The 2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 41st tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 16, 2002. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final five games were played at the Olympic Arena (subsequently renamed Herb Brooks Arena) in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Harvard received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and tenth seeds, the second and ninth seeds, the third seed and eighth seeds, the fourth seed and seventh seeds and the fifth seed and sixth seeds played a best-of-three series with the three highest-seeded winners advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two winners playing in the Four vs. Five matchup. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the winner of the four vs. five game while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference standings

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

Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#9 Cornell22173236743435258211863
Clarkson221165276251381715610997
#13 Harvard*22109323676234151549799
Dartmouth2298523665932141359789
Rensselaer2210932364593720134120101
Princeton221010222516331111826698
Colgate2210102225359341319290121
Brown221010222525331141527280
St. Lawrence229112206264341121283107
Yale22911220706531101929394
Union22811319535832131369490
Vermont2231817469331326262134
Championship: Harvard
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

Teams are reseeded after the first round of the Tournament.

First round[3]
March 8–9
Four vs. Five[4]
March 14
Semifinals
March 15
Championship
March 16
1Cornell24
10Yale12
1Cornell3
2Clarkson364Dartmouth15Rensselaer0
9St. Lawrence115Rensselaer2
3Harvard42**1Cornell3
8Brown113Harvard4**
4Dartmouth5**4
7Colgate412Clarkson2
3Harvard3*
5Rensselaer56
6Princeton30

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(1) Cornell vs. (10) Yale

March 8[5] Cornell 2 – 1 Yale Lynah Rink Recap  
No Scoring First period 02:44 - Chris Higgins (Earl)
(Paolini, Iggulden) Matthew McRae - 14:52
Douglas Murray - GW SH - 17:51
Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period No scoring
Matt Underhill ( 21 saves / 22 shots ) Goalie stats Dan Lombard ( 25 saves / 27 shots )
March 9[6] Cornell 4 – 2 Yale Lynah Rink Recap  
(Bell) Greg Hornby - 02:13
(Knoepfli, Wiekowski) David Francis - 18:00
First period 05:00 - Jason Noe (Steeves, Deschenes)
(Knoepfli, Cook) Matthew McRae - GW PP - 11:01 Second period No scoring
Travis Bell - EN SH - 15:26 Third period 19:57 - EA PP - Nick Deschenes (Earl, Rodgers)
Matt Underhill ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) Goalie stats Dan Lombard ( 20 saves / 23 shots )
Cornell won series 2–0

(2) Clarkson vs. (9) St. Lawrence

March 8[7] Clarkson 3 – 1 Union Cheel Arena Recap  
(Ellis-Toddington) Randy Jones - PP - 09:17 First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Jones, Ellis-Toddington) Matt Poapst - GW PP - 06:39
(Jones, Lush) Jay Latulippe - 10:44
Third period 16:11 - PP - Rich Peverley (Page, Carruthers)
Mike Walsh ( 32 saves / 33 shots ) Goalie stats Mike McKenna ( 17 saves / 20 shots )
March 9[8] Clarkson 6 – 1 Union Cheel Arena Recap  
(Edwards, Desrochers) Joe Carosa - 05:03
(Ellis-Toddington, Line) David Evans - GW - 19:24
First period 13:43 - Stace Page (Peverley, Lorentz)
(Latulippe, Jones) Rob McFeeters - PP - 01:30
(McFeeters, O'Flaherty) Ian Manzano - 04:18
Second period No scoring
(Line, Bahen) David Evans - 06:10
(Ellis-Toddington, Blight) David Evans - 09:24
Third period No scoring
Mike Walsh ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) Goalie stats Mike McKenna ( 25 saves / 31 shots ) / Sean Knaub ( 3 saves / 3 shots )
Clarkson won series 2–0

(3) Harvard vs. (8) Brown

March 8[9] Harvard 4 – 1 Brown Bright Hockey Center Recap  
(Bernakevitch) Tom Cavanagh - 02:16
(Cavanagh) Noah Welch - GW PP - 17:17
First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Welch, Cavanagh) Tim Pettit - PP - 00:27
(Kolarik) Dominic Moore - EN - 19:41
Third period 10:26 - Shane Mudryk (Kirley)
Dov Grumet-Morris ( 22 saves / 23 shots ) Goalie stats Yann Danis ( 31 saves / 34 shots )
March 9[10] Harvard 2 – 1 2OT Brown Bright Hockey Center Recap  
No Scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period 19:59 - PS - Brent Robinson
(Kolarik, Bernakevitch) Brett Nowak - 05:30 Third period No scoring
Dominic Moore - GW - 14:41 Second overtime period No scoring
Dov Grumet-Morris ( 31 saves / 32 shots ) Goalie stats Yann Danis ( 66 saves / 68 shots )
Harvard won series 2–0

(4) Dartmouth vs. (7) Colgate

March 8[11] Dartmouth 5 – 4 2OT Colgate Thompson Arena Recap  
(Stempniak, Baldwin) Jamie Herrington - 15:05
(Maturo, Gillings) Brian Van Abel - 18:37
First period 04:58 - Bob Vandersluis (Mitchell, McKinnon)
12:22 - Joey Mormina (Vandersluis)
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Gillings, Murray) Mike Maturo - 11:00
(Gillings, Herrington) Lee Stempniak - EA - 19:45
Third period 10:27 - PP - Brad D'Arco (Mormina, Yedon)
19:16 - Adam Mitchell (Vandersluis, McKinnon)
(Gillings, Murray) Pete Summerfelt - GW - 14:15 Second overtime period No scoring
Dan Yacey ( 5 saves / 7 shots ) / Darren Gastrock ( 48 saves / 50 shots ) Goalie stats Dave Cann ( 49 saves / 54 shots )
March 9[12] Dartmouth 4 – 1 Colgate Thompson Arena Recap  
(Herrington, Summerfelt) Lee Stempniak - 00:51 First period 11:15 - PP - P.J. Yedon (Yashin, D'Arco)
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Baldwin, Herrington) Frank Nardella - GW PP - 05:13
(Murray, Maturo) Kent Gillings - 07:02
(Maturo, Baldwin) Chris Taliercio - EN - 19:45
Third period No scoring
Darren Gastrock ( 37 saves / 38 shots ) Goalie stats Dave Cann ( 33 saves / 36 shots )
Dartmouth won series 2–0

