2008 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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Dates | March 7–22, 2008 |
Teams | 12 |
Finals site | Times Union Center Albany, New York |
Champions | Princeton [1] (2nd title) |
Winning coach | Guy Gadowsky [2] (1st title) |
MVP | Zane Kalemba [3] (Princeton) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
The 2008 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 47th tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2008. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Princeton received the ECAC Hockey automatic bid to the 2008 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 2008 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 | ||
#10 Clarkson† | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 33 | 72 | 47 | 39 | 22 | 13 | 4 | 108 | 93 | |
#11 Princeton* | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 28 | 75 | 57 | 35 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 112 | 95 | |
Harvard | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 27 | 59 | 41 | 34 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 98 | 79 | |
Union | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 50 | 57 | 35 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 79 | 91 | |
Cornell | 22 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 25 | 60 | 43 | 36 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 102 | 78 | |
Quinnipiac | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 22 | 62 | 67 | 39 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 120 | 118 | |
Yale | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 22 | 58 | 61 | 34 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 93 | 94 | |
Colgate | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 21 | 58 | 55 | 42 | 18 | 18 | 6 | 113 | 104 | |
St. Lawrence | 22 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 16 | 58 | 68 | 37 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 103 | 109 | |
Rensselaer | 22 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 45 | 69 | 38 | 11 | 23 | 4 | 79 | 113 | |
Brown | 22 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 50 | 68 | 31 | 6 | 21 | 4 | 67 | 108 | |
Dartmouth | 22 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 64 | 78 | 32 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 98 | 107 | |
Championship: Princeton † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll |
Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals
First Round [4] March 7–9 | Quarterfinals [5] March 14–16 | Semifinals [6] March 21 | Championship March 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | Clarkson | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Cornell | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | Colgate | 0 | 4 | 3** | ||||||||||||||
12 | Dartmouth | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | Princeton | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Colgate | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Princeton | 3 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Quinnipiac | 7* | 7 | – | 7 | Yale | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
11 | Brown | 6 | 1 | – | 2 | Princeton | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Harvard | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Harvard | 11 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Yale | 3*** | 3* | – | 6 | Quinnipiac | 0 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
10 | Rensselaer | 2 | 2 | – | 3 | Harvard | 3 | Third Place | |||||||||||||||
5 | Cornell | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Union | 2 | 2 | – | 5 | Cornell | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Colgate | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Cornell | 3 | 3 | – | 8 | Colgate | 2 | |||||||||||
9 | St. Lawrence | 5 | 2 | 1 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
March 7 [7] | Cornell | 3 – 2 | Dartmouth | Lynah Rink | ||||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Nash, Kennedy) Colin Greening - 01:02 (Nash) Raymond Sawada - 13:25 | Second period | 03:11 - PP - Andrew Owsiak (Gaudet, Grecu) 13:00 - Joe Stejskal (unassisted) | ||||||
(Devin, Scott) Raymond Sawada - GW PP - 13:46 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Ben Scrivens | Goalie stats | Mike Devine ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) |
March 8 [8] | Cornell | 3 – 5 | Dartmouth | Lynah Rink | ||||
