Whitelaw Cup

The Whitelaw Cup is an annual award given to the winner of the ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. The recipient receives ECAC Hockey's automatic bid to that year's NCAA Tournament.

Whitelaw Cup
Sport	Ice hockey
Given for	ECAC Hockey Tournament Champion
History
First award	1962
Editions	58
First winner	St. Lawrence
Most wins	Cornell (12)
Most recent	Clarkson

The Boston Garden hosted the ECAC tournament final from 1967 to 1992.

The Times Union Center hosted the ECAC tournament final from 2003 to 2010.

History

The tournament has had slight variations over the course of its history, but until 2003 it entailed 8 or 10 teams in three rounds of play. Since 2003, it has contained 12 teams in four rounds of play.

The tournament was first hosted at the Boston Arena in Boston with St. Lawrence winning the inaugural tournament. The Boston Garden in Boston hosted the tournament every year from 1967 through 1992 and was succeeded by the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York from 1993 to 2002 and again in 2014. The Times Union Center and the Boardwalk Hall have also hosted ECAC tournament championships. Cornell has won the most ECAC Hockey championships with twelve as well as appearing in the most championship games at twenty-one. Mike Schafer and Joe Marsh have both coached five championship teams, with the former appearing in the most title games (11).

In 1989 the trophy was renamed in honor of retiring commissioner Robert Whitelaw.[1]

The ECAC tournament is the second-oldest active collegiate ice hockey conference tournament behind only the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), which began in 1960.

