2018-19 ECAC Men's Season

This is the 2018-19 ECAC Hockey Men's Season. This is the league's 58th season.

Membership changes

 * None

Format
All twelve teams qualify with the top 4 seeds getting a first round bye. The best-of-three first round matches up 5 vs 12, 6 vs 11, 7 vs 10, and 8 vs 9. The first round winners are re-seeded for the best-of-three quarterfinals and the 1 seed plays the lowest seeded first round winner, 2 plays the second lowest seed first round winner, 3 plays the third lowest first round winner. and 4 plays the highest seeded first round winner. Teams are re-seeded for the semifinals with the highest seeded winner playing the lowest seeded winner and the second and third seeds meet in a single game at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York on March 22, 2019. The semifinal winners meet at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York for the conference championship and the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament on March 23, 2019.

First Round

 * Dartmouth Big Green defeated St. Lawrence Saints 2 games to 1
 * Yale Bulldogs defeated RPI Engineers 2 games to none
 * Union Dutchmen defeated Colgate Raiders 2 games to none
 * Brown Bears defeated Princeton Tigers 2 games to none

Quarterfinals

 * Brown Bears defeated Quinnipiac Bobcats 2 games to none
 * Cornell Big Red defeated Union Dutchmen 2 games to 1
 * Clarkson Golden Knights defeated Yale Bulldogs 2 games to none
 * Harvard Crimson defeated Dartmouth Big Green 2 games to none

Semifinals

 * Cornell Big Red defeated Brown Bears 6-0
 * Clarkson Golden Knights defeated Harvard Crimson 5-2

Final

 * Clarkson Golden Knights defeated Cornell Big Red 3-2 (ot)