2016 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

2016 ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2016 ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates	March 4–19, 2016
Teams	12
Finals site	Herb Brooks Arena; Lake Placid, New York
Champions	Quinnipiac (1st title)
Winning coach	Rand Pecknold (1st title)
MVP	Connor Clifton (Quinnipiac)
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The 2016 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 55th tournament in league history. It was played between March 4 and March 19, 2016. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, the team receives the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format[]

The tournament features 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, and no third-place game is played. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings[]

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

2015–16 ECAC Hockey men's standings v t
	Conference record							Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#2 Quinnipiac † *	22	16	1	5	37	84	44	43	32	4	7	163	85
#10 Yale	22	14	5	3	31	57	37	32	19	9	4	86	57
#9 Harvard	22	12	6	4	28	72	47	34	19	11	4	116	81
#17 St. Lawrence	22	11	8	3	25	68	50	37	19	14	4	106	84
Clarkson	22	10	9	3	23	52	51	38	20	15	3	101	95
Rensselaer	22	8	7	7	23	47	49	40	18	15	7	97	104
Dartmouth	22	11	11	0	22	60	69	35	18	16	1	94	104
#18 Cornell	22	8	8	6	22	46	50	34	16	11	7	79	82
Union	22	6	10	6	18	53	62	36	13	14	9	91	96
Colgate	22	6	14	2	14	45	71	37	11	24	2	95	132
Brown	22	3	13	6	12	47	70	31	5	19	7	75	107
Princeton	22	3	16	3	9	40	71	31	5	23	3	60	99
Championship: March 19, 2016 indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 8, 2016

Bracket[]

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

First Round^[1] March 4–6					Quarterfinals March 11–13					Semifinals March 18			Championship March 19

					1	Quinnipiac	5	4	6	1	Quinnipiac	3
5	Clarkson	3**	3*	-	8	Cornell	2	5	3	7	Dartmouth	1
12	Princeton	2	2	-

					2	Yale	3	1
6	Rensselaer	3	4	-	7	Dartmouth	4*	2					1	Quinnipiac	4
11	Brown	2	3	-									3	Harvard	1

					3	Harvard	5	8
7	Dartmouth	3*	3	4**	6	Rensselaer	2	2
10	Colgate	2	5	3

					4	St. Lawrence	3*	3**		3	Harvard	2*
8	Cornell	1	2*	-	5	Clarkson	2	2		4	St. Lawrence	1
9	Union	0	1	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results[]

First round[]

(5) Clarkson vs. (12) Princeton[]

March 4	Clarkson		3 – 2	2OT	Princeton	Cheel Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			05:35 - (Véronneau, Pompi)
No scoring		Second period			09:46 - (Rankin, Pompi)
(Amorosa, Boucher) Kelly Summers - PP - 13:53 (Amorosa, Boucher) - PP EA - 19:38		Third period			No scoring
(Di Nallo, Josephs) - GW - 01:05		Second overtime period			No scoring
( 29 saves / 31 shots )		Goalie stats			( 43 saves / 46 shots )

March 5	Clarkson		3 – 2	OT	Princeton	Cheel Arena	Recap
(D'Arrisso, Dalpe) - 04:34 (Di Nallo, Gareau) - 09:41		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			10:45 - Max Véronneau (Riche, Kuffner)
No scoring		Third period			01:59 - (Pomeroy, Grabowski)
(Di Nallo) - GW - 17:23		First overtime period			No scoring
( 31 saves / 33 shots )		Goalie stats			( 44 saves / 47 shots )

Clarkson won series 2–0

(6) Rensselaer vs. (11) Brown[]

March 4	Rensselaer		3 – 2	Brown	Houston Field House	Recap
(Gillespie, Rodriguez) - 07:37		First period		No scoring
(Bourbonnais, Schroeder) - 19:16		Second period		02:57 - Max Willman (Corcoran, Gottlieb)
(Prapavessis, Bourbonnais) - GW PP - 02:39		Third period		07:04 - (Lafferty, Marchin)
( 33 saves / 35 shots ) Jason Kasdorf		Goalie stats		( 20 saves / 23 shots )

