2016 Hockey East men's ice hockey tournament

2016 Hockey East Men's ice hockey tournament
2016 Hockey East Men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 3–19, 2016
Teams	12
Finals site	TD Garden; Boston
Champions	Northeastern (2nd title)
Winning coach	Jim Madigan (1st title)
MVP	Kevin Boyle (UMass Lowell)
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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 v t e
	Conference record							Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#5 Boston College †	22	15	2	5	35	91	45	41	28	8	5	156	82
#3 Providence †	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 Massachusetts–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 † 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*
5	Boston University	2*	5	—	9	Vermont	0	4	3
12	Massachusetts	1	4	—						1	Boston College	4
										6	Northeastern	5
					2	Providence	3	2	—
6	Northeastern	3*	4*	—	7	Merrimack	1	0	—
11	Maine	2	3	—									6	Northeastern	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						2	Providence	1
										4	Massachusetts–Lowell	2***
					4	Massachusetts–Lowell	3	5	—
8	Connecticut	1	3	—	5	Boston University	2	0	—
9	Vermont	2	4	—

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

Opening Round

(5) Boston University vs. (12) Massachusetts

March 4	Boston University		2 - 1	OT	Massachusetts	Agganis Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period			08:07 - Steven Iacobellis (Walsh, Pigozzi)
(Lane, Oksanen) Bobo Carpenter - 03:52		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
(Oksanen, Fortunato) Bobo Carpenter - GW - 09:34		First overtime period			No scoring
( 28 saves / 29 shots ) Sean Maguire		Goalie stats			Nic Renyard ( 46 saves / 48 shots )

March 5	Boston University		5 - 4	Massachusetts	Agganis Arena	Recap
(O'Regan, Greenway) Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson - 05:40		First period		10:07 - Dennis Kravchenko (Plevy, Widmar)
(Grzelcyk, McAvoy) Danny O'Regan - PP - 05:53 (McAvoy, Lane) Matt Grzelcyk - 12:39 (Greenway, McAvoy) Danny O'Regan - 18:45		Second period		11:13 - Shane Walsh (Iacobellis, Kravchenko) 17:50 - PP - Kurt Keats (Plevy, Pigozzi)
(McAvoy, O'Regan) Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson - GW - 11:51		Third period		03:51 - Austin Plevy (Fryer, Keats)
( 32 saves / 36 shots ) Sean Maguire		Goalie stats		Nic Renyard ( 38 saves / 43 shots )

Boston University won series 2–0

(6) Northeastern vs. (11) Maine

March 4	Northeastern		3 - 2	OT	Maine	Matthews Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period			17:51 - PP - Cameron Brown (Renouf, Byron) 18:08 - Andrew Tegeler (Vesey, Hamilton)
(Aston-Reese, N. Stevens) John Stevens - 14:39		Second period			No scoring
(N. Stevens, Gaudette) Kevin Roy - PP - 02:54		Third period			No scoring
(Aston-Reese, J. Stevens) Matt Benning - GW - 04:41		First overtime period			No scoring
( 19 saves / 21 shots ) Ryan Ruck		Goalie stats			Rob McGovern ( 29 saves / 32 shots )

March 5	Northeastern		4 - 3	OT	Maine	Matthews Arena	Recap
(Roy, Collier) Eric Williams - 14:51 (Cockerill, Aston-Reese) Nolan Stevens - 16:09 (Kurker) Kevin Roy - 16:57		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			11:44 - PP - Cameron Brown (Merchant, Byron)
No scoring		Third period			04:40 - Cédric Lacroix (Tegeler, Vesey) 08:29 - Keith Muehlbauer (Robbins, Perez)
(unassisted) Kevin Roy - GW - 13:45		First overtime period			No scoring
( 33 saves / 36 shots ) Ryan Ruck		Goalie stats			Rob McGovern ( 26 saves / 30 shots )

Northeastern won series 2–0

(7) Merrimack vs. (10) New Hampshire

March 3	Merrimack		1 - 3	New Hampshire	J. Thom Lawler Rink	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		14:45 - Tyler Kelleher (Poturalski, Correale)
(LeBlanc, Titcomb) Derek Petti - 12:02		Third period		04:10 - GW - Marcus Vela (Gaudreault, Cleland) 19:47 - EN - Marcus Vela (Cleland, Gaudreault)
( 25 saves / 27 shots ) Drew Vogler		Goalie stats		Daniel Tirone ( 45 saves / 46 shots )

March 4	Merrimack		3 - 2	OT	New Hampshire	J. Thom Lawler Rink	Recap
(Wyszomirski, Kolquist) Derek Petti - 04:35		First period			14:16 - Tyler Kelleher (Poturalski, Boyd) 16:49 - PP - Matias Cleland (Correale, Kelleher)
(Gustafsson, Christie) Ben Bahe - 07:59		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
(LeBlanc, Biega) Ludvig Larsson - GW - 12:02		First overtime period			No scoring
( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Drew Vogler		Goalie stats			Daniel Tirone ( 47 saves / 50 shots )

