# 1962 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

The 1962 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 1st tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 10, 1962. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Arena in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, St. Lawrence and Clarkson received invitations to participate in the 1962 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

## Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on conference rankings, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the winner of the first and eighth matchup played the winner of the fourth and fifth matchup while the other two remaining teams played with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.

## Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning percentage; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against
1961–62 ECAC Hockey standingsvte :
| | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall |
| | GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| Colby† | 19 | 17 | 1 | 1 | .921 | 124 | 30 | 27 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 147 | 62 |
| Harvard | 20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | .900 | 103 | 30 | 26 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 130 | 56 |
| Clarkson | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | .900 | 97 | 28 | 26 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 173 | 55 |
| Williams | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 | .825 | 159 | 64 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 159 | 64 |
| Army | 19 | 14 | 4 | 1 | .763 | 81 | 40 | 24 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 111 | 52 |
| Colgate | 24 | 18 | 6 | 0 | .750 | 140 | 57 | 24 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 140 | 57 |
| Rensselaer | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | .750 | 99 | 56 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 142 | 93 |
| Cornell | 16 | 11 | 5 | 0 | .688 | 68 | 45 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 77 | 45 |
| MIT | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | .667 | 70 | 49 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 70 | 49 |
| St. Lawrence* | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | .633 | 83 | 47 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 135 | 78 |
| New Hampshire | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | .588 | 100 | 63 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 103 | 66 |
| Boston College | 25 | 13 | 11 | 1 | .540 | 84 | 75 | 28 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 96 | 86 |
| Merrimack | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | .539 | 71 | 52 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 71 | 52 |
| Providence | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | .529 | 74 | 65 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 110 | 77 |
| Middlebury | 17 | 8 | 8 | 1 | .500 | 83 | 81 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 107 | 98 |
| Bowdoin | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | .476 | 89 | 73 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 106 | 84 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | .444 | 84 | 94 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 84 | 94 |
| Norwich | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | .425 | 105 | 103 | 21 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 109 | 110 |
| Princeton | 21 | 8 | 12 | 1 | .405 | 60 | 88 | 21 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 60 | 88 |
| Dartmouth | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | .400 | 101 | 122 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 101 | 122 |
| Yale | 21 | 7 | 14 | 0 | .333 | 78 | 87 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 78 | 97 |
| Boston University | 24 | 7 | 16 | 1 | .313 | 71 | 119 | 25 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 74 | 123 |
| Northeastern | 23 | 7 | 16 | 0 | .304 | 83 | 136 | 24 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 85 | 149 |
| Brown | 24 | 7 | 17 | 0 | .292 | 82 | 122 | 24 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 81 | 119 |
| Connecticut | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | .278 | 30 | 86 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 30 | 86 |
| American International | 19 | 4 | 15 | 0 | .211 | 78 | 160 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 78 | 160 |
| Hamilton | 15 | 1 | 13 | 1 | .100 | 24 | 72 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 24 | 72 |
| Amherst | 15 | 1 | 14 | 0 | .067 | 20 | 143 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 20 | 143 |
| Championship: St. Lawrence † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion |||||||||||||||

## Bracket

| Quarterfinals March 6 | Quarterfinals March 6 | Quarterfinals March 6 | Semifinals March 9 | Semifinals March 9 | Semifinals March 9 | Championship March 10 | Championship March 10 | Championship March 10 |
| 1 | Clarkson | 6 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Providence | 3 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Providence | 3 | 1 | Clarkson | 4 | | | |
| | | | 3 | Colby | 1 | | | |
| 3 | Colby | 7 | 3 | Colby | 1 | | | |
| 6 | Rensselaer | 6 | | | | | | |
| 6 | Rensselaer | 6 | | | | 1 | Clarkson | 2 |
| | | | | | | 4 | St. Lawrence | 5 |
| 2 | Harvard | 2* | | | | | | | 4 | St. Lawrence | 5 |
| 7 | Army | 1 | | | |
| 7 | Army | 1 | 2 | Harvard | 5 | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| | | | 4 | St. Lawrence | 6 |
| 4 | St. Lawrence | 9 | 4 | St. Lawrence | 6 | 2 | Harvard | 2 |
| 5 | Boston College | 4 | | | | 3 | Colby | 0 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)