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The 2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 42nd tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2003. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Cornell received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

2003 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament
DatesMarch 7–22, 2003
Teams12
Finals sitePepsi Arena
Albany, New York
ChampionsCornell (10th title)
Winning coachMike Schafer[1] (3rd title)
MVPDavid LeNeveu[2] (Cornell)
ECAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

The 2003 Tournament was the first to include 4 rounds of play as well as all member schools of ECAC Hockey in the postseason championship.

Format

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The tournament featured 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 in 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 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference standings

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Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2002–03 ECAC Hockey standings
Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#1 Cornell†* 22 19 2 1 39 89 29 36 30 5 1 133 49
#10 Harvard 22 17 4 1 35 94 47 34 22 10 2 133 78
Dartmouth 22 13 9 0 26 77 71 34 20 13 1 127 110
Yale 22 13 9 0 26 94 73 32 18 14 0 121 107
Brown 22 10 8 4 24 65 54 35 16 14 5 96 83
Union 22 10 10 2 22 62 68 36 14 18 4 105 113
Clarkson 22 9 10 3 21 69 56 35 12 20 3 96 99
Colgate 22 9 10 3 21 49 71 40 17 19 4 96 127
St. Lawrence 22 7 12 3 17 65 80 37 11 21 5 103 129
Vermont 22 8 14 0 16 58 85 36 13 20 3 104 142
Rensselaer 22 4 15 3 11 49 84 40 12 25 3 94 134
Princeton 22 2 18 2 6 46 99 31 3 26 2 62 140
Championship: Cornell
† indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll

Bracket

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Teams are reseeded after the first round and quarterfinals

First round[3]
March 7–9 		Quarterfinals[4]
March 14–16 		Semifinals[5]
March 21 		Championship
March 22
1 Cornell 3 4 –
5 Brown 2 3 – 11 Rensselaer 2 0 –
12 Princeton 1 1 – 1 Cornell 2
5 Brown 0
2 Harvard 4 5 –
6 Union 1 2 – 10 Vermont 2 1 –
11 Rensselaer 2 3 – 1 Cornell 3*
2 Harvard 2
3 Dartmouth 3 3 5
7 Clarkson 2 1 – 8 Colgate 4**** 1 2
10 Vermont 3 6 – 2 Harvard 5 Third place
3 Dartmouth 3
4 Yale 3 2 0 3 Dartmouth 4
8 Colgate 1 3* 5 5 Brown 4* 1 4 5 Brown 2
9 St. Lawrence 2 2 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

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(5) Brown vs. (12) Princeton

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March 7[6] Brown 2–1 Princeton Meehan Auditorium Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Haggett) Chris Swon – 07:19
(Kirley, Caouette) Pascal Denis – GW – 12:07 		Third period 06:56 – Chris Owen (Colclough, Patton)
Yann Danis ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) Goalie stats Eric Leroux ( 23 saves / 25 shots )
March 8[7] Brown 3–1 Princeton Meehan Auditorium Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Denis, Mudryk) Keith Kirley – 09:26
(Robinson, Tichauer) Chris Swon – GW – 09:50
(Korbl, Swon) Shane Mudryk – PP – 11:41 		Third period 10:08 – SH – Matt Maglione (Sproat)
Yann Danis ( 36 saves / 37 shots ) Goalie stats Eric Leroux ( 40 saves / 43 shots )
Brown won series 2–0


(6) Union vs. (11) Rensselaer

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March 7[8] Union 1–2 Rensselaer Achilles Rink Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period 07:21 – Vic Pereira (McWilliams, Shields)
10:50 – GW PP – Kevin Croxton (Graham, Eberly)
(Seel) Chris Konnick – 06:40 Third period No scoring
Kris Mayotte ( 14 saves / 16 shots ) Goalie stats Nathan Marsters ( 37 saves / 38 shots )
March 8[9] Union 2–3 Rensselaer Achilles Rink Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
(Gillies, Goodjohn) Scott Seney – PP – 06:34 Second period 17:44 – Carson Butterwick (Cavosie, McWilliams)
(Gillies, Beal) Kris Goodjohn – PP – 09:53 Third period 11:47 – SH – Ben Barr (Economakos, Basiuk)
12:37 – GW SH – Ben Barr (Economakos, Basiuk)
Kris Mayotte ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) Goalie stats Nathan Marsters ( 29 saves / 31 shots )
Rensselaer won series 2–0