March 6	Merrimack		2 - 1	New Hampshire	J. Thom Lawler Rink	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
(Biega, Larsson) Derek Petti - 08:01 (Biega) Jace Hennig - GW - 18:34		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		10:34 - PP - Matt Dawson (Nazarian, Smith)
( 27 saves / 28 shots ) Drew Vogler		Goalie stats		Daniel Tirone ( 40 saves / 42 shots )

Merrimack won series 2–1

(8) Connecticut vs. (9) Vermont

March 4	Connecticut		1 - 2	Vermont	XL Center	Recap
(Schwartz) Spencer Naas - 13:45		First period		01:28 - Alexx Privitera (Phillips, Puffer)
No scoring		Second period		01:28 - GW - Rob Darrar (Irwin)
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
( 34 saves / 36 shots ) Rob Nichols		Goalie stats		Mike Santaguida ( 32 saves / 33 shots )

March 5	Connecticut		3 - 4	Vermont	XL Center	Recap
(Ferriss) Karl El-Mir - 08:42		First period		12:12 - PP - Mario Puskarich (Bradley) 01:28 - Conor O'Neil (Puffer)
(Ferriss, Kalter) Karl El-Mir - 02:18 (Letunov, Masonius) Tage Thompson - 07:35		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		09:45 - PP - Yvan Pattyn (Blanleil, Petruzzelli) 18:41 - Brian Bowen (Darrar)
( 28 saves / 32 shots ) Rob Nichols		Goalie stats		Mike Santaguida ( 24 saves / 27 shots )

Vermont won series 2–0

Quarterfinals

(1) Boston College vs. (9) Vermont

March 11	Boston College		3 - 0	Vermont	Conte Forum	Recap
(Cangelosi, Wood) Adam Gilmour - GW - 04:14 (Gilmour) Austin Cangelosi - 10:58		First period		No scoring
(Cangelosi, Gilmour) Ryan Fitzgerald - 03:20		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
( 36 saves / 36 shots ) Thatcher Demko		Goalie stats		Mike Santaguida ( 14 saves / 17 shots ) / Packy Munson ( 13 saves / 13 shots )

March 12	Boston College		2 - 4	Vermont	Conte Forum	Recap
(Wood, Savage) Austin Cangelosi - PP - 03:49 (Kim, Gilmour) Alex Tuch - 07:05		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		02:50 - Brian Bowen (Hamilton, Coughlin) 10:20 - Liam Coughlin (Hamilton)
No scoring		Third period		11:20 - GW - Brendan Bradley (Puskarich, Privitera) 19:59 - EN - Rob Darrar (Coughlin, Bowen)
( 27 saves / 30 shots ) Thatcher Demko		Goalie stats		Packy Munson ( 43 saves / 45 shots )

March 13	Boston College		4 - 3	OT	Vermont	Conte Forum	Recap
(Gilmour, Tuch) Zach Sanford - 04:02		First period			08:51 - Craig Puffer (Hamilton, Shaw)
(Dudek, Santini) Colin White - 01:56		Second period			16:28 - Conor O'Neil (Puffer, Shaw)
(C. Fitzgerald, R. Fitzgerald) JD Dudek - 10:30		Third period			04:37 - Conor O'Neil (Shaw, Pattyn)
(Gilmour, C. Fitzgerald) Ryan Fitzgerald - GW - 09:47		First overtime period			No scoring
( 36 saves / 39 shots ) Thatcher Demko		Goalie stats			Packy Munson ( 31 saves / 35 shots )

Boston College won series 2–1

(2) Providence vs. (7) Merrimack

March 11	Providence		3 - 1	Merrimack	Schneider Arena	Recap
(Tanev, Monk) Nick Saracino - 10:23		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
(Jankowski, Parisi) Erik Foley - GW - 13:10 (Jankowski, Parisi) Trevor Mingoia - EN - 18:57		Third period		03:06 - Craig Wyszomirski (Christie)
( 25 saves / 26 shots ) Nick Ellis		Goalie stats		Drew Vogler ( 27 saves / 29 shots )

March 12	Providence		2 - 0	Merrimack	Schneider Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
(McKenzie) Garrett Gamez - GW - 10:39 (Tanev, Monk) Kevin Rooney - EN - 19:21		Third period		No scoring
( 20 saves / 20 shots ) Nick Ellis		Goalie stats		Drew Vogler ( 32 saves / 33 shots )

