2018 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament


The 2018 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 2 and March 17, 2018 at campus locations and at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston University won their 9th tournament and earned Hockey East's automatic bid into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The tournament was the 34th in league history.

Format

The tournament included all eleven teams in the conference. Seeds 1–5 earned a first-round bye, and seeds 6–11 played a best-of-three Opening Round played on campus locations. Winners advanced to play the 1–3 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

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the Opening Round and Quarterfinals
Note: * denotes overtime period

Results

Opening Round

(6) Maine vs. (11) New Hampshire

(7) Massachusetts–Lowell vs. (10) Merrimack

(8) Massachusetts vs. (9) Vermont

Quarterfinals

(1) Boston College vs. (10) Merrimack

(2) Northeastern vs. (8) Massachusetts

(3) Providence vs. (6) Maine

(4) Boston University vs. (5) Connecticut

Semifinals

(1) Boston College vs. (4) Boston University

(2) Northeastern vs. (3) Providence

Championship

(3) Providence vs. (4) Boston University

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team">List of Hockey East All-Tournament Team">All-Tournament Team

* Tournament MVP