2014 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

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The 2014 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 53rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2014. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Union received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

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Format

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 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

The third place game was eliminated from the tournament starting in 2014. [4]

Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

Conference recordOverall record
GPWLTPTSGFGAGPWLTGFGA
#1 Union *22183137834242326416090
#12 Colgate 2213632972593920145108104
#7 Quinnipiac 221264287843402410614181
#16 Cornell 22117426515032171057774
Clarkson 2211922457644221174101102
Yale 221084247156331711510682
Rensselaer 228952157573715166104100
St. Lawrence 2271141870783815194122131
Brown 22813117486231111737587
Dartmouth 227132165172341020484115
Harvard 22612416445231101746983
Princeton 2241808449132626060126
Championship: Union
† indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

First Round [5]
March 7–9
Quarterfinals [6]
March 14–16
Semifinals [7]
March 21
Championship
March 22
1Union34
5Clarkson2 4310 Dartmouth 0 2
12 Princeton 3* 0 2 1Union5
4 Cornell 2
2Colgate24
6Yale428 St. Lawrence 1 3
11 Harvard 0 1 1Union5
2 Colgate 2
3Quinnipiac65
7 Rensselaer 42 4 6 Yale 2 3
10Dartmouth1 352Colgate3**
3 Quinnipiac 2
4Cornell21 1*
8St. Lawrence3** 35 Clarkson 1 40
9 Brown 2 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(5) Clarkson vs. (12) Princeton

March 7 [8] Clarkson2 – 3OTPrinceton Cheel Arena  
No ScoringFirst period04:19 - Kyle Rankin (Liau, Foster)
(Sexton, McPherson) Will Frederick - PP - 03:34
(Boak, Zarbo) Pat Megannety - 19:51
Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period06:15 - PP - Andrew Calof (Ambrosia, Rush)
No scoringFirst overtime period12:02 - GW - Andrew Ammon (Calof, Liau)
( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Greg Lewis Goalie stats Colton Phinney ( 39 saves / 41 shots )
March 8 [9] Clarkson4 – 0Princeton Cheel Arena  
(McPherson, Powers) Jeff DiNallo - GW - 00:54
(Sexton, McPherson) Will Frederick - PP - 10:20
First periodNo scoring
(Zarbo, Sinz) James de Haas - 04:22
(Sexton) James de Haas - 10:31
Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Steve Perry Goalie stats Sean Bonar ( 33 saves / 37 shots )
March 7 [10] Clarkson2 – 3Princeton Cheel Arena  
(Zarbo) Jarrett Burton - PP - 02:13
(Geiger, DiNallo) Allan McPherson - 12:29
First period06:52 - Jonathan Liau (Brockett, Foster)
(DiNallo) Will Frederick - GW PP - 12:49Second period10:00 - PP - Kyle Rankin (Ambrosia, Calof)
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Steve Perry Goalie stats Colton Phinney ( 32 saves / 35 shots )
Clarkson won series 2–1

(6) Yale vs. (11) Harvard

March 7 [11] Yale4 – 0Harvard Ingalls Rink  
(Agostino, Killian) Jesse Root - GW - 07:47
(Learned, Ruffolo) Gus Young - 09:56
First periodNo scoring
(Obuchowski, Lyon) Cody Learned - SH - 05:44Second periodNo scoring
(Ruffolo, O'Gara) Carson Cooper - 16:31Third periodNo scoring
( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Alex Lyon Goalie stats Steve Michalek ( 11 saves / 14 shots ) / Raphael Girard ( 13 saves / 14 shots )
March 8 [12] Yale2 – 1Harvard Ingalls Rink Recap  
No ScoringFirst period16:42 - PP - Brian Hart (Malone, Newell)
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
(Day, Root) Stu Wilson - EA - 10:31
(Root, Hayden) Kenny Agostino - GW PP - 11:09
Third periodNo scoring
( 18 saves / 19 shots ) Alex Lyon Goalie stats Raphael Girard ( 37 saves / 39 shots )
Yale won series 2–0