No Scoring | First period | 17:36 - Adam Estoclet (Boldt, Reber) | ||||||
(Kennedy, Greening) Riley Nash - 16:58 | Second period | 16:41 - Joe Gaudet (Gillam) 18:05 - Brandon Harrington (Pritchard, Grecu) | ||||||
(Scott, Sawada) Michael Kennedy - 03:05 (Nash, Scott) Raymond Sawada - EA PP - 17:38 | Third period | 06:56 - GW SH - Rob Pritchard (Fleming, Boldt) 19:22 - EN - Rob Pritchard (Johnson, Stephens) | ||||||
( 25 saves / 29 shots ) Ben Scrivens | Goalie stats | Mike Devine ( 40 saves / 43 shots ) |
March 9 [9] | Cornell | 6 – 0 | Dartmouth | Lynah Rink | ||||
(Scott, Kennedy) Raymond Sawada - GW PP - 19:00 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Kennedy, Sawada) Brendon Nash - 04:23 (Barlow) Blake Gallagher - 08:56 (Krueger, Scrivens) Raymond Sawada - 12:18 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Greening) Mike Devin - 02:17 (Nash, Greening) Patrick Kennedy - 13:20 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 32 saves / 32 shots ) Ben Scrivens | Goalie stats | Mike Devine ( 22 saves / 28 shots ) |
Cornell won series 2–1 | |
March 7 [10] | Quinnipiac | 7 – 6 | OT | Brown | TD Banknorth Center | Recap | ||
No Scoring | First period | 18:03 - Sean Muncy (Brownschidle) | ||||||
(Henningson) Brandon Wong - 00:41 (Leitch, Bates) Ben Nelson - 00:58 (Leitch, Marshall) Ben Nelson - 02:00 (Bates) Bryan Leitch - 02:50 (Bates, Hansen) Bryan Leitch - PP - 04:53 (Dickinson, Leitch) Jamie Bates - 18:48 | Second period | 10:34 - PP - Ryan Garbutt (Prough, Hurley) 17:49 - PP - Chris Poli (Hurley, Prough) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 12:59 - Sean McMonagle (Baiser, Robertson) 15:14 - PP - Ryan Garbutt (Poli, Timberlake) 19:54 - EA - Jeff Prough (Vokes, Robertson) | ||||||
(Lampe) David Marshall - GW - 11:58 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 24 saves / 30 shots ) Bud Fisher | Goalie stats | Dan Rosen ( 18 saves / 23 shots ) / Mark Sibbald ( 19 saves / 21 shots ) |
March 8 [11] | Quinnipiac | 7 – 1 | Brown | TD Banknorth Center | Recap | |||
(Holt, Leitch) Jamie Bates - PP - 07:01 | First period | 17:24 - PP - Ryan Garbutt (Timberlake, Prough) | ||||||
(Hansen, Nelson) Brandon Wong - GW - 02:22 (Bates, Nelson) Greg Holt - PP - 04:04 (Travis, Holt) Brandon Wong - 09:20 (Hansen, Meyer) Dan Lefort - 14:22 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Holt, Nelson) Jamie Bates - PP - 05:11 (Wong) Dan Travis - 12:43 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 25 saves / 26 shots ) Bud Fisher / ( 1 saves / 1 shots ) Dan Cullen | Goalie stats | Dan Rosen ( 8 saves / 12 shots ) / Mark Sibbald ( 11 saves / 14 shots ) |
Quinnipiac won series 2–0 | |
March 7 [12] | Yale | 3 – 2 | 3OT | Rensselaer | Ingalls Rink | |||
(Arcobello) Chris Cahill - 05:42 (Matczak, Martin) Matthew Thorney - PP - 13:35 | First period | 16:43 - Garrett Vassel (Kerins) 19:18 - Scott Halpern (Helfrich, Polacek) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
(Kearney) Broc Little - GW - 05:40 | Third overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 27 saves / 29 shots ) Alec Richards | Goalie stats | Mathias Lange ( 53 saves / 56 shots ) |
March 8 [13] | Yale | 3 – 2 | OT | Rensselaer | Ingalls Rink | |||
No Scoring | First period | 18:17 - Tyler Helfrich (Polacek, Merth) 19:07 - Jonathan Ornelas (Burgdoerfer) | ||||||
(Little) Ryan Donald - 01:47 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Kearney) Broc Little - 14:39 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
(Ronald, Cahill) Sean Backman - GW - 05:11 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 16 saves / 18 shots ) Alec Richards | Goalie stats | Mathias Lange ( 35 saves / 38 shots ) |
Yale won series 2–0 | |
March 7 [14] | Colgate | 2 – 5 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 15:44 - Jared Ross (Fensel, Griffin) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 04:28 - Zach Miskovic (McKenzie, McBride) 10:47 - GW - Sean Flanagan (Griffin, Muir) 19:42 - PP - Zach Miskovic (DeVergilio, McBride) | ||||||
(Williams, Anderson) Ethan Cox - 01:16 (Cox, Torti) Jason Williams - 19:26 | Third period | 16:25 - Travis Vermeulen (McBride) | ||||||
( 21 saves / 25 shots ) Mark Dekanich / ( 11 saves / 12 shots ) Justin Kowalkoski | Goalie stats | John Hallas ( 30 saves / 32 shots ) |
March 8 [15] | Colgate | 3 – 2 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | Recap | |||
