befitting the western champion, colorado college was selected as the #1 seed in the west and opened the tournament against clarkson who had compiled an undefeated season the year before and followed that up with a stellar 18–2 mark. despite the two teams' success the golden knights were completely outmatched by older and larger cc team. while the final score was relatively close, 5–3 with a hat-trick from bob mccusker, the tigers nearly tripled the number of shots from clarkson (60–21) and the green and gold couldn't score enough to reward the valiant effort from the goaltender eddie macdonald.