ECAC Hockey is one of the six conferences that compete in

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. The conference used to be affiliated with the

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, a consortium of over 300

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s in the eastern United States. This relationship ended in 2004; however, the ECAC abbreviation was retained in the name of the hockey conference. ECAC Hockey is the only ice hockey conference with identical memberships in both its women's and men's divisions.

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has won the most ECAC men's hockey championships with 14, followed by

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at 11. ECAC Hockey teams have won 10 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championships, most recently in

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History

ECAC Hockey was founded in 1961 as a loose association of college hockey teams in the

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won the first NCAA championship for ECAC Hockey in

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in 4-1 victory over fellow ECAC Hockey team

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

. The Big Red won their second title in

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to complete the first and thus far only undefeated campaign in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey history, this time with a 6-4 victory over Clarkson. ECAC Hockey completed back-to-back titles when Boston University won the 1971 championship with a 4-2 victory over

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. The Terriers then made it two in a row for their school and three straight for ECAC Hockey when they repeated as champions in

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with a 4-0 victory over Cornell. Boston University won their third title in

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with a 5-3 victory over

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, another ECAC Hockey member at that time. In June 1983, concerns that the Ivy League schools were potentially leaving the conference and disagreements over schedule length versus academics caused

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, Northeastern and

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to decide to leave the ECAC to form what would become

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, which began play in the 1984–85 season. By that fall,

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also departed the ECAC for the new conference. This left the ECAC with twelve teams (

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, Brown, Clarkson, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, RPI, St. Lawrence,

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, and Yale). Army would stay in the conference until the end of the 1990–91 season, at which point they became independent (they now play in

Atlantic Hockey The Atlantic Hockey Association (AHA) was an NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey conference which operates primarily in the northeastern United States. It participated in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference. Unlike several other ...

) and were replaced by

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. Vermont left the ECAC for Hockey East at the end of the 2004–05 season, and were replaced in the conference by

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. RPI won its second national championship, and first as a member of ECAC Hockey when it defeated Providence of the newly formed Hockey East, 2-1 at the 1985 championship tournament. The Engineers previously won in

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as a member of the Tri-State League.

won its first and thus-far only NCAA Division I Hockey Championship when the Crimson topped Minnesota, 4-3 in overtime at the 1989 Tournament. After seven titles and multiple Frozen Four representatives in the preceding 23-year period, ECAC Hockey suffered through a 23-year drought before

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

won its first title at the 2013 Tournament with a 4-0 victory over first-time finalists

. The 2013 Tournament was also unique in that with Quinnipiac defeating fellow ECAC Hockey school Union to advance to the Frozen Four before losing to Yale in the final, the only teams to defeat an ECAC school at the Tournament were other schools from ECAC Hockey. The Dutchmen gained a measure of revenge when it won the 2014 Championship with a 7-4 victory over Minnesota. After finishing runner up again in 2016, Quinnipiac finally broke through to win their first title at the 2023 Tournament with a 3-2 overtime victory over Minnesota. The ECAC began sponsoring an invitational women's tournament in 1985. ECAC teams began playing an informal regular season schedule in the 1988–89 season, with the conference officially sponsoring women's hockey beginning in the 1993–94 season. ECAC teams won two of the three pre-NCAA

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national championships, New Hampshire winning in 1998 and Harvard in 1999. The ECAC was the only Division I men's hockey conference that neither gained nor lost members during the major conference realignment in 2011 and 2012 that followed the

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's announcement that it would launch a men's hockey league in the 2013–14 season.

Membership

There are 12 member schools in the ECAC. Since the 2006–07 season, all schools have participated with men's and women's teams, making ECAC Hockey the only Division I hockey conference with a full complement of teams for both sexes.

Ivy League Teams

Six

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universities with Division I ice hockey programs are members of ECAC Hockey. Those schools are:

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Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, and

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does not currently have a varsity intercollegiate ice hockey program. Penn supported an intercollegiate varsity hockey program in the past and was an ECAC Hockey member from 1966 to 1978 before the team was disbanded. The Ivy school that has the best record against other Ivy opponents in regular season ECAC games is crowned the Ivy League ice hockey champion. The Ivy League schools require their teams to play seasons that are about three weeks shorter than those of the other schools in the league. Thus, they enter the league schedule with fewer non-conference warm-up games. Harvard competes in the annual

Beanpot Tournament The Beanpot is an annual men's and women's ice hockey tournament among the four major college hockey teams of the Greater Boston area in the United States: the Boston University Terriers, Boston College Eagles, Harvard University Crimson, and N ...