Providence won series 2–0

(3) Notre Dame vs. (6) Northeastern

March 11	Notre Dame		1 - 3	Northeastern	Compton Family Ice Arena	Recap
(Nardella, Lucia) Jordan Gross - 07:35		First period		02:29 - Lincoln Griffin (Schule) 06:24 - GW - John Stevens (N. Stevens, Aston-Reese)
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		19:25 - EN - Tanner Pond (Gaudette)
( 19 saves / 21 shots ) Cal Petersen		Goalie stats		Ryan Ruck ( 20 saves / 21 shots )

March 12	Notre Dame		4 - 6	Northeastern	Compton Family Ice Arena	Recap
(Hurley) Luke Ripley - 14:38		First period		18:50 - PP - Colton Saucerman (Cockerill, Roy)
(Bjork, Evans) Mario Lucia - 19:55		Second period		02:26 - Kevin Roy (Kurker) 03:33 - Garret Cockerill (J. Stevens, Aston-Reese) 05:46 - PP - Dylan Sikura (Saucerman, Roy)
(Wade, Hurley) Thomas Di Pauli - 16:33 (Di Pauli) Mario Lucia - PP - 19:38		Third period		18:39 - GW - Kevin Roy (Saucerman, McMurtry) 12:31 - Tanner Pond (Sikura, McMurtry)
( 28 saves / 34 shots ) Cal Petersen / ( 0 saves / 0 shots ) Nick Stasack		Goalie stats		Ryan Ruck ( 25 saves / 29 shots )

Northeastern won series 2–0

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

March 11	Massachusetts–Lowell		3 - 2	Boston University	Tsongas Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
(Smith, Panico) Joe Gambardella - PP - 08:58		Second period		06:22 - Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson (O'Regan, Fortunato)
(White, Fallon) Michael Louria - 11:35 (Smith, Panico) Adam Chapie - GW PP - 15:22		Third period		15:45 - Bobo Carpenter (Grzelcyk, McAvoy)
( 33 saves / 35 shots ) Kevin Boyle		Goalie stats		Sean Maguire ( 16 saves / 19 shots )

March 12	Massachusetts–Lowell		5 - 0	Boston University	Tsongas Center	Recap
(Chapie, Master) Jake Kamrass - GW - 03:07		First period		No scoring
(Kamrass, Chapie) Joe Gambardella - 06:26 (Edwardh, Kapla) C. J. Smith - 10:50		Second period		No scoring
(Master, Forney) C. J. Smith - 05:38 (Gambardella) John Edwardh - 08:30		Third period		No scoring
( 24 saves / 24 shots ) Kevin Boyle		Goalie stats		Sean Maguire ( 13 saves / 15 shots ) / Connor LaCouvee ( 14 saves / 17 shots )

Massachusetts–Lowell won series 2–0

Semifinals

(1) Boston College vs. (6) Northeastern

March 18	Boston College		4 - 5	Northeastern	TD Garden	Recap
(Brown, Santini) Miles Wood - 00:15		First period		14:08 - Zach Aston-Reese (N. Stevens, Cockerill) 19:59 - Adam Gaudette (McMurtry, Sikura)
(Gaudreau, McCoshen) Colin White - 01:10 (R. Fitzgerald, Doherty) Miles Wood - PP - 13:54		Second period		02:55 - PP - Nolan Stevens (J. Stevens, Gaudette) 10:55 - PP - Eric Williams (Roy, Sikura)
(Sanford, Santini) Alex Tuch - 10:50		Third period		09:44 - GW - Lincoln Griffin (unassisted)
( 27 saves / 32 shots ) Thatcher Demko		Goalie stats		Ryan Ruck ( 21 saves / 25 shots )

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

March 18	Providence		1 - 2	3OT	Massachusetts–Lowell	TD Garden	Recap
(Saracino, Pinho) Vincent Desharnais - 06:38		First period			18:54 - C. J. Smith (Gambardella)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
No scoring		Third overtime period			12:27 - A. J. White (Fallon)
( 42 saves / 44 shots ) Nick Ellis		Goalie stats			Kevin Boyle ( 58 saves / 59 shots )

Championship

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

March 21	Massachusetts–Lowell		2 - 3	Northeastern	TD Garden	Recap
(Gambardella, Panico) John Edwardh - 03:25		First period		01:12 - Adam Gaudette (McMurtry, Sikura) 06:30 - Nolan Stevens (J. Stevens, Aston-Reese)
(Kamrass, Zink) Adam Chapie - 13:34		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		11:03 - GW PP - Zach Aston-Reese (J. Stevens, N. Stevens)
( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Kevin Boyle		Goalie stats		Ryan Ruck ( 21 saves / 24 shots )

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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References

External links

2015 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

[1] "Hockey East Association - Press Release Archive".

[2] "2014-15 Game Recap - Hockey East Association".

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