2016 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2016 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 3 and March 19, 2016 at campus locations and at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Northeastern Huskies defeated the UMass Lowell River Hawks by a score of 3–2 to earn their 2nd Hockey East championship in school history. Kevin Boyle was named tournament MVP.

The tournament is the 32nd in league history.

Format

The tournament will include all twelve teams in the conference. Seeds 1–4 earned a first-round bye, and seeds 5–12 played a best-of-three Opening Round played on campus locations. Winners advanced to play the 1–4 seeds in the best-of-three Quarterfinals on campus locations. Winners of those series played in a single-game Semifinal, and those winners faced off in a single-game Championship Final, both at the TD Garden.

Regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2015–16 Hockey East men's standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#5 Boston College dagger 22 15 2 5 35 91 45 41 28 8 5 156 82
#3 Providence dagger 22 16 3 3 35 71 39 38 27 7 4 124 71
#13 Notre Dame 22 15 5 2 32 70 40 37 19 11 7 115 86
#8 UMass Lowell 22 12 6 4 28 58 37 40 25 10 5 121 75
#11 Boston University 22 12 6 4 28 75 56 36 21 10 5 124 106
#14 Northeastern * 22 10 8 4 24 75 56 41 22 14 5 134 105
Merrimack 22 5 10 7 17 50 70 39 13 19 7 95 108
Connecticut 22 6 12 4 16 49 70 36 11 21 4 88 114
Vermont 22 6 13 3 15 48 66 40 15 22 3 86 107
New Hampshire 22 4 12 6 14 57 73 37 11 20 6 112 121
Maine 22 5 15 2 12 42 77 38 8 24 6 76 129
Massachusetts 22 2 16 4 8 44 101 36 8 24 4 84 146
Championship: March 19, 2016
dagger indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 8, 2016

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the Opening Round and Quarterfinals

  Opening Round[1]
March 3–6		 Quarterfinals
March 11–13		 Semifinals
March 18		 Championship
March 19
                                             
  1  Boston College 3 2 4* 1  Boston College 4  
5  Boston University 2* 5 — 9  Vermont 0 4 3 6  Northeastern 5  
12  Massachusetts 1 4 —
  2  Providence 3 2 —
6  Northeastern 3* 4* — 7  Merrimack 1 0 —     6  Northeastern 3
11  Maine 2 3 —   4  UMass Lowell 2
  3  Notre Dame 1 4 —
7  Merrimack 1 3* 2 6  Northeastern 3 6 —
10  New Hampshire 3 2 1
  4  UMass Lowell 3 5 — 2  Providence 1
8  Connecticut 1 3 — 5  Boston University 2 0 — 4  UMass Lowell 2***  
9  Vermont 2 4 —

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Tournament awards

[2]

All-Tournament Team

Tournament MVP

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/pres1516/201602/feb27hea.php
  2. ↑ http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/recaps16.php?mnoeuml1.m19

External links

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