ALBANY, N.Y. --- ECAC Hockey’s regular season champion will be crowned by Saturday. Going into the final weekend, Cornell continues to lead the 12-school conference with 27 points, while Harvard and Quinnipiac are just a point behind, with 26, followed by Clarkson, with 25 points.

Cornell (16-8-3, 12-5-3), Quinnipiac and Harvard (16-8-3, 12-6-2) close out the season on the road, while Clarkson (21-10-1, 12-7-1) hosts ninth-seeded Colgate (10-19-3, 7-10-3) Friday evening, before its season ending match-up with Cornell, Saturday. The Big Red meet up with 12^th-seeded St. Lawrence (4-26-2, 2-16-2), Friday night.

Quinnipiac (23-7-2, 12-6-2) rounds out the regular season traveling to Providence, R.I., to face seventh-seeded Brown University (11-11-5, 8-7-5), Friday, before squaring off squaring off against number-five Yale (13-11-3, 11-8-1) at the Ingalls Rink, the following night.

Harvard will spend Friday and Saturday in New York’s capital region. The Crimson face10th-seeded RPI (10-19-3, 7-11-2), Friday, and number-eight Union (15-11-6, 8-10-2), Saturday.

The first round of the ECAC Men’s Hockey post season tournament begins March 8-10, with the quarterfinals slated for March 15-17.

On March 22-23, the conference’s top four post season teams will come to Lake Placid, N.Y. to play in the ECAC Hockey Championship Tournament. The winner of this tournament will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men’s hockey tournament. The two semifinal games will take place Friday, March 22, at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and the championship game will be played Saturday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m.

All-session tickets can be purchased by calling the Lake Placid Olympic Center box office at 518-523-3330, or by visiting tickets.com. Adult All Tournament tickets are priced at $55, while the Junior and Senior All Tournament tickets are available for $45. Single day adult ticket prices are $35 and the junior and senior single day ticket is $30.  

For more information about this event and all of the events and activities on ORDA’s Lake Placid Olympic venues, visit www.WhitefaceLakePlacid.com.

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Established in 1982, the New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) was created by the State of New York to manage the facilities used during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games at Lake Placid. ORDA operates Whiteface, Belleayre and Gore Mountain ski areas; the Olympic Sports Complex at Mt. Van Hoevenberg; the Olympic speed skating oval, Olympic jumping complex and Olympic arena. As host to international and national championships, the Authority has brought millions of athletes, spectator and participants to the region, resulting in significant economic development.