| 2002 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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| Dates | March 8–16, 2002 |
| Teams | 10 |
| Finals site | Olympic Arena Lake Placid, New York |
| Champions | Harvard (6th title) |
| Winning coach | Mark Mazzoleni[1] (1st title) |
| MVP | Tyler Kolarik[2] (Harvard) |
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments
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The 2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 41st tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 16, 2002. 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, Harvard received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
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 best-of-three series 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 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
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| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #9 Cornell† | 22 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 74 | 34 | 35 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 118 | 63 | |
| Clarkson | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 27 | 62 | 51 | 38 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 109 | 97 | |
| #13 Harvard* | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 23 | 67 | 62 | 34 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 97 | 99 | |
| Dartmouth | 22 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 23 | 66 | 59 | 32 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 97 | 89 | |
| Rensselaer | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 23 | 64 | 59 | 37 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 120 | 101 | |
| Princeton | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 51 | 63 | 31 | 11 | 18 | 2 | 66 | 98 | |
| Colgate | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 53 | 59 | 34 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 90 | 121 | |
| Brown | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 52 | 53 | 31 | 14 | 15 | 2 | 72 | 80 | |
| St. Lawrence | 22 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 20 | 62 | 64 | 34 | 11 | 21 | 2 | 83 | 107 | |
| Yale | 22 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 20 | 70 | 65 | 31 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 93 | 94 | |
| Union | 22 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 19 | 53 | 58 | 32 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 94 | 90 | |
| Vermont | 22 | 3 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 46 | 93 | 31 | 3 | 26 | 2 | 62 | 134 | |
| Championship: Harvard † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll | ||||||||||||||
Teams are reseeded after the first round of the Tournament.
| First round[3] March 8–9 | Four vs. Five[4] March 14 | Semifinals March 15 | Championship March 16 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 2 | 4 | – | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Yale | 1 | 2 | – | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Cornell | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Clarkson | 3 | 6 | – | 4 | Dartmouth | 1 | 5 | Rensselaer | 0 | ||||||||||
| 9 | St. Lawrence | 1 | 1 | – | 5 | Rensselaer | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 4 | 2** | – | 1 | Cornell | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Brown | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | Harvard | 4** | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Dartmouth | 5** | 4 | – | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Colgate | 4 | 1 | – | 2 | Clarkson | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 3* | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Rensselaer | 5 | 6 | – | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Princeton | 3 | 0 | – | ||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
| March 8[5] | Cornell | 2 – 1 | Yale | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 02:44 - Chris Higgins (Earl) | ||||||
| (Paolini, Iggulden) Matthew McRae - 14:52 Douglas Murray - GW SH - 17:51 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Matt Underhill ( 21 saves / 22 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dan Lombard ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9[6] | Cornell | 4 – 2 | Yale | Lynah Rink | Recap | |||
| (Bell) Greg Hornby - 02:13 (Knoepfli, Wiekowski) David Francis - 18:00 |
First period | 05:00 - Jason Noe (Steeves, Deschenes) | ||||||
| (Knoepfli, Cook) Matthew McRae - GW PP - 11:01 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Travis Bell - EN SH - 15:26 | Third period | 19:57 - EA PP - Nick Deschenes (Earl, Rodgers) | ||||||
| Matt Underhill ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dan Lombard ( 20 saves / 23 shots ) | ||||||
| Cornell won series 2–0 | |
| March 8[7] | Clarkson | 3 – 1 | Union | Cheel Arena | Recap | |||
| (Ellis-Toddington) Randy Jones - PP - 09:17 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Jones, Ellis-Toddington) Matt Poapst - GW PP - 06:39 (Jones, Lush) Jay Latulippe - 10:44 |
Third period | 16:11 - PP - Rich Peverley (Page, Carruthers) | ||||||
| Mike Walsh ( 32 saves / 33 shots ) | Goalie stats | Mike McKenna ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9[8] | Clarkson | 6 – 1 | Union | Cheel Arena | Recap | |||
| (Edwards, Desrochers) Joe Carosa - 05:03 (Ellis-Toddington, Line) David Evans - GW - 19:24 |
First period | 13:43 - Stace Page (Peverley, Lorentz) | ||||||
| (Latulippe, Jones) Rob McFeeters - PP - 01:30 (McFeeters, O'Flaherty) Ian Manzano - 04:18 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Line, Bahen) David Evans - 06:10 (Ellis-Toddington, Blight) David Evans - 09:24 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Mike Walsh ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) | Goalie stats | Mike McKenna ( 25 saves / 31 shots ) / Sean Knaub ( 3 saves / 3 shots ) | ||||||
| Clarkson won series 2–0 | |
| March 8[9] | Harvard | 4 – 1 | Brown | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
| (Bernakevitch) Tom Cavanagh - 02:16 (Cavanagh) Noah Welch - GW PP - 17:17 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Welch, Cavanagh) Tim Pettit - PP - 00:27 (Kolarik) Dominic Moore - EN - 19:41 |