March 5	Rensselaer		4 – 3	Brown	Houston Field House	Recap
No Scoring		First period		07:25 - PP - Sam Lafferty (Corcoran, Willman) 10:14 - Nick Lappin (Naclerio, Marchin) 19:32 - PP - (Willman, Corcoran)
(Prapavessis, Kasdorf) Miloš Bubela - 00:30 (DeVito, Liljegren) Miloš Bubela - 08:04		Second period		No scoring
(Bubela, Wilson) - PP - 09:27 (Wood) - GW - 18:18		Third period		No scoring
( 33 saves / 36 shots ) Jason Kasdorf		Goalie stats		( 27 saves / 31 shots )

Rensselaer won series 2–0

(7) Dartmouth vs. (10) Colgate[]

March 4	Dartmouth		3 – 2	OT	Colgate	Thompson Arena	Recap
(Crema, Bligh) - 10:47		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			13:20 - (Tys. Spink) 18:04 - (Borkowski, Citron)
(Bligh, Crema) - 09:02		Third period			No scoring
(Yau, Hesler) - GW - 10:59		First overtime period			No scoring
( 20 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats			( 35 saves / 38 shots )

March 5	Dartmouth		3 – 5	Colgate	Thompson Arena	Recap
(Opperman, Kilistoff) - 03:37		First period		No scoring
(Bligh, Yau) - PP - 16:17		Second period		04:14 - (Audi, Freeman) 08:49 - (Murphy) 13:03 - Evan Peterson (Borkowski, Murphy)
(Hartley, Ernsting) - 17:23		Third period		10:41 - PP GW - (Tyl. Spink, Corkey) 18:19 - EN - (Corkey)
( 24 saves / 28 shots )		Goalie stats		( 40 saves / 43 shots )

March 6	Dartmouth		4 – 3	2OT	Colgate	Thompson Arena	Recap
(Opperman) - 08:58		First period			03:35 - (unassisted)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
(O'Brien) - SH - 04:23 (Schierhorn, Crema) - 08:05		Third period			04:06 - (Tyl. Spink, Borkowski) 07:06 - (Audi, Corkey)
(Ernsting, Jasiek) - GW - 04:37		Second overtime period			No scoring
( 24 saves / 28 shots )		Goalie stats			( 40 saves / 43 shots )

Dartmouth won series 2–1

(8) Cornell vs. (9) Union[]

March 4	Cornell		1 – 0	Union	Lynah Rink	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
(Vanderlaan, Kubiak) - GW - 13:48		Third period		No scoring
( 27 saves / 27 shots )		Goalie stats		( 21 saves / 22 shots )

March 5	Cornell		2 – 1	OT	Union	Lynah Rink	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
(Vanderlaan, Angello) - 10:25		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			10:56 - PP - (Supinski, Vecchione)
(Hilbrich, Yates) - GW - 03:18		First overtime period			No scoring
( 32 saves / 33 shots )		Goalie stats			( 26 saves / 28 shots )

Cornell won series 2–0

Quarterfinals[]

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (8) Cornell[]

March 11	Quinnipiac		5 �� 2	Cornell	TD Bank Sports Center	Recap
(St. Denis, C. Clifton) - 08:59		First period		03:23 - (Freschi, Knisley)
(C. Clifton, Anas) - 00:30 (C. Clifton, MacMaster) - GW - 02:10 (Anas, St. Denis) - PP - 18:08		Second period		10:15 - PP - (Angello)
(Tiefenwerth, McKernan) - EN - 18:36		Third period		No scoring
( 16 saves / 18 shots ) Michael Garteig		Goalie stats		( 36 saves / 40 shots )

