The 2024 ECAC Hockey men's ice hockey tournament was the 63rd tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 23, 2024. By winning the tournament, Cornell received ECAC Hockey's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.
Format The tournament features four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings received 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 single-elimination game with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the one seed played the lowest remaining seed, the second seed played the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed played the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed played the fourth-lowest remaining seed each in a best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed played the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game, and no third-place game is played. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.
Conference standings
Bracket Teams are reseeded for the semifinals
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Results Note: All game times are local.
First Round (5) Clarkson vs. (12) Rensselaer
(6) Union vs. (11) Brown
(7) St. Lawrence vs. (10) Yale
(8) Harvard vs. (9) Princeton
Quarterfinals (1) Quinnipiac vs. (12) Rensselaer
Quinnipiac Won Series 2–0
(2) Cornell vs. (8) Harvard
Cornell Won Series 2–0
(3) Colgate vs. (7) St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence Won Series 2–0
(4) Dartmouth vs. (6) Union
Dartmouth Won Series 2–0
Semifinals (1) Quinnipiac vs. (7) St. Lawrence
(2) Cornell vs. (4) Dartmouth
Championship (2) Cornell vs. (7) St. Lawrence
Tournament awards All-Tournament Team G Ben Kraws (St. Lawrence) D Ben Robertson (Cornell) D John Fusco (Dartmouth) F Jonathan Castagna* (Cornell) F Gabriel Seger (Cornell) F Tomáš Mazura (St. Lawrence) * Most Outstanding Player(s)
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