Third period | 10:26 - Shane Mudryk (Kirley) | ||||||
| Dov Grumet-Morris ( 22 saves / 23 shots ) | Goalie stats | Yann Danis ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9[10] | Harvard | 2 – 1 | 2OT | Brown | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 19:59 - PS - Brent Robinson | ||||||
| (Kolarik, Bernakevitch) Brett Nowak - 05:30 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Dominic Moore - GW - 14:41 | Second overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| Dov Grumet-Morris ( 31 saves / 32 shots ) | Goalie stats | Yann Danis ( 66 saves / 68 shots ) | ||||||
| Harvard won series 2–0 | |
| March 8[11] | Dartmouth | 5 – 4 | 2OT | Colgate | Thompson Arena | Recap | ||
| (Stempniak, Baldwin) Jamie Herrington - 15:05 (Maturo, Gillings) Brian Van Abel - 18:37 |
First period | 04:58 - Bob Vandersluis (Mitchell, McKinnon) 12:22 - Joey Mormina (Vandersluis) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Gillings, Murray) Mike Maturo - 11:00 (Gillings, Herrington) Lee Stempniak - EA - 19:45 |
Third period | 10:27 - PP - Brad D'Arco (Mormina, Yedon) 19:16 - Adam Mitchell (Vandersluis, McKinnon) | ||||||
| (Gillings, Murray) Pete Summerfelt - GW - 14:15 | Second overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| Dan Yacey ( 5 saves / 7 shots ) / Darren Gastrock ( 48 saves / 50 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dave Cann ( 49 saves / 54 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9[12] | Dartmouth | 4 – 1 | Colgate | Thompson Arena | Recap | |||
| (Herrington, Summerfelt) Lee Stempniak - 00:51 | First period | 11:15 - PP - P.J. Yedon (Yashin, D'Arco) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Baldwin, Herrington) Frank Nardella - GW PP - 05:13 (Murray, Maturo) Kent Gillings - 07:02 (Maturo, Baldwin) Chris Taliercio - EN - 19:45 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Darren Gastrock ( 37 saves / 38 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dave Cann ( 33 saves / 36 shots ) | ||||||
| Dartmouth won series 2–0 | |
| March 8[13] | Rensselaer | 5 – 3 | Princeton | Houston Field House | Recap | |||
| (Graham, Murley) Jim Vickers - 11:43 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McPherson, Basiuk) Carson Butterwick - 10:03 | Second period | 00:20 - Sharam Fouladger-Mercer (Schneider) 04:27 - PP - Steve Slaton (Parsons, Parros) | ||||||
| (Henkel, Cavosie) Chris Migliore - 01:05 (Henkel, Cavosie) Chris Migliore - GW - 01:18 (Butterwick, Barr) Andrew McPherson - 12:20 |
Third period | 01:50 - Josh Roberts (Schneider, Parsons) | ||||||
| Nathan Marsters ( 19 saves / 22 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dave Stathos ( 33 saves / 38 shots ) | ||||||
| March 9[14] | Rensselaer | 6 – 0 | Princeton | Houston Field House | Recap | |||
| (Migliore, Murley) Jim Vickers - GW - 03:42 (Murley, Barnes) Marc Cavosie - 08:36 (Graham, Shields) Matt Murley - 14:47 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Cavosie, Vickers) Danny Eberly - PP - 10:17 (Basiuk, Munn) Conrad Barnes - PP - 13:34 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Chris Migliore - SH - 01:11 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Nathan Marsters ( 19 saves / 19 shots ) / James Palmer ( 2 saves / 2 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dave Stathos ( 5 saves / 8 shots ) / Nate Nomeland ( 14 saves / 17 shots ) | ||||||
| Rensselaer won series 2–0 | |
| March 14[15] | Dartmouth | 1 – 2 | Rensselaer | Olympic Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Stempniak, Herrington) Christopher Baldwin - 10:59 | Third period | 17:24 - Matt Murley (Henkel, Eberly) 18:52 - GW - Scott Basiuk (Barr) | ||||||
| Darren Gastrock ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 34 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| March 15[16] | Cornell | 3 – 0 | Rensselaer | Olympic Arena | Recap | |||
| (Knoepfli, Ladouceur) Charlie Cook - GW PP - 04:42 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Kozier) Charlie Cook - 07:02 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McRae) Sam Paolini - 07:06 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Matt Underhill ( 21 saves / 21 shots ) | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
| March 15[17] | Clarkson | 2 – 3 | OT | Harvard | Olympic Arena | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | 15:36 - Dominic Moore (Fried) | ||||||
| Trevor Edwards - 07:25 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Poapst, Ellis-Toddington) Kevin O'Flaherty - 18:14 | Third period | 02:49 - Brett Nowak (McCulloch, Packard) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 15:19 - GW - Tom Cavanagh (Bernakevitch) | ||||||
| Mike Walsh ( 41 saves / 44 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dov Grumet-Morris ( 39 saves / 41 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16[18] | Clarkson | 3 – 4 | Rensselaer | Olympic Arena | Recap | |||
| (Evans, Manzano) Tristan Lush - PP - 13:26 (Jones, O'Flaherty) Matt Poapst - 15:58 |
First period | 17:01 - PP - Matt Murley (Vickers, Cavosie) | ||||||
| (O'Flaherty, Poapst) Randy Jones - PP - 15:06 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 01:23 - PP - Marc Cavosie (Murley, Eberly) 08:06 - PP - Nolan Graham (Basiuk, Munn) 19:28 - GW PP - Matt Murley (Eberly, Vickers) | ||||||
| Mike Walsh ( 30 saves / 34 shots ) | Goalie stats | Nathan Marsters ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16[19] | Cornell | 3 – 4 | 2OT | Harvard | Olympic Arena | Recap | ||
| (Palahicky, McRae) Krzysztof Wiekowski - 17:28 | First period | 16:38 - Dominic Moore (McCulloch) | ||||||
| (Murray) Sam Paolini - PP - 00:42 (Hornby) Shane Palahicky - 16:05 |
Second period | 07:01 - PP - Tim Pettit (Nowak, Capouch) 19:44 - Tim Pettit (Bernakevitch, Cavanagh) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second overtime period | 16:11 - GW - Tyler Kolarik (Bernakevitch, Pettit) | ||||||
| Matt Underhill ( 40 saves / 44 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dov Grumet-Morris ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
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