1966 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1966 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 5th tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 12, 1966.[4] Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Arena in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game Clarkson was indeed invited to participate in the 1966 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. As runner-up, Cornell received the second bid to the tournament, however, due to a disagreement between the Ivy League and the NCAA on postseason participation the Big Red declined the invitation and were replaced by Boston University.[5]

1966 ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
DatesMarch 8–12, 1966
Teams8
Finals siteBoston Arena
Boston, Massachusetts
ChampionsClarkson[1] (1st title)
Winning coachLen Ceglarski[2] (1st title)
MVPTerry Yurkiewicz[3] (Clarkson)
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on conference rankings, 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 winner of the first and eighth matchup played the winner of the fourth and fifth matchup while the other two remaining teams played with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.

Conference Standings

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

1965–66 ECAC Hockey standings
Conference Overall
GP W L T Pct. GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Clarkson†*121110.917672827243015070
Boston University191720.8951057535278017892
Cornell181620.889923327225015154
Brown181260.667866025169011485
St. Lawrence15861.567755424158113095
Boston College2212100.545105802816120135101
Colgate16871.5317967261411113798
Northeastern18981.52880712916121140120
Harvard198110.4217781231012110499
Yale218121.40582103231012186105
Army10361.350346925177113285
Princeton196121.3427610120712176101
Dartmouth182142.1675511124517280127
Providence142120.14342772171407793
Rensselaer130130.0001811222319042161
Championship: Clarkson
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion

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Bracket
  Quarterfinals
March 8		 Semifinals
March 11		 Championship
March 12
                           
  1 Clarkson 5  
8 Colgate 2  
  1 Clarkson 2  
  4 Brown 1  
4 Brown 4
  5 St. Lawrence 2  
    1 Clarkson 6
  3 Cornell 2
  2 Boston University 4  
7 Northeastern 1  
  2 Boston University 1 Third place
  3 Cornell 8  
3 Cornell 9 2 Boston University 5
  6 Boston College 0   4 Brown 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

(1) Clarkson vs. (8) Colgate

(2) Boston University vs. (7) Northeastern

(3) Cornell vs. (6) Boston College

(4) Brown vs. (5) St. Lawrence

(1) Clarkson vs. (4) Brown

(2) Boston University vs. (3) Cornell

(2) Boston University vs. (4) Brown

(1) Clarkson vs. (3) Cornell

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

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References
  1. "Clarkson Men's Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. "Len Ceglarski Year-by-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  3. "ECAC Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  4. "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  5. "Cornell Men's Hockey Media Guide Pages 59-88 (History and Records)" (PDF). Cornell Big Red. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  6. "2008-09 ECAC Hockey Media Guides". ECAC Hockey. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  7. "Men's All-Tournament Teams" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
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