1965 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
1965 ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | |
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Dates | March 9–13, 1966 |
Teams | 8 |
Finals site |
Boston Arena Boston, Massachusetts |
Champions | Boston College[1] (1st title) |
Winning coach | John Kelley[2] (1st title) |
MVP | Pat Murphy[3] (Boston College) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
The 1965 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 4th tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 13, 1965.[4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Arena in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Boston College and Brown received invitations to participate in the 1965 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 conference rankings, 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 winner of the first and eighth matchup played the winner of the fourth and fifth matchup while the other two remaining teams played with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.
Conference Standings[5]
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
1964–65 ECAC Hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
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Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
Boston University† | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | .833 | 86 | 34 | 31 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 165 | 65 | |
Boston College* | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | .750 | 113 | 73 | 31 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 183 | 117 | |
Clarkson | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | .733 | 65 | 38 | 25 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 104 | 64 | |
Brown | 22 | 16 | 6 | 0 | .727 | 109 | 69 | 30 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 148 | 101 | |
Cornell | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | .722 | 87 | 55 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 150 | 75 | |
Northeastern | 19 | 11 | 8 | 0 | .579 | 69 | 68 | 28 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 135 | 97 | |
Dartmouth | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 58 | 69 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 118 | 104 | |
Providence | 17 | 7 | 9 | 1 | .441 | 53 | 68 | 26 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 110 | 100 | |
Yale | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | .400 | 67 | 80 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 86 | 86 | |
Rensselaer | 15 | 5 | 8 | 2 | .400 | 52 | 68 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 95 | 96 | |
Harvard | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | .350 | 55 | 88 | 24 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 66 | 92 | |
Army | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | .300 | 37 | 42 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 131 | 56 | |
Colgate | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | .286 | 42 | 57 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 90 | 99 | |
Princeton | 21 | 4 | 17 | 0 | .190 | 55 | 108 | 24 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 59 | 111 | |
St. Lawrence | 14 | 1 | 12 | 1 | .107 | 34 | 67 | 22 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 63 | 96 | |
Championship: Boston College † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion |
Bracket
Quarterfinals March 9–10 |
Semifinals March 12 |
Championship March 13 | |||||||||||
1 | Boston University | 5 | |||||||||||
8 | Providence | 3 | |||||||||||
1 | Boston University | 2 | |||||||||||
4 | Brown | 5 | |||||||||||
4 | Brown | 4* | |||||||||||
5 | Cornell | 3 | |||||||||||
2 | Boston College | 6 | |||||||||||
4 | Brown | 2 | |||||||||||
2 | Boston College | 4 | |||||||||||
7 | Dartmouth | 1 | |||||||||||
2 | Boston College | 3* | Third place | ||||||||||
3 | Clarkson | 2 | |||||||||||
3 | Clarkson | 6 | 1 | Boston University | 4 | ||||||||
6 | Northeastern | 3 | 3 | Clarkson | 0 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(1) Boston University vs. (8) Providence
March 10 | Boston University | 5 – 3 | Providence | Boston Arena |
(2) Boston College vs. (7) Dartmouth
March 9 | Boston College | 4 – 1 | Dartmouth | McHugh Forum |
(3) Clarkson vs. (6) Northeastern
March 9 | Clarkson | 6 – 3 | Northeastern | Clarkson Arena |
(4) Brown vs. (5) Cornell
March 9 | Brown | 4 – 3 | OT | Cornell | Meehan Auditorium |
Semifinals
(1) Boston University vs. (4) Brown
March 12 | Boston University | 2 – 5 | Brown | Boston Arena |
(2) Boston College vs. (3) Clarkson
March 12 | Boston College | 3 – 2 | OT | Clarkson | Boston Arena |
Third Place
(1) Boston University vs. (3) Clarkson
March 13 | Boston University | 4 – 0 | Clarkson | Boston Arena |
Championship
(2) Boston College vs. (4) Brown
March 13 | Boston College | 6 – 2 | Brown | Boston Arena |
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team[6]
First Team
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Second Team
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References
- ↑ "Boston College Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- ↑ "John "Snooks" Kelley Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
- ↑ "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- ↑ "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- ↑ "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- ↑ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.