2010 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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![]() 2010 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament logo | |
Dates | March 5–20, 2010 |
Teams | 12 |
Finals site | Times Union Center Albany, New York |
Champions | Cornell [1] (12th title) |
Winning coach | Mike Schafer [2] (5th title) |
MVP | Ben Scrivens [3] (Cornell) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
The 2010 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 49th tournament in league history. It was played between March 5 and March 20, 2010. 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, Cornell received the ECAC Hockey automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
In the Quarterfinals series between Union and Quinnipiac the first match became the longest game played in NCAA history when the winning goal was scored in the 151st minute of play (the fifth overtime).
The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth, sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest ranked first round winner, the second seed and second lowest ranked first round winner, the third seed and second highest ranked first round winner, and the fourth seed and highest ranked first round winner play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2010 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 | ||
#6 Yale† | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 92 | 72 | 34 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 141 | 105 | |
#9 Cornell* | 22 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 74 | 43 | 34 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 107 | 67 | |
Union | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 81 | 60 | 39 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 134 | 100 | |
Colgate | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 26 | 78 | 70 | 36 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 118 | 119 | |
St. Lawrence | 22 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 23 | 62 | 61 | 42 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 118 | 121 | |
Rensselaer | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 23 | 64 | 58 | 39 | 18 | 17 | 4 | 109 | 108 | |
Quinnipiac | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 22 | 71 | 63 | 40 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 123 | 114 | |
Princeton | 22 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 65 | 76 | 31 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 91 | 103 | |
Harvard | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 61 | 70 | 33 | 9 | 21 | 3 | 82 | 113 | |
Dartmouth | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 69 | 79 | 32 | 10 | 19 | 3 | 96 | 115 | |
Brown | 22 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 64 | 95 | 37 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 103 | 134 | |
Clarkson | 22 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 50 | 84 | 37 | 9 | 24 | 4 | 92 | 136 | |
Championship: Cornell † 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 5–7 | Quarterfinals [5] March 12–14 | Semifinals [6] March 19 | Championship March 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | Yale | 2 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | St. Lawrence | 3* | 3 | 3 | 11 | Brown | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
12 | Clarkson | 2 | 4* | 2 | 2 | Cornell | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
11 | Brown | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Cornell | 5 | 3 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Rensselaer | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | Harvard | 1 | 0 | — | ||||||||||||||
11 | Brown | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | Cornell | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Union | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Union | 2 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Quinnipiac | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | Quinnipiac | 3***** | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
10 | Dartmouth | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | Union | 3 | Third place | |||||||||||||||
