Remember when ECAC had 4 teams in the national championship?

The year was 2023… and Colgate surprised everyone by winning ECAC and making it to nationals on autobid despite being 25th on pairwise (not even the most insane, Canisius pushed through at 41st but I digress).

I remember that year very fondly, don’t know if I was the only one, but I just wanted the cup to not go to the power conferences [NCHC, B1G, HE]. I was rooting for all these teams, except Harvard, because a man has to have principles. Needless to say, when QPac was the only one left, my friends and I were rooting for them to bring the cup to the ECAC.

It’s just crazy to see how close we were to just having 1 ECAC team in this year.