(7) Clarkson vs. (10) Vermont

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March 7[10] Clarkson 2–3 Vermont Cheel Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period 07:03 – Phil Youngclaus (Leisenring, Miles)
(Bahen, McFeeters) Kevin O'Flaherty – EA – 18:13
(Bahen, O'Flaherty) Randy Jones – EA PP – 19:30 		Third period 03:15 – Jeff Corey (Sifers, Gasparini)
19:02 – GW EN SH – Jaime Sifers
Mike Walsh ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) Goalie stats Shawn Conschafter ( 27 saves / 29 shots )
March 8[11] Clarkson 1–6 Vermont Cheel Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
(Jones) Chris Blight – 13:54 Second period 17:48 – PP – Jaime Sifers (Hajek, Busniuk)
No scoring Third period 04:17 – GW PP – Brady Leisenring (Hajek)
08:38 – Brady Leisenring (Miles, Corey)
09:54 – Tim Plant (Longo)
17:40 – EN – Phil Youngclaus
19:26 – Bryson Busniuk (Plant)
Dustin Traylen ( 25 saves / 30 shots ) Goalie stats Shawn Conschafter ( 29 saves / 30 shots )
Vermont won series 2–0


(8) Colgate vs. (9) St. Lawrence

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March 7[12] Colgate 1–2 St. Lawrence Starr Rink Recap  
(Thomas) Steve Silversides – 10:20 First period 03:53 – Matt Macdonald (Peverley, Trevelyan)
No scoring Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 03:51 – GW – Ziga Petac (Anderson, Hogg)
Steve Silverthorn ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) Goalie stats Kevin Ackley ( 37 saves / 38 shots )
March 8[13] Colgate 3–2 OT St. Lawrence Starr Rink Recap  
No scoring First period 13:09 – PP – Ryan Glenn (Trevelyan, Zeiler)
(Smith, Mormina) P.J. Yedon – 00:47
(Tataryn, McKinnon) Kyle Wilson – 14:19 		Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 09:47 – T. J. Trevelyan (Glenn)
(Bria) P. J. Yedon – GW – 16:46 First overtime period No scoring
Steve Silverthorn ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Goalie stats Kevin Ackley ( 36 saves / 39 shots )
March 9[14] Colgate 5–2 St. Lawrence Starr Rink Recap  
Brad D'Arco – SH – 19:59 First period No scoring
(Mitchell) P. J. Yedon – 04:28 Second period 08:18 – T. J. Trevelyan (Zeiler, Peverley)
16:31 – Adam Hogg (Lorentz, Anderson)
(Smyth, Smyth) Dave Thomas – GW – 01:57
Adam Mitchell – 17:10
Jon Smyth – EN – 19:17 		Third period No scoring
Steve Silverthorn ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) Goalie stats Kevin Ackley ( 21 saves / 25 shots )
Colgate won series 2–1


Quarterfinals

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(1) Cornell vs. (11) Rensselaer

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March 14[15] Cornell 3–2 Rensselaer Lynah Rink Recap  
(Bâby, Paolini) Ryan Vesce – PP – 03:27 First period 16:09 – Ben Barr (Eberly, MacDonald)
(Bâby, Vesce) Matt Moulson – 09:34 Second period No scoring
(Cook, Abbott) Greg Hornby – GW – 07:07 Third period 10:50 – Brad Farynuk (Graham, Croxton)
David LeNeveu ( 17 saves / 19 shots ) Goalie stats Nathan Marsters ( 23 saves / 26 shots )
March 15[16] Cornell 4–0 Rensselaer Lynah Rink Recap  
(Bâby, Murray) Ryan Vesce – GW – 18:39 First period No scoring
(Pegoraro, McRae) Mark Knoepfli – 04:42 Second period No scoring
(Hornby) Cam Abbott – 03:59
(Paolini, McRae) Shane Hynes – 09:35 		Third period No scoring
David LeNeveu ( 16 saves / 16 shots ) Goalie stats Nathan Marsters ( 29 saves / 33 shots )
Cornell won series 2–0


