2017 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2017 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament will be played between March 3 and March 18, 2017 at campus locations and at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts–Lowell River Hawks defeated the Boston College Eagles by a score of 4–3 to earn their 3rd Hockey East championship in school history, and the third in five years. C.J. Smith of Lowell was named tournament MVP.

The tournament was the 33rd in league history.

Format

The tournament included 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

2016–17 Hockey East men's standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#4 UMass Lowelldagger*221471297651412711315195
#6 Boston Universitydagger221363296447392412312390
#16 Boston Collegedagger2213632974564021154132104
#5 Notre Dame221264286751402312512893
#15 Providence221273276657392212511692
#18 Vermont2210842461633820135122106
Merrimack2288622576037151669096
Northeastern2291032173713818155140113
Connecticut228104205561361216896104
New Hampshire2271141869774015205124136
Maine2251521257793611214102125
Massachusetts2221915428836529266132
Championship: March 18, 2017
dagger indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 6, 2017

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the Opening Round and Quarterfinals

  Opening Round
March 3–5[1]		 Quarterfinals
March 10–12[2]		 Semifinals
March 17[3]		 Championship
March 18
                                             
  1 Massachusetts–Lowell 1 3 8 1 Massachusetts–Lowell 5  
5 Providence 3 5 — 10 New Hampshire 3 1 2 4 Notre Dame 1  
12 Massachusetts 0 1 —
  2 Boston University 3* 3 —
6 Vermont 5 5 — 8 Northeastern 2 2 —     1 Massachusetts–Lowell 4
11 Maine 0 1 —   3 Boston College 3
  3 Boston College 7 7 —
7 Merrimack 4 0 2 6 Vermont 0 4 —
10 New Hampshire 0 4 5
  4 Notre Dame 5 5 — 2 Boston University 2
8 Northeastern 3 6 — 5 Providence 0 2 — 3 Boston College 3  
9 Connecticut 1 2 —

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Tournament awards

[4]

All-Tournament Team

  • F Joe Gambardella Massachusetts–Lowell
  • F C.J. Smith Massachusetts–Lowell
  • F Ryan Fitzgerald Boston College
  • D Michael Kapla Massachusetts–Lowell
  • D Scott Savage Boston College
  • G Tyler Wall Massachusetts–Lowell

Tournament MVP

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/pres1617/201702/feb25hea.php
  2. ↑ http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/pres1617/201703/mar5hea.php
  3. ↑ http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/pres1617/201703/mar12hea.php
  4. ↑ http://hockeyeastonline.com/men/recaps17.php?mbc_uml1.m18
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