2004 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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Dates | March 5–20, 2004 |
Teams | 12 |
Finals site | Pepsi Arena Albany, New York |
Champions | Harvard (7th title) |
Winning coach | Mark Mazzoleni [1] (2nd title) |
MVP | Brendan Bernakevitch [2] (Harvard) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
The 2004 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 43rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 5 and March 20, 2004. 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, Harvard received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
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 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 2004 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 | ||
Colgate† | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 65 | 44 | 39 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 111 | 80 | |
Cornell | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 53 | 32 | 32 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 85 | 62 | |
Brown | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 62 | 40 | 31 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 80 | 60 | |
Dartmouth | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 27 | 66 | 60 | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 95 | 91 | |
Rensselaer | 22 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 27 | 70 | 44 | 39 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 116 | 89 | |
#13 Harvard* | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 58 | 55 | 36 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 104 | 94 | |
Yale | 22 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 20 | 65 | 88 | 31 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 89 | 134 | |
Union | 22 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 19 | 46 | 52 | 36 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 89 | 108 | |
Clarkson | 22 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 51 | 61 | 41 | 18 | 18 | 5 | 121 | 113 | |
St. Lawrence | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 62 | 67 | 41 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 104 | 119 | |
Vermont | 22 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 57 | 79 | 35 | 9 | 22 | 4 | 85 | 127 | |
Princeton | 22 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 50 | 83 | 31 | 5 | 24 | 2 | 62 | 122 | |
Championship: Harvard † 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 5–6 | Quarterfinals [4] March 12–14 | Semifinals [5] March 19 | Championship March 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | Colgate | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Renssealer | 5 | 3* | – | 10 | St. Lawrence | 2 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
12 | Princeton | 4 | 2 | – | 1 | Colgate | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
9 | Clarkson | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Cornell | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Harvard | 3 | 5 | – | 9 | Clarkson | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
11 | Vermont | 0 | 3 | – | 9 | Clarkson | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | Harvard | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Brown | 2 | 2 | – | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Yale | 3 | 3 | – | 6 | Harvard | 4 | 3* | – | ||||||||||||||
10 | St. Lawrence | 4* | 4* | – | 4 | Dartmouth | 1 | Third Place | |||||||||||||||
6 | Harvard | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Dartmouth | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | Colgate | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Union | 3 | 2 | – | 5 | Rensselaer | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Dartmouth | 2 | |||||||||||
9 | Clarkson | 8 | 5 | – |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
March 5 [6] | Rensselaer | 5 – 4 | Princeton | Houston Field House | Recap | |||
(Pickett) Ryan Shields – 04:56 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Economakos, MacDonald) Kevin Croxton – PP – 06:26 (Economakos, Basiuk) Brad Farnuk – PP – 16:59 | Second period | 08:40 – Sebastian Borza | ||||||
