| 1970 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 10–14, 1970 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Cornell [1] (4th title) |
| Winning coach | Ned Harkness [2] (4th title) |
| MVP | Bruce Bullock [3] (Clarkson) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 1970 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 9th tournament in league history. It was played between March 10 and March 14, 1970. [4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Cornell and Clarkson received invitations to participate in the 1970 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 highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play 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 | ||
| Cornell†* | 21 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 142 | 39 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 179 | 56 | |
| Clarkson | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | .824 | 87 | 51 | 32 | 24 | 8 | 0 | 171 | 107 | |
| Boston University | 22 | 17 | 5 | 0 | .773 | 120 | 67 | 27 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 149 | 82 | |
| Harvard | 20 | 14 | 6 | 0 | .700 | 116 | 62 | 25 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 145 | 92 | |
| Brown | 21 | 14 | 6 | 1 | .690 | 104 | 70 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 117 | 81 | |
| Boston College | 21 | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | 116 | 86 | 26 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 143 | 116 | |
| New Hampshire | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | .588 | 98 | 73 | 31 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 172 | 120 | |
| Colgate | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | .500 | 65 | 69 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 117 | 86 | |
| St. Lawrence | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | .471 | 75 | 83 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 112 | 124 | |
| Providence | 19 | 7 | 10 | 2 | .421 | 65 | 85 | 25 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 89 | 107 | |
| Army | 13 | 5 | 8 | 0 | .385 | 32 | 50 | 25 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 72 | 79 | |
| Yale | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | .273 | 65 | 107 | 24 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 68 | 113 | |
| Dartmouth | 19 | 5 | 14 | 0 | .263 | 80 | 121 | 24 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 101 | 142 | |
| Princeton | 21 | 5 | 15 | 1 | .262 | 65 | 132 | 23 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 68 | 139 | |
| Rensselaer | 17 | 3 | 13 | 1 | .206 | 54 | 103 | 24 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 85 | 128 | |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | 3 | 12 | 0 | .200 | 46 | 80 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 88 | 114 | |
| Northeastern | 17 | 1 | 16 | 0 | .059 | 51 | 105 | 23 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 80 | 138 | |
| Championship: Cornell † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion | ||||||||||||||
Teams are reseeded after the first round
| Quarterfinals March 10 | Semifinals March 13 | Championship March 14 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | St. Lawrence | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Harvard | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Clarkson | 6* | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Brown | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Clarkson | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston University | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | New Hampshire | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Clarkson | 5 | Third Place | |||||||||||
| 3 | Boston University | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Boston College | 5 | 3 | Boston University | 8 | |||||||||
| 5 | Harvard | 10 | 5 | Harvard | 2 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
| March 10 | Cornell | 6 – 1 | St. Lawrence | Lynah Rink | ||||
| March 10 | Clarkson | 6 – 5 | OT | Brown | Clarkson Arena | |||
| March 10 | Boston University | 2 – 0 | New Hampshire | Boston Arena | ||||
| March 10 | Boston College | 4 – 3 | Harvard | McHugh Forum | ||||
| March 13 | Cornell | 6 – 5 | Harvard | Boston Garden | ||||
| March 13 | Clarkson | 5 – 4 | Boston University | Boston Garden | ||||
| March 14 | Boston University | 8 – 2 | Harvard | Boston Garden | ||||
| March 14 | Cornell | 3 – 2 | Clarkson | Boston Garden | Recap | |||
| (Fullan, Bertrand) Garth Ryan - 01:47 | First period | 01:08 - Jerry Kemp (St. Jean, Magnusson) 15:48 - PP - Steve Warr (Maki, Halme) | ||||||
| (Stewart, Brush) Ed Ambis - 12:38 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Lodboa, Pettit) John Hughes - GW - 19:46 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 21 shots ) Brian Cropper | Goalie stats | Bruce Bullock ( 48 saves / 51 shots ) | ||||||
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