| 2019 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 8–23, 2019 |
| Teams | 12 |
| Finals site | Herb Brooks Arena Lake Placid, New York |
| Champions | Clarkson (6th title) |
| Winning coach | Casey Jones (1st title) |
| MVP | Devin Brosseau (Clarkson) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2019 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 58th tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 23, 2019. First Round and Quarterfinal games are played at home team campus sites, while the final four games are played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. The tournament winner, Clarkson, received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The tournament features 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 play 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, and no third-place game is played. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
| Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #7 Quinnipiac † | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 77 | 47 | 38 | 26 | 10 | 2 | 133 | 73 | |
| #8 Cornell † | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 64 | 41 | 36 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 108 | 73 | |
| #11 Clarkson* | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 65 | 42 | 39 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 122 | 78 | |
| #14 Harvard | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 77 | 58 | 33 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 106 | 83 | |
| Dartmouth | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 23 | 53 | 55 | 34 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 87 | 93 | |
| Yale | 22 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 23 | 53 | 57 | 33 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 85 | 88 | |
| Union | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 60 | 64 | 39 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 112 | 102 | |
| Brown | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 21 | 52 | 59 | 34 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 89 | 97 | |
| Princeton | 22 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 60 | 66 | 31 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 83 | 96 | |
| Colgate | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 43 | 64 | 36 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 55 | 111 | |
| Rensselaer | 22 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 16 | 49 | 67 | 36 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 69 | 117 | |
| St. Lawrence | 22 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 51 | 84 | 37 | 6 | 29 | 2 | 75 | 149 | |
| Championship: March 23, 2019 † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll | ||||||||||||||
Teams are reseeded for the Quarterfinals and Semifinals
| First Round March 8–10 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Semifinals March 22 | Championship March 23 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Quinnipiac | 1 | 3 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Dartmouth | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | Brown | 2* | 4 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | St. Lawrence | 2 | 3* | 0 | 2 | Cornell | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Brown | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 2 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Yale | 4 | 4 | — | 7 | Union | 3 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | Rensselaer | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | Cornell | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Clarkson | 3* | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Clarkson | 3 | 5 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Union | 4 | 4 | — | 6 | Yale | 1 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Colgate | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | Clarkson | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Harvard | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Harvard | 3 | 4* | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Brown | 3 | 6*** | — | 5 | Dartmouth | 1 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | Princeton | 0 | 5 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
| March 8 | Dartmouth | 3 – 2 | St. Lawrence | Thompson Arena | Recap | |||
| (Foreman, Matthews) Drew O'Connor - 10:17 (Graber, Yau) Quin Foreman - PP - 15:01 | First period | 06:33 - Ryan Garvey (Gicewicz, White) | ||||||
| (Sellar) Collin Rutherford - GW - 03:40 | Second period | 09:45 - Dylan Woolf (unassisted) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 14 saves / 16 shots ) Adrian Clark | Goalie stats | Emil Zetterquist ( 33 saves / 36 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9 | Dartmouth | 2 – 3 | OT | St. Lawrence | Thompson Arena | Recap | ||
| (Jasiek, Rutherford) Jeffrey Losurdo - PP - 16:46 | First period | 14:43 - Michael Ederer (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Graber, Foreman) Drew O'Connor - 07:09 | Second period | 04:28 - PP - Cade Gleekel (Laidley, Risteau) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 17:33 - GW - Zach Risteau (Ederer, Hanson) | ||||||
| ( 21 saves / 24 shots ) Adrian Clark | Goalie stats | Daniel Mannella ( 58 saves / 60 shots ) | ||||||
