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 and earn Hockey East's automatic bid into the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. Kevin Boyle was named tournament MVP.

The tournament was 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 22152535914541288515682
#3 Providence 22163335713938277412471
#13 Notre Dame221552327040371911711586
#8 Massachusetts–Lowell221264285837402510512175
#11 Boston University2212642875563621105124106
#14 Northeastern *2210842475564122145134105
Merrimack225107175070391319795108
Connecticut226124164970361121488114
Vermont226133154866401522386107
New Hampshire2241261457733711206112121
Maine22515212427738824676129
Massachusetts22216484410136824484146
Championship: March 19, 2016
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 Massachusetts–Lowell 2
  3 Notre Dame 1 4
7 Merrimack 1 3* 2 6 Northeastern 3 6
10 New Hampshire 3 2 1
  4 Massachusetts–Lowell 3 5 2 Providence 1
8 Connecticut 1 3 5 Boston University 2 0 4 Massachusetts–Lowell 2***  
9 Vermont 2 4

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

Opening Round

(5) Boston University vs. (12) Massachusetts

Boston University won series 2–0

(6) Northeastern vs. (11) Maine

Northeastern won series 2–0

(7) Merrimack vs. (10) New Hampshire

Merrimack won series 2–1

(8) Connecticut vs. (9) Vermont

Vermont won series 2–0

Quarterfinals

(1) Boston College vs. (9) Vermont

Boston College won series 2–1

(2) Providence vs. (7) Merrimack

Providence won series 2–0

(3) Notre Dame vs. (6) Northeastern

Northeastern won series 2–0

(4) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (5) Boston University

Massachusetts–Lowell won series 2–0

Semifinals

(1) Boston College vs. (6) Northeastern

(2) Providence vs. (4) Massachusetts–Lowell

Championship

(4) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (6) Northeastern

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

  • F Nolan Stevens (Northeastern)
  • F Zach Aston-Reese (Northeastern)
  • F C. J. Smith (Massachusetts–Lowell)
  • D Colton Saucerman (Northeastern)
  • D Dylan Zink (Massachusetts–Lowell)
  • G Kevin Boyle* (Massachusetts–Lowell)

* Tournament MVP(s)

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