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2007 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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Dates | March 2–17, 2007 |
Teams | 12 |
Finals site | Times Union Center Albany, New York |
Champions | Clarkson[1] (5th title) |
Winning coach | George Roll[2] (1st title) |
MVP | Chris D'Alvise[3] (Clarkson) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
The 2007 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 46th tournament in league history. It was played between March 2 and March 17, 2007. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Clarkson received the ECAC Hockey automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings receive a bye to the quarterfinal round. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth seeds, the sixth and eleventh seeds, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the one seed plays the lowest remaining seed, the second seed plays the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed plays the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed plays the fourth-lowest remaining seed another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the Semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game while the losers play in a third-place game. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.
Conference standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
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GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
#14 St. Lawrence† | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 33 | 73 | 55 | 39 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 122 | 104 | |
#7 Clarkson* | 22 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 74 | 53 | 39 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 136 | 93 | |
Dartmouth | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 27 | 69 | 60 | 33 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 105 | 93 | |
Cornell | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 24 | 64 | 55 | 31 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 90 | 78 | |
Quinnipiac | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 24 | 74 | 63 | 40 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 140 | 106 | |
Harvard | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 67 | 65 | 33 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 88 | 90 | |
Princeton | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 69 | 63 | 34 | 15 | 16 | 3 | 102 | 100 | |
Colgate | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 53 | 60 | 40 | 15 | 21 | 4 | 100 | 105 | |
Rensselaer | 22 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 17 | 55 | 84 | 36 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 88 | 130 | |
Yale | 22 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 17 | 56 | 72 | 31 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 78 | 98 | |
Brown | 22 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 65 | 69 | 32 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 96 | 95 | |
Union | 22 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 54 | 74 | 36 | 14 | 19 | 3 | 103 | 119 | |
Championship: Clarkson † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll |
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals
First Round[4] March 2–4 | Quarterfinals[5] March 9–10 | Semifinals[6] March 16 | Championship March 17 | ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | St. Lawrence | 6 | 5 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Quinnipiac | 3 | 5* | – | 8 | Colgate | 1 | 1 | – | ||||||||||||||
12 | Union | 1 | 4 | – | 1 | St. Lawrence | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Quinnipiac | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Clarkson | 3 | 2 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Princeton | 3 | 2* | 4 | 7 | Harvard | 0 | 1 | – | ||||||||||||||
11 | Brown | 4* | 1 | 3 | 5 | Quinnipiac | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Clarkson | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Dartmouth | 6 | 3 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Harvard | 5 | 2 | – | 6 | Princeton | 2 | 2 | – | ||||||||||||||
10 | Yale | 2 | 1 | – | 2 | Clarkson | 5 | Third Place | |||||||||||||||
3 | Dartmouth | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Cornell | 0 | 2 | – | 1 | St. Lawrence | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Colgate | 3 | 4 | – | 5 | Quinnipiac | 1* | 3 | – | 3 | Dartmouth | 3 | |||||||||||
9 | Rensselaer | 1 | 1 | – |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
First round
(5) Quinnipiac vs. (12) Union
March 2[7] | Quinnipiac | 3 – 1 | Union | TD Banknorth Center | Recap | |||
(Cashman, Sorteberg) Ben Nelson - PP - 19:36 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Marshall) Eric Lampe - GW - 19:44 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Bates, Henningson) Bryan Leitch - PP - 04:48 | Third period | 17:18 - EA PP - Olivier Bouchard (Fox, Schreiber) | ||||||
( 25 saves / 26 shots ) Bud Fisher | Goalie stats | Justin Mrazek ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) |
March 3[8] | Quinnipiac | 5 – 4 | OT | Union | TD Banknorth Center | Recap | ||
No Scoring | First period | 17:34 - Lane Caffaro (Bouchard, Coyle) | ||||||
(Holt, Bates) Reid Cashman - PP - 05:00 (Cashman, Bates) Matt Sorteberg - PP - 14:04 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Cashman, Marshall) Chris Myers - 02:43 (Beaudoin, Holt) Brandon Wong - 07:26 |
Third period | 01:05 - PP - Chris Potts (Walters, Schreiber) 10:16 - PP - Josh Coyle (Bouchard, Fox) 16:23 - Torren Delforte (Fox, Beynon) | ||||||
(Leitch, Cashman) Jamie Bates - GW PP - 01:20 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 18 saves / 22 shots ) Bud Fisher | Goalie stats | Justin Mrazek ( 27 saves / 32 shots ) |
Quinnipiac won series 2–0 | |
(6) Princeton vs. (11) Brown
March 2[9] | Princeton | 3 – 4 | OT | Brown | Hobey Baker Rink | Recap | ||
No Scoring | First period | 01:22 - PP - Ryan Garbutt (Poli, Ihnacak) | ||||||
(Goeckner-Zoeller, Cousins) Brett Wilson - PP - 06:43 (Westgarth, Stankievech) Kyle Hagel - 08:16 |
Second period | 10:34 - PP - Brian McNary (Prough, Hurley) | ||||||
(Stankievech, Magnowski) Daryl Marcoux - 16:53 | Third period | 16:53 - PP - Ryan Garbutt (Ihnacak, Russell) | ||||||
No scoring | First overtime period | 01:24 - GW - Sean Muncy (Ihnacak, Dersch) | ||||||
( 23 saves / 27 shots ) Zane Kalemba | Goalie stats | Dan Rosen ( 36 saves / 39 shots ) |