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30-558: Hockey East came into existence in 1984 for men's hockey when most of its current members split from what is today known as ECAC Hockey , after disagreements with the Ivy League members. The women's league began play in 2002. On October 5, 2011, the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish (an ACC member outside football) announced they would be joining Hockey East as the conference's first non- New England school in 2013 after

60-484: A 4-0 victory over Cornell. Boston University won their third title in 1978 with a 5-3 victory over Boston College , 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 Boston University , Boston College , Providence , Northeastern and New Hampshire to decide to leave

90-493: A Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player and names a tournament all-star team, which are voted on at the conclusion of the conference tournament. Four of these awards have been bestowed every year that Hockey East has been in operation. In addition, the Scoring Champion and Goaltending Champions are named based solely on statistics the players made during the season. The award for the top HEA player each year

120-595: A member of the Hockey East men's league, announced that it would upgrade its women's team from club level to full varsity status effective in 2015 and join the Hockey East women's league. On May 2, 2017, the College of the Holy Cross announced that it would join Hockey East for women's hockey only starting in 2018–19. There are currently 12 member schools, with 11 participating in the men's division and 10 in

150-436: A rivalry which spills over from the basketball court. At the conclusion of each regular season schedule the coaches of each Hockey East team vote which players they choose to be on the three All-Conference Teams: first team, second team and rookie team (except for 1985–86 when no rookie team was selected). Additionally they vote to award up to 6 individual trophies to an eligible player at the same time. Hockey East also awards

180-447: 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

210-694: Is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey . The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference , a consortium of over 300 colleges 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. Cornell University has won

240-670: Is the Cammi Granato Award, awarded since 2009. The NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Player of the year, the Patty Kazmaier Award , has been won by HEA players Brooke Whitney (Northeastern) in 2002, Alex Carpenter (Boston College) in 2015, Kendall Coyne (Northeastern) in 2016, Daryl Watts (Boston College) in 2018, and Aerin Frankel (Northeastern) in 2021. Since the 2019–2020 season, Hockey East games have aired regionally on NESN and are available in

270-701: The Big Ten Conference 's announcement that it would launch a men's hockey league in the 2013–14 season. 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. Six Ivy League universities with Division I ice hockey programs are members of ECAC Hockey. Those schools are: Harvard University , Dartmouth College , Cornell University , Yale University , Princeton University , and Brown University . Columbia University does not currently have

300-560: The CCHA folded. On March 22, 2016, Notre Dame subsequently announced their men's hockey team would leave Hockey East for the Big Ten Conference at the start of the 2017–2018 season. The University of Connecticut (UConn) and Hockey East jointly announced on June 21, 2012, that UConn's men's team , then in Atlantic Hockey , would join the school's women's team in Hockey East in 2014. On October 24, 2013, Merrimack College , already

330-555: The Holy War on Ice , became a conference matchup with Notre Dame's arrival in Hockey East. The two are rivals in other sports as well, as both are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference for most sports (though Notre Dame's football team remains independent , they play BC in that sport on a regular basis). Maine also has a rivalry with New Hampshire, often called "The Border War". Providence and UConn also have

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360-468: The NCAA Men's Division I Hockey Tournament . 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

390-656: The Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island . This was the 39th season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 92nd year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team. The 1985–86 season was the first for the Great West Hockey Conference . The top teams in the nation. The WMPL poll was voted on by coaches before the start of the season. The College Hockey Statistics Bureau (CHSB) / WMEB poll

420-430: The Providence Civic Center . The semifinal and final games are held on consecutive nights in mid-March at TD Garden. The quarterfinal round takes place the previous weekend. The top eight teams in the league advance to the quarterfinal round, which is a best 2-out-of-3 series with all games played at the higher seed's rink. There have been two cases where the #8 seed won on the #1 team's ice. The Hockey East Championship

450-569: The 'Best Defensive Defenseman' was retired from 1967–68 thru 1991–92 and the All-Tournament team was discontinued from 1973 thru 1988 . † Open to both men and women. 1985%E2%80%9386 NCAA Division I men%27s ice hockey season The 1985–86 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season began in October 1985 and concluded with the 1986 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament 's championship game on March 29, 1986 at

480-438: 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 American Women's College Hockey Alliance 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

510-504: 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 won its first title at the 2013 Tournament with a 4-0 victory over first-time finalists Quinnipiac . The 2013 Tournament was also unique in that with Quinnipiac defeating fellow ECAC Hockey school Union to advance to

540-465: 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. Team's records against current conference opponents. (As of the end of the 2018-19 season.) At the conclusion of each regular season schedule the coaches of each ECAC team vote which players they choose to be on

570-527: The ECAC for Hockey East at the end of the 2004–05 season, and were replaced in the conference by Quinnipiac . 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 1954 as a member of the Tri-State League. Harvard won its first and thus-far only NCAA Division I Hockey Championship when

600-514: The ECAC to form what would become Hockey East , which began play in the 1984–85 season. By that fall, Maine also departed the ECAC for the new conference. This left the ECAC with twelve teams ( Army , Brown, Clarkson, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, RPI, St. Lawrence, Vermont , 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 ) and were replaced by Union College . Vermont left

630-685: 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

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660-410: 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 Minnesota . The Terriers then made it two in a row for their school and three straight for ECAC Hockey when they repeated as champions in 1972 with

690-543: The last campus to host was Boston University in 2011. The tournament moved to Hyannis, Massachusetts in 2012, and Lawler Arena on the Merrimack College campus in North Andover, Massachusetts in 2016. Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern all take part in the annual Beanpot tournament with Harvard of ECAC Hockey . The previously existing rivalry between Boston College and Notre Dame,

720-599: The most ECAC men's hockey championships with 13, followed by Harvard at 11, and Quinnipiac , which joined the league in 2005, with seven. ECAC Hockey teams have won 10 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championships , most recently in 2023 . ECAC Hockey was founded in 1961 as a loose association of college hockey teams in the Northeast . Cornell won the first NCAA championship for ECAC Hockey in 1967 in 4-1 victory over fellow ECAC Hockey team Boston University . The Big Red won their second title in 1970 to complete

750-479: 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 .   Men     Women     Both   The ECAC Championship Game has been held at the following sites: The winner of the game is awarded the Whitelaw Cup and receives an automatic bid to

780-557: The rest of the United States and in Canada on Paramount+ and SportsLive. Games previously aired nationally on NBCSN through the 2016 Hockey East Championship game, and on American Sports Network prior to the service's closure. On April 6, 2022, Hockey East reached a six-year media rights agreement with ESPN and ESPN+ that will bring games to ESPN's television and streaming platforms; ECAC Hockey ECAC Hockey

810-495: 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

840-550: The women's division.   Men     Women     Both   Teams' records against current conference opponents. The Hockey East Championship Game has been held in Boston since 1987. Originally held at the Boston Garden , it moved to TD Garden in 1996. Prior to moving to Boston, the first two men's Hockey East championships were held in Providence , Rhode Island at

870-401: Was held in Boston from its inception in 2003 until 2007. The event was held at Northeastern's Matthews Arena in 2003 and 2004 before moving to BU's Walter Brown Arena in 2005. The tournament returned to Matthews Arena in 2006, was held at UNH's Whittemore Center in 2007, and at UConn's Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum in 2008. The tournament went back to UNH in 2009, Providence in 2010, and

900-592: Was voted on by media after the season started. Radio station WMEB of Orono, Maine , took over the College Hockey Statistics Bureau poll in 1985. The final top 10 teams as ranked by coaches and the media before the conference tournament finals. Note: * denotes overtime period(s) The following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the season. GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes The following goaltenders led

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