2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 42nd tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2003. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Cornell received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

The 2003 Tournament was the first to include 4 rounds of play as well as all member schools of ECAC Hockey in the postseason championship.

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings receive a bye to the quarterfinal round. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth seeds, the sixth and eleventh seeds, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the one seed plays the lowest remaining seed, the second seed plays the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed plays the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed plays the fourth-lowest remaining seed in another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the Semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game while the losers play in a third-place game. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference Standings

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#1 Cornell†* 22 19 2 1 39 89 29 36 30 5 1 133 49
#10 Harvard 22 17 4 1 35 94 47 34 22 10 2 133 78
Dartmouth 22 13 9 0 26 77 71 34 20 13 1 127 110
Yale 22 13 9 0 26 94 73 32 18 14 0 121 107
Brown 22 10 8 4 24 65 54 35 16 14 5 96 83
Union 22 10 10 2 22 62 68 36 14 18 4 105 113
Clarkson 22 9 10 3 21 69 56 35 12 20 3 96 99
Colgate 22 9 10 3 21 49 71 40 17 19 4 96 127
St. Lawrence 22 7 12 3 17 65 80 37 11 21 5 103 129
Vermont 22 8 14 0 16 58 85 36 13 20 3 104 142
Rensselaer 22 4 15 3 11 49 84 40 12 25 3 94 134
Princeton 22 2 18 2 6 46 99 31 3 26 2 62 140
Championship: Cornell
indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals

  First Round[3]
March 7–9
Quarterfinals[4]
March 14–16
Semifinals[5]
March 21
Championship
March 22
                                             
  1  Cornell 3 4 1  Cornell 2  
5  Brown 2 3 11  Rensselaer 2 0 5  Brown 0  
12  Princeton 1 1
  2  Harvard 4 5
6  Union 1 2 10  Vermont 2 1     1  Cornell 3*
11  Rensselaer 2 3   2  Harvard 2
  3  Dartmouth 3 3 5
7  Clarkson 2 1 8  Colgate 4**** 1 2
10  Vermont 3 6 Third Place
  4  Yale 3 2 0 2  Harvard 5
8  Colgate 1 3* 5 5  Brown 4* 1 4 3  Dartmouth 3   3  Dartmouth 4
9  St. Lawrence 2 2 2 5  Brown 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(5) Brown vs. (12) Princeton

Brown won series 2–0

(6) Union vs. (11) Rensselaer

Rensselaer won series 2–0

(7) Clarkson vs. (10) Vermont

Vermont won series 2–0

(8) Colgate vs. (9) St. Lawrence

Colgate won series 2–1

Quarterfinals

(1) Cornell vs. (11) Rensselaer

Cornell won series 2–0

(2) Harvard vs. (10) Vermont

Harvard won series 2–0

(3) Dartmouth vs. (7) Colgate

Dartmouth won series 2–1

(4) Yale vs. (5) Brown

Brown won series 2–1

Semifinals

(1) Cornell vs. (5) Brown

(2) Harvard vs. (3) Dartmouth

Third place

(3) Dartmouth vs. (5) Brown

Championship

(1) Cornell vs. (2) Harvard

Tournament awards[29]

All-Tournament Team[30]

Tournament Three Stars

  • 3 Tyler Kolarik (Harvard)
  • 2 Kent Gillings (Dartmouth)
  • 1 Sam Paolini (Cornell)

MOP

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