2003 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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Dates | March 7–22, 2003 |
Teams | 12 |
Finals site | Pepsi Arena Albany, New York |
Champions | Cornell (10th title) |
Winning coach | Mike Schafer [1] (3rd title) |
MVP | David LeNeveu [2] (Cornell) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
The 2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 42nd tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2003. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Cornell received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The 2003 Tournament was the first to include 4 rounds of play as well as all member schools of ECAC Hockey in the postseason championship.
The tournament featured 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 in 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 while the losers play in a third-place game. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
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GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
#1 Cornell†* | 22 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 89 | 29 | 36 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 133 | 49 | |
#10 Harvard | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 35 | 94 | 47 | 34 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 133 | 78 | |
Dartmouth | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 26 | 77 | 71 | 34 | 20 | 13 | 1 | 127 | 110 | |
Yale | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 26 | 94 | 73 | 32 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 121 | 107 | |
Brown | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 24 | 65 | 54 | 35 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 96 | 83 | |
Union | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 62 | 68 | 36 | 14 | 18 | 4 | 105 | 113 | |
Clarkson | 22 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 21 | 69 | 56 | 35 | 12 | 20 | 3 | 96 | 99 | |
Colgate | 22 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 21 | 49 | 71 | 40 | 17 | 19 | 4 | 96 | 127 | |
St. Lawrence | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 65 | 80 | 37 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 103 | 129 | |
Vermont | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 58 | 85 | 36 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 104 | 142 | |
Rensselaer | 22 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 49 | 84 | 40 | 12 | 25 | 3 | 94 | 134 | |
Princeton | 22 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 46 | 99 | 31 | 3 | 26 | 2 | 62 | 140 | |
Championship: Cornell † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll |
Teams are reseeded after the first round and quarterfinals
First round [3] March 7–9 | Quarterfinals [4] March 14–16 | Semifinals [5] March 21 | Championship March 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | Cornell | 3 | 4 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Brown | 2 | 3 | – | 11 | Rensselaer | 2 | 0 | – | ||||||||||||||
12 | Princeton | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | Cornell | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Brown | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Harvard | 4 | 5 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Union | 1 | 2 | – | 10 | Vermont | 2 | 1 | – | ||||||||||||||
11 | Rensselaer | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | Cornell | 3* | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Harvard | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Dartmouth | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Clarkson | 2 | 1 | – | 8 | Colgate | 4**** | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
10 | Vermont | 3 | 6 | – | 2 | Harvard | 5 | Third place | |||||||||||||||
3 | Dartmouth | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Yale | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | Dartmouth | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Colgate | 1 | 3* | 5 | 5 | Brown | 4* | 1 | 4 | 5 | Brown | 2 | |||||||||||