5 | St. Lawrence | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Colgate | 1 | 3 | — | 5 | St. Lawrence | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Princeton | 2 | 0 | — | 5 | St. Lawrence | 2 | 4 | — | 11 | Brown | 3 | |||||||||||
9 | Harvard | 4 | 3 | — |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
March 5 [7] | St. Lawrence | 3 – 2 | OT | Clarkson | Appleton Arena | |||
(Flanagan, Bogosian) Brandon Bollig - 00:40 | First period | 16:48 - Brandon DeFazio (Oakley, Freeman) | ||||||
(Hughes, Vermeulen) Alex Curran - PP - 08:18 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 06:37 - PP - Mark Borowiecki (Beca, Rufenach) | ||||||
(Hughes, Keller) Aaron Bogosian - GW - 10:09 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Alex Petizian | Goalie stats | Paul Karpowich ( 47 saves / 50 shots ) |
March 6 [8] | St. Lawrence | 3 – 4 | OT | Clarkson | Appleton Arena | |||
No Scoring | First period | 05:19 - PP - Mark Borowiecki (Tamblyn, Beca) | ||||||
(Flanagan, Caister) Aaron Bogosian - 03:25 (Klancher, Armstrong) Jacob Drewiske - 04:50 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Vermeulen) Mike McKenzie - 12:47 | Third period | 08:21 - Matt Beca (Tremblay) 16:28 - Nick Tremblay (Borowiecki, Tamblyn) | ||||||
No scoring | First overtime period | 06:48 - GW - Jake Morley (DeFazio, Himelson) | ||||||
( 24 saves / 28 shots ) Alex Petizian | Goalie stats | Paul Karpowich ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) |
March 7 [9] | St. Lawrence | 3 – 2 | Clarkson | Appleton Arena | ||||
(Bogosian, Flanagan) Jeff Caister - PP - 06:04 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 11:57 - Tim Marks (Rufenach) 19:47 - PP - Brandon DeFazio (Freeman, Himelson) | ||||||
(McKenzie, Keller) Rick Carden - 14:47 (Vermeulen, Caister) Mike McKenzie - GW - 18:37 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Kain Tisi | Goalie stats | Paul Karpowich ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) |
St. Lawrence won series 2–1 | |
March 5 [10] | Rensselaer | 1 – 3 | Brown | Houston Field House | Recap | |||
(Bergin, Polacek) Paul Kerins - PP - 07:57 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 01:40 - Jarred Smith (Brownschidle, Fratkin) 02:53 - GW - Bobby Farnham (Timberlake, Volpatti) 18:55 - EN - Aaron Volpatti (Timberlake, Farnham) | ||||||
( 25 saves / 27 shots ) Allen York | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 24 saves / 25 shots ) |
March 6 [11] | Rensselaer | 4 – 1 | Brown | Houston Field House | Recap | |||
(D'Amigo, Pirri) Paul Kerins - PP - 07:01 | First period | 15:05 - Aaron Volpatti (Zolnierczyk, McMonagle) | ||||||
(Merth) Patrick Cullen - GW - 14:41 (unassisted) Brandon Pirri - 15:56 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(D'Amigo, Kerins) Chase Polacek - PP - 10:09 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 23 saves / 24 shots ) Allen York | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 30 saves / 34 shots ) |
March 7 [12] | Rensselaer | 2 – 3 | Brown | Houston Field House | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 07:05 - Aaron Volpatti (Farnham, Timberlake) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 12:24 - Jack MacLellan (Buvinow, Volpatti) | ||||||
(Cullen, Brutlag) Paul Kerins - 05:49 (Burgdoerfer, Cullen) Jeff Foss - EA - 16:55 | Third period | 00:18 - GW - Chris Zaires (Zolnierczyk) | ||||||
( 22 saves / 25 shots ) Allen York | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) |
Brown won series 2–1 | |
March 5 [13] | Quinnipiac | 3 – 2 | Dartmouth | TD Banknorth Sports Center | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Hansen, Beaudoin) Brandon Wong - PP - 05:12 | Second period | 01:23 - Dustin Walsh (Jones, Walsh) | ||||||
(Beaudoin, Zurevinski) Eric Lampe - 05:31 (Wong, Lampe) Jean-Marc Beaudoin - GW PP - 09:33 | Third period | 18:41 - Scott Fleming (Estoclet, Reber) | ||||||
( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Dan Clarke | Goalie stats | James Mello ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) |
March 6 [14] | Quinnipiac | 3 – 6 | Dartmouth | TD Banknorth Sports Center | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 02:50 - Paul Lee (Goodship) | ||||||
(Arnt, Oakes) Bobby Tyson - 18:44 | Second period | 02:11 - Doug Jones (Fleming, Reber) 05:42 - Adam Estoclet (Jones, Fleming) 16:27 - GW - Matt Reber (Estoclet, Fleming) | ||||||