| March 10 | Dartmouth | 8 – 0 | St. Lawrence | Thompson Arena | Recap | |||
| (Losurdo, Baker) Alex Jasiek - GW - 06:20 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Foreman, Matthews) Will Graber - 00:37 (Foreman, Baker) Will Graber - PP - 04:17 (Hesler, Jasiek) Jeffrey Losurdo - 06:24 (Roth, Foreman) Drew O'Connor - PP - 11:59 (Graber, Baker) Quin Foreman - PP - 13:59 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Jasiek, Kilistoff) Ryan Blankemeier - 02:04 (Jasiek, Losurdo) Carl Hesler - 11:09 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 22 shots ) Adrian Clark | Goalie stats | Daniel Mannella ( 13 saves / 17 shots ) / Emil Zetterquist ( 16 saves / 20 shots ) | ||||||
| Dartmouth won series 2–1 | |
| March 8 | Yale | 4 – 1 | Rensselaer | Ingalls Rink | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Snively, Lillibridge) Justin Pearson - 02:51 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Pearson, Sweezey) Ted Hart - GW - 01:49 (Sweezey) Evan Smith - 10:30 (Gaus, Hall) Chandler Lindstrand - EN - 19:34 | Third period | 18:49 - EA - Ottoville Leppänen (Linden, Reilly) | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Corbin Kaczperski | Goalie stats | Owen Savory ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9 | Yale | 4 – 0 | Rensselaer | Ingalls Rink | Recap | |||
| (Snively, Hall) Jack St. Ivany - GW - 04:03 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Welsh, St. Ivany) Joe Snively - PP - 06:06 (Snively, St. Ivany) Tyler Welsh - PP - 17:55 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Smith, Sweezey) Anthony Walsh - EN - 19:38 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 25 shots ) Sam Tucker | Goalie stats | Owen Savory ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
| Yale won series 2–0 | |
| March 8 | Union | 4 – 1 | Colgate | Achilles Center | Recap | |||
| (Maier, Adams) Ryan Walker - PP - 07:28 | First period | 16:32 - Adam Dauda (Meyer, Citron) | ||||||
| (Kolias, Morgan) Cole Maier - GW - 04:53 (Foo) Jack Adams - 05:13 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Estes, Kolias) Liam Morgan - EN - 19:26 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 26 shots ) Darion Hanson | Goalie stats | Mitch Benson ( 28 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9 | Union | 4 – 0 | Colgate | Achilles Center | Recap | |||
| (unassisted) Anthony Rinaldi - GW - 11:21 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Maier, Morgan) Ryan Walker - 09:12 (Rinaldi, Vidmar) Vas Kolias - 14:26 (Walker, Kolias) Liam Morgan - EN - 19:50 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 29 saves / 29 shots ) Darion Hanson | Goalie stats | Mitch Benson ( 27 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
| Union won series 2–0 | |
| March 8 | Brown | 3 – 0 | Princeton | Meehan Auditorium | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Marchin, Crozier) Chris Berger - GW - 09:35 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Beaudoin) Max Gottlieb - 17:37 (Beaudoin, Ferrario) Justin Jallen - EN - 17:58 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 21 saves / 21 shots ) Gavin Nieto | Goalie stats | Jeremie Forget ( 33 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9 | Brown | 6 – 5 | 3OT | Princeton | Meehan Auditorium | Recap | ||
| (Giuttari) Justin Jallen - 12:16 (Brink, Stillwell) Brady Schoo - 12:46 | First period | 14:43 - Alex Riche (Kuffner, Cressey) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 11:43 - Ryan Kuffner (Riche) | ||||||
| (Stillwell, Berger) Tommy Marchin - 01:11 (Brink) Colin Burston - 07:09 (Giuttari) Brady Schoo - 15:23 | Third period | 16:24 - EA - Alex Riche (Cressey, Véronneau) 17:41 - EA - Ryan Kuffner (Grande, Cressey) 19:11 - EA - Jackson Cressey (Kuffner, Riche) | ||||||
| (Beaudoin) Alex Brink - GW - 03:30 | Third overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 35 saves / 40 shots ) Gavin Nieto | Goalie stats | Ryan Ferland ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) / Jeremie Forget ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) / Austin Shaw ( 0 saves / 0 shots ) | ||||||
| Brown won series 2–0 | |
| March 15 | Quinnipiac | 1 – 2 | OT | Brown | People's United Center | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (DiLiberatore, Jermain) Kārlis Čukste - 04:21 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:38 - EA - Brent Beaudoin (Giuttari, Gottlieb) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 17:02 - GW - Jack Gessert (Burston, Stillwell) | ||||||
| ( 38 saves / 40 shots ) Andrew Shortridge | Goalie stats | Gavin Nieto ( 25 saves / 26 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16 | Quinnipiac | 3 – 4 | Brown | People's United Center | Recap | |||
| (Čukste, Martin) Alex Whelan - 01:08 (Fällström, Rafferty) Alex Whelan - 14:12 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Whelan, DiLiberatore) Craig Martin - EA - 18:04 | Third period | 01:22 - Max Gottlieb (Burston, Gessert) 01:54 - Tommy Marchin (Berger, Giuttari) 11:21 - Brent Beaudoin (unassisted) 13:13 - GW - Tommy Marchin (Berger, Crozier) | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 27 shots ) Andrew Shortridge | Goalie stats | Gavin Nieto ( 28 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
| Brown won series 2–0 | |