(McNamara, Burton) Ben Camper - 13:50 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Fredricks, Bogdanich) Tyler Burton - 01:11 (McNamara, Winchester) Tyler Burton - GW - 10:15 | Second period | 00:48 - Travis Vermeulen (Generous) 15:31 - Casey Parenteau (Bogosian, Ross) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 31 saves / 33 shots ) Mark Dekanich | Goalie stats | John Hallas ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) |
March 9 [16] | Colgate | 3 – 1 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | Recap | |||
(Bogdanich, Burton) Ben Camper - 18:08 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Camper) Tyler Burton - GW - 00:29 (McNamara, Winchester) Tyler Burton - PP - 07:47 | Third period | 07:47 - PP - Charlie Griffin (McBride) | ||||||
( 31 saves / 32 shots ) Mark Dekanich | Goalie stats | John Hallas ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) |
Colgate won series 2–1 | |
March 14 [17] | Clarkson | 1 – 0 | Colgate | Cheel Arena | Recap | |||
(Clitsome, D'Alvise) Steven Zalewski - GW PP - 16:24 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 19 saves / 19 shots ) David Leggio | Goalie stats | Mark Dekanich ( 24 saves / 25 shots ) |
March 15 [18] | Clarkson | 3 – 4 | Colgate | Cheel Arena | Recap | |||
(Beca, Zalewski) Nick Dodge - 04:18 (Dodge, DeFazio) David Cayer - 16:17 | First period | 04:18 - Tom Riley (Day, McIntyre) 14:12 - Ethan Cox (Gillanders) | ||||||
(Beca, Mason) Steven Zalewski - 12:06 | Second period | 09:44 - David McIntyre (Day, Riley) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 01:58 - GW - David McIntyre (Day, Sloane) | ||||||
( 23 saves / 27 shots ) David Leggio | Goalie stats | Mark Dekanich ( 21 saves / 24 shots ) |
March 16 [19] | Clarkson | 2 – 3 | 2OT | Colgate | Cheel Arena | Recap | ||
(Tuohimaa) Chris D'Alvise - SH - 10:08 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 01:14 - PP - Tyler Burton (Poplawski, Winchester) 16:44 - PP - David McIntyre (Riley, McNamara) | ||||||
(Mason, Dodge) Scott Freeman - 04:57 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second overtime period | 07:36 - GW - David McIntyre (Riley, McNamara) | ||||||
( 29 saves / 32 shots ) David Leggio | Goalie stats | Mark Dekanich ( 52 saves / 54 shots ) |
Colgate won series 2–1 | |
March 14 [20] | Princeton | 3 – 0 | Yale | Hobey Baker Memorial Rink | Recap | |||
(Wilson) Lee Jubinville - GW - 00:39 (Kaiser) Mike Moore - 04:17 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Moore, Fedun) Matt Arhontas - PP - 10:55 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 30 saves / 30 shots ) Zane Kalemba | Goalie stats | Alec Richards ( 35 saves / 38 shots ) |
March 15 [21] | Princeton | 3 – 4 | Yale | Hobey Baker Memorial Rink | Recap | |||
(Magnowski, Kramer) Matt Arhontas - PP - 06:31 (Wilson, Moore) Cam MacIntyre - PP - 07:17 | First period | 09:28 - PP - Thomas Dignard (Little, Backman) 12:08 - Jean-Francois Boucher (Dignard, Anderson) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 00:18 - Brendan Mason (Dignard, Anderson) 10:18 - GW - Broc Little (Kearney) | ||||||
(Wilson) Cam MacIntyre - EA - 19:01 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 22 saves / 26 shots ) Zane Kalemba | Goalie stats | Billy Blase ( 32 saves / 35 shots ) |
March 16 [22] | Princeton | 4 – 0 | Yale | Hobey Baker Memorial Rink | Recap | |||
(Fedun) Brett Wilson - GW PP - 03:27 (Magnowski, Arhontas) Cam MacIntyre - 14:24 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Kaiser, Hagel) Brandan Kushniruk - 16:26 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Moore, Fedun) Matt Arhontas - SH - 05:41 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 31 saves / 31 shots ) Zane Kalemba | Goalie stats | Billy Blase ( 28 saves / 32 shots ) |
Princeton won series 2–1 | |
March 14 [23] | Harvard | 11 – 0 | Quinnipiac | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
(Rogers, Biega) Mike Taylor - GW - 03:03 (Mientel, Biega) Dave Watters - 05:33 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(MacDonald, Magura) Steve Rolecek - 09:29 (Taylor, Rogers) Matt McCollem - 10:51 (McCollem, Dufault) Dave Watters - PP - 15:09 (McCollem, Taylor) Doug Rogers - 17:28 (Watters, Meintel) Pier-Olivier Michaud - 19:37 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Biega, Taylor) Jon Pelle - PP - 01:15 (Fraser, McCollem) Dave Watters - PP - 03:34 (Watters, Meintel) Dave MacDonald - 05:36 (Magura, Fraser) Steve Rolecek - 12:56 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 27 saves / 27 shots ) Kyle Richter / ( 2 saves / 2 shots ) John Riley | Goalie stats | Bud Fisher ( 19 saves / 24 shots ) / Pat McGann ( 12 saves / 17 shots ) / Dan Cullen ( 6 saves / 7 shots ) |