9 | St. Lawrence | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
March 7 [6] | Brown | 2–1 | Princeton | Meehan Auditorium | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Haggett) Chris Swon – 07:19 (Kirley, Caouette) Pascal Denis – GW – 12:07 | Third period | 06:56 – Chris Owen (Colclough, Patton) | ||||||
Yann Danis ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) | Goalie stats | Eric Leroux ( 23 saves / 25 shots ) |
March 8 [7] | Brown | 3–1 | Princeton | Meehan Auditorium | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Denis, Mudryk) Keith Kirley – 09:26 (Robinson, Tichauer) Chris Swon – GW – 09:50 (Korbl, Swon) Shane Mudryk – PP – 11:41 | Third period | 10:08 – SH – Matt Maglione (Sproat) | ||||||
Yann Danis ( 36 saves / 37 shots ) | Goalie stats | Eric Leroux ( 40 saves / 43 shots ) |
Brown won series 2–0 | |
March 7 [8] | Union | 1–2 | Rensselaer | Achilles Rink | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 07:21 – Vic Pereira (McWilliams, Shields) 10:50 – GW PP – Kevin Croxton (Graham, Eberly) | ||||||
(Seel) Chris Konnick – 06:40 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
Kris Mayotte ( 14 saves / 16 shots ) | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 37 saves / 38 shots ) |
March 8 [9] | Union | 2–3 | Rensselaer | Achilles Rink | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Gillies, Goodjohn) Scott Seney – PP – 06:34 | Second period | 17:44 – Carson Butterwick (Cavosie, McWilliams) | ||||||
(Gillies, Beal) Kris Goodjohn – PP – 09:53 | Third period | 11:47 – SH – Ben Barr (Economakos, Basiuk) 12:37 – GW SH – Ben Barr (Economakos, Basiuk) | ||||||
Kris Mayotte ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 29 saves / 31 shots ) |
Rensselaer won series 2–0 | |
March 7 [10] | Clarkson | 2–3 | Vermont | Cheel Arena | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 07:03 – Phil Youngclaus (Leisenring, Miles) | ||||||
(Bahen, McFeeters) Kevin O'Flaherty – EA – 18:13 (Bahen, O'Flaherty) Randy Jones – EA PP – 19:30 | Third period | 03:15 – Jeff Corey (Sifers, Gasparini) 19:02 – GW EN SH – Jaime Sifers | ||||||
Mike Walsh ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) | Goalie stats | Shawn Conschafter ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) |
March 8 [11] | Clarkson | 1–6 | Vermont | Cheel Arena | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Jones) Chris Blight – 13:54 | Second period | 17:48 – PP – Jaime Sifers (Hajek, Busniuk) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 04:17 – GW PP – Brady Leisenring (Hajek) 08:38 – Brady Leisenring (Miles, Corey) 09:54 – Tim Plant (Longo) 17:40 – EN – Phil Youngclaus 19:26 – Bryson Busniuk (Plant) | ||||||
Dustin Traylen ( 25 saves / 30 shots ) | Goalie stats | Shawn Conschafter ( 29 saves / 30 shots ) |
Vermont won series 2–0 | |
March 7 [12] | Colgate | 1–2 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | Recap | |||
(Thomas) Steve Silversides – 10:20 | First period | 03:53 – Matt Macdonald (Peverley, Trevelyan) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 03:51 – GW – Ziga Petac (Anderson, Hogg) | ||||||
Steve Silverthorn ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) | Goalie stats | Kevin Ackley ( 37 saves / 38 shots ) |
March 8 [13] | Colgate | 3–2 | OT | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | Recap | ||
No scoring | First period | 13:09 – PP – Ryan Glenn (Trevelyan, Zeiler) | ||||||
(Smith, Mormina) P.J. Yedon – 00:47 (Tataryn, McKinnon) Kyle Wilson – 14:19 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 09:47 – T. J. Trevelyan (Glenn) | ||||||
(Bria) P. J. Yedon – GW – 16:46 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
Steve Silverthorn ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | Goalie stats | Kevin Ackley ( 36 saves / 39 shots ) |
March 9 [14] | Colgate | 5–2 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | Recap | |||
