# 2010 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

The 2010 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 49th tournament in league history. It was played between March 5 and March 20, 2010. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Cornell received the ECAC Hockey automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
In the Quarterfinals series between Union and Quinnipiac the first match became the longest game played in NCAA history when the winning goal was scored in the 151st minute of play (the fifth overtime).

## Format

The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth, sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest ranked first round winner, the second seed and second lowest ranked first round winner, the third seed and second highest ranked first round winner, and the fourth seed and highest ranked first round winner play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

### Regular season standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
2009–10 ECAC Hockey standingsvte :
| | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall |
| | GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #6 Yale† | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 92 | 72 | 34 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 141 | 105 |
| #9 Cornell* | 22 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 74 | 43 | 34 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 107 | 67 |
| Union | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 81 | 60 | 39 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 134 | 100 |
| Colgate | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 26 | 78 | 70 | 36 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 118 | 119 |
| St. Lawrence | 22 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 23 | 62 | 61 | 42 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 118 | 121 |
| Rensselaer | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 23 | 64 | 58 | 39 | 18 | 17 | 4 | 109 | 108 |
| Quinnipiac | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 22 | 71 | 63 | 40 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 123 | 114 |
| Princeton | 22 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 65 | 76 | 31 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 91 | 103 |
| Harvard | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 61 | 70 | 33 | 9 | 21 | 3 | 82 | 113 |
| Dartmouth | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 69 | 79 | 32 | 10 | 19 | 3 | 96 | 115 |
| Brown | 22 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 64 | 95 | 37 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 103 | 134 |
| Clarkson | 22 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 50 | 84 | 37 | 9 | 24 | 4 | 92 | 136 |
| Championship: Cornell † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll |||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals
| First round March 5–7 | First round March 5–7 | First round March 5–7 | First round March 5–7 | First round March 5–7 | Quarterfinals March 12–14 | Quarterfinals March 12–14 | Quarterfinals March 12–14 | Quarterfinals March 12–14 | Quarterfinals March 12–14 | Semifinals March 19 | Semifinals March 19 | Semifinals March 19 | Championship March 20 | Championship March 20 | Championship March 20 |
| | | | | | 1 | Yale | 2 | 6 | 0 | | | | | | |
| 5 | St. Lawrence | 3* | 3 | 3 | 11 | Brown | 3 | 3 | 1 | | | | | | |
| 12 | Clarkson | 2 | 4* | 2 | | | | | | 2 | Cornell | 3 | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 11 | Brown | 0 | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | Cornell | 5 | 3 | — | | | | | | |
| 6 | Rensselaer | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | Harvard | 1 | 0 | — | | | | | | |
| 11 | Brown | 3 | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | | | 2 | Cornell | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | Union | 0 |
| | | | | | 3 | Union | 2 | 3 | 2 | | | |
| 7 | Quinnipiac | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | Quinnipiac | 3***** | 1 | 1 | | | |
| 10 | Dartmouth | 2 | 6 | 1 | | | | | | 3 | Union | 3 | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| | | | | | | | | | | 5 | St. Lawrence | 1 |
| | | | | | 4 | Colgate | 1 | 3 | — | | | | 5 | St. Lawrence | 0 |
| 8 | Princeton | 2 | 0 | — | 5 | St. Lawrence | 2 | 4 | — | | | | 11 | Brown | 3 |
| 9 | Harvard | 4 | 3 | — | | | | | | | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

### First round
#### (5) St. Lawrence vs. (12) Clarkson

* St. Lawrence won series 2–1

#### (6) Rensselaer vs. (11) Brown

* Brown won series 2–1

#### (7) Quinnipiac vs. (10) Dartmouth

* Quinnipiac won series 2–1

#### (8) Princeton vs. (9) Harvard

* Harvard won series 2–0

### Quarterfinals
#### (1) Yale vs. (11) Brown

* Brown won series 2–1

#### (2) Cornell vs. (9) Harvard

* Cornell won series 2–0

#### (3) Union vs. (7) Quinnipiac

* Union won series 2–1

#### (4) Colgate vs. (5) St. Lawrence

* St. Lawrence won series 2–0

### Championship
#### (2) Cornell vs. (3) Union
## Tournament awards
### All-Tournament Team

* F Colin Greening (Cornell)
* F Riley Nash (Cornell)
* F Adam Presiznuk (Union)
* D Justin Krueger (Cornell)
* D Mike Schreiber (Union)
* G Ben Scrivens* (Cornell)
* Most Outstanding Player(s)