March 15 [24] | Harvard | 4 – 7 | Quinnipiac | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
(Watters) Pier-Olivier Michaud - 13:10 (Taylor, Rogers) Jon Pelle - PP - 18:19 | First period | 02:43 - PP - Jamie Bates (Henningson, Nelson) 08:10 - Ben Nelson (Tranvik, Lampe) 16:48 - PP - Dan Henningson (Bates, Nelson) | ||||||
(Michaud, Watters) Alex Meintel - 11:44 | Second period | 00:19 - PP - Jamie Bates (Henningson, Nelson) 02:54 - GW PP - Dan Henningson (Nelson, Wong) 19:34 - SH - Eric Lampe (unassisted) | ||||||
(Michaud, Watters) Alex Meintel - 12:25 | Third period | 19:33 - EN - Andrew Meyer (unassisted) | ||||||
( 20 saves / 26 shots ) Kyle Richter | Goalie stats | Bud Fisher ( 41 saves / 45 shots ) |
March 16 [25] | Harvard | 3 – 1 | Quinnipiac | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
(unassisted) Mike Taylor - SH - 13:07 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Taylor, Biega) Doug Rogers - GW PP - 11:34 | Second period | 10:57 - Bryan Leitch (Hansen, Nelson) | ||||||
(Rogers, Tallett) Mike Taylor - 14:45 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 26 saves / 27 shots ) Kyle Richter | Goalie stats | Bud Fisher ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) |
Harvard won series 2–1 | |
March 14 [26] | Union | 2 – 3 | Cornell | Achilles Center | Recap | |||
(Wakita, Presizniuk) Torren Delforte - 16:06 | First period | 01:00 - Chris Fontas (Mugford, Scali) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 09:25 - Chris Fontas (unassisted) | ||||||
(Boileau, Shaffer) Michael Beynon - 11:32 | Third period | 14:17 - GW PP - Brendon Nash (Krantz, Greening) | ||||||
( 24 saves / 27 shots ) Justin Mrazek | Goalie stats | Ben Scrivens ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) |
March 15 [27] | Union | 2 – 3 | Cornell | Achilles Center | Recap | |||
(Presizniuk, Cook) Stephane Boileau - PP - 08:16 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 02:18 - Patrick Kennedy (Greening, Nash) 11:30 - PP - Blake Gallagher (Nash, Nash) | ||||||
(Boileau, Valery-Trabucco) Lane Caffaro - 03:16 | Third period | 08:40 - GW PP - Evan Barlow (Gallagher, Greening) | ||||||
( 18 saves / 21 shots ) Corey Milan | Goalie stats | Ben Scrivens ( 41 saves / 43 shots ) |
Cornell won series 2–0 | |
March 21 [28] | Princeton | 3 – 0 | Colgate | Times Union Center | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Magnowski) Matt Arhontas - GW - 08:04 (Shattenkirk, Stankievech) Kevin Lohry - 14:44 (Shattenkirk) Kevin Lohry - EN - 19:39 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 27 saves / 27 shots ) Zane Kalemba | Goalie stats | Mark Dekanich ( 19 saves / 21 shots ) |
March 21 [29] | Harvard | 3 – 1 | Cornell | Times Union Center | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(McCafferty, Fraser) Dave Watters - PP - 03:35 (Rogers, Taylor) Jon Pelle - GW PP - 05:02 | Second period | 06:57 - Topher Scott (Sawada, Kennedy) | ||||||
(Biega, Taylor) Jon Pelle - PP - 17:24 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 31 saves / 32 shots ) Kyle Richter | Goalie stats | Ben Scrivens ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) |
March 22 [30] | Cornell | 4 – 2 | Colgate | Times Union Center | Recap | |||
(Kennedy) Doug Kantz - 13:45 | First period | 16:04 - Sean Carty (Werner, DeBello) | ||||||
(Devin, Kennedy) Raymond Sawada - PP - 07:31 (Scott, Kennedy) Justin Krueger - GW PP - 08:57 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Nash, Nash) Colin Greening - PP - 03:16 | Third period | 18:35 - Tyler Burton (Camper, Fredricks) | ||||||
( 22 saves / 23 shots ) Ben Scrivens / ( 3 saves / 4 shots ) Dan DiLeo | Goalie stats | Mark Dekanitch ( 12 saves / 15 shots ) / Justin Kowalkoski ( 8 saves / 9 shots ) |
March 22 [31] | Princeton | 4 – 1 | Harvard | Times Union Center | Recap | |||
(Kushniruk, Hagel) Mike Moore - 05:04 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Moore) Landis Stankievech - GW - 12:34 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(MacIntyre) Brett Wilson - PP - 16:54 (unassisted) Mark Magnowski - EN - 18:22 | Third period | 00:24 - PP - Jon Pelle (Taylor, Biega) | ||||||
( 35 saves / 36 shots ) Zane Kalemba | Goalie stats | Kyle Richter ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) |
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