(7) Rensselaer vs. (10) Dartmouth

March 7 [13] Rensselaer4 – 1Dartmouth Houston Field House  
(Neal, Zalewski) Ryan Haggerty - PP - 04:39
(unassisted) Ryan Haggerty - GW - 10:01
First periodNo scoring
(Bubela, Neal) Jacob Laliberte - 02:29Second period08:53 - Jesse Beamish (Simpson, Hartley)
(Miller) Zach Schroeder - 01:06Third periodNo scoring
( 29 saves / 30 shots ) Scott Diebold Goalie stats Charles Grant ( 33 saves / 37 shots )
March 8 [14] Rensselaer2 – 3Dartmouth Houston Field House  
No ScoringFirst period07:13 - PP - Eric Neiley (Opperman, Sikura)
(Neal) Jacob Laliberte - 08:43
(Neal, Zalewski) Ryan Haggerty - PP - 11:55
Second period09:51 - Jesse Beamish (unassisted)
No scoringThird period13:46 - GW - Eric Neiley (Opperman, Hartley)
( 36 saves / 39 shots ) Scott Diebold Goalie stats Charles Grant ( 20 saves / 22 shots )
March 8 [15] Rensselaer4 – 5Dartmouth Houston Field House  
(Higgs, Zalewski) Ryan Haggerty - 03:39
(Haggerty) Mike Zalewski - 16:00
First period06:38 - SH - Tim O'Brien (unassisted)
(McGowan, Leonard) Chris Bradley - 15:43
(Schroeder) Mark McGowan - 18:50
Second period18:05 - Rick Pinkston (McNally, Neiley)
No scoringThird period02:10 - Eric Neiley (McNally, Opperman)
08:48 - Brandon McNally (Neiley)
17:46 - GW - Brad Schierhorn (O'Brien)
( 34 saves / 39 shots ) Scott Diebold Goalie stats Charles Grant ( 35 saves / 39 shots )
Dartmouth won series 2–1

(8) St. Lawrence vs. (9) Brown

March 7 [16] St. Lawrence3 – 22OTBrown Appleton Arena  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(Ward, Dahl) Kyle Essery - 04:42
(Bayreuther, Carey) Greg Carey - PP - 18:46
Second period14:00 - Zach Pryzbek (Hathaway, Lamacchia)
No scoringThird period19:05 - EA - Nick Lappin (Hathaway, Naclerio)
(Wick, Raley) Eric Sweetman - GW - 01:27Second overtime periodNo scoring
( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Matt Weninger Goalie stats Tyler Steel ( 43 saves / 46 shots )
March 8 [17] St. Lawrence3 – 2Brown Appleton Arena  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(Dahl, Carey) Eric Sweetman - PP - 05:13Second periodNo scoring
(Essery, Hughes) Gavin Bayreuther - 04:36
(Hagen, Ward) Woody Hudson - GW - 05:52
Third period04:10 - Garnet Hathaway (Pryzbek)
10:10 - Ryan Jacobson (Middleton, Doane)
( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Matt Weninger Goalie stats Tyler Steel ( 25 saves / 28 shots )
St. Lawrence won series 2–0

Quarterfinals

(1) Union vs. (10) Dartmouth

March 14 [18] Union3 – 0Dartmouth Achilles Center  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(Vecchione, Gostisbehere) Michael Pontarelli - GW PP - 01:12Second periodNo scoring
(unassisted) Daniel Carr - PS - 17:23
(Gostisbehere, Vecchione) Daniel Carr - EN - 18:34
Third periodNo scoring
( 32 saves / 32 shots ) Colin Stevens Goalie stats Charles Grant ( 39 saves / 41 shots )
March 15 [19] Union4 – 2Dartmouth Achilles Center  
(Ciampini, Carr) Mike Vecchione - 04:34First period11:38 - PP - Brandon McNally (Opperman, Neiley)
13:01 - PP - Tim O'Brien (Beamish, Mosey)
(Vecchione) Daniel Carr - 18:45Second periodNo scoring
(Taylor, Sullivan) Max Novak - GW - 09:09
(Vecchione) Daniel Ciampini - EN - 19:08
Third periodNo scoring
( 33 saves / 35 shots ) Colin Stevens Goalie stats Charles Grant ( 27 saves / 30 shots )
Union won series 2–0

(2) Colgate vs. (8) St. Lawrence

March 14 [20] Colgate2 – 1St. Lawrence Starr Rink  
(Spink, Borkowski) Tyson Spink - PP - 02:29
(Spink, Spink) Kevin Lough - GW PP - 05:09
First periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period14:20 - Justin Baker (Carey, Raley)
( 22 saves / 23 shots ) Charles Finn Goalie stats Matt Weninger ( 29 saves / 31 shots )
March 15 [21] Colgate4 – 3St. Lawrence Starr Rink  
(Borowski, Gentzler) Darcy Murphy - 02:22First period01:40 - Woody Hudson (Ward, Smolcynski)
15:13 - PP - Greg Carey (Bayreuther, Wick)
(Wilson, Black) Darcy Murphy - PP - 08:43Second periodNo scoring
(Johnston, Black) Joe Wilson - 05:00
(Wilson, Johnston) Darcy Murphy - GW PP - 09:25
Third period16:46 - Greg Carey (Wick, Carey)
( 23 saves / 26 shots ) Charles Finn Goalie stats Matt Weninger ( 20 saves / 24 shots )
Colgate won series 2–0

