College ice hockey tournament
| 2017 Hockey East Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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| Dates | March 3–18, 2017 |
| Teams | 12 |
| Finals site | TD Garden Boston |
| Champions | Massachusetts–Lowell (3rd title) |
| Winning coach | Norm Bazin (3rd title) |
| MVP | C. J. Smith (UMass Lowell) |
| Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 2016 2018 → | |
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 standings | ||||||||||||||
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| Conference 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 | Quarterfinals March 10–12 | Semifinals March 17 | 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
| March 3 | Providence | 3 - 0 | Massachusetts | Schneider Arena | Recap | |||
| (Wilkins, Foley) Brian Pinho - GW - 16:21 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Foley, McKenzie) Josh Wilkins - 15:20 (Wilkins, Pinho) Erik Foley - 17:26 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 22 shots ) Hayden Hawkey | Goalie stats | Ryan Wischow ( 32 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4 | Providence | 5 - 1 | Massachusetts | Schneider Arena | Recap | |||
| (Pinho, Monk) Scott Conway - PP - 08:54 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Bryson, Lemos) Vimal Sukumaran - GW - 02:05 (Monk, Kavanagh) Conor MacPhee - 15:04 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Pinho, Foley) Josh Wilkins - 14:13 (Björkqvist, Gamez) Josh Monk - 18:39 |
Third period | 17:18 - Ray Pigozzi (Lagesson) | ||||||
| ( 20 saves / 20 shots ) Hayden Hawkey / ( 0 saves / 1 shots ) Brendan Leahy | Goalie stats | Ryan Wischow ( 30 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| Providence won series 2–0 | |
(6) Vermont vs. (11) Maine
| March 3 | Vermont | 5 - 0 | Maine | Gutterson Fieldhouse | Recap | |||
| (Abramson, Muscoby) Liam Coughlin - GW - 03:27 (Blanleil, Bradley) Liam Coughlin - 09:15 (Shaw, Hamilton) Craig Puffer - 19:11 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Massie, Blanleil) Brendan Bradley - 12:40 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Bowen, Phillips) Mario Puskarich - 02:29 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 31 saves / 31 shots ) Stefanos Lekkas | Goalie stats | Rob McGovern ( 30 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4 | Vermont | 5 - 1 | Maine | Gutterson Fieldhouse | Recap | |||
| (Coughlin) Brendan Bradley - 06:33 (Bowen, Puskarich) Rob Hamilton - GW PP - 17:52 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Bradley, Bowen) Mario Puskarich - PP - 14:36 (Shaw, Privitera) Craig Puffer - 14:48 |
Second period | 06:55 - PP - Rob Michel (Byron, Brown) | ||||||
| (Best, Hamilton) Matt Alvaro - PP EN - 19:38 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 36 saves / 37 shots ) Stefanos Lekkas | Goalie stats | Matt Morris ( 16 saves / 20 shots ) / Rob McGovern ( 8 saves / 8 shots ) | ||||||
| Vermont won series 2–0 | |
(7) Merrimack vs. (10) New Hampshire
| March 3 | Merrimack | 4 - 0 | New Hampshire | J. Thom Lawler Rink | Recap | |||
| (Seney) Sami Tavernier - GW - 05:50 (Hennig, Kovacevic) Derek Petti - 15:16 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Hennig) Chris LeBlanc - 04:37 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Kolquist, Larsson) Tyler Irvine - EN - 16:32 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 25 shots ) Collin Delia | Goalie stats | Daniel Tirone ( 23 saves / 26 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4 | Merrimack | 0 - 4 | New Hampshire | J. Thom Lawler Rink | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 14:43 - GW - Patrick Grasso (Miller) 17:34 - PP - Jason Salvaggio (van Riemsdyk, McNicholas) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 18:48 - EN - Michael McNicholas (Nazarian, Kelleher) 19:22 - EN - Liam Blackburn (Tirone) | ||||||
| (LeBlanc, Biega) Ludvig Larsson - 12:02 | Overtime | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) Collin Delia | Goalie stats | Daniel Tirone ( 44 saves / 44 shots ) | ||||||
| March 5 | Merrimack | 2 - 5 | New Hampshire | J. Thom Lawler Rink | Recap | |||
| (Kolquist, Seney) Hampus Gustafsson - PP - 09:54 | First period | 01:14 - Michael McNicholas (Kelleher, Salvaggio) 06:01 - Frankie Cefalu (Hill, Sacco) 14:45 - GW - Patrick Grasso (Nazarian) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Carle, Biega) Derek Petti - PP - 07:54 | Third period | 10:34 - PP - Tyler Kelleher (McNicholas, Grasso) 18:53 - EN - Jason Salvaggio (McNicholas, Cleland) | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 29 shots ) Collin Delia | Goalie stats | Daniel Tirone ( 44 saves / 46 shots ) | ||||||
| New Hampshire won series 2–1 | |
(8) Northeastern vs. (9) Connecticut