(2) Harvard vs. (10) Vermont

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March 14[17] Harvard 4–2 Vermont Bright Hockey Center Recap  
(Cavanagh, Johnson) Kenny Turano – PP – 03:41 First period No scoring
(Nowak, Moore) Dennis Packard – PP – 14:41
(Moore, Turano) Dennis Packard – GW – 19:55 		Second period No scoring
(Fried, Nowak) Dennis Packard – 13:15 Third period 07:01 – PP – Thomas Hajek (Busniuk, Sifers)
09:29 – PP – Jeff Corey (Miller, Miller)
Dov Grumet-Morris ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) Goalie stats Shawn Conschafter ( 35 saves / 39 shots )
March 15[18] Harvard 5–1 Vermont Bright Hockey Center Recap  
(Nowak, Moore) Noah Welch – PP – 02:25
(Moore) Charlie Johnson – GW – 07:22
(Kim, McColloch) Rob Fried – 11:38 		First period No scoring
(Moore, Pettit) Brett Nowak – PP – 11:39 Second period 10:59 – Jeff Miles (Hajek, Miller)
(Welch) Dominic Moore – PP – 01:44 Third period No scoring
Dov Grumet-Morris ( 22 saves / 23 shots ) / Ben Weiss ( 0 saves / 0 shots ) Goalie stats Shawn Conschafter ( 37 saves / 42 shots ) / Travis Russell ( 2 saves / 2 shots )
Harvard won series 2–0


(3) Dartmouth vs. (7) Colgate

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March 14[19] Dartmouth 3–4 4OT Colgate Thompson Arena Recap  
(Stempniak, Ouellette) Hugh Jessiman – PP – 06:14 First period 09:57 – PP – Scooter Smith (Yedon)
(Stempniak) Hugh Jessiman – 00:28 Second period 07:03 – Adam Mitchell (Yedon, Smith)
(Ouellette, Stempniak) Trevor Byrne – PP – 10:05 Third period 14:01 – Ryan Smyth (Doyle, McKinnon)
No scoring Fourth overtime period 01:05 – GW – Kyle Wilson (Yedon)
Nick Boucher ( 66 saves / 70 shots ) Goalie stats Steve Silverthorn ( 50 saves / 53 shots )
March 15[20] Dartmouth 3–1 Colgate Thompson Arena Recap  
(Ouellette, Summerfelt) Lee Stempniak – PP – 06:14 First period 18:05 – Adam Mitchell (Smith)
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Ouellette, Summerfelt) Lee Stempniak – GW – 08:21
(Summerfelt) Lee Stempniak – EN – 19:12 		Third period No scoring
Nick Boucher ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) Goalie stats Steve Silverthorn ( 41 saves / 43 shots )
March 16[21] Dartmouth 5–2 Colgate Thompson Arena Recap  
(Przepiorka) Dacy Marr – 01:59 First period 01:20 – Brad D'Arco (Yedon, Yashin)
02:08 – Darryl McKinnon (Tataryn)
(Jessiman, Stempniak) Mike Ouellette – 05:33 Second period No scoring
(Gaul, Summerfelt) Nathan Szymanski – GW – 05:53
(Murray, Wheelihan) P.J. Martin – 12:35
(Ouellette, Jessiman) Lee Stempniak – EN – 17:51 		Third period No scoring
Nick Boucher ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Goalie stats Steve Silverthorn ( 37 saves / 41 shots )
Dartmouth won series 2–1