Brad D'Arco – SH – 19:59 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Mitchell) P. J. Yedon – 04:28 | Second period | 08:18 – T. J. Trevelyan (Zeiler, Peverley) 16:31 – Adam Hogg (Lorentz, Anderson) | ||||||
(Smyth, Smyth) Dave Thomas – GW – 01:57 Adam Mitchell – 17:10 Jon Smyth – EN – 19:17 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
Steve Silverthorn ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) | Goalie stats | Kevin Ackley ( 21 saves / 25 shots ) |
Colgate won series 2–1 | |
March 14 [15] | Cornell | 3–2 | Rensselaer | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
(Bâby, Paolini) Ryan Vesce – PP – 03:27 | First period | 16:09 – Ben Barr (Eberly, MacDonald) | ||||||
(Bâby, Vesce) Matt Moulson – 09:34 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Cook, Abbott) Greg Hornby – GW – 07:07 | Third period | 10:50 – Brad Farynuk (Graham, Croxton) | ||||||
David LeNeveu ( 17 saves / 19 shots ) | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 23 saves / 26 shots ) |
March 15 [16] | Cornell | 4–0 | Rensselaer | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
(Bâby, Murray) Ryan Vesce – GW – 18:39 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Pegoraro, McRae) Mark Knoepfli – 04:42 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Hornby) Cam Abbott – 03:59 (Paolini, McRae) Shane Hynes – 09:35 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
David LeNeveu ( 16 saves / 16 shots ) | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) |
Cornell won series 2–0 | |
March 14 [17] | Harvard | 4–2 | Vermont | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
(Cavanagh, Johnson) Kenny Turano – PP – 03:41 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Nowak, Moore) Dennis Packard – PP – 14:41 (Moore, Turano) Dennis Packard – GW – 19:55 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Fried, Nowak) Dennis Packard – 13:15 | Third period | 07:01 – PP – Thomas Hajek (Busniuk, Sifers) 09:29 – PP – Jeff Corey (Miller, Miller) | ||||||
Dov Grumet-Morris ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) | Goalie stats | Shawn Conschafter ( 35 saves / 39 shots ) |
March 15 [18] | Harvard | 5–1 | Vermont | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
(Nowak, Moore) Noah Welch – PP – 02:25 (Moore) Charlie Johnson – GW – 07:22 (Kim, McColloch) Rob Fried – 11:38 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Moore, Pettit) Brett Nowak – PP – 11:39 | Second period | 10:59 – Jeff Miles (Hajek, Miller) | ||||||
(Welch) Dominic Moore – PP – 01:44 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
Dov Grumet-Morris ( 22 saves / 23 shots ) / Ben Weiss ( 0 saves / 0 shots ) | Goalie stats | Shawn Conschafter ( 37 saves / 42 shots ) / Travis Russell ( 2 saves / 2 shots ) |
Harvard won series 2–0 | |
March 14 [19] | Dartmouth | 3–4 | 4OT | Colgate | Thompson Arena | Recap | ||
(Stempniak, Ouellette) Hugh Jessiman – PP – 06:14 | First period | 09:57 – PP – Scooter Smith (Yedon) | ||||||
(Stempniak) Hugh Jessiman – 00:28 | Second period | 07:03 – Adam Mitchell (Yedon, Smith) | ||||||
(Ouellette, Stempniak) Trevor Byrne – PP – 10:05 | Third period | 14:01 – Ryan Smyth (Doyle, McKinnon) | ||||||
No scoring | Fourth overtime period | 01:05 – GW – Kyle Wilson (Yedon) | ||||||
Nick Boucher ( 66 saves / 70 shots ) | Goalie stats | Steve Silverthorn ( 50 saves / 53 shots ) |
March 15 [20] | Dartmouth | 3–1 | Colgate | Thompson Arena | Recap | |||
(Ouellette, Summerfelt) Lee Stempniak – PP – 06:14 | First period | 18:05 – Adam Mitchell (Smith) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Ouellette, Summerfelt) Lee Stempniak – GW – 08:21 (Summerfelt) Lee Stempniak – EN – 19:12 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
Nick Boucher ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) | Goalie stats | Steve Silverthorn ( 41 saves / 43 shots ) |
March 16 [21] | Dartmouth | 5–2 | Colgate | Thompson Arena | Recap | |||
(Przepiorka) Dacy Marr – 01:59 | First period | 01:20 – Brad D'Arco (Yedon, Yashin) 02:08 – Darryl McKinnon (Tataryn) | ||||||
