What is ECAC Hockey?
[[File:Dartmouth vs Princeton ice hockey 0, 2007.jpg|thumb|[[Princeton University]] playing [[ice hockey|hockey]] against Dartmouth College]] '''ECAC Hockey''' is a group of [[college]]s and [[university|universities]] in the [[Northeastern United States|Northeastern]] [[United States]] who play [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] Division I [[ice hockey|hockey]] against one another every season.. It is the only [[NCAA Division I]] hockey conference whose members all have varsity men's and women's teams. The league's champions are automatically invited to the NCAA Division I men's and women's hockey tournaments. Another unique feature of the conference is its unofficial relationship with another conference, the [[Ivy League]]. Six of the Ivy league's eight schools have both men's and women's hockey teams; all six are members of ECAC Hockey. Although the Ivy League does not officially [[sponsor]] hockey, it still has a conference hockey champion—it uses the results of its members in ECAC Hockey to determine a winner. During the major hockey conference realignment of 2011 and 2012 triggered by the decision of the [[Big Ten Conference]] to start a men's hockey league in 2013, the ECAC was the only Division I men's hockey conference that neither gained nor lost a member. Current members are: * [[Brown University]] * [[Clarkson University]] * Colgate University * [[Cornell University]] * [[Dartmouth College]] * [[Harvard University]] * [[Princeton University]] * Quinnipiac University * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * St. Lawrence University * Union College * [[Yale University]] == References == * {{cite web|url=http://www.ecachockey.com/|title=ECAC Hockey|accessdate=2008-07-05|work=ecachockey.com}} {{ECAC Hockey}} [[Category:ECAC Hockey| ]]