# 1966 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

The 1966 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 5th tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 12, 1966. 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 Clarkson was indeed invited to participate in the 1966 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. As runner-up, Cornell received the second bid to the tournament, however, due to a disagreement between the Ivy League and the NCAA on postseason participation the Big Red declined the invitation and were replaced by Boston University.

## 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
1965–66 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 |
| Clarkson†* | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .917 | 67 | 28 | 27 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 150 | 70 |
| Boston University | 19 | 17 | 2 | 0 | .895 | 105 | 75 | 35 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 178 | 92 |
| Cornell | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | .889 | 92 | 33 | 27 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 151 | 54 |
| Brown | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | .667 | 86 | 60 | 25 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 114 | 85 |
| St. Lawrence | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | .567 | 75 | 54 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 130 | 95 |
| Boston College | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | .545 | 105 | 80 | 28 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 135 | 101 |
| Colgate | 16 | 8 | 7 | 1 | .531 | 79 | 67 | 26 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 137 | 98 |
| Northeastern | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .528 | 80 | 71 | 29 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 140 | 120 |
| Harvard | 19 | 8 | 11 | 0 | .421 | 77 | 81 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 104 | 99 |
| Yale | 21 | 8 | 12 | 1 | .405 | 82 | 103 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 86 | 105 |
| Army | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | .350 | 34 | 69 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 132 | 85 |
| Princeton | 19 | 6 | 12 | 1 | .342 | 76 | 101 | 20 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 76 | 101 |
| Dartmouth | 18 | 2 | 14 | 2 | .167 | 55 | 111 | 24 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 80 | 127 |
| Providence | 14 | 2 | 12 | 0 | .143 | 42 | 77 | 21 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 77 | 93 |
| Rensselaer | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | .000 | 18 | 112 | 22 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 42 | 161 |
| Championship: Clarkson † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion |||||||||||||||

## Bracket

| Quarterfinals March 8 | Quarterfinals March 8 | Quarterfinals March 8 | Semifinals March 11 | Semifinals March 11 | Semifinals March 11 | Championship March 12 | Championship March 12 | Championship March 12 |
| 1 | Clarkson | 5 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Colgate | 2 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Colgate | 2 | 1 | Clarkson | 2 | | | |
| | | | 4 | Brown | 1 | | | |
| 4 | Brown | 4 | 4 | Brown | 1 | | | |
| 5 | St. Lawrence | 2 | | | | | | |
| 5 | St. Lawrence | 2 | | | | 1 | Clarkson | 6 |
| | | | | | | 3 | Cornell | 2 |
| 2 | Boston University | 4 | | | | | | | 3 | Cornell | 2 |
| 7 | Northeastern | 1 | | | |
| 7 | Northeastern | 1 | 2 | Boston University | 1 | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| | | | 3 | Cornell | 8 |
| 3 | Cornell | 9 | 3 | Cornell | 8 | 2 | Boston University | 5 |
| 6 | Boston College | 0 | | | | 4 | Brown | 2 |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)