ECAC Northeast tournament

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ECAC Northeast tournament
Conference hockey championship
Sport Ice hockey
Conference ECAC Northeast
Format Single-elimination
Played1972–2016

History

The ECAC Northeast tournament began in 1972, after several teams formed the first third-tier ice hockey conference. For the first three years the championship was only a single game between the teams judged to be the top two in the conference. Because all games between ECAC teams regardless of division were counted the teams with the two best records weren't necessarily invited to play. In 1975 the tournament was expanded to 4 teams with one of the four chosen as the host. Host teams were dropped after 1977 with the higher-seeded teams playing at home afterwards. With the conference ballooning to more than two dozen teams, the conference tournament was expanded to 8 for 1984. Two years later the conference split into North and South divisions with each holding an individual 6-team postseason tournament and the two champions meeting to decide the conference champion. When the conference divided itself into three divisions for the 1992–93 season, the divisional tournament was scrapped and replaced with a single 8-team series. The top teams from each division were seeded 1–3 according to their overall conference records while the five teams with the best remaining conference records were seeded 4–8. In 1998 the conference abandoned divisional alignments but did not change the form of the conference tournament. A year later the four Division II programs in the conference played in a separate Division II tournament, allowing the remaining 14 teams to vie for the official ECAC Northeast championship with the champion receiving an automatic bid to the National Tournament.

Contents

1986

Divisional Quarterfinals
February 26
Divisional Semifinals
March 2
Divisional Championships
March 5
Conference Championship
March 8
N1 Southeastern Massachusetts4
N3 Plymouth State4N4 Curry5
N6 Saint Michael's 2 NorthN4 Curry5
N3 Plymouth State 2
N2 Fitchburg State 6
N4 Curry3N3 Plymouth State7
N5 Assumption 2 N4 Curry 1
S1 Trinity5
S1 Trinity7
S3 Iona8S5 St. John's 1
S6 Amherst 4 SouthS1 Trinity9
S2 Connecticut College 4
S2 Connecticut College3
S4 Quinnipiac 1 S3 Iona 2
S5 St. John's6

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1987

Divisional Quarterfinals
February 25
Divisional Semifinals
March 1
Divisional Championships
March 4
Conference Championship
March 7
N1 Southeastern Massachusetts6
N3 Fitchburg State7N5 Curry 4
N6 Hawthorne 3 NorthN1 Southeastern Massachusetts8
N2 Fitchburg State 3
N3 Fitchburg State4
N4 New Hampshire College 1 N2 Framingham State 3
N5 Curry2N1 Southeastern Massachusetts3
S1 Trinity5
S1 Trinity11
S3 Connecticut College10S4 Wesleyan 1
S6 Roger Williams 2 SouthS1 Trinity7
S2 Quinnipiac 5
S2 Quinnipiac6
S4 Wesleyan8S3 Connecticut College 1
S5 Iona 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1988

Divisional Quarterfinals
February 24
Divisional Semifinals
February 27
Divisional Championships
March 2
Conference Championship
March 5
N1 Curry 2
N3 Southeastern Massachusetts5N4 Tufts7
N6 Plymouth State 2 NorthN4 Tufts 2
N2 Fitchburg State8
N2 Fitchburg State4
N4 Tufts9N3 Southeastern Massachusetts3
N5 Saint Michael's 5 N2 Fitchburg State 1
S1 Trinity2
S1 Trinity8
S3 Quinnipiac6S4 Iona 3
S6 Skidmore 1 SouthS1 Trinity7
S2 Connecticut College 5
S2 Connecticut College5
S4 Iona5S3 Quinnipiac 1
S5 Roger Williams 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1989

Divisional Quarterfinals
March 1
Divisional Semifinals
March 4
Divisional Championships
March 8
Conference Championship
March 11
N1 Southeastern Massachusetts4
N3 Saint Michael's5N5 Fitchburg State 3
N6 Suffolk 4 NorthN1 Southeastern Massachusetts10
N2 Curry 4
N2 Curry9
N4 Tufts 2 N3 Saint Michael's 0
N5 Fitchburg State3N1 Southeastern Massachusetts4
S1 Iona 2
S1 Iona3
S3 Trinity11S4 Amherst 0
S6 Wesleyan 1 SouthS1 Iona5
S3 Trinity 3
S2 Connecticut College 1
S4 Amherst4S3 Trinity3
S5 Western New England 1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1990

Divisional Quarterfinals
February 28
Divisional Semifinals
March 3
Divisional Championships
March 7
Conference Championship
March 10
N1 Fitchburg State10
N3 Assumption8** N5 New Hampshire College 4
N6 Curry 7 NorthN1 Fitchburg State3
N2 Southeastern Massachusetts1
N2 Southeastern Massachusetts9
N4 Southern Maine 2 N3 Assumption 4
N5 New Hampshire College4N1 Fitchburg State6
S2 Connecticut College 5
S1 Trinity5
S3 Iona5S4 Western New England 1
S6 Roger Williams 2 SouthS1 Trinity 3
S2 Connecticut College4
S2 Connecticut College5
S4 Western New England4S3 Iona 4
S5 Amherst 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1991

Divisional Quarterfinals
February 27
Divisional Semifinals
March 2
Divisional Championships
March 6
Conference Championship
March 9
N1 Fitchburg State5
N3 Southeastern Massachusetts6N4 Plymouth State 3
N6 Tufts 3 NorthN1 Fitchburg State10
N2 Suffolk 8
N2 Suffolk6
N4 Plymouth State5N3 Southeastern Massachusetts5
N5 Assumption 4 N1 Fitchburg State 3
S2 Trinity4*
S1 Trinity2
S3 Skidmore 3 S6 Roger Williams 1
S6 Roger Williams8SouthS5 Amherst 3
S2 Trinity4
S2 Iona 6
S4 Amherst5S4 Amherst8
S5 Western New England 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1992

Divisional Quarterfinals
March 4
Divisional Semifinals
March 7
Divisional Championships
March 11
Conference Championship
March 14
N1 Assumption4
N3 Southern Maine3N4 Massachusetts–Dartmouth1
N6 Framingham State 1 NorthN1 Assumption 4
N2 Fitchburg State7
N2 Fitchburg State4
N4 Massachusetts–Dartmouth5N3 Southern Maine 3
N5 Suffolk 2 N2 Fitchburg State 2
S1 Amherst3
S1 Amherst6
S3 Fairfield5* S4 Iona 1
S6 Skidmore 4 SouthS1 Amherst5*
S2 Western New England 4
S2 Western New England5
S4 Iona7S3 Fairfield 2
S5 Wesleyan 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

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