| 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) |
Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
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
| 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)
References
External links
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