March 12	Quinnipiac		4 – 5	Cornell	TD Bank Sports Center	Recap
(L. Smith) Chase Priskie - 13:47 (Taverner, Tiefenwerth) - 14:18		First period		No scoring
(Taverner, Priskie) - 07:14 (Schutt) Chase Priskie - 12:32		Second period		00:57 - (Kubiak) 08:12 - (Vanderlaan, Angello) 11:34 - PP - (unassisted) 14:23 - (unassisted)
(Tschantz, Hilbrich) - GW - 05:44		Third period		No scoring
( 20 saves / 25 shots ) Michael Garteig		Goalie stats		( 24 saves / 28 shots )

March 13	Quinnipiac		6 – 3	Cornell	TD Bank Sports Center	Recap
(T. Clifton) - 01:10 (C. Clifton, Martin) - 08:05		First period		04:12 - PP - (Hilbrich, Bliss)
(MacMaster, Tiefenwerth) - 02:45 (Priskie, D. Smith) - GW PP - 16:14 (Toews, T. Clifton) Sam Anas - PP - 19:33		Second period		No scoring
(C. Clifton) - 14:52		Third period		05:56 - (McCarron, Weidner) 18:48 - (Hilbrich, Tiitinen)
( 30 saves / 33 shots ) Michael Garteig / ( 0 saves / 0 shots )		Goalie stats		( 29 saves / 34 shots ) / ( 0 saves / 0 shots )

Quinnipiac won series 2–1

(2) Yale vs. (7) Dartmouth[]

March 11	Yale		3 – 4	OT	Dartmouth	Ingalls Rink	Recap
No Scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			11:19 - (Kalk)
(Learned) - 00:28 (Hart, Hitchcock) Rob O'Gara - 09:21 (Snively, Wilson) John Hayden - 17:24		Third period			03:37 - (Schierhorn, Crema) 12:24 - (Crema, Hartley)
No scoring		First overtime period			17:14 - (O'Brien, Jasiek)
( 36 saves / 40 shots ) Alex Lyon		Goalie stats			( 48 saves / 51 shots )

March 12	Yale		1 – 2	Dartmouth	Ingalls Rink	Recap
(Cooper, Learned) - 07:11		First period		13:12 - (Schierhorn, Crema) 18:00 - GW - (Neiley)
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
( 13 saves / 15 shots ) Alex Lyon		Goalie stats		( 46 saves / 47 shots )

Dartmouth won series 2–0

(3) Harvard vs. (6) Rensselaer[]

March 11	Harvard		5 – 2	Rensselaer	Bright-Landry Hockey Center	Recap
(Esposito, Bergin) Sean Malone - 17:02		First period		No scoring
(Donato, Baughman) - 02:56 (Malone, Esposito) Colin Blackwell - GW - 08:08 (Donato, Kerfoot) - 15:38		Second period		18:06 - Miloš Bubela (unassisted)
(Esposito, Blackwell) Sean Malone - 09:32		Third period		04:49 - (Miller, Rodriguez)
( 25 saves / 27 shots )		Goalie stats		Jason Kasdorf ( 27 saves / 31 shots ) / ( 11 saves / 12 shots )

March 12	Harvard		8 – 2	Rensselaer	Bright-Landry Hockey Center	Recap
(Esposito, Malone) - 15:02 (Vesey, Criscuolo) - 17:43		First period		16:21 - (Nanne) 16:44 - (Nanne, Bradley)
(Jaw, Bergin) Sean Malone - GW - 01:35 (Blackwell, Malone) - 09:26		Second period		No scoring
(unassisted) Jimmy Vesey - 00:15 (unassisted) Jimmy Vesey - 13:04 (Floodstrand, Tringale) Brayden Jaw - PP - 16:03 (Floodstrand, Horton) Ryan Donato - 17:17		Third period		No scoring
( 37 saves / 39 shots )		Goalie stats		( 30 saves / 38 shots ) / ( 0 saves / 0 shots )

Harvard won series 2–0

(4) St. Lawrence vs. (5) Clarkson[]

