Dates March 4–19, 2016 Champions Quinnipiac (1st title) | Teams 12 | |
Finals site Herb Brooks Arena
Lake Placid, New York Winning coach Rand Pecknold (1st title) MVP Connor Clifton (Quinnipiac) | ||
The 2016 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 55th tournament in league history. It will be played between March 4 and March 19, 2016. First Round and Quarterfinal games will be played at home team campus sites, while the final four games will be played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, the team will receive the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Contents
Format
The tournament will feature 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 while the losers play in a third-place game. 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)
Television
ASN had the television rights to semifinals and championship game during the tournament.
Broadcast Assignments
Semifinals & Championship
Streaming
Every game during the tournament was streamed through the ECAC Hockey's website.