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| 2012 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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 2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament logo | |
| Dates | March 2–17, 2012 |
| Teams | 12 |
| Finals site | Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Champions | Union (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Rick Bennett (1st title) |
| MVP | Jeremy Welsh (Union) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 2 and March 17, 2012 at campus locations and at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. The winner of the tournament received ECAC Hockey's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format
The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth, sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest-ranked first-round winner, the second seed and second-lowest-ranked first-round winner, the third seed and second-highest-ranked first-round winner, and the fourth seed and highest-ranked first-round winner play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest seeds play a single game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third-place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.
Regular season standings
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 | ||
| #3 Union†* | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 32 | 76 | 38 | 41 | 26 | 8 | 7 | 143 | 75 | |
| #10 Cornell | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 66 | 46 | 35 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 100 | 79 | |
| #18 Harvard | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 61 | 59 | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 106 | 100 | |
| Colgate | 22 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 23 | 60 | 57 | 39 | 19 | 17 | 3 | 121 | 113 | |
| Quinnipiac | 22 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 23 | 60 | 57 | 40 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 122 | 98 | |
| Yale | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 74 | 61 | 35 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 123 | 106 | |
| Clarkson | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 22 | 57 | 60 | 39 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 105 | 109 | |
| St. Lawrence | 22 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 21 | 50 | 64 | 36 | 14 | 19 | 3 | 88 | 120 | |
| Dartmouth | 22 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 19 | 63 | 74 | 33 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 93 | 102 | |
| Rensselaer | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 43 | 61 | 39 | 12 | 24 | 3 | 78 | 111 | |
| Princeton | 22 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 58 | 72 | 32 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 85 | 105 | |
| Brown | 22 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 54 | 75 | 32 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 75 | 97 | |
| Championship: Union 3, Harvard 1 † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll | ||||||||||||||
Bracket
| First round March 2–4 | Quarterfinals March 9–11 | Semifinals March 16 | Championship March 17 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Union | 3 | 4 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Quinnipiac | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | Rensselaer | 2 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | Brown | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Union | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Colgate | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 4** | 3 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Yale | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | Dartmouth | 3 | 1 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | Princeton | 2 | 5* | 3 | 1 | Union | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 1 | 4** | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Clarkson | 1 | 4*** | 1 | 6 | Yale | 2* | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Rensselaer | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | Cornell | 1 | Third place | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Colgate | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | Cornell | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | St. Lawrence | 3 | 1 | — | 5 | Quinnipiac | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Colgate | 0 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Dartmouth | 6 | 4 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
First round
(5) Quinnipiac vs. (12) Brown
| March 2 | Quinnipiac | 1 - 4 | Brown | TD Bank Sports Center | Recap | |||
| (C. Jones, Peca) Zack Currie - PP - 12:53 | First period | 17:44 - Jarred Smith (Quick, Zaires) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 08:51 - GW - Ryan Jacobson (Maclellan, Lorito) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 17:12 - Chris Zaires (Quick, Smith) 17:42 - EN - Bobby Farnham (Jacobson, Robertson) | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Eric Hartzell | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 25 saves / 26 shots ) | ||||||
| March 3 | Quinnipiac | 3 - 0 | Brown | TD Bank Sports Center | Recap | |||
| (Peca, K. Jones) Connor Jones - GW PP - 02:11 (Peca, K. Jones) Loren Baron - 10:05 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Currie, K. Jones) Matthew Peca - PP - 06:44 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 16 saves / 16 shots ) Eric Hartzell | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 39 saves / 42 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4 | Quinnipiac | 4 - 2 | Brown | TD Bank Sports Center | Recap | |||
| (Peca) Kellen Jones - PP - 01:16 (Van Brabant, Dalhuisen) Kevin Bui - 09:29 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Heichman, Currie) Clay Harvey - GW - 16:35 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) Yuri Bouharevich - EN - 19:45 | Third period | 02:34 - PP - Bobby Farnham (Buvinow, Crowley) 03:43 - Matt Harlow (Buvinow, Hourihan) | ||||||
| ( 35 saves / 37 shots ) Eric Hartzell | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 29 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
| Quinnipiac wins series 2-1 | |