2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament logo
Dates	March 2–17, 2012
Teams	12
Finals site	Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City, New Jersey
Champions	Union (1st title)
Winning coach	Rick Bennett (1st title)
MVP	Jeremy Welsh (Union)
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The 2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 2 and March 17, 2012 at campus locations and at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The winner of the tournament received ECAC Hockey's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

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 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Regular season standings

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

2011–12 ECAC Hockey standings
	Conference								Overall
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#3 Union*	22	14	4	4	32	76	38		41	26	8	7	143	75
#10 Cornell	22	12	4	6	30	66	46		35	19	9	7	100	79
#18 Harvard	22	8	5	9	25	61	59		34	13	10	11	106	100
Colgate	22	11	10	1	23	60	57		39	19	17	3	121	113
Quinnipiac	22	9	8	5	23	60	57		40	20	14	6	122	98
Yale	22	10	10	2	22	74	61		35	16	16	3	123	106
Clarkson	22	9	9	4	22	57	60		39	16	17	6	105	109
St. Lawrence	22	10	11	1	21	50	64		36	14	19	3	88	120
Dartmouth	22	8	11	3	19	63	74		33	13	16	4	93	102
Rensselaer	22	7	12	3	17	43	61		39	12	24	3	78	111
Princeton	22	6	12	4	16	58	72		32	9	16	7	85	105
Brown	22	5	13	4	14	54	75		32	9	18	5	75	97
Championship: Union 3, Harvard 1 indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

	First round March 2–4							Quarterfinals March 9–11							Semifinals March 16					Championship March 17
								1	Union	3	4	—			1	Union	6
	5	Quinnipiac	1	3	4			10	Rensselaer	2	2	—			4	Colgate	2
	12	Brown	4	0	2
								2	Cornell	4**	3	—
	6	Yale	4	4	7			9	Dartmouth	3	1	—								1	Union	3
	11	Princeton	2	5*	3															3	Harvard	1
								3	Harvard	1	4**	8
	7	Clarkson	1	4***	1			6	Yale	2*	3	2
	10	Rensselaer	5	3	4															Third place
								4	Colgate	4	2	4			2	Cornell	1
	8	St. Lawrence	3	1	—			5	Quinnipiac	2	4	0			3	Harvard	6			2	Cornell	3
	9	Dartmouth	6	4	—															4	Colgate	0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

• F Daniel Carr (Union)
• F Alex Killorn (Harvard)
• F Jeremy Welsh* (Union)
• D Danny Biega (Harvard)
• D Shayne Gostisbehere (Union)
• G Troy Grosenick (Union)

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

External links

• 2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament