The 2016 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 32nd tournament in the history of the conference. It 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.
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
Bracket Teams are reseeded after the Opening Round and Quarterfinals
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Results Opening Round (5) Boston University vs. (12) Massachusetts
(6) Northeastern vs. (11) Maine
(7) Merrimack vs. (10) New Hampshire
(8) Connecticut vs. (9) Vermont
Quarterfinals (1) Boston College vs. (9) Vermont
(2) Providence vs. (7) Merrimack
(3) Notre Dame vs. (6) Northeastern
(4) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (5) Boston University
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)
References
External links 2015 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament