1980 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament
The 1980 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 19th tournament in league history. It was played between March 11 and March 15, 1980.[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, Cornell and Dartmouth received invitations to participate in the 1980 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
1980 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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Dates | March 11–15, 1980 |
Teams | 8 |
Finals site | Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts |
Champions | Cornell[1] (6th title) |
Winning coach | Dick Bertrand[2] (2nd title) |
MVP | Darren Eliot[3] (Cornell) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
Format edit
The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The three teams that were division champions automatically qualified for the tournament while the remaining five seeds were given to the teams with the highest winning percentage. The top four seeds were given out to the three division champions and the top qualifier and assorted based upon winning percentage. The remaining four seeds were assigned to the other qualifiers and assorted based upon winning percentage. 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 | ||
East Region | ||||||||||||||
Boston College† | 22 | 18 | 3 | 1 | .841 | 124 | 75 | 33 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 184 | 120 | |
Providence | 23 | 17 | 6 | 0 | .739 | 104 | 82 | 32 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 148 | 123 | |
Maine | 22 | 10 | 11 | 1 | .477 | 90 | 112 | 32 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 129 | 144 | |
New Hampshire | 24 | 9 | 15 | 0 | .375 | 97 | 117 | 30 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 120 | 133 | |
Boston University | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | .364 | 99 | 99 | 28 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 128 | 131 | |
Northeastern | 21 | 5 | 16 | 0 | .238 | 77 | 120 | 27 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 103 | 149 | |
West Region | ||||||||||||||
Vermont | 23 | 16 | 7 | 0 | .696 | 98 | 81 | 35 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 156 | 135 | |
Clarkson | 21 | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | 141 | 98 | 34 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 205 | 151 | |
Rensselaer | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | .636 | 114 | 84 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 133 | 112 | |
Colgate | 21 | 10 | 10 | 1 | .500 | 78 | 75 | 31 | 18 | 12 | 1 | 139 | 118 | |
St. Lawrence | 21 | 3 | 18 | 0 | .143 | 54 | 113 | 32 | 6 | 26 | 0 | 97 | 178 | |
Ivy Region | ||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 22 | 15 | 6 | 1 | .705 | 132 | 97 | 31 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 151 | 125 | |
Cornell* | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | .500 | 109 | 108 | 31 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 150 | 146 | |
Brown | 22 | 9 | 11 | 2 | .455 | 78 | 81 | 26 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 91 | 113 | |
Princeton | 21 | 9 | 12 | 0 | .429 | 81 | 93 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 96 | 111 | |
Harvard | 21 | 7 | 11 | 3 | .405 | 83 | 91 | 26 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 102 | 122 | |
Yale | 21 | 5 | 14 | 3 | .295 | 96 | 118 | 26 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 112 | 135 | |
Championship: Cornell † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion |
Bracket edit
Teams are reseeded after the first round
Quarterfinals March 11 | Semifinals March 14 | Championship March 15 | ||||||||||||
1 | Boston College | 1 | ||||||||||||
8 | Cornell | 5 | ||||||||||||
2 | Providence | 5 | ||||||||||||
8 | Cornell | 6 | ||||||||||||
2 | Providence | 8 | ||||||||||||
7 | Colgate | 3 | ||||||||||||
3 | Dartmouth | 1 | ||||||||||||
8 | Cornell | 5 | ||||||||||||
3 | Dartmouth | 8 | ||||||||||||
6 | Rensselaer | 0 | ||||||||||||
3 | Dartmouth | 6 | Third Place | |||||||||||
5 | Clarkson | 4 | ||||||||||||
4 | Vermont | 3 | 2 | Providence | 6* | |||||||||
5 | Clarkson | 8 | 5 | Clarkson | 5 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals edit
(1) Boston College vs. (8) Cornell edit
March 11 | Boston College | 1 – 5 | Cornell | McHugh Forum |
(2) Providence vs. (7) Colgate edit
March 11 | Providence | 8 – 3 | Colgate | Schneider Arena |
(3) Dartmouth vs. (6) Rensselaer edit
March 11 | Dartmouth | 8 – 0 | Rensselaer | Thompson Arena |
(4) Vermont vs. (5) Clarkson edit
March 11 | Vermont | 3 – 8 | Clarkson | Gutterson Fieldhouse |
Semifinals edit
(2) Providence vs. (8) Cornell edit
March 14 | Providence | 5 – 6 | Cornell | Boston Garden |
(3) Dartmouth vs. (5) Clarkson edit
March 14 | Dartmouth | 6 – 4 | Clarkson | Boston Garden |
Third Place edit
(2) Providence vs. (5) Clarkson edit
March 15 | Providence | 6 – 5 | OT | Clarkson | Boston Garden |
Championship edit
(3) Dartmouth vs. (8) Cornell edit
March 15 | Dartmouth | 1 – 5 | Cornell | Boston Garden |
Tournament awards edit
All-Tournament Team edit
None
MOP edit
- Darren Eliot (Cornell)
References edit
- ^ "Cornell Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ^ "Dick Bertrand 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
- 1979–80 ECAC Hockey Standings
- 1979–80 NCAA Standings