# 1994 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

The 1994 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 33rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 19, 1994. Preliminary and quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' 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 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

## Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the preliminary round, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds each play a single game to determine the final qualifying teams for the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the first seed and lower ranked qualifier, the second and higher ranked qualifier, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played a modified best-of-three series, where the first team to receive 3 points moves on. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed 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 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

## Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
1993–94 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 |
| Harvard†* | 22 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 36 | 107 | 60 | 33 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 155 | 89 |
| Clarkson | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 92 | 67 | 34 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 147 | 114 |
| Rensselaer | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 99 | 75 | 36 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 171 | 115 |
| Brown | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 27 | 91 | 73 | 32 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 116 | 117 |
| Vermont | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 86 | 75 | 33 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 127 | 113 |
| Union | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 23 | 83 | 89 | 30 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 117 | 118 |
| Colgate | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 97 | 90 | 33 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 144 | 137 |
| Cornell | 22 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 73 | 89 | 30 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 97 | 126 |
| Princeton | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 63 | 80 | 28 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 88 | 101 |
| St. Lawrence | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 74 | 95 | 31 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 99 | 134 |
| Yale | 22 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 58 | 102 | 27 | 5 | 21 | 1 | 73 | 133 |
| Dartmouth | 22 | 4 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 80 | 111 | 27 | 5 | 21 | 1 | 94 | 137 |
| Championship: Harvard † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) |||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first two rounds
| Preliminary Round March 8 | Preliminary Round March 8 | Preliminary Round March 8 | Quarterfinals March 11–13 | Quarterfinals March 11–13 | Quarterfinals March 11–13 | Quarterfinals March 11–13 | Quarterfinals March 11–13 | Semifinals March 18 | Semifinals March 18 | Semifinals March 18 | Championship March 19 | Championship March 19 | Championship March 19 |
| | | | 1 | Harvard | 5 | 5 | — | | | | | | |
| 7 | Colgate | 4 | 8 | Cornell | 4 | 3 | — | | | | | | |
| 10 | St. Lawrence | 3 | | | | | | 1 | Harvard | 5 | | | |
| | | | | | | | | 4 | Brown | 1 | | | |
| | | | 2 | Clarkson | 7 | 5 | — | | | | | | |
| | | | 7 | Colgate | 6 | 2 | — | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | Harvard | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | Rensselaer | 0 |
| | | | 3 | Rensselaer | 3 | 5 | 8 | | | |
| 8 | Cornell | 5* | 6 | Union | 4 | 1 | 3 | | | |
| 9 | Princeton | 4 | | | | | | 2 | Clarkson | 2 | Third Place | Third Place | Third Place |
| | | | | | | | | 3 | Rensselaer | 6 |
| | | | 4 | Brown | 5 | 3 | 3 | | | | 2 | Clarkson | 6 |
| | | | 5 | Vermont | 8 | 2 | 2 | | | | 4 | Brown | 2 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

### Quarterfinals
#### (1) Harvard vs. (8) Cornell

* Harvard won series 2–0

#### (2) Clarkson vs. (7) Colgate

* Clarkson won series 2–0

#### (3) Rensselaer vs. (6) Union

* Rensselaer won series 2–1

#### (4) Brown vs. (5) Vermont

* Brown won series 2–1

### Championship
#### (1) Harvard vs. (3) Rensselaer
## Tournament awards
### All-Tournament Team

* F Bryan Richardson (Rensselaer)
* F Steve Martins (Harvard)
* F Craig Conroy (Clarkson)
* D Derek Maguire (Harvard)
* D Sean McCann* (Harvard)
* G Aaron Israel (Harvard)
* Most Outstanding Player(s)