1998 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament |
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Dates | March 13–21, 1998 |
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Teams | 10 |
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Finals site | Olympic Arena Lake Placid, New York |
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Champions | Princeton[1] (1st title) |
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Winning coach | Don Cahoon[2] (1st title) |
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MVP | Jeff Halpern[3] (Princeton) |
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ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
The 1998 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 37th tournament in league history. It was played between March 13 and March 21, 1998.[4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final five games were played at the Olympic Arena (subsequently renamed Herb Brooks Arena) in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Princeton received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and tenth seeds, the second and ninth seeds, the third seed and eighth seeds, the fourth seed and seventh seeds and the fifth seed and sixth seeds played a modified best-of-three series, where the first team to receive 3 points moves on, with the three highest-seeded winners advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two winners playing in the Four vs. Five matchup. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the winner of the four vs. five game while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Conference standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
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Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the First Round
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| First Round March 13–15 | | | Four vs. Five March 19 | | | Semifinals March 20 | | | Championship March 21 |
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| 1 | Yale | 3* | 3* | 4 |
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| 10 | St. Lawrence | 3 | 3 | 1 | |
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| 2 | Clarkson | 2* | 5 | — | 7 | Princeton | 6 | | | 7 | Princeton | 2 | | |
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| 9 | Vermont | 1 | 3 | — | 8 | Cornell | 2 | | | |
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| 3 | Rensselaer | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | Clarkson | 4 |
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| 8 | Cornell | 5 | 0 | 5 | | | 7 | Princeton | 5** |
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| 4 | Brown | 2 | 6 | 3 | |
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| 7 | Princeton | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | Clarkson | 6 |
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| | 5 | Harvard | 2 | | |
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| 5 | Harvard | 5 | 4 | — | |
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| 6 | Colgate | 4 | 2 | — |
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Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
First round
(1) Yale vs. (10) St. Lawrence
(2) Clarkson vs. (9) Vermont
(3) Rensselaer vs. (8) Cornell
(4) Brown vs. (7) Princeton
(5) Harvard vs. (6) Colgate
Four vs. Five
(7) Princeton vs. (8) Cornell
Semifinals
(1) Yale vs. (7) Princeton
(2) Clarkson vs. (5) Harvard
Third place
(1) Yale vs. (5) Harvard
Championship
(2) Clarkson vs. (7) Princeton
Tournament awards
* Most Outstanding Player(s)
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References
- ^ "Princeton Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ^ "Don Cahoon 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
- ECAC Hockey Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- 1997–98 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1997–98 NCAA Standings
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- ECAC Hockey
- NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
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