2021 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament

The 2021 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament will be the 60th tournament in league history. It was played between March 18 and March 20, 2021.As the tournament champion, St. Lawrence, received an automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

2021 ECAC Men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 18–20, 2021
Teams	3
Finals site	People's United Center Hamden, Connecticut
Champions	St. Lawrence (7th title)
Winning coach	Brent Brekke (1st title)
MVP	David Jankowski (St. Lawrence)
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Format

With the majority of ECAC member schools opting out of competition for the 2020–21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the format for the tournament was reduced to just four participating institutions. The format introduced would have the four programs compete in two single-elimination rounds over the course of one championship weekend. The semifinals will take place on March 18, and the championship game on March 20 at the site of the highest remaining seed.^[1]

On March 10, ECAC announced that Clarkson would not be participating in the tournament, due to COVID protocols.^[2] As a result, the format of the tournament was further reduced to just three teams. Top-seed Quinnipiac was awarded a bye to the Championship game and St. Lawrence will host Colgate in the lone semifinal.

Conference standings

2020–21 ECAC Hockey Standings v t e
	Conference record												Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	OTW	OTL	3/SW	PTS	PT%	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#11 Quinnipiac †	18	10	4	4	1	1	3	37	.685	54	34		29	17	8	4	100	59
#20 Clarkson	14	6	4	4	1	2	2	25	.595	29	25		22	11	7	4	62	52
St. Lawrence *	14	4	8	2	1	1	1	15	.357	30	37		17	6	8	3	40	45
Colgate	18	5	9	4	1	0	1	16	.352	34	51		22	6	11	5	48	66
Brown	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0	-	-	-	-	-
Cornell	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0	-	-	-	-	-
Dartmouth	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0	-	-	-	-	-
Harvard	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0	-	-	-	-	-
Princeton	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0	-	-	-	-	-
Rensselaer	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0	-	-	-	-	-
Union	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0	-	-	-	-	-
Yale	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0	-	-	-	-	-
Championship: March 20, 2021 † indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

	Semifinals March 18					Championship March 20
						1	Quinnipiac	2
	3	St. Lawrence	5*			3	St. Lawrence	3*
	4	Colgate	4

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

Semifinal

(3) St. Lawrence vs. (4) Colgate

March 19, 2021 2:00 PM

St. Lawrence

5 – 4 (OT) (1–1, 1–2, 2–1, 1–0)

Colgate

Appleton Arena, Canton, New York Attendance: 0

Game reference
	Emil Zetterquist	Goalies	Carter Gylander	Referees: Brad Leblanc Tom Steinel Linesmen: Patrick Dapuzzo Brian Oliver
	(Peltonen, Moran) Tucker McIntosh (1) – 04:17 1–0 1–1 11:39 – SH – Josh McKechney (7) (Young, McDermott) 1–2 26:17 – Jeff Stewart (3) (Brandon) (Paul, Salem) Cameron Buhl (4) – PP – 09:15 2–2 2–3 35:17 – Evan Tschumi (2) (Jeanson, McKechney) (Dorrington) Dylan Woolf (1) – 44:36 3–3 (Jankowski, Trela) Tucker McIntosh (2) – 45:45 4–3 4–4 50:13 – Tyler Jeanson (2) (Tschumi, Anderson) (Lapointe) Cameron Buhl (5) – GW – 68:07 5–4
	8 min	Penalties	4 min
	25	Shots	43

Championship

(1) Quinnipiac vs. (3) St. Lawrence

March 20, 2021 4:00 PM

Quinnipiac

2 – 3 (OT) (0–1, 2–0, 0–1, 0–1)

St. Lawrence

People's United Center, Hamden, Connecticut Attendance: 0

Game reference
	Keith Petruzzelli	Goalies	Emil Zetterquist	Referees: Joe Carusone C. J. Hanafin Linesmen: Ryan Knapp Brian Oliver
	0–1 03:07 – Kaden Pickering (7) (Alftberg, Jankowski) (de Jong, Metsa) Odeen Tufto (7) – 27:55 1–1 (Brind'Amour, Smilanic) Wyatt Bongiovanni (5) – 28:07 2–1 2–2 56:22 – Justin Paul (3) (Salem, Stevens) 2–3 63:44 – GW – David Jankowski (4) (Salem)
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	26	Shots	28

Tournament awards

Most Outstanding Player(s)

• David Jankowski

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