1975 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament
The 1975 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 14th tournament in league history. It was played between March 4 and March 8, 1975.[4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Boston University and Harvard received invitations to participate in the 1975 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
1975 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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Dates | March 4–8, 1975 |
Teams | 8 |
Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
Champions | Boston University[1] (3rd title) |
Winning coach | Jack Parker[2] (2nd title) |
MVP | Rick Meagher[3] (Boston University) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
Format edit
The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on winning percentage, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.
Conference standings edit
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning percentage; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against
Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
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GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
Harvard† | 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | .950 | 105 | 23 | 29 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 184 | 94 | |
Boston University* | 22 | 20 | 2 | 0 | .909 | 137 | 69 | 32 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 221 | 126 | |
Vermont | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0 | .706 | 83 | 63 | 36 | 24 | 12 | 0 | 201 | 131 | |
Cornell | 22 | 15 | 6 | 1 | .705 | 132 | 90 | 28 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 157 | 117 | |
New Hampshire | 25 | 17 | 7 | 1 | .700 | 145 | 87 | 31 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 189 | 116 | |
Providence | 19 | 12 | 6 | 1 | .658 | 129 | 75 | 27 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 197 | 112 | |
Brown | 22 | 13 | 8 | 1 | .614 | 97 | 88 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 120 | 103 | |
Clarkson | 19 | 9 | 9 | 1 | .500 | 97 | 99 | 29 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 142 | 154 | |
Northeastern | 22 | 10 | 11 | 1 | .477 | 100 | 129 | 28 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 136 | 147 | |
Rensselaer | 19 | 8 | 10 | 1 | .447 | 88 | 107 | 28 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 133 | 155 | |
Pennsylvania | 23 | 9 | 13 | 1 | .413 | 94 | 112 | 24 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 98 | 115 | |
Boston College | 20 | 6 | 12 | 2 | .350 | 83 | 103 | 28 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 138 | 142 | |
St. Lawrence | 22 | 7 | 14 | 1 | .341 | 88 | 114 | 28 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 115 | 138 | |
Princeton | 20 | 5 | 13 | 2 | .300 | 70 | 114 | 23 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 79 | 132 | |
Colgate | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | .227 | 101 | 154 | 27 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 133 | 170 | |
Dartmouth | 22 | 4 | 17 | 1 | .205 | 93 | 147 | 24 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 106 | 153 | |
Yale | 20 | 0 | 19 | 1 | .025 | 61 | 136 | 23 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 76 | 152 | |
Championship: Boston University † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion |
Bracket edit
Teams are reseeded after the first round
Quarterfinals March 4 | Semifinals March 7 | Championship March 8 | ||||||||||||
1 | Harvard | 10 | ||||||||||||
8 | Clarkson | 5 | ||||||||||||
1 | Harvard | 6 | ||||||||||||
4 | Cornell | 4 | ||||||||||||
2 | Boston University | 5* | ||||||||||||
7 | Brown | 4 | ||||||||||||
1 | Harvard | 3 | ||||||||||||
2 | Boston University | 7 | ||||||||||||
3 | Vermont | 7 | ||||||||||||
6 | Providence | 5 | ||||||||||||
2 | Boston University | 7 | Third Place | |||||||||||
3 | Vermont | 3 | ||||||||||||
4 | Cornell | 4 | 3 | Vermont | 7 | |||||||||
5 | New Hampshire | 2 | 4 | Cornell | 3 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals edit
(1) Harvard vs. (8) Clarkson edit
March 4 | Harvard | 10 – 5 | Clarkson | Donald C. Watson Rink |
(2) Boston University vs. (7) Brown edit
March 4 | Boston University | 5 – 4 | OT | Brown | Walter Brown Arena |
(3) Vermont vs. (6) Providence edit
March 4 | Vermont | 7 – 5 | Providence | Gutterson Fieldhouse |
(4) Cornell vs. (5) New Hampshire edit
March 4 | Cornell | 4 – 2 | New Hampshire | Lynah Rink |
Semifinals edit
(1) Harvard vs. (4) Cornell edit
March 7 | Harvard | 6 – 4 | Cornell | Boston Garden |
(2) Boston University vs. (3) Vermont edit
March 7 | Boston University | 7 – 3 | Vermont | Boston Garden |
Third Place edit
(3) Vermont vs. (4) Cornell edit
March 8 | Vermont | 7 – 3 | Cornell | Boston Garden |
Championship edit
(1) Harvard vs. (2) Boston University edit
March 8 | Harvard | 3 – 7 | Boston University | Boston Garden |
Tournament awards edit
All-Tournament Team edit
None
MOP edit
- Rick Meagher (Boston University)
References edit
- ^ "Boston University Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ^ "Jack Parker Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ^ "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ^ "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ^ "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
External links edit
- ECAC Hockey Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- 1974–75 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1974–75 NCAA Standings