Champions

Year	Winning team	Coach	Losing team	Coach	Score	Location	Venue	Reference
1962	St. Lawrence	George Menard	Clarkson	Len Ceglarski	5–2	Boston	Boston Arena	[2]
1963	Harvard	Cooney Weiland	Boston College	John Kelley	4–3 (OT)	Boston	Boston Arena
1964	Providence	Tom Eccleston	St. Lawrence	George Menard	3–1	Boston	Boston Arena
1965	Boston College	John Kelley	Brown	James Fullerton	6–2	Boston	Boston Arena
1966	Clarkson	Len Ceglarski	Cornell	Ned Harkness	6–2	Boston	Boston Arena
1967	Cornell	Ned Harkness	Boston University	Jack Kelley	4–3	Boston	Boston Garden
1968	Cornell	Ned Harkness	Boston College	John Kelley	6–3	Boston	Boston Garden
1969	Cornell	Ned Harkness	Harvard	Cooney Weiland	4–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1970	Cornell	Ned Harkness	Clarkson	Len Ceglarski	3–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1971	Harvard	Cooney Weiland	Clarkson	Len Ceglarski	7–4	Boston	Boston Garden
1972	Boston University	Jack Kelley	Cornell	Dick Bertrand	4–1	Boston	Boston Garden
1973	Cornell	Dick Bertrand	Boston College	Len Ceglarski	3–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1974	Boston University	Jack Parker	Harvard	Bill Cleary	4–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1975	Boston University	Jack Parker	Harvard	Bill Cleary	7–3	Boston	Boston Garden
1976	Boston University	Jack Parker	Brown	Richard Toomey	9–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1977	Boston University	Jack Parker	New Hampshire	Charlie Holt	8–6	Boston	Boston Garden
1978	Boston College	Len Ceglarski	Providence	Lou Lamoriello	4–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1979	New Hampshire	Charlie Holt	Dartmouth	George Crowe	3–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1980	Cornell	Dick Bertrand	Dartmouth	George Crowe	5–1	Boston	Boston Garden
1981	Providence	Lou Lamoriello	Cornell	Dick Bertrand	8–4	Boston	Boston Garden
1982	Northeastern	Fern Flaman	Harvard	Bill Cleary	5–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1983	Harvard	Bill Cleary	Providence	Lou Lamoriello	4–1 (OT)	Boston	Boston Garden
1984	Rensselaer	Mike Addesa	Boston University	Jack Parker	5–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1985	Rensselaer	Mike Addesa	Harvard	Bill Cleary	5–1	Boston	Boston Garden
1986	Cornell	Lou Reycroft	Clarkson	Cap Raeder	3–2 (OT)	Boston	Boston Garden
1987	Harvard	Bill Cleary	St. Lawrence	Joe Marsh	6–3	Boston	Boston Garden
1988	St. Lawrence	Joe Marsh	Clarkson	Cap Raeder	3–0	Boston	Boston Garden
1989	St. Lawrence	Joe Marsh	Vermont	Mike Gilligan	4–1	Boston	Boston Garden
1990	Colgate	Terry Slater	Rensselaer	Buddy Powers	5–4	Boston	Boston Garden
1991	Clarkson	Mark Morris	St. Lawrence	Joe Marsh	5–4	Boston	Boston Garden
1992	St. Lawrence	Joe Marsh	Cornell	Brian McCutcheon	4–2	Boston	Boston Garden
1993	Clarkson	Mark Morris	Brown	Bob Gaudet	3–1	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
1994	Harvard	Ronn Tomassoni	Rensselaer	Buddy Powers	3–0	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
1995	Rensselaer	Dan Fridgen	Princeton	Don Cahoon	5–1	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
1996	Cornell	Mike Schafer	Harvard	Ronn Tomassoni	2–1	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
1997	Cornell	Mike Schafer	Clarkson	Mark Morris	2–1	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
1998	Princeton	Don Cahoon	Clarkson	Mark Morris	5–4 (OT)	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
1999	Clarkson	Mark Morris	St. Lawrence	Joe Marsh	3–2	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
2000	St. Lawrence	Joe Marsh	Rensselaer	Dan Fridgen	2–0	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
2001	St. Lawrence	Joe Marsh	Cornell	Mike Schafer	3–1	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
2002	Harvard	Mark Mazzoleni	Cornell	Mike Schafer	4–3 (2OT)	Lake Placid, New York	Olympic Arena
2003	Cornell	Mike Schafer	Harvard	Mark Mazzoleni	3–2 (OT)	Albany, New York	Pepsi Arena
2004	Harvard	Mark Mazzoleni	Clarkson	George Roll	4–2	Albany, New York	Pepsi Arena
2005	Cornell	Mike Schafer	Harvard	Ted Donato	3–1	Albany, New York	Pepsi Arena
2006	Harvard	Ted Donato	Cornell	Mike Schafer	6–2	Albany, New York	Pepsi Arena
2007	Clarkson	George Roll	Quinnipiac	Rand Pecknold	4–2	Albany, New York	Times Union Center
2008	Princeton	Guy Gadowsky	Harvard	Ted Donato	4–1	Albany, New York	Times Union Center
2009	Yale	Keith Allain	Cornell	Mike Schafer	5–0	Albany, New York	Times Union Center
2010	Cornell	Mike Schafer	Union	Nate Leaman	3–0	Albany, New York	Times Union Center
2011	Yale	Keith Allain	Cornell	Mike Schafer	6–0	Atlantic City, New Jersey	Boardwalk Hall
2012	Union	Rick Bennett	Harvard	Ted Donato	3–2	Atlantic City, New Jersey	Boardwalk Hall
2013	Union	Rick Bennett	Brown	Brendan Whittet	3–1	Atlantic City, New Jersey	Boardwalk Hall
2014	Union	Rick Bennett	Colgate	Don Vaughan	5–2	Lake Placid, New York	Herb Brooks Arena
2015	Harvard	Ted Donato	Colgate	Don Vaughan	4–2	Lake Placid, New York	Herb Brooks Arena
2016	Quinnipiac	Rand Pecknold	Harvard	Ted Donato	4–1	Lake Placid, New York	Herb Brooks Arena
2017	Harvard	Ted Donato	Cornell	Mike Schafer	4–1	Lake Placid, New York	Herb Brooks Arena
2018	Princeton	Ron Fogarty	Clarkson	Casey Jones	2–1 (OT)	Lake Placid, New York	Herb Brooks Arena
2019	Clarkson	Casey Jones	Cornell	Mike Schafer	3–2 (OT)	Lake Placid, New York	Herb Brooks Arena
2020	Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic							[3]

References

1. "Cleary & Whitelaw Cups" (PDF). ECAC Hockey. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
2. "ECAC Hockey Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
3. "ECAC Hockey Cancels Remainder of Men's Tournament". ecachockey.com. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020.

External links

• The Official Site of ECAC Hockey