2020-21 ECAC Women's Season

This is the 2020-21 ECAC Women's Ice Hockey season. This is the league's 18th season.

Ivy League members delay start of season
The 6 Ivy League members of the conference (Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale) will not be allowing any athletic activity until January at the earliest when the conference announced the cancellation of all fall sports in early July.

Season Cancellations
On November 12th, the Ivy League member teams of the ECAC Hockey had their seasons cancelled when the Ivy League announced that it was cancelling all winter sports for men and women. This would leave Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University and Yale University not playing for the season.

On November 16th Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced that it was cancelling the men's and women's ice hockey seasons.

Membership Changes

 * none

Usual Format
The top eight teams qualify for the conference tournament with the top four teams hosting quarterfinal best-of-three series. The semifinal and final rounds of the conference tournament are single elimination. The tournament winner will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Revised Format
All four teams qualified for a single elimination held at the higher seeded team from March 5-7, 2021. The tournament champion receive the conferences automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Semifinals

 * Colgate defeated Quinnipiac 2-1
 * St. Lawrence defeated Clarkson 4-3 (ot)

Final

 * Colgate defeated St. Lawrence 3-2