2021 Hockey East men's ice hockey tournament

2021 Hockey East Men's ice hockey tournament
2021 Hockey East Men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 10–20, 2021
Teams	10
Finals site	Mullins Center; Amherst, Massachusetts
Champions	Massachusetts (1st title)
Winning coach	Greg Carvel (1st title)
MVP	Bobby Trivigno (Massachusetts)
	Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 2020 2022 →

The 2021 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 10 and March 20, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all games were played on campus locations, rather than the semifinal and final match traditionally being hosted at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The UMass Minutemen defeated the UMass Lowell River Hawks to earn their 1st Hockey East tournament championship, and earned the conference's automatic bid into the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

The tournament was the 36th in league history.

Format

Due to the difficulties of scheduling during the regular season, it was announced in late 2020 that all 11 Hockey East teams qualified for the tournament. After further complications and cancellations throughout the season, a formula-based ranking system called the Hockey East Power Index (HEPI) was implemented to determine seeding. Additionally, the tournament was formatted so that all rounds would be single-elimination games, rather than traditionally a best-of-three series in the opening and quarterfinals rounds.^[1]

On March 5, it was announced that Merrimack would be unable to participate in the tournament due to a late positive test result among the team's Tier-I personnel.^[2] As a result, the 11-team tournament format was reduced to a 10-team format, and teams ranked below Merrimack in the final HEPI standings would move up a seed to compensate.

Seeds 7-10 will play a single elimination opening round game on March 10, 2021, as seeds 1-6 will earn a bye to the next round. Winning teams will be reseeded and then play a single elimination quarterfinal game on March 14, 2021. Following an additional reseeding, the four victorious teams will advance to the semifinals on March 17, 2021. The final two programs will battle in the championship game on March 20, 2021.^[3]

Standings

2020–21 Hockey East Standings v t e
	Conference record										Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	OTW	OTL	SOW	HEPI	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#6 Boston College	21	16	4	1	3	2	0	58.61	82	46	24	17	6	1	91	58
#11 Boston University	14	10	3	1	3	1	1	56.36	49	37	16	10	5	1	52	45
#1 Massachusetts *	22	13	5	4	1	1	1	55.44	76	42	29	20	5	4	103	48
Connecticut	22	10	10	2	1	4	2	52.01	69	63	23	10	11	2	70	69
#16 Providence	23	10	8	5	0	0	2	50.80	63	61	25	11	9	5	71	67
Northeastern	20	9	8	3	1	0	3	49.94	68	60	21	9	9	3	69	64
#19 Massachusetts–Lowell	16	7	8	1	1	1	0	48.00	46	53	20	10	9	1	59	63
Maine	15	3	10	2	0	1	2	46.66	41	61	16	3	11	2	43	68
Merrimack	18	5	11	2	0	1	0	45.38	47	66	18	5	11	2	47	66
New Hampshire	21	5	13	3	3	2	2	43.66	51	83	23	6	14	3	60	88
Vermont	12	1	9	2	0	0	0	38.02	17	37	13	1	10	2	20	42
Championship: March 20, 2021^[4] No Regular Season Champion Awarded^[5] * indicates conference tournament champion (Lamoriello Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the Opening Round and Quarterfinals

Opening Round March 10^[6]			Quarterfinals March 14			Semifinals March 17			Championship March 20

			1	Boston College	3
7	Massachusetts–Lowell	5	9	New Hampshire	2
10	Vermont	3				1	Boston College	5
						7	Massachusetts–Lowell	6**
			2	Boston University	1
			7	Massachusetts–Lowell	2
									7	Massachusetts–Lowell	0
									3	Massachusetts	1
			3	Massachusetts	4
8	Maine	2	6	Northeastern	1
9	New Hampshire	7				3	Massachusetts	5
						5	Providence	2
			4	Connecticut	1
			5	Providence	6

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

Opening Round

(7) UMass Lowell vs. (11) Vermont

March 10, 2021
3:00 PM

UMass Lowell

5 – 3
(0–1, 4–1, 1–1)

Vermont

Tsongas Center, Lowell, Massachusetts
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Owen Savory

Goalies

Gabe Carriere

Referees:
Geoffrey Miller
Terrence Murphy
Linesmen:
Kevin Briganti
Nicholas Briganti

	0–1	17:29 – Jacques Bouquot (2) (Esposito, Dzhioshvili)
(Lee, Stefanson) Nolan Sawchuk (1) – 22:50	1–1
(Levesque, Meehan) Anthony Baxter (1) – 29:13	2–1
(Levesque, Barton) Matt Brown (5) – PP – 30:54	3–1
(Anthony Baxter) Matt Brown (6) – GW – 34:41	4–1
	4–2	39:24 – SH – Bryce Misley (1) (unassisted)
(Jon McDonald, Blake Wells) Seth Barton (2) – 43:05	5–2
	5–3	43:32 – Simon Boyko (2) (Evers)

12 min

Penalties

12 min

31

Shots

23

(8) Maine vs. (9) New Hampshire

March 10, 2021
4:30 PM

Maine

2 – 7
(0–1, 2–3, 0–3)

New Hampshire

Alfond Arena, Orono, Maine
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Victor Ostman

Goalies

Mike Robinson

Referees:
Walker Holton
Jeremy Tufts
Linesmen:
Bill Kingdon
Jeff McCorkle

	0–1	17:00 – Kalle Eriksson (6) (Pierson, Crookshank)
	0–2	22:30 – PP – Eric MacAdams (4) (Engarås, Verrier)
(Dawe, Butala) Adrien Bisson (2) – 23:16	1–2
	1–3	23:51 – GW – Jackson Pierson (9) (MacKinnon)
(Sirota, Quinlivan) Lynden Breen (3) – 25:19	2–3
	2–4	30:21 – SH – Tyler Ward (3) (Engarås)
	2–5	41:00 – Filip Engarås (6) (unassisted)
	2–6	55:54 – SH EN – Luke Rein (2) (Verrier)
	2–7	57:49 – PP – Lucas Herrmann (3) (MacKinnon, Cipollone)

16 min

Penalties

10 min

22

Shots

36

Quarterfinals

(2) Boston University vs. (7) UMass Lowell

March 14, 2021
1:05 PM

Boston University

1 – 2
(1–1, 0–0, 0–1)

UMass Lowell

Walter Brown Arena, Boston, Massachusetts
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Drew Commesso

Goalies

Henry Welsch

Referees:
Scott Hansen
Walker Holton
Linesmen:
Bob Bernard
Christopher Millea

(Peterson, Zabaneh) Jamie Armstrong (1) – 2:17	1–0
	1–1	4:30 – Matt Brown (7) (McDonald)
	1–2	48:19 – GW – Brian Chambers (3) (Lee, Stefanson)

4 min

Penalties

2 min

17

Shots

29

(4) Connecticut vs. (5) Providence

March 14, 2021
3:30 PM

Connecticut

1 – 6
(0–1, 1–2, 0–3)

Providence

Freitas Ice Forum, Storrs, Connecticut
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Tomáš Vomáčka

Goalies

Jaxson Stauber

Referees:
Geoffrey Miller
Jeremy Tufts
Linesmen:
Jeff McCorkle
Bill Kingdon

	0–1	8:47 – Parker Ford (6) (Ruikka, Printz)
	0–2	21:58 – GW – Uula Ruikka (4) (McDonald, McDermott)
	0–3	22:58 – Nick Poisson (5) (Mirageas, Thompson)
(Evans, Karashik) Jáchym Kondelík (4) – 29:20	1–3
	1–4	41:45 – Tyce Thompson (11) (Poisson)
	1–5