(Basiuk, Eizenman) Kevin Croxton – 04:48 (MacDonald, Barr) Nick Economakos – GW PP – 13:23 | Third period | 07:30 – Patrick Neundorfer (Powe, Young) 16:32 – Darroll Powe (Goeckner-Zoeller) 17:48 – Sharam Fouladger-Mercer (Maglione, Goeckner-Zoeller) | ||||||
( 22 saves / 26 shots ) Nathan Marsters | Goalie stats | Eric Leroux ( 18 saves / 23 shots ) |
March 6 [7] | Rensselaer | 3 – 2 | OT | Princeton | Houston Field House | Recap | ||
(Barr) Nick Economakos – 01:28 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 03:21 – PP – Sharam Fouladger-Mercer (Young, Slaton) 15:43 – PP – Dustin Sproat (Neundorfer, Maglione) | ||||||
(Barr) Scott Basiuk – 17:37 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
(McNeely, Economakos) Ben Barr – GW – 01:38 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 18 saves / 20 shots ) Nathan Marsters | Goalie stats | Eric Leroux ( 41 saves / 44 shots ) |
Rensselaer won series 2–0 | |
March 5 [8] | Harvard | 3 – 0 | Vermont | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
(Mandes, Kolarik) Kevin Du – GW – 01:40 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Cavanagh, Bernakevitch) Tyler Kolarik – PP – 15:03 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Packard, Hafner) Ryan Maki – 06:40 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 19 saves / 19 shots ) Dov Grumet-Morris | Goalie stats | Travis Russell ( 19 saves / 22 shots ) |
March 6 [9] | Harvard | 5 – 3 | Vermont | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
(Maki, Lannon) Brendan Bernakevitch – 18:27 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Cavanagh, Pettit) Brendan Bernakevitch – PP – 17:51 (Welch, Bernakevitch) Rob Fried – 19:09 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Fried, Welch) Dennis Packard – GW – 04:24 (Cavanagh, Pettit) Rob Fried – EN – 19:09 | Third period | 04:55 – Scott Mifsud (Child, Mounsey) 17:11 – EA PP – Scott Mifsud (Gunderson, Miles) 17:40 – EA PP – Jaime Sifers (Gunderson, Miles) | ||||||
( 21 saves / 24 shots ) Dov Grumet-Morris | Goalie stats | Travis Russell ( 25 saves / 29 shots ) |
Harvard won series 2–0 | |
March 5 [10] | Yale | 3 – 4 | OT | St. Lawrence | Ingalls Rink | Recap | ||
(Hristovski) Ryan Steeves – 00:14 (Burns) Nate Jackson – 07:53 | First period | 15:00 – PP – T. J. Trevelyan (Peverlay, Zeiler) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 05:57 – Stace Page (Bagnall) 19:42 – Jamie Parker (Anderson, McKenna) | ||||||
(Callahan, Jensen) Nate Jackson – PP – 18:31 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | First overtime period | 18:42 – GW – Stace Page (Taylor) | ||||||
( 17 saves / 18 shots ) Josh Gartner / ( 38 saves / 41 shots ) Peter Dobrowolski | Goalie stats | Mike McKenna ( 39 saves / 42 shots ) |
March 6 [11] | Yale | 3 – 4 | OT | St. Lawrence | Ingalls Rink | Recap | ||
No Scoring | First period | 03:59 – Jeremy Cormier (Hogg, Rank) 09:50 – Drew Bagnall (Peverley) | ||||||
(Jensen) Vin Hellemeyer – SH – 17:18 | Second period | 17:47 – PP – Rich Peverley (Trevelyan, Zeiler) | ||||||
(Hellemeyer, Callahan) Christian Jensen – PP – 13:50 (Callahan, Dwyer) Vin Hellemeyer – EA – 18:51 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | First overtime period | 05:14 – GW – Rich Peverley (Zeiler) | ||||||
( 34 saves / 38 shots ) Matt Modelski | Goalie stats | Mike McKenna ( 32 saves / 35 shots )) |
St. Lawrence won series 2–0 | |
March 5 [12] | Union | 3 – 8 | Clarkson | Achilles Center | Recap | |||
(Webb, Poirier) Matt Vogvolgyi – 10:01 | First period | 08:46 – PP – Chris Blight (Sullivan, Faulkner) 17:11 – Jeff Genovy (Sullivan) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 08:01 – Lyon Porter (McKinven, Genovy) 12:54 – GW – Jay Latulippe (Desrochers) 14:19 – Mac Faulkner (Porter, Sullivan) | ||||||
(Vogvolgyi, Webb) Jonathan Poirier – PP – 10:07 (Webb, Vogvolgyi) Jonathan Poirier – PP – 17:20 | Third period | 09:48 – EN SH – Chris Blight (Faulkner, Brekelmans) 10:58 – EN SH – Mac Faulkner (Blight) 19:25 – Lyon Porter (Grenzy, McKinven) | ||||||
