| 1965 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 9–13, 1965 |
| 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 University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
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.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning percentage; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against
| 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 | 25 | 11 | 14 | 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 | ||||||||||||||
| 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)
| March 10 | Boston University | 5 – 3 | Providence | Boston Arena | ||||
| March 9 | Boston College | 4 – 1 | Dartmouth | McHugh Forum | ||||
| March 9 | Clarkson | 6 – 3 | Northeastern | Clarkson Arena | ||||
| March 9 | Brown | 4 – 3 | OT | Cornell | Meehan Auditorium | |||
| March 12 | Boston University | 2 – 5 | Brown | Boston Arena | ||||
| March 12 | Boston College | 3 – 2 | OT | Clarkson | Boston Arena | |||
| March 13 | Boston University | 4 – 0 | Clarkson | Boston Arena | ||||
| March 13 | Boston College | 6 – 2 | Brown | Boston Arena | ||||
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