# 2017 Hockey East men's ice hockey tournament

The 2017 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was 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, the third in five years, and earn Hockey East's automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. C. J. Smith 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 standingsvte :
| | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record |
| | GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #4 Massachusetts–Lowell†* | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 29 | 76 | 51 | 41 | 27 | 11 | 3 | 151 | 95 |
| #6 Boston University† | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 64 | 47 | 39 | 24 | 12 | 3 | 123 | 90 |
| #16 Boston College† | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 74 | 56 | 40 | 21 | 15 | 4 | 132 | 104 |
| #5 Notre Dame | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 67 | 51 | 40 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 128 | 93 |
| #15 Providence | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 27 | 66 | 57 | 39 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 116 | 92 |
| #18 Vermont | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 24 | 61 | 63 | 38 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 122 | 106 |
| Merrimack | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 57 | 60 | 37 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 90 | 96 |
| Northeastern | 22 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 21 | 73 | 71 | 38 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 140 | 113 |
| Connecticut | 22 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 55 | 61 | 36 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 96 | 104 |
| New Hampshire | 22 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 18 | 69 | 77 | 40 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 124 | 136 |
| Maine | 22 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 57 | 79 | 36 | 11 | 21 | 4 | 102 | 125 |
| Massachusetts | 22 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 42 | 88 | 36 | 5 | 29 | 2 | 66 | 132 |
| Championship: March 18, 2017 † 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 | Opening Round March 3–5 | Opening Round March 3–5 | Opening Round March 3–5 | Opening Round March 3–5 | Quarterfinals March 10–12 | Quarterfinals March 10–12 | Quarterfinals March 10–12 | Quarterfinals March 10–12 | Quarterfinals March 10–12 | Semifinals March 17 | Semifinals March 17 | Semifinals March 17 | Championship March 18 | Championship March 18 | Championship March 18 |
| | | | | | 1 | Massachusetts–Lowell | 1 | 3 | 8 | | | | | | |
| 5 | Providence | 3 | 5 | — | 10 | New Hampshire | 3 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | |
| 12 | Massachusetts | 0 | 1 | — | | | | | | 1 | Massachusetts–Lowell | 5 | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 4 | Notre Dame | 1 | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | Boston University | 3* | 3 | — | | | | | | |
| 6 | Vermont | 5 | 5 | — | 8 | Northeastern | 2 | 2 | — | | | | | | |
| 11 | Maine | 0 | 1 | — | | | | | | | | | 1 | Massachusetts–Lowell | 4 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | Boston College | 3 |
| | | | | | 3 | Boston College | 7 | 7 | — | | | | | | |
| 7 | Merrimack | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | Vermont | 0 | 4 | — | | | | | | |
| 10 | New Hampshire | 0 | 4 | 5 | | | | | | 2 | Boston University | 2 | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 3 | Boston College | 3 | | | |
| | | | | | 4 | Notre Dame | 5 | 5 | — | | | | | | |
| 8 | Northeastern | 3 | 6 | — | 5 | Providence | 0 | 2 | — | | | | | | |
| 9 | Connecticut | 1 | 2 | — | | | | | | | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

## Results
### Opening Round
#### (5) Providence vs. (12) Massachusetts

* Providence won series 2–0

#### (6) Vermont vs. (11) Maine

* Vermont won series 2–0

#### (7) Merrimack vs. (10) New Hampshire

* New Hampshire won series 2–1

#### (8) Northeastern vs. (9) Connecticut

* Northeastern won series 2–0

### Quarterfinals
#### (1) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (10) New Hampshire

* Massachusetts–Lowell won series 2–1

#### (2) Boston University vs. (8) Northeastern

* Boston University won series 2–0

#### (3) Boston College vs. (6) Vermont

* Boston College won series 2–0

#### (4) Notre Dame vs. (5) Providence

* Notre Dame won series 2–0

### Championship
#### (1) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (3) Boston College
## Tournament awards
### 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(s)