The ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival was an annual

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tournament held annually at

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around the Christmas and New Year holiday. The tournament began in the year the ECAC was founded and continued for fifteen years before dissolving after the 1976–77 season. The tournament was the first mid-season event sponsored by ECAC Hockey and initially only invited four members of the conference to participate. As the competition grew and became more prestigious it was expanded to 6 teams for the 1964 iteration and, two years later, invited the first non-conference member to participate (

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). The championship returned to a 4-team tournament in 1967. For the first 12 years the tournament was held before

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but began to wane in interest and was not held in

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. After a year hiatus it returned, this time being played after the

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. The change to January didn't seem to help matters and the Festival was permanently discontinued three years later.

Yearly results

Note: * denotes overtime

Team records

References

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