA Standings
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