(Ketchum) D'Arcy Oakes - 04:23 (Holt, Davies) Jean-Marc Beaudoin - PP - 18:17 | Third period | 10:02 - Scott Fleming (Reber, Stephens) 11:57 - Matt Reber (Fleming) | ||||||
( 29 saves / 35 shots ) Dan Clarke | Goalie stats | James Mello ( 28 saves / 31 shots ) |
March 7 [15] | Quinnipiac | 2 – 1 | Dartmouth | TD Banknorth Sports Center | Recap | |||
(unassisted) Eric Lampe - 16:36 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Goodman, Arnt) Ben Ketchum - 01:57 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 13:57 - Joe Stejskal (Fleming, Reber) | ||||||
( 26 saves / 27 shots ) Dan Clarke | Goalie stats | James Mello ( 7 saves / 8 shots ) / Jody O'Neill ( 20 saves / 21 shots ) |
Quinnipiac won series 2–1 | |
March 5 [16] | Princeton | 2 – 4 | Harvard | Hobey Baker Memorial Rink | Recap | |||
(Godlewski, Bartlett) Marc Hagel - 15:27 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Pederson, Kramer) Mark Magnowski - 15:27 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 08:05 - Daniel Moriarty (Michaud, Morrison) 10:35 - Danny Biega (Grenier, Huxley) 14:05 - GW - Michael Del Mauro (Christian, Grimshaw) 17:50 - Danny Biega (Leblanc, Biega) | ||||||
( 31 saves / 35 shots ) Zane Kalemba | Goalie stats | Kyle Richter ( 33 saves / 35 shots ) |
March 6 [17] | Princeton | 0 – 3 | Harvard | Hobey Baker Memorial Rink | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 07:11 - GW PP - Daniel Moriarty (Leblanc, Biega) 14:23 - Danny Biega (Del Mauro, Grenier) 18:45 - EN - Luke Grenier (Biega, Del Mauro) | ||||||
( 14 saves / 16 shots ) Zane Kalemba | Goalie stats | Kyle Richter ( 37 saves / 37 shots ) |
Harvard won series 2–0 | |
March 12 [18] | Yale | 2 – 3 | Brown | Ingalls Rink | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 00:07 - Jeff Buvinow (MacLellan) 01:04 - Aaron Volpatti (Buvinow, Farnham) | ||||||
(O'Neill, Miller) Thomas Dignard - PP - 06:18 (Dignard, Arcobello) Denny Kearney - EA - 19:22 | Third period | 06:18 - GW - Bobby Farnham (Volpatti, Crowley) | ||||||
( 28 saves / 31 shots ) Billy Blase | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 37 saves / 39 shots ) |
March 13 [19] | Yale | 6 – 3 | Brown | Ingalls Rink | Recap | |||
(Dignard, Kearney) Broc Little - 00:26 (Kearney) Jimmy Martin - PP - 06:11 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Kearney) Kevin Limbert - 01:31 (Miller, Little) Brian O'Neill - GW - 10:28 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Miller, Dignard) Brian O'Neill - PP - 04:08 (unassisted) Andrew Miller - 18:19 | Third period | 02:58 - SH - Jack MacLellan (Zolnierczyk) 13:52 - PP - Aaron Volpatti (Buvinow, MacLellan) 19:11 - Scott Van der Linden (Ryan) | ||||||
( 22 saves / 25 shots ) Billy Blase | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 20 saves / 24 shots ) / Dan Rosen ( 17 saves / 19 shots ) |
March 14 [20] | Yale | 0 – 1 | Brown | Ingalls Rink | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | 01:14 - GW SH - Jack MacLellan (unassisted) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 20 saves / 21 shots ) Billy Blase | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 44 saves / 44 shots ) |
Brown won series 2–1 | |
March 12 [21] | Cornell | 5 – 1 | Harvard | Lynah Rink | ||||
(Nash, D'Agostino) Colin Greening - 04:35 (Devin, Kennedy) Nick D'Agostino - GW PP - 12:41 | First period | 09:30 - PP - Pier-Olivier Michaud (Morrison, Biega) | ||||||
(Roeszler, Gallagher) Nick D'Agostino - 12:27 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(unassisted) Riley Nash - 05:44 (Greening, Jillson) Riley Nash - 10:01 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 26 saves / 27 shots ) Ben Scrivens | Goalie stats | Kyle Richter ( 21 saves / 26 shots ) / Ryan Carroll ( 3 saves / 3 shots ) |
March 13 [22] | Cornell | 3 – 0 | Harvard | Lynah Rink | ||||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Whitney, Nash) Blake Gallagher - GW PP - 12:05 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Greening, Kennedy) Sean Collins - 14:27 (Nash, Gallagher) Colin Greening - EN PP - 19:26 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 17 saves / 17 shots ) Ben Scrivens | Goalie stats | Kyle Richter ( 29 saves / 31 shots ) |