| March 15 | Cornell | 2 – 3 | Union | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Locke, Barron) Matthew Nuttle - 12:34 (Mullin, Bauld) Kyle Betts - 18:58 | Second period | 09:37 - Sebastian Vidmar (Rinaldi, Campbell) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 10:40 - Cole Maier (Kolias, Morgan) 15:27 - GW - Brett Supinski (Estes, Vidmar) | ||||||
| ( 16 saves / 19 shots ) Matthew Galajda | Goalie stats | Darion Hanson ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16 | Cornell | 4 – 0 | Union | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
| (Donaldson, Barron) Brenden Locke - GW - 01:21 (Starrett, Smith) Mitch Vanderlaan - 02:02 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McCrea, Malott) Noah Bauld - 16:57 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Betts, Bauld) Alex Green - 11:05 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 15 saves / 15 shots ) Matthew Galajda | Goalie stats | Darion Hanson ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| March 17 | Cornell | 4 – 2 | Union | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
| (Bauld, Mullin) Kyle Betts - 00:57 | First period | 04:31 - Anthony Rinaldi (Supinski) 05:43 - Sean Harrison (Foo, Adams) | ||||||
| (Vanderlaan) Beau Starrett - 08:29 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Bauld) Tristan Mullin - GW PP - 03:00 (Kaldis, Vanderlaan) Jeff Malott - 03:42 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) Matthew Galajda | Goalie stats | Darion Hanson ( 30 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| Cornell won series 2–1 | |
| March 15 | Clarkson | 3 – 1 | Yale | Cheel Arena | Recap | |||
| (McCarthy, Brosseau) Josh Dunne - PP - 04:22 (Tisdale, MacLean) Nick Campoli - GW - 13:05 (Dunne, Moro) Aaron Thow - 13:48 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 15:08 - Jack St. Ivany (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 24 shots ) Jake Kielly | Goalie stats | Sam Tucker ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16 | Clarkson | 5 – 2 | Yale | Cheel Arena | Recap | |||
| (Sturm, Egle) Jack Jacome - PP - 16:43 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Kuzmeski, McCarthy) Devin Brosseau - PP - 01:50 | Second period | 15:01 - Ted Hart (Smith) 15:08 - Jack St. Ivany (Lindstrand, Smith) | ||||||
| (Brosseau, Callin) Josh Dunne - GW PP - 06:17 (Klack) Devin Brosseau - PP - 10:39 (Jacome, Egle) Nico Sturm - 15:53 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) Jake Kielly | Goalie stats | Sam Tucker ( 25 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
| Clarkson won series 2–0 | |
| March 15 | Harvard | 3 – 1 | Dartmouth | Bright-Landry Hockey Center | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Rathbone, Fox) Lewis Zerter-Gossage - 09:08 | Second period | 07:50 - Ryan Blankemeier (Strong) | ||||||
| (Kerfoot) Adam Fox - GW - 11:51 (Shore, Fox) Colton Kerfoot - EN - 18:46 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) Cameron Gornet | Goalie stats | Adrian Clark ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9 | Harvard | 4 – 3 | OT | Dartmouth | Bright-Landry Hockey Center | Recap | ||
| (Fox, Walsh) Jack Drury - PP - 11:25 | First period | 01:03 - Brendan Demler (Blankemeier) 02:35 - Drew O'Connor (Foreman, Graber) | ||||||
| (Fox, Rathbone) Michael Floodstrand - 02:29 (Fox, Dornbach) Reilly Walsh - PP - 06:44 | Second period | 12:30 - Quin Foreman (Yau, Graber) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Badini) Nathan Krusko - GW - 02:06 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 36 saves / 39 shots ) Cameron Gornet | Goalie stats | Adrian Clark ( 36 saves / 40 shots ) | ||||||
| Harvard won series 2–0 | |
| March 22 | Cornell | 6 – 0 | Brown | Herb Brooks Arena | Recap | |||
| (Locke, McCrea) Matthew Nuttle - GW PP - 04:10 (Smith, Starrett) Noah Bauld - PP - 06:23 (Kaldis) Tristan Mullin - 12:08 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Kaldis, Galajda) Morgan Barron - 13:33 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Mullin) Joe Leahy - 07:40 (unassisted) Kyle Betts - SH EN - 12:40 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 30 saves / 30 shots ) Matthew Galajda | Goalie stats | Gavin Nieto ( 16 saves / 21 shots ) | ||||||
| March 22 | Clarkson | 5 – 2 | Harvard | Herb Brooks Arena | Recap | |||
| (Sturm) Haralds Egle - 02:59 (Schneider, Hurley) Anthony Callin - 05:13 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Thow, Jokiharju) Nick Campoli - GW - 13:14 | Second period | 14:13 - Wyllum Deveaux (Fox, Badini) | ||||||
| (Sturm, Egle) Jack Jacome - 08:08 (MacLean, Tisdale) Jordan Schneider - 15:54 | Third period | 01:13 - Jack Rathbone (Fox, Shore) | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Jake Kielly | Goalie stats | Michael Lackey ( 19 saves / 22 shots ) / Cameron Gornet ( 7 saves / 9 shots ) | ||||||
| March 23 | Cornell | 2 – 3 | OT | Clarkson | Herb Brooks Arena | Recap | ||
| (Locke, Kaldis) Noah Bauld - 07:29 | First period | 12:26 - PP - Devin Brosseau (Dunne, Thow) 16:43 - PP - Devin Brosseau (Dunne, White) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Nuttle, Vanderlaan) Tristan Mullin - 14:19 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 14:36 - Chris Klack (Brosseau) | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Matthew Galajda / ( 1 saves / 2 shots ) Austin McGrath | Goalie stats | Jake Kielly ( 29 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||