2020 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

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2020 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament
DatesMarch 6–21, 2020
Teams12
Finals siteHerb Brooks Arena
Lake Placid, New York
ChampionsTournament Canceled ( title)
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

The 2020

tournament in league history. It was scheduled to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the Semifinal and Championship games were to be played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York
.

On Sunday, March 8, 2020 Rensselaer announced that their quarterfinal series against Harvard scheduled for March 13–15 would be played without fans in attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Three days later, on March 11, it was announced that Harvard would not allow their team to travel to Rensselaer and withdrew from the tournament due to coronavirus fears.[2] Yale also withdrew from the tournament on March 11 and it was decided to reseed the tournament with Cornell and Clarkson being given byes to the semifinals.[3] Previously on March 10, 2020 Cornell had announced that fans would not be allowed at their quarterfinal series against Princeton. On March 12, ECAC Hockey announced that the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

Format

The tournament features four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings received 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

2020 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
.

Conference standings

2019–20 ECAC Hockey Standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#1 Cornell † 22 18 2 2 38 81 34 29 23 2 4 104 45
#7 Clarkson 22 16 5 1 33 63 38 34 23 8 3 96 63
#14 Quinnipiac 22 14 6 2 30 64 45 34 21 11 2 94 78
Rensselaer 22 13 8 1 27 63 41 34 17 15 2 95 87
Harvard 22 11 6 5 27 82 59 31 15 10 6 116 87
Dartmouth 22 10 10 2 22 60 73 31 13 14 4 93 106
Yale 22 10 10 2 22 57 64 32 15 15 2 77 97
Colgate 22 8 9 5 21 50 54 36 12 16 8 76 87
Brown 22 8 12 2 18 41 54 31 8 21 2 52 84
Union
 22 5 15 2 12 46 71 37 8 25 4 67 112
Princeton 22 2 16 4 8 46 71 31 6 20 5 66 100
St. Lawrence 22 2 18 2 6 37 81 36 4 27 5 64 130
Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll
; updated March 23, 2020

Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the Quarterfinals and Semifinals. Bracket below represents tournament as it was to be played just prior to cancellation, after Harvard and Yale had withdrawn.

First Round
March 6–8 		Quarterfinals
March 13–15 		Semifinals
March 20 		Championship
March 21
3 Quinnipiac
5 Harvard 5 7 — 11 Princeton
12 St. Lawrence 3 1 — 1 Cornell
 
 
6 Dartmouth 3 4 —  
11 Princeton 4* 5* —  
 
 
7 Yale 0 4 2**  
10 Union 3 1 1 2 Clarkson
 
4 Rensselaer
8 Colgate 3 3* — 8 Colgate
9 Brown 0 2 —

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

First round

References

  1. ^ "Rensselaer-Harvard ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series to be played with no fans due to coronavirus". March 8, 2020.
  2. ^ "Breaking: Harvard Ends Its Season, Won't Participate in Remaining ECAC Playoffs".
  3. ^ https://cornellbigred.com/news/2020/3/11/mens-ice-hockey-reseeding-sends-1-mens-hockey-through-to-ecac-hockey-semifinals.aspx[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "ECAC Hockey Cancels Remainder of Men's Tournament". ecachockey.com. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
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