2016 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

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
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	T	GF	GA 	P
Boston College 	22	15	2 	5	91	45 	35
Providence College 	22	16	3 	3	71	39 	35
University of Notre Dame 	22	15	5 	2	70	40 	32
University of Massachusetts Lowell 	22	12	6 	4	58	37 	28
Boston University 	22	12	6 	4	75	56 	28
Northeastern University 	22	10	8 	4	75	56 	24
Merrimack College 	22	5 	10	7	50	70 	17
University of Connecticut 	22	6 	12	4	49	70 	16
University of Vermont 	22	6 	13	3	48	66 	15
University of New Hampshire 	22	4 	12	6	57	7 	14
University of Maine 	22	5 	12	2	42	77 	12
University of Massachusetts Amherst	22	2 	16	4	44	101	8
==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)
http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/recaps15.php?mbu_uml1.m21
==References==
==External links==
*2015 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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