(3) Quinnipiac vs. (6) Yale

March 14 [22] Quinnipiac6 – 2Yale TD Bank Sports Center Recap  
(Sherbinin) Tim Clifton - 05:10First periodNo scoring
(Tolkinen, Peca) Travis St. Denis - 04:00
(Toews) Connor Jones - GW - 05:17
(Tolkinen, Jones) Bryce Van Brabant - 10:33
Second period16:39 - PP - Ryan Obuchowski (Root, Fallen)
(Samuels-Thomas) Travis St. Denis - 19:50
(Schutt) Connor Clifton - 10:24
Third period02:19 - PP - John Hayden (Wilson, Obuchowski)
( 17 saves / 19 shots ) Michael Garteig Goalie stats Alex Lyon ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) / Patrick Spano ( 5 saves / 7 shots )
March 15 [23] Quinnipiac5 – 3Yale TD Bank Sports Center Recap  
(Jones, Jones) Sam Anas - 03:00
(Tolkinen, Peca) Travis St. Denis - 05:31
(Scherbinin, Peca) Tommy Schutt - 17:11
First period14:31 - PP - John Hayden (Agostino, Root)
No scoringSecond period02:56 - Mike Doherty (Witek)
12:27 - John Hayden (Root, Agostino)
(Van Brabant, Smith) Jordan Samuels-Thomas -GW PP - 04:40
(Jones) Sam Anas - 08:40
Third periodNo scoring
( 23 saves / 26 shots ) Michael Garteig Goalie stats Alex Lyon ( 29 saves / 34 shots )
Quinnipiac won series 2–0

(4) Cornell vs. (5) Clarkson

March 14 [24] Cornell2 – 1Clarkson Lynah Rink  
(Lowry, McCarron) Kirill Gotovets - 11:33First periodNo scoring
(McCarron, Ferlin) Kirill Gotovets - GW PP - 02:31Second period14:49 - PS - Jordan Boucher (unassisted)
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
( 28 saves / 29 shots ) Andy Iles Goalie stats Steve Perry ( 31 saves / 32 shots )
March 15 [25] Cornell1 – 4Clarkson Lynah Rink  
No ScoringFirst period07:00 - PP - Jeff DiNallo (McPherson, Sexton)
(Bardreau, Ferlin) Patrick McCarron - 11:09Second period05:52 - GW - Christian Powers (Geiger, McPherson)
07:33 - PP - James de Haas (DiNallo, Sexton)
No scoringThird period19:52 - EN - Jarrett Burton (Frederick)
( 11 saves / 14 shots ) Andy Iles Goalie stats Steve Perry ( 23 saves / 24 shots )
March 16 [26] Cornell1 – 0OTClarkson Lynah Rink  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
(Lewis, Ryan) Brian Ferlin - GW - 12:32First overtime periodNo scoring
( 23 saves / 23 shots ) Andy Iles Goalie stats Steve Perry ( 25 saves / 26 shots )
Cornell won series 2–1

Semifinals

(1) Union vs. (4) Cornell

March 21 [27] Union5 – 2Cornell Herb Brooks Arena Recap  
(Pontarelli, Coatta) Cole Ikkala - 09:24
(Wilkins, Bodie) Kevin Sullivan - PP - 17:47
First periodNo scoring
(Hatch, Sullivan) Max Novak - GW - 17:20
(Carr, Bodie) Mike Vecchione - 18:32
Second period05:56 - Christian Hilbrich (unassisted)
18:18 - Joakim Ryan (Willcox, Knisley)
(unassisted) Daniel Carr - EN - 18:37Third periodNo scoring
( 24 saves / 26 shots ) Colin Stevens Goalie stats Andy Iles ( 26 saves / 30 shots )

(2) Colgate vs. (3) Quinnipiac

March 21 [28] Colgate3 – 22OTQuinnipiac Herb Brooks Arena Recap  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(unassisted) Andrew Black - 19:18Second period02:54 - Connor Jones (Jones)
15:37 - Sam Anas (Peca, Toews)
(Spink) Kyle Baun - EA - 19:04Third periodNo scoring
(Baun, Kulevich) Tyson Spink - GW - 00:58Second overtime periodNo scoring
( 30 saves / 32 shots ) Charles Finn Goalie stats Michael Garteig ( 33 saves / 36 shots )

Championship

(1) Union vs. (2) Colgate

March 22 [29] Union5 – 2Colgate Herb Brooks Arena  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(Sullivan, Gostisbehere) Matt Hatch - 11:17
(Novak, Bodie) Daniel Carr - PP - 13:51
(Carr, Taylor) Daniel Ciampini - GW - 15:40
Second periodNo scoring
(Carr, Ciampini) Mike Vecchione - 07:30
(Hatch) Max Novak - EN - 17:47
Third period12:49 - Spiro Goulakos (Johnston)
17:16 - EA - Darcy Murphy (Kulevich, Spink)
( 31 saves / 33 shots ) Colin Stevens Goalie stats Charles Finn ( 24 saves / 28 shots )

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

[30]

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