(Jessiman, Stempniak) Mike Ouellette – 05:33 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Gaul, Summerfelt) Nathan Szymanski – GW – 05:53 (Murray, Wheelihan) P.J. Martin – 12:35 (Ouellette, Jessiman) Lee Stempniak – EN – 17:51 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
Nick Boucher ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | Goalie stats | Steve Silverthorn ( 37 saves / 41 shots ) |
Dartmouth won series 2–1 | |
March 14 [22] | Yale | 3–4 | OT | Brown | Ingalls Rink | Recap | ||
(Wax, Higgins) Vin Hellemeyer – PP – 12:01 | First period | 04:06 – Cory Caouette (Ringstad, Burke) | ||||||
(Hellemeyer) Chris Higgins – SH – 06:52 | Second period | 00:37 – Paul Esdale (Legg) 06:00 – Les Haggettsdale (Hellemeyer) | ||||||
Christian Jensen – 17:07 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | First overtime period | 09:40 – GW – Brent Robinson (Haggett, Swon) | ||||||
Josh Gartner ( 31 saves / 35 shots ) | Goalie stats | Yann Danis ( 41 saves / 44 shots ) |
March 15 [23] | Yale | 2–1 | Brown | Ingalls Rink | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | 06:18 – Shane Mudryk (Denis, Kirley) | ||||||
(Dwyer, Higgins) Ryan Steeves – PP – 09:11 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Hristovski) Denis Nam – GW – 13:38 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
Josh Gartner ( 24 saves / 25 shots ) | Goalie stats | Yann Danis ( 34 saves / 36 shots ) |
March 16 [24] | Yale | 0–4 | Brown | Ingalls Rink | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 02:15 – GW – Brent Robinson 13:48 – Jason Wilson | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 17:29 – EN – Pascal Denis (Mudryk, Esdale) 19:11 – EN – Brent Robinson (Swon, Esdale) | ||||||
Josh Gartner ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | Goalie stats | Yann Danis ( 35 saves / 35 shots ) |
Brown won series 2–1 | |
March 21 [25] | Cornell | 2–0 | Brown | Pepsi Arena | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Abbott, Abbott) Greg Hornby – GW – 17:54 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Pegoraro, Palahicky) Travis Bell – 07:06 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
David LeNeveu ( 11 saves / 11 shots ) | Goalie stats | Yann Danis ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) |
March 21 [26] | Harvard | 5–3 | Dartmouth | Pepsi Arena | Recap | |||
(Kim, Murphy) David McCollouch – 04:23 (Moore, Turano) Charlie Johnson – 10:57 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Nowak, Packard) Tim Pettit – PP – 02:48 (Cavanagh, Lannon) Brendan Bernakevitch – GW PP – 07:59 | Second period | 01:37 – Kent Gillings (Murray, Byrne) | ||||||
(Moore) Rob Flynn – EN – 19:55 | Third period | 13:26 – Hugh Jessiman (Stempniak, Ouellette) 16:09 – PS – Mike Murray | ||||||
Dov Grumet-Morris ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) | Goalie stats | Nick Boucher ( 11 saves / 15 shots ) / Dan Yacey ( 12 saves / 12 shots ) |
March 22 [27] | Dartmouth | 4–2 | Brown | Pepsi Arena | Recap | |||
No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Murray, Wheelihan) Kent Gillings – 12:29 (Snizek, Szymanski) Eric Przepiorka – 12:51 | Second period | 03:12 – Pascal Denis (Mudryk) | ||||||
(Offers, Summerfeldt) Kent Gillings – GW – 03:24 Hugh Jessiman – EN – 19:16 | Third period | 07:50 – Mike Meech (Legg) | ||||||
Dan Yacey ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | Goalie stats | Yann Danis ( 40 saves / 43 shots ) |
March 22 [28] | Cornell | 3–2 | OT | Harvard | Pepsi Arena | Recap | ||
(Bâby, Vesce) Sam Paolini – PP – 01:53 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Vesce) Mark McRae – EA – 19:27 | Third period | 08:04 – Dominic Moore (Johnson, Kolarik) 16:14 – Tyler Kolarik (Nowak, Packard) | ||||||
(McRae, Hynes) Sam Paolini – GW – 01:23 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
David LeNeveu ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dov Grumet-Morris ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) |
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