( 14 saves / 20 shots ) Kris Mayotte | Goalie stats | Dustin Traylen ( 21 saves / 24 shots ) |
March 6 [13] | Union | 2 – 5 | Clarkson | Achilles Center | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 03:33 – Mac Faulkner (Grenzy, Sullivan) 07:20 – PP – Chris Blight (Latulippe, Faulkner) 14:15 – GW – Tristan Lush (Desrochers, Edwards) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Beal, Poirier) Jordan Webb – 00:44 (Bouchard) Jason Visser – 13:54 | Third period | 08:30 – PP – Chris Brekelmans (Edwards, Lush) 14:56 – Jay Latulippe (McFeeters, Scuderi) | ||||||
( 18 saves / 22 shots ) Kris Mayotte / ( 4 saves / 5 shots ) Tim Roth | Goalie stats | Dustin Traylen ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) |
Clarkson won series 2–0 | |
March 12 [14] | Colgate | 1 – 2 | St. Lawrence | Starr Arena | Recap | |||
(Spencer, Smyth) Adam Mitchell – 00:16 | First period | 17:12 – PP – Kyle Rank (Glenn, Zeiler) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 13:25 – GW – Josh Anderson (Glenn, Taylor) | ||||||
( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Steve Silverthorn | Goalie stats | Mike McKenna ( 34 saves / 35 shots ) |
March 13 [15] | Colgate | 1 – 0 | St. Lawrence | Starr Arena | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Masotto, Smyth) Justin Spencer – GW – 02:04 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 25 saves / 25 shots ) Steve Silverthorn | Goalie stats | Mike McKenna ( 28 saves / 29 shots ) |
March 14 [16] | Colgate | 2 – 1 | St. Lawrence | Starr Arena | Recap | |||
(Thomas, Campaner) Darryl McKinnon – PP – 10:05 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Smyth) Mike Campaner – GW – 14:00 | Second period | 00:58 – PP – Rich Peverley (Glenn, Page) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 26 saves / 27 shots ) Steve Silverthorn | Goalie stats | Mike McKenna ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) / Kevin Ackley ( 0 saves / 0 shots ) |
Colgate won series 2–1 | |
March 12 [17] | Cornell | 5 – 1 | Clarkson | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
(Iggulden, Bitz) Mike Knoepfli – 06:08 (Iggulden) Charlie Cook – GW – 10:06 (Glover) Chris Abbott – 15:40 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Cook, Vesce) Mike Knoepfli – PP – 10:48 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Bitz, Cook) Mike Knoepfli – 06:26 | Third period | 16:18 – PP – Jay Latulippe (Nickerson) | ||||||
( 16 saves / 17 shots ) David McKee | Goalie stats | Dustin Traylen ( 20 saves / 25 shots ) |
March 13 [18] | Cornell | 4 – 5 | Clarkson | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
(Iggulden, O'Byrne) Mitch Carefoot – 09:40 (Cook, Iggulden) Mitch Carefoot – 13:07 (O'Byrne) Mike Knoepfli – 19:33 | First period | 05:12 – Lyon Porter (Nickerson) 05:48 – Ken Scuderi (McFeeters, Latulippe) 10:24 – PP – Mac Faulkner (Scuderi, Blight) | ||||||
(Maulson, Hynes) Ben Wallace – PP – 16:26 | Second period | 05:05 – Rob McFeeters (Blight) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 02:29 – GW PP – Mike Sullivan (Lush, Rutherglen) | ||||||
( 22 saves / 27 shots ) David McKee | Goalie stats | Dustin Traylen ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) |
March 14 [19] | Cornell | 1 – 5 | Clarkson | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 05:20 – PP – Chris Blight (Latulippe) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 19:03 – GW SH – Mac Faulkner (Curley) | ||||||
(Abbott, Wallace) Cam Abbott – PP – 09:33 | Third period | 06:44 – Jamie McKinven (Lush) 10:09 – Trevor Edwards (Lush) 17:41 – Mac Faulkner (Blight) | ||||||
( 20 saves / 24 shots ) David McKee | Goalie stats | Dustin Traylen ( 26 saves / 27 shots ) |
Clarkson won series 2–1 | |
March 12 [20] | Brown | 2 – 4 | Harvard | Meehan Auditorium | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Ringstad, Row) Brent Robinson – 09:20 | Second period | 00:24 – Noah Welch (Johnson, Cavanagh) 15:24 – Tyler Kolarik (Bernakevitch, Pettit) | ||||||
(Macri, Haggett) Brent Robinson – PP – 19:50 | Third period | 03:42 – GW – Tim Pettit (Cavanagh) 11:57 – PP – Brendan Bernakevitch (Reese, Kolarik) | ||||||
