Year: | 2016 |
Conference: | Hockey East |
Gender: | Men's |
Dates: | March 3–19, 2016 |
Teams: | 12 |
Finalarena: | TD Garden |
Finalcity: | Boston |
Champions: | Northeastern |
Titlecount: | 2nd |
Coach: | Jim Madigan |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Mvp: | Kevin Boyle |
Mvpteam: | UMass Lowell |
Prevseason Year: | 2015 |
Prevseason Link: | 2015 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament |
Nextseason Year: | 2017 |
Nextseason Link: | 2017 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.
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.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Teams are reseeded after the Opening Round and Quarterfinals
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
* Tournament MVP(s)]]
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