(5) Rensselaer vs. (6) Princeton

March 8[13] Rensselaer 5 – 3 Princeton Houston Field House Recap  
(Graham, Murley) Jim Vickers - 11:43 First period No scoring
(McPherson, Basiuk) Carson Butterwick - 10:03 Second period 00:20 - Sharam Fouladger-Mercer (Schneider)
04:27 - PP - Steve Slaton (Parsons, Parros)
(Henkel, Cavosie) Chris Migliore - 01:05
(Henkel, Cavosie) Chris Migliore - GW - 01:18
(Butterwick, Barr) Andrew McPherson - 12:20
Third period 01:50 - Josh Roberts (Schneider, Parsons)
Nathan Marsters ( 19 saves / 22 shots ) Goalie stats Dave Stathos ( 33 saves / 38 shots )
March 9[14] Rensselaer 6 – 0 Princeton Houston Field House Recap  
(Migliore, Murley) Jim Vickers - GW - 03:42
(Murley, Barnes) Marc Cavosie - 08:36
(Graham, Shields) Matt Murley - 14:47
First period No scoring
(Cavosie, Vickers) Danny Eberly - PP - 10:17
(Basiuk, Munn) Conrad Barnes - PP - 13:34
Second period No scoring
Chris Migliore - SH - 01:11 Third period No scoring
Nathan Marsters ( 19 saves / 19 shots ) / James Palmer ( 2 saves / 2 shots ) Goalie stats Dave Stathos ( 5 saves / 8 shots ) / Nate Nomeland ( 14 saves / 17 shots )
Rensselaer won series 2–0

Four vs. Five

(4) Dartmouth vs. (5) Rensselaer

March 14[15] Dartmouth 1 – 2 Rensselaer Olympic Arena Recap  
No Scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
(Stempniak, Herrington) Christopher Baldwin - 10:59 Third period 17:24 - Matt Murley (Henkel, Eberly)
18:52 - GW - Scott Basiuk (Barr)
Darren Gastrock ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) Goalie stats Nathan Marsters ( 34 saves / 35 shots )

Semifinals

(1) Cornell vs. (5) Rensselaer

March 15[16] Cornell 3 – 0 Rensselaer Olympic Arena Recap  
(Knoepfli, Ladouceur) Charlie Cook - GW PP - 04:42 First period No scoring
(Kozier) Charlie Cook - 07:02 Second period No scoring
(McRae) Sam Paolini - 07:06 Third period No scoring
Matt Underhill ( 21 saves / 21 shots ) Goalie stats Nathan Marsters ( 24 saves / 27 shots )

(2) Clarkson vs. (3) Harvard

March 15[17] Clarkson 2 – 3 OT Harvard Olympic Arena Recap  
No Scoring First period 15:36 - Dominic Moore (Fried)
Trevor Edwards - 07:25 Second period No scoring
(Poapst, Ellis-Toddington) Kevin O'Flaherty - 18:14 Third period 02:49 - Brett Nowak (McCulloch, Packard)
No scoring First overtime period 15:19 - GW - Tom Cavanagh (Bernakevitch)
Mike Walsh ( 41 saves / 44 shots ) Goalie stats Dov Grumet-Morris ( 39 saves / 41 shots )

Third place

(2) Clarkson vs. (5) Rensselaer

March 16[18] Clarkson 3 – 4 Rensselaer Olympic Arena Recap  
(Evans, Manzano) Tristan Lush - PP - 13:26
(Jones, O'Flaherty) Matt Poapst - 15:58
First period 17:01 - PP - Matt Murley (Vickers, Cavosie)
(O'Flaherty, Poapst) Randy Jones - PP - 15:06 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 01:23 - PP - Marc Cavosie (Murley, Eberly)
08:06 - PP - Nolan Graham (Basiuk, Munn)
19:28 - GW PP - Matt Murley (Eberly, Vickers)
Mike Walsh ( 30 saves / 34 shots ) Goalie stats Nathan Marsters ( 31 saves / 34 shots )

Championship

(1) Cornell vs. (3) Harvard

March 16[19] Cornell 3 – 4 2OT Harvard Olympic Arena Recap  
(Palahicky, McRae) Krzysztof Wiekowski - 17:28 First period 16:38 - Dominic Moore (McCulloch)
(Murray) Sam Paolini - PP - 00:42
(Hornby) Shane Palahicky - 16:05
Second period 07:01 - PP - Tim Pettit (Nowak, Capouch)
19:44 - Tim Pettit (Bernakevitch, Cavanagh)
No scoring Third period No scoring
No scoring Second overtime period 16:11 - GW - Tyler Kolarik (Bernakevitch, Pettit)
Matt Underhill ( 40 saves / 44 shots ) Goalie stats Dov Grumet-Morris ( 26 saves / 29 shots )

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

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