( 23 saves / 27 shots ) Yann Danis | Goalie stats | Dov Grumet-Morris ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) |
March 13 [21] | Brown | 2 – 3 | OT | Harvard | Meehan Auditorium | Recap | ||
(Bauer) Shane Mudryk – 12:31 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Crosty) Shane Mudryk – 10:36 | Second period | 11:03 – Tim Pettit (Johnson) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 02:06 – PP – Tyler Kolarik (Welch, Bernakevitch) | ||||||
No scoring | First overtime period | 07:35 – GW – Tom Cavanagh (Reese) | ||||||
( 39 saves / 42 shots ) Yann Danis | Goalie stats | Dov Grumet-Morris ( 30 saves / 32 shots ) |
Harvard won series 2–0 | |
March 12 [22] | Dartmouth | 1 – 3 | Rensselaer | Thompson Arena | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 19:06 – Kirk MacDonald (Economakos, Barr) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 10:11 – GW PP – Scott Basiuk (Valentin, MacDonald) | ||||||
(Stempniak) Mike Ouellette – PP – 04:59 | Third period | 19:03 – EN – Nick Economakos (Barr Farynuk) | ||||||
( 27 saves / 29 shots ) Dan Yacey | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 34 saves / 35 shots ) |
March 13 [23] | Dartmouth | 6 – 0 | Rensselaer | Thompson Arena | Recap | |||
(Van Abel, Stempniak) Jarrett Sampson – GW – 11:51 (Ouellette, Jessiman) Lee Stempniak – 16:34 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Offers, Stempniak) Mike Ouellette – 18:29 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Szymanski) Eric Przepiorka – 05:01 (Turner, Costa) Dan Shribman – 09:28 (Shribman, Costa) Mike Turner – PP – 18:28 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 33 saves / 33 shots ) Dan Yacey | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 30 saves / 35 shots ) / Andrew Martin ( 4 saves / 5 shots ) |
March 14 [24] | Dartmouth | 1 – 0 | Rensselaer | Thompson Arena | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Glass, Offers) Eric Przepiorka – GW – 00:21 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 32 saves / 32 shots ) Dan Yacey | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 35 saves / 36 shots ) |
Dartmouth won series 2–1 | |
March 19 [25] | Colgate | 1 – 2 | Clarkson | Pepsi Arena | Recap | |||
Kyle Wilson – 18:20 | First period | 03:01 – EA – Matt Curley (Rutherglen, McKinven) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 14:34 – GW – Michael Grenzy (Genovy, Porter) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 32 saves / 34 shots ) Steve Silverthorn | Goalie stats | Dustin Traylen ( 27 saves / 28 shots ) |
March 19 [26] | Dartmouth | 1 – 2 | Harvard | Pepsi Arena | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Van Abel) Lee Stempniak – 19:18 | Second period | 11:40 – Dave McCulloch | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 00:33 – GW – Brendan Bernakevitch (Hafner, Lannon) | ||||||
( 31 saves / 33 shots ) Dan Yacey | Goalie stats | Dov Grumet-Morris ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) |
March 20 [27] | Colgate | 3 – 2 | Dartmouth | Pepsi Arena | Recap | |||
(Mitchell) Darryl McKinnon – PP – 12:14 | First period | 08:57 – Max Guimond (Jarvis, Marr) | ||||||
Dave Thomas – 14:42 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
Rob Brown – GW – 18:40 | Third period | 10:29 – PP – Mike Ouellette (Szymanski, Stempniak) | ||||||
( 29 saves / 32 shots ) David Cann | Goalie stats | Sean Samuel ( 35 saves / 37 shots ) |
March 20 [28] | Harvard | 4 – 2 | Clarkson | Pepsi Arena | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 18:39 – Chris Blight (Faulkner) 17:31 – Tristan Lush (Grenzy) | ||||||
(Bernakevitch, Pettit) Tom Cavanagh – PP – 00:10 (McCulloch, Reese) Tom Cavanagh – 04:50 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Bernakevitch) Kenny Smith – GW – 19:22 (Cavanagh, Welch) Dennis Packard – EN – 19:47 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 14 saves / 16 shots ) Dov Grumet-Morris | Goalie stats | Dustin Traylen ( 21 saves / 24 shots ) |
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