Cornell won series 2–0 | |
March 12 [23] | Union | 2 – 3 | 5OT | Quinnipiac | Achilles Center | Recap | ||
(unassisted) Stephane Boileau - 07:13 (Walters, Zajac) Mario Valery-Trabucco - PP - 09:42 | First period | 13:01 - Scott Zurevinski (Lampe) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 01:12 - PP - Jeremy Langlois (Holt, Davies) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Fifth overtime period | 10:22 - GW - Greg Holt (Wong, Oakes) | ||||||
( 52 saves / 55 shots ) Keith Kinkaid | Goalie stats | Dan Clarke ( 73 saves / 75 shots ) |
March 13 [24] | Union | 3 – 1 | Quinnipiac | Achilles Center | Recap | |||
(Valery-Trabucco, Zajac) Adam Presizniuk - PP - 05:01 (Pallos, Julseth-White) Luke Cain - GW - 18:27 | First period | 17:15 - PP - Brandon Wong (Holt, Davies) | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Julseth-White) Adam Presizniuk - 01:17 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 27 saves / 28 shots ) Corey Milan | Goalie stats | Dan Clarke ( 29 saves / 32 shots ) |
March 14 [25] | Union | 2 – 1 | Quinnipiac | Achilles Center | Recap | |||
(Schreiber) Wayne Simpson - 02:01 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Cain, Zajac) Jeremy Welsh - GW - 01:04 | Third period | 15:31 - Reese Rolheiser (Langlois, Currie) | ||||||
( 30 saves / 31 shots ) Corey Milan | Goalie stats | Dan Clarke ( 33 saves / 35 shots ) |
Union won series 2–1 | |
March 12 [26] | Colgate | 1 – 2 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | ||||
No Scoring | First period | 17:07 - Aaron Bogosian (Hughes, Child) | ||||||
(Day, Poplawski) Austin Smith - 15:35 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 15:21 - GW PP - Mike McKenzie (Curran, Vermeulen) | ||||||
( 29 saves / 31 shots ) Alex Evin | Goalie stats | Kain Tisi ( 31 saves / 32 shots ) |
March 13 [27] | Colgate | 3 – 4 | St. Lawrence | Starr Rink | ||||
(McIntyre, Poplawski) Jeremy Price - PP - 16:08 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(McIntyre) Jeremy Price - PP - 02:30 | Second period | 10:20 - PP - Mike McKenzie (Hughes, Child) | ||||||
(Larkin, McNamara) Brian Day - PP - 10:56 | Third period | 01:21 - Nick Pitsikoulis (Bogosian) 14:23 - Jacob Drewiske (Keller, Armstrong) 18:53 - GW - Matt Raley (Flanagan, Carden) | ||||||
( 25 saves / 29 shots ) Alex Evin | Goalie stats | Kain Tisi ( 33 saves / 36 shots ) |
St. Lawrence won series 2–0 | |
March 19 [28] | Cornell | 3 – 0 | Brown | Times Union Center | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Esposito) Locke Jillson - GW - 15:35 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(Krueger) John Esposito - 06:40 (Greening) Riley Nash - 13:40 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 23 saves / 23 shots ) Ben Scrivens | Goalie stats | Mike Clemente ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) |
March 19 [29] | Union | 3 – 1 | St. Lawrence | Times Union Center | Recap | |||
(Boileau, Simpson) Luke Cain - 10:25 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 19:35 - Derek Keller (Caister) | ||||||
(Walters, Boileau) Adam Preszniuk - GW - 09:26 (Julseth-White) Mario Valery-Trabucco - EN - 19:55 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 29 saves / 30 shots ) Keith Kinkaid | Goalie stats | Kain Tisi ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) |
March 20 [30] | St. Lawrence | 0 – 3 | Brown | Times Union Center | Recap | |||
No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
No scoring | Second period | 14:34 - GW - Aaron Volpatti (Zaires, Rosen) | ||||||
No scoring | Third period | 04:05 - Jesse Fratkin (Zolnierczyk, Zaires) 16:52 - EN - Harry Zolnierczyk (Pietrus, McMonagle) | ||||||
( 34 saves / 36 shots ) Alex Petizian | Goalie stats | Dan Rosen ( 21 saves / 21 shots ) |
March 20 [31] | Cornell | 3 – 0 | Union | Times Union Center | Recap | |||
(Roeszler, Devin) Joe Devin - GW PP - 15:09 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
(Nash, Nash) Sean Whitney - PP - 17:25 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
(unassisted) Patrick Kennedy - EN - 19:43 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
( 32 saves / 32 shots ) Ben Scrivens | Goalie stats | Keith Kinkaid ( 31 saves / 33 shots ) |
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