March 11	St. Lawrence		3 – 2	OT	Clarkson	Appleton Arena	Recap
(Gluchowski, Hudson) - 04:57		First period			14:14 - (Megannety, de Haas)
No scoring		Second period			10:41 - (Summers)
(Lough, Smolcynski) - 06:59		Third period			No scoring
(Smolcynski) - GW - 08:12		First overtime period			No scoring
( 40 saves / 42 shots ) Kyle Hayton		Goalie stats			( 33 saves / 33 shots )

March 12	St. Lawrence		3 – 2	2OT	Clarkson	Appleton Arena	Recap
(Thompson, Sweetman) - 00:56		First period			No scoring
(Ward, Smolcynski) - 06:47		Second period			16:12 - (Josephs, Bessette)
No scoring		Third period			04:47 - (Bessette, Di Nallo)
(Ward, Smolcynski) Gavin Bayreuther - GW - 03:14		Second overtime period			No scoring
( 50 saves / 52 shots ) Kyle Hayton		Goalie stats			( 40 saves / 43 shots )

St. Lawrence won series 2–0

Semifinals[]

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (7) Dartmouth[]

March 18	Quinnipiac		3 – 1	Dartmouth	Herb Brooks Arena	Recap
(Anas) Connor Clifton - 16:53		First period		No scoring
(T. Clifton, St. Denis) Sam Anas - GW PP - 00:54 (MacMaster, C. Clifton) - 05:12		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		14:57 - (Jasiek, Neiley)
( 23 saves / 24 shots ) Michael Garteig		Goalie stats		( 26 saves / 29 shots )

(3) Harvard vs. (4) St. Lawrence[]

March 18	Harvard		2 – 1	OT	St. Lawrence	Herb Brooks Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period			No scoring
(Blackwell, Kerfoot) Jimmy Vesey - 00:59		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			14:36 - Gavin Bayreuther (Pritchard, Ward)
(Vesey, Bergin) Kyle Criscuolo - GW - 02:18		First overtime period			No scoring
( 35 saves / 36 shots )		Goalie stats			Kyle Hayton ( 29 saves / 31 shots )

Championship[]

(1) Colgate vs. (3) Harvard[]

March 19	Quinnipiac		4 – 1	Harvard	Herb Brooks Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
(L. Smith) - PP - 01:11 (L. Smith, C. Clifton) - GW PP - 03:02 (Taverner, D. Smith) - PP - 07:20		Second period		07:28 - Ryan Donato (unassisted)
(St. Denis, C. Clifton) - EN - 18:51		Third period		No scoring
( 24 saves / 25 shots ) Michael Garteig		Goalie stats		( 24 saves / 27 shots )

Tournament awards[]

All-Tournament Team[]

F (Quinnipiac)
F (Quinnipiac)
F Jimmy Vesey (Harvard)
D Connor Clifton* (Quinnipiac)
D Gavin Bayreuther (St. Lawrence)
G Michael Garteig (Quinnipiac)

* Most Outstanding Player(s) ^[2]^[3]

Media[]

Television[]

ASN had the television rights to semifinals and championship game during the tournament.^[4]

Broadcast Assignments[]

Semifinals & Championship

Eric Frede & Colby Cohen^[5]

Streaming[]

Every game during the tournament was streamed through the ECAC Hockey's website.^[5]

References[]

^ "ECAC men's Hockey 2015–16 Week 23". USCHO.com. 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
^ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
^ "Awards - NCAA (ECAC) All-Tournament Team". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
^ "ECAC Hockey To Air on ASN". ecachockey.com. ECAC Hockey. 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
^ ^a ^b "2016 ECAC Men's Hockey Championship Fan Guide". ecachockey.com. ECAC Hockey. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

[1] "ECAC men's Hockey 2015–16 Week 23". USCHO.com. 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

[2] "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.

[3] "Awards - NCAA (ECAC) All-Tournament Team". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2018-07-12.

[4] "ECAC Hockey To Air on ASN". ecachockey.com. ECAC Hockey. 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

[:0-5] "2016 ECAC Men's Hockey Championship Fan Guide". ecachockey.com. ECAC Hockey. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

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