Members

Membership timeline

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Men's tournament sites

The ECAC Championship Game has been held at the following sites: * 1962–1966 —

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(now Matthews Arena),

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* 1966–1992 —

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, Boston * 1993–2002 —

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(now Herb Brooks Arena),

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* 2003–2010 —

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(Pepsi Arena through 2006),

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* 2011–2013 —

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* 2014–2019 —

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* 2020 - Canceled due to

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* 2021 -

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* 2022-2024 -

The winner of the game is awarded the Whitelaw Cup and receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Hockey Tournament.

Men's champions

Championships, Frozen Fours, and NCAA Tournament Appearances

Men's tournament champions

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

St. Lawrence def. Clarkson 5–2 *

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

Harvard def. Boston College 4–3 (ot) *

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

Providence def. St. Lawrence 3–1 *

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...

Boston College def. Brown 6–2 *

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

Clarkson def. Cornell 6–2 *

Cornell def. Boston University 4–3 *

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

Cornell def. Boston College 6–3 *

1969 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the ...

Cornell def. Harvard 4–2 *

Cornell def. Clarkson 3–2 *

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

Harvard def. Clarkson 7–4 *

Boston University def. Cornell 4–1 *

1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...

Cornell def. Boston College 3–2 *

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

Boston University def. Harvard 4–2 *

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

Boston University def. Harvard 7–3 *

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

Boston University def. Brown 9–2 *

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

Boston University def. New Hampshire 8–6 *

Boston College def. Providence 4–2 *

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

New Hampshire def. Dartmouth 3–2 *

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

Cornell def. Dartmouth 5–1 *

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

Providence def. Cornell 8–4 *

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

Northeastern def. Harvard 5–2 *

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

Harvard def. Providence 4–1 *

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

Rensselaer def. Boston University 5–2 *

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

Rensselaer def. Harvard 3–1 *

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

Cornell def. Clarkson 3–2 (ot) *

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

Harvard def. St. Lawrence 6–3 *

1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

St. Lawrence def. Clarkson 3–0 *

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

St. Lawrence def. Vermont 4–1 *

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

Colgate def. Rensselaer 5–4 *

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

Clarkson def. St. Lawrence 5–4 *

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

St. Lawrence def. Cornell 4–2 *

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

Clarkson def. Brown 3–1 *

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

Harvard def. Rensselaer 3–0 *

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

Rensselaer def. Princeton 5–1 *

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Cornell def. Harvard 2–1 *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

Cornell def. Clarkson 2–1 *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

Princeton def. Clarkson 5–4 (2ot) *

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Clarkson def. St. Lawrence 3–2 *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

St. Lawrence def. Rensselaer 2–0 *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

St. Lawrence def. Cornell 3–1 *

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

Harvard def. Cornell 4–3 (2ot) *

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

Cornell def. Harvard 3–2 (ot) *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

Harvard def. Clarkson 4–2 *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Cornell def. Harvard 3–1 *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

Harvard def. Cornell 6–2 *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

Clarkson def. Quinnipiac 4–2 *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

Princeton def. Harvard 4–1 *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Yale def. Cornell 5–0 *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Cornell def. Union 3–0 *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Yale def. Cornell 6–0 *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

Union def. Harvard 3–1 *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Union def. Brown 3–1 *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Union def. Colgate 4–2 *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Harvard def. Colgate 4–2 *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Quinnipiac def. Harvard 4–1 *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

Harvard def. Cornell 4–1 *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Princeton def Clarkson 2–1 *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Clarkson def Cornell 3–2 (ot) *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

Tournament Canceled *

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

St. Lawrence def Quinnipiac 3–2 (ot) *

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

Harvard def Quinnipiac 3-2 (ot) *

Colgate def Harvard 3-2 *

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Cornell def St. Lawrence 3-1 *

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

Cornell def Clarkson 3-1

Regular season champion

The Cleary Cup, named for former Harvard player and coach Bill Cleary since 2001, is awarded to the team with the best record in league games at the end of the regular–season. There is no tie–breaking procedure should two or more teams end the season with the same record and the trophy is shared. A tie breaking procedure is applied to determine the top seed in the ECAC conference tournament. The Cleary Cup winner is not given any special consideration in the NCAA tournament as the ECAC awards its automatic bid to the winner of the ECAC tournament. *1984–85 Rensselaer *1985–86 Harvard *1986–87 Harvard *1987–88 Harvard and St. Lawrence *1988–89 Harvard *1989–90 Colgate *1990–91 Clarkson *1991–92 Harvard *1992–93 Harvard *1993–94 Harvard *1994–95 Clarkson *1995–96 Vermont *1996–97 Clarkson *1997–98 Yale *1998–99 Clarkson *1999–00 St. Lawrence *2000–01 Clarkson *2001–02 Cornell *2002–03 Cornell *2003–04 Colgate *2004–05 Cornell *2005–06 Colgate and Dartmouth *2006–07 St. Lawrence *2007–08 Clarkson *2008–09 Yale *2009–10 Yale *2010–11 Union *2011–12 Union *2012–13 Quinnipiac *2013–14 Union *2014–15 Quinnipiac *2015–16 Quinnipiac *2016–17 Harvard and Union *2017–18 Cornell *2018–19 Cornell and Quinnipiac *2019–20 Cornell *2020–21 Quinnipiac *2021–22 Quinnipiac *2022–23 Quinnipiac *2023–24 Quinnipiac *2024–25 Quinnipiac