| March 3 | Northeastern | 3 - 1 | Connecticut | Matthews Arena | Recap | |||
| (Sikura, J. Stevens) Garret Cockerill - PP - 10:36 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Filipe, Shea) Brendan Collier - GW - 11:58 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Aston-Reese) Nolan Stevens - EN - 19:17 | Third period | 18:39 - EA - Benjamin Freeman (Austin, Drake) | ||||||
| ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) Ryan Ruck | Goalie stats | Adam Huska ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4 | Northeastern | 6 - 2 | Connecticut | Matthews Arena | Recap | |||
| (Griffin, Filipe) Brendan Collier - 04:09 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (N. Stevens, J. Stevens) Zach Aston-Reese - 08:06 (J. Stevens, Cockerill) Adam Gaudette - 14:30 |
Second period | 12:20 - Brian Morgan (Kalter, Ronan) 18:01 - Miles Gendron (Austin, Ojantakanen) | ||||||
| (Cockerill, Sikura) John Stevens - 11:13 (Aston-Reese, Sikura) John Stevens - 13:10 (N. Stevens, Williams) Jeremy Davies - 14:52 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) Ryan Ruck | Goalie stats | Adam Huska ( 28 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| Northeastern won series 2–0 | |
Quarterfinals
(1) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (10) New Hampshire
| March 10 | Massachusetts–Lowell | 1 - 3 | New Hampshire | Tsongas Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 07:38 - Shane Eiserman (Grasso) 15:11 - GW - Patrick Grasso (Chanter, Nazarian) | ||||||
| (Zink, Campbell) Nick Master - 12:25 | Second period | 13:44 - Marcus Vela (unassisted) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 9 saves / 12 shots ) Tyler Wall | Goalie stats | Daniel Tirone ( 34 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| March 11 | Massachusetts–Lowell | 3 - 1 | New Hampshire | Tsongas Center | Recap | |||
| (Smith, Gambardella) Tommy Panico - 12:54 | First period | 08:43 - PP - Matias Cleland (Blackburn) | ||||||
| (Dmowski) John Edwardh - GW - 03:07 (Zink, Kapla) Ryan Dmowski - 11:29 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 18 saves / 19 shots ) Tyler Wall | Goalie stats | Daniel Tirone ( 21 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
| March 12 | Massachusetts–Lowell | 8 - 2 | New Hampshire | Tsongas Center | Recap | |||
| (Zink, Forney) John Edwardh - PP - 03:36 (Hill, Eiserman) Kenny Hausinger - 08:48 (Lohin) Kenny Hausinger - GW - 12:24 (Edwardh, Gambardella) C. J. Smith - 12:53 (Wilson) Colin O'Neill - SH - 15:21 (Edwardh, Gambardella) C. J. Smith - 18:32 |
First period | 05:36 - Marcus Vela (Hill, Eiserman) | ||||||
| (Göransson, Hausinger) Colin O'Neill - 13:22 (Master, Göransson) Tyler Mueller - 17:30 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 07:38 - Tyler Kelleher (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) Tyler Wall / ( 1 saves / 1 shots ) Christoffer Hernberg | Goalie stats | Daniel Tirone ( 23 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
| Massachusetts–Lowell won series 2–1 | |
(2) Boston University vs. (8) Northeastern
| March 10 | Boston University | 3 - 2 | OT | Northeastern | Agganis Arena | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | 07:23 - Zach Aston-Reese (N. Stevens, Davies) 09:52 - Dylan Sikura (Davies, Williams) | ||||||
| (Hickey, Bellows) Dante Fabbro - PP - 07:33 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Curry) Chase Phelps - 09:28 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Keller, McAvoy) Jordan Greenway - GW PP - 03:11 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 33 saves / 35 shots ) Jake Oettinger | Goalie stats | Ryan Ruck ( 32 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| March 11 | Boston University | 3 - 2 | Northeastern | Agganis Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 02:23 - Biagio Lerario (Pond, Jamieson) 11:21 - Nolan Stevens (Filipe, Shea) | ||||||
| (Keller, McAvoy) Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson - PP - 14:38 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Forsbacka Karlsson, McAvoy) Nick Roberto - 03:01 (Forsbacka Karlsson, McAvoy) Chad Krys - GW PP - 19:35 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) Jake Oettinger | Goalie stats | Ryan Ruck ( 25 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
| Boston University won series 2–0 | |
(3) Boston College vs. (6) Vermont
| March 10 | Boston College | 7 - 0 | Vermont | Conte Forum | Recap | |||
| (White, Fitzgerald) Austin Cangelosi - GW - 00:08 (McInnis) Colin White - 05:15 (Fitzgerald, McPhee) Luke McInnis - 14:23 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Kim, McInnis) Matthew Gaudreau - 05:27 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Gaudreau, McInnis) Christopher Brown - PP - 13:02 (Fitzgerald, Moore) Julius Mattila - SH - 18:30 (unassisted) Christopher Brown - SH - 19:59 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 22 shots ) Joseph Woll | Goalie stats | Stefanos Lekkas ( 20 saves / 24 shots ) / Mike Santaguida ( 4 saves / 7 shots ) | ||||||
