2016 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

The 2016 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 55th tournament in league history. It was played between March 4 and March 19, 2016. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, the team receives the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
==Format==
The tournament features four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings receive a bye to the quarterfinal round. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth seeds, the sixth and eleventh seeds, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the one seed plays the lowest remaining seed, the second seed plays the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed plays the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed plays the fourth-lowest remaining seed another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the Semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game, and no third-place game is played. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2016 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
==Bracket==
Teams are reseeded after the First Round and Quarterfinals
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
==Results==
===First round===
====(5) Clarkson vs. (12) Princeton====
====(6) Rensselaer vs. (11) Brown====
====(7) Dartmouth vs. (10) Colgate====
====(8) Cornell vs. (9) Union====
===Quarterfinals===
====(1) Quinnipiac vs. (8) Cornell====
====(2) Yale vs. (7) Dartmouth====
====(3) Harvard vs. (6) Rensselaer====
====(4) St. Lawrence vs. (5) Clarkson====
===Semifinals===
====(1) Quinnipiac vs. (7) Dartmouth====
====(3) Harvard vs. (4) St. Lawrence====
===Championship===
====(1) Quinnipiac vs. (3) Harvard====
==Tournament awards==
===All-Tournament Team===
*F Travis St. Denis (Quinnipiac)
*F Landon Smith (Quinnipiac)
*F Jimmy Vesey (Harvard)
*D Connor Clifton* (Quinnipiac)
*D Gavin Bayreuther (St. Lawrence)
*G Michael Garteig (Quinnipiac)
* Most Outstanding Player(s)
==Media==
===Television===
ASN had the television rights to semifinals and championship game during the tournament.
====Broadcast Assignments====
Semifinals & Championship
*Eric Frede & Colby Cohen
===Streaming===
Every game during the tournament was streamed through the ECAC Hockey's website.
==References==
ECAC Tournament
Category:ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament
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