Women's champions

Championships, Frozen Fours, and NCAA Tournament Appearances

Women's tournament champions

*1984 Providence def. New Hampshire *1985 Providence def. New Hampshire *1986 New Hampshire def. Northeastern *1987 New Hampshire def. Northeastern *1988 Northeastern def. Providence *1989 Northeastern def. Providence *1990 New Hampshire def. Providence (in

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) *1991 New Hampshire def. Northeastern (Durham) *1992 Providence def. New Hampshire (in

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) *1993 Providence def. New Hampshire (in Boston) *1994 Providence def. Northeastern (Providence) *1995 Providence def. New Hampshire (Providence) *1996 New Hampshire def. Providence (Durham) *1997 Northeastern def. New Hampshire (Boston) *1998 Brown def. New Hampshire (Boston) *1999 Harvard def. New Hampshire (Providence) *2000 Brown def. Dartmouth (Providence) *2001 Dartmouth def. Harvard (in

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) *2002 Brown def. Dartmouth (Hanover) *2003 Dartmouth def. Harvard (Providence) *2004 Harvard def. St. Lawrence (in

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) *2005 Harvard def. Dartmouth (Schenectady) *2006 Harvard def. Brown (in

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) *2007 Dartmouth def. St. Lawrence (Hanover) *2008 Harvard def. St. Lawrence (Boston) *2009 Dartmouth def. Rensselaer (Boston) *2010 Cornell def. Clarkson (in

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) *2011 Cornell def. Dartmouth (Ithaca) *2012 St. Lawrence def. Cornell (Ithaca) *2013 Cornell def. Harvard (Ithaca) *2014 Cornell def. Clarkson (in

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) *2015 Harvard def. Cornell (Potsdam) *2016 Quinnipiac def. Clarkson (

) *2017 Clarkson def. Cornell (Potsdam) *

Clarkson def. Colgate (Potsdam) *2019 Clarkson def. Cornell (Ithaca) *2020 Princeton def. Cornell (Ithaca) *2021 Colgate def. St. Lawrence (Hamilton) *2022 Colgate def. Yale (New Haven) *2023 Colgate def. Clarkson (New Haven) *2024 Colgate def. Clarkson (Hamilton) *2025 Cornell def. Colgate (Ithaca)

Men's conference records

Team's records against current conference opponents. (As of the end of the 2018-19 season.) *Harvard and Princeton both record a loss on January 4, 1941. The game was played in Princeton with the score either 5–3 Harvard or 6–2 Princeton.

Conference arenas

Awards

Men's

At the conclusion of each regular season schedule the coaches of each ECAC team vote which players they choose to be on the two to four All-Conference teams: first team and second team (rookie team starting in 1987–88 and third team beginning in 2005–06). Additionally they vote to award up to 7 individual trophies to an eligible player at the same time. ECAC Hockey also awards a Conference Tournament Most Outstanding Player as well as an All-Tournament Team, which are voted on at the conclusion of the conference tournament. Three awards have been bestowed every year that ECAC has been in operation while the 'Best Defensive Defenseman' was retired from 1967–68 thru 1991–92 and the All-Tournament team was discontinued from

thru

All-Conference teams

Individual awards

† Open to both men and women.

NCAA Records

* In 2000, St. Lawrence University won the second longest game in NCAA tournament history. St. Lawrence defeated

in quadruple overtime by a score of 3–2. Currently, this game is the fifth longest game in NCAA division I history. * On March 4, 2006, Union College played host to the longest NCAA men's ice hockey game in NCAA history. In Game 2 of the first round of the 2006 ECACHL Tournament (best of three series) between Yale University and Union, Yale won 3–2 1:35 into the 5th overtime. Overall, the game took 141:35 to decide the winner. * On March 11, 2010, Quinnipiac defeated Union College 3–2. The game, which lasted 150 minutes and 22 seconds, set a new record for the longest hockey game in NCAA history. The record lasted until March 6, 2015 when a Hockey East playoff game between UMass and Notre Dame lasted just over a minute longer. * Cornell University recorded the only undefeated and untied season for a Division I NCAA champion in 1970.

References

External links

*ECAC Hockey home pages:
Men

Women

ECAC Hockey to Celebrate 50th Anniversary
(September 8, 2010 press release). ECAC Hockey official website. Retrieved September 25, 2010. {{NCAA Division 1 hockey conferences Sports in Albany, New York 1961 establishments in the United States Articles which contain graphical timelines