| March 11 | Boston College | 7 - 4 | Vermont | Conte Forum | Recap | |||
| (White, Savage) JD Dudek - PP - 03:35 (Kim, Calnan) Connor Moore - 07:10 (Cangelosi, Savage) JD Dudek - PP - 08:57 |
First period | 13:14 - PP - Ross Colton (Hamilton, Puskarich) 19:41 - PP - Rob Hamilton (Puskarich, Bradley) | ||||||
| (Cotton, White) Austin Cangelosi - PP - 07:24 (White, Savage) Austin Cangelosi - GW PP - 11:22 |
Second period | 17:14 - Rob Hamilton (Petruzzelli, Coughlin) | ||||||
| (Ju. Mattila) Chris Calnan - 13:25 (Gaudreau, Kim) Ryan Fitzgerald - 17:39 |
Third period | 18:02 - Matt O'Donnell (Shaw, Puffer) | ||||||
| ( 32 saves / 36 shots ) Joseph Woll | Goalie stats | Stefanos Lekkas ( 27 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| Boston College won series 2–0 | |
(4) Notre Dame vs. (5) Providence
| March 10 | Notre Dame | 5 - 0 | Providence | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Brauer, Jenkins) Jordan Gross - GW - 09:31 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Brauer, Dello) Jack Jenkins - 04:24 (Gross, Petersen) Joe Wegwerth - 11:35 (Morrison, Nardella) Jake Evans - 17:05 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Bjork, Evans) Andrew Oglevie - PP - 02:11 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 43 saves / 43 shots ) Cal Petersen | Goalie stats | Hayden Hawkey ( 20 saves / 25 shots ) | ||||||
| March 11 | Notre Dame | 5 - 2 | Providence | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Evans, Bjork) Cam Morrison - PP - 12:58 | Second period | 10:48 - Brian Pinho (Walman) | ||||||
| (Bjork) Jordan Gross - 00:21 (Oglevie, Morrison) Bobby Nardella - GW - 07:29 (Jenkins, Oglevie) Dylan Malmquist - EN - 18:55 (Oglevie, Gilbert) Dylan Malmquist - EN - 19:37 |
Third period | 11:18 - PP - Brian Pinho (Young, Walman) | ||||||
| ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) Cal Petersen | Goalie stats | Hayden Hawkey ( 33 saves / 36 shots ) | ||||||
| Notre Dame won series 2–0 | |
Semifinals
(1) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (4) Notre Dame
| March 17 | Massachusetts–Lowell | 5 - 1 | Notre Dame | TD Garden | Recap | |||
| (Hausinger, Lohin) Colin O'Neill - 07:25 (Göransson, Mueller) Ryan Lohin - GW - 09:31 |
First period | 07:00 - Jack Jenkins (Gilbert, Peeke) | ||||||
| (Gambardella) C. J. Smith - 06:34 (Hausinger, Lohin) Michael Kapla - 18:52 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Collins) Nick Marin - 02:58 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) Tyler Wall | Goalie stats | Cal Petersen ( 36 saves / 41 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Boston University vs. (3) Boston College
| March 18 | Boston University | 2 - 3 | Boston College | TD Garden | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 01:58 - Julius Mattila (Savage, Je. Mattila) 13:21 - SH - Ryan Fitzgerald (Brown, Savage) | ||||||
| (Keller, Carpenter) Jordan Greenway - EA - 17:36 (Forsbacka Karlsson, Greenway) Clayton Keller - EA - 18:38 |
Third period | 00:58 - GW - Ryan Fitzgerald (Brown, Gaudreau) | ||||||
| ( 32 saves / 35 shots ) Jake Oettinger | Goalie stats | Joseph Woll ( 42 saves / 44 shots ) | ||||||
Championship
(1) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (3) Boston College
| March 18 | Massachusetts–Lowell | 4 - 3 | Boston College | TD Garden | Recap | |||
| (unassisted) C. J. Smith - 01:06 (Smith, Panico) Chris Forney - 12:06 |
First period | 05:31 - PP - Austin Cangelosi (Dudek, Savage) 18:38 - SH - Graham McPhee (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Gambardella, Smith) John Edwardh - PP - 10:05 (Kapla, Edwardh) Joe Gambardella - GW - 11:37 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 17:15 - EA - Ryan Fitzgerald (Dudek, Savage) | ||||||
| ( 38 saves / 41 shots ) Tyler Wall | Goalie stats | Joseph Woll ( 21 saves / 25 shots ) | ||||||
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
References
- "Hockey East Association - Press Release Archive". www.hockeyeastonline.com.
- "Hockey East Association - Press Release Archive". www.hockeyeastonline.com.
- "Hockey East Association - Press Release Archive". www.hockeyeastonline.com.
- "2016-17 Game Recap - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com.
External links
| Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
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| 2017 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournaments | |
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| Conference | |
| National | |