ECAC Northeast tournament

ECAC Northeast tournament
Conference hockey championship
SportIce hockey
ConferenceECAC Northeast
FormatSingle-elimination
Played1972–2016

History

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The ECAC Northeast tournament began in 1972, after several teams formed the first third-tier ice hockey conference. For the first three years the championship was only a single game between the teams judged to be the top two in the conference. Because all games between ECAC teams regardless of division were counted the teams with the two best records weren't necessarily invited to play. In 1975 the tournament was expanded to 4 teams with one of the four chosen as the host. Host teams were dropped after 1977 with the higher-seeded teams playing at home afterwards. With the conference ballooning to more than two dozen teams, the conference tournament was expanded to 8 for 1984. Two years later the conference split into North and South divisions with each holding an individual 6-team postseason tournament and the two champions meeting to decide the conference champion. When the conference divided itself into three divisions for the 1992–93 season, the divisional tournament was scrapped and replaced with a single 8-team series. The top teams from each division were seeded 1–3 according to their overall conference records while the five teams with the best remaining conference records were seeded 4–8. In 1998 the conference abandoned divisional alignments but did not change the form of the conference tournament. A year later the four Division II programs in the conference played in a separate Division II tournament, allowing the remaining 14 teams to vie for the official ECAC Northeast championship with the champion receiving an automatic bid to the National Tournament.

1986

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Divisional Quarterfinals
February 26 		Divisional Semifinals
March 2 		Divisional Championships
March 5 		Conference Championship
March 8
N1 Southeastern Massachusetts 4
N3 Plymouth State 4 N4 Curry 5
N6 Saint Michael's 2 NorthN4 Curry 5
N3 Plymouth State 2
N2 Fitchburg State 6
N4 Curry 3 N3 Plymouth State 7
N5 Assumption 2 N4 Curry 1
S1 Trinity 5
S1 Trinity 7
S3 Iona 8 S5 St. John's 1
S6 Amherst 4 SouthS1 Trinity 9
S2 Connecticut College 4
S2 Connecticut College 3
S4 Quinnipiac 1 S3 Iona 2
S5 St. John's 6

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1987

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Divisional Quarterfinals
February 25 		Divisional Semifinals
March 1 		Divisional Championships
March 4 		Conference Championship
March 7
N1 Southeastern Massachusetts 6
N3 Fitchburg State 7 N5 Curry 4
N6 Hawthorne 3 NorthN1 Southeastern Massachusetts 8
N2 Fitchburg State 3
N3 Fitchburg State 4
N4 New Hampshire College 1 N2 Framingham State 3
N5 Curry 2 N1 Southeastern Massachusetts 3
S1 Trinity 5
S1 Trinity 11
S3 Connecticut College 10 S4 Wesleyan 1
S6 Roger Williams 2 SouthS1 Trinity 7
S2 Quinnipiac 5
S2 Quinnipiac 6
S4 Wesleyan 8 S3 Connecticut College 1
S5 Iona 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1988

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Divisional Quarterfinals
February 24 		Divisional Semifinals
February 27 		Divisional Championships
March 2 		Conference Championship
March 5
N1 Curry 2
N3 Southeastern Massachusetts 5 N4 Tufts 7
N6 Plymouth State 2 NorthN4 Tufts 2
N2 Fitchburg State 8
N2 Fitchburg State 4
N4 Tufts 9 N3 Southeastern Massachusetts 3
N5 Saint Michael's 5 N2 Fitchburg State 1
S1 Trinity 2
S1 Trinity 8
S3 Quinnipiac 6 S4 Iona 3
S6 Skidmore 1 SouthS1 Trinity 7
S2 Connecticut College 5
S2 Connecticut College 5
S4 Iona 5 S3 Quinnipiac 1
S5 Roger Williams 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1989

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Divisional Quarterfinals
March 1 		Divisional Semifinals
March 4 		Divisional Championships
March 8 		Conference Championship
March 11
N1 Southeastern Massachusetts 4
N3 Saint Michael's 5 N5 Fitchburg State 3
N6 Suffolk 4 NorthN1 Southeastern Massachusetts 10
N2 Curry 4
N2 Curry 9
N4 Tufts 2 N3 Saint Michael's 0
N5 Fitchburg State 3 N1 Southeastern Massachusetts 4
S1 Iona 2
S1 Iona 3
S3 Trinity 11 S4 Amherst 0
S6 Wesleyan 1 SouthS1 Iona 5
S3 Trinity 3
S2 Connecticut College 1
S4 Amherst 4 S3 Trinity 3
S5 Western New England 1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1990

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Divisional Quarterfinals
February 28 		Divisional Semifinals
March 3 		Divisional Championships
March 7 		Conference Championship
March 10
N1 Fitchburg State 10
N3 Assumption 8** N5 New Hampshire College 4
N6 Curry 7 NorthN1 Fitchburg State 3
N2 Southeastern Massachusetts 1
N2 Southeastern Massachusetts 9
N4 Southern Maine 2 N3 Assumption 4
N5 New Hampshire College 4 N1 Fitchburg State 6
S2 Connecticut College 5
S1 Trinity 5
S3 Iona 5 S4 Western New England 1
S6 Roger Williams 2 SouthS1 Trinity 3
S2 Connecticut College 4
S2 Connecticut College 5
S4 Western New England 4 S3 Iona 4
S5 Amherst 3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1991

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Divisional Quarterfinals
February 27 		Divisional Semifinals
March 2 		Divisional Championships
March 6 		Conference Championship
March 9
N1 Fitchburg State 5
N3 Southeastern Massachusetts 6 N4 Plymouth State 3
N6 Tufts 3 NorthN1 Fitchburg State 10
N2 Suffolk 8
N2 Suffolk 6
N4 Plymouth State 5 N3 Southeastern Massachusetts 5
N5 Assumption 4 N1 Fitchburg State 3
S2 Trinity 4*
S1 Trinity 2
S3 Skidmore 3 S6 Roger Williams 1
S6 Roger Williams 8 SouthS5 Amherst 3
S2 Trinity 4
S2 Iona 6
S4 Amherst 5 S4 Amherst 8
S5 Western New England 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1992

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Divisional Quarterfinals
March 4 		Divisional Semifinals
March 7 		Divisional Championships
March 11 		Conference Championship
March 14
N1 Assumption 4
N3 Southern Maine 3 N4 Massachusetts–Dartmouth 1
N6 Framingham State 1 NorthN1 Assumption 4
N2 Fitchburg State 7
N2 Fitchburg State 4
N4 Massachusetts–Dartmouth 5 N3 Southern Maine 3
N5 Suffolk 2 N2 Fitchburg State 2
S1 Amherst 3
S1 Amherst 6
S3 Fairfield 5* S4 Iona 1
S6 Skidmore 4 SouthS1 Amherst 5*
S2 Western New England 4
S2 Western New England 5
S4 Iona 7 S3 Fairfield 2
S5 Wesleyan 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)