(4) Yale vs. (5) Brown

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March 14[22] Yale 3–4 OT Brown Ingalls Rink Recap  
(Wax, Higgins) Vin Hellemeyer – PP – 12:01 First period 04:06 – Cory Caouette (Ringstad, Burke)
(Hellemeyer) Chris Higgins – SH – 06:52 Second period 00:37 – Paul Esdale (Legg)
06:00 – Les Haggettsdale (Hellemeyer)
Christian Jensen – 17:07 Third period No scoring
No scoring First overtime period 09:40 – GW – Brent Robinson (Haggett, Swon)
Josh Gartner ( 31 saves / 35 shots ) Goalie stats Yann Danis ( 41 saves / 44 shots )
March 15[23] Yale 2–1 Brown Ingalls Rink Recap  
No scoring First period 06:18 – Shane Mudryk (Denis, Kirley)
(Dwyer, Higgins) Ryan Steeves – PP – 09:11 Second period No scoring
(Hristovski) Denis Nam – GW – 13:38 Third period No scoring
Josh Gartner ( 24 saves / 25 shots ) Goalie stats Yann Danis ( 34 saves / 36 shots )
March 16[24] Yale 0–4 Brown Ingalls Rink Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period 02:15 – GW – Brent Robinson
13:48 – Jason Wilson
No scoring Third period 17:29 – EN – Pascal Denis (Mudryk, Esdale)
19:11 – EN – Brent Robinson (Swon, Esdale)
Josh Gartner ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Goalie stats Yann Danis ( 35 saves / 35 shots )
Brown won series 2–1


Semifinals

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(1) Cornell vs. (5) Brown

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March 21[25] Cornell 2–0 Brown Pepsi Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
(Abbott, Abbott) Greg Hornby – GW – 17:54 Second period No scoring
(Pegoraro, Palahicky) Travis Bell – 07:06 Third period No scoring
David LeNeveu ( 11 saves / 11 shots ) Goalie stats Yann Danis ( 27 saves / 29 shots )


(2) Harvard vs. (3) Dartmouth

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March 21[26] Harvard 5–3 Dartmouth Pepsi Arena Recap  
(Kim, Murphy) David McCollouch – 04:23
(Moore, Turano) Charlie Johnson – 10:57 		First period No scoring
(Nowak, Packard) Tim Pettit – PP – 02:48
(Cavanagh, Lannon) Brendan Bernakevitch – GW PP – 07:59 		Second period 01:37 – Kent Gillings (Murray, Byrne)
(Moore) Rob Flynn – EN – 19:55 Third period 13:26 – Hugh Jessiman (Stempniak, Ouellette)
16:09 – PS – Mike Murray
Dov Grumet-Morris ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) Goalie stats Nick Boucher ( 11 saves / 15 shots ) / Dan Yacey ( 12 saves / 12 shots )


Third place

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(3) Dartmouth vs. (5) Brown

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March 22[27] Dartmouth 4–2 Brown Pepsi Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
(Murray, Wheelihan) Kent Gillings – 12:29
(Snizek, Szymanski) Eric Przepiorka – 12:51 		Second period 03:12 – Pascal Denis (Mudryk)
(Offers, Summerfeldt) Kent Gillings – GW – 03:24
Hugh Jessiman – EN – 19:16 		Third period 07:50 – Mike Meech (Legg)
Dan Yacey ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Goalie stats Yann Danis ( 40 saves / 43 shots )


Championship

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(1) Cornell vs. (2) Harvard

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March 22[28] Cornell 3–2 OT Harvard Pepsi Arena Recap  
(Bâby, Vesce) Sam Paolini – PP – 01:53 First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Vesce) Mark McRae – EA – 19:27 Third period 08:04 – Dominic Moore (Johnson, Kolarik)
16:14 – Tyler Kolarik (Nowak, Packard)
(McRae, Hynes) Sam Paolini – GW – 01:23 First overtime period No scoring
David LeNeveu ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) Goalie stats Dov Grumet-Morris ( 30 saves / 33 shots )


Tournament awards

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Tournament notes

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  • In the first game of the quarterfinals Colgate defeated Dartmouth 4-3 in four overtimes the longest game in tournament history.

References

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