2015 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2015 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 6 and March 21, 2015 at campus locations and at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston University Terriers defeated the UMass Lowell River Hawks by a score of 5–3 to earn their 8th Hockey East championship in school history and earn Hockey East's automatic bid into the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. Jack Eichel was named tournament MVP.

The tournament is the 31st in league history.

Format

With the addition of the UConn Huskies to Hockey East, the tournament was reformatted to 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

2014–15 Hockey East men's standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#2 Boston University *22145331885541288515895
#1 Providence221381276137412613212384
#13 Boston College221273276050382114310791
#17 Massachusetts–Lowell2211742670523921126134101
Notre Dame2210752564544218195126116
Northeastern2211922470693616164107107
Vermont221093236253412215411091
New Hampshire22101112166684019192119109
Connecticut227114184274361019766111
Maine2281221864743914223108127
Merrimack22514313385638161848193
Massachusetts2251611159102361123299152
Championship: March 21, 2015
indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 9, 2015

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the Opening Round and Quarterfinals

  Opening Round[1]
March 6-8
Quarterfinals
March 13–15
Semifinals
March 20
Championship
March 21
                                             
  1 Boston University 6 5 1 Boston University 4  
5 Notre Dame 3 5 7 11 Merrimack 2 0 8 New Hampshire 1  
12 Massachusetts 4***** 3 0
  2 Providence 1 2 1
6 Northeastern 2 1 8 New Hampshire 2* 1 2*     1 Boston University 5
11 Merrimack 3* 2**   4 Massachusetts–Lowell 3
  3 Boston College 4 1 0
7 Vermont 4 2 3* 7 Vermont 2 3 1
10 Maine 2 4 2
  4 Massachusetts–Lowell 5 2 6 4 Massachusetts–Lowell 4
8 New Hampshire 5 2 5 Notre Dame 0 4 4 7 Vermont 1  
9 Connecticut 2 0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

(5) Notre Dame vs. (12) Massachusetts

Notre Dame won series 2–1

(6) Northeastern vs. (11) Merrimack

Merrimack won series 2–0

(7) Vermont vs. (10) Maine

Vermont won series 2–1

(8) New Hampshire vs. (9) Connecticut

New Hampshire won series 2–0

(1) Boston University vs. (11) Merrimack

Boston University won series 2–0

(2) Providence vs. (8) New Hampshire

New Hampshire won series 2–1

(3) Boston College vs. (7) Vermont

Vermont won series 2–1

(4) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (5) Notre Dame

Massachusetts–Lowell won series 2–1

(1) Boston University vs. (8) New Hampshire

(4) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (7) Vermont

(1) Boston University vs. (4) Massachusetts–Lowell

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Tournament MVP(s)

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References

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