1998 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1998 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 37th tournament in league history. It was played between March 13 and March 21, 1998.[4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final five games were played at the Olympic Arena (subsequently renamed Herb Brooks Arena) in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Princeton received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and tenth seeds, the second and ninth seeds, the third seed and eighth seeds, the fourth seed and seventh seeds and the fifth seed and sixth seeds played a modified best-of-three series, where the first team to receive 3 points moves on, with the three highest-seeded winners advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two winners playing in the Four vs. Five matchup. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the winner of the four vs. five game while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings[5]

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Yale† 22 17 4 1 35 82 44 35 23 9 3 121 80
Clarkson 22 16 4 2 34 86 48 35 23 9 3 128 87
Rensselaer 22 11 7 4 26 87 75 35 18 13 4 126 110
Brown 22 11 9 2 24 73 64 31 13 16 2 100 104
Harvard 22 10 11 1 21 72 78 33 14 17 2 112 124
Colgate 22 9 10 3 21 69 75 35 16 15 4 116 126
Princeton* 22 7 9 6 20 71 75 36 18 11 7 125 112
Cornell 22 9 12 1 19 55 68 33 15 16 2 84 101
Vermont 22 7 11 4 18 62 77 34 10 20 4 89 119
St. Lawrence 22 8 12 2 18 56 69 33 9 20 4 90 123
Dartmouth 22 7 12 3 17 72 77 29 11 13 5 96 88
Union 22 4 15 3 11 42 76 32 6 22 4 74 117
Championship: Princeton
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Coaches Poll Top 10 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round

  First Round
March 13–15		 Four vs. Five
March 19		 Semifinals
March 20		 Championship
March 21
                                         
  1  Yale 3* 3* 4   1  Yale 1  
10  St. Lawrence 3 3 1 7  Princeton 6     7  Princeton 2  
  8  Cornell 2  
  2  Clarkson 2* 5 —
9  Vermont 1 3 —
  3  Rensselaer 4 3 4     2  Clarkson 4
8  Cornell 5 0 5     7  Princeton 5**
  4  Brown 2 6 3
7  Princeton 3 0 5
Third Place
  5  Harvard 5 4 — 2  Clarkson 6
6  Colgate 4 2 — 5  Harvard 2   1  Yale 1
5  Harvard 4

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(1) Yale vs. (10) St. Lawrence

Yale won series 1–0–2

(2) Clarkson vs. (9) Vermont

Clarkson won series 2–0

(3) Rensselaer vs. (8) Cornell

Cornell won series 2–1

(4) Brown vs. (7) Princeton

Princeton won series 2–1

(5) Harvard vs. (6) Colgate

Harvard won series 2–0

Four vs. Five

(7) Princeton vs. (8) Cornell

Semifinals

(1) Yale vs. (7) Princeton

(2) Clarkson vs. (5) Harvard

Third place

(1) Yale vs. (5) Harvard

Championship

(2) Clarkson vs. (7) Princeton

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[6]

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

References

  1. ↑ "Princeton Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Don Cahoon Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  3. ↑ "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  4. ↑ "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  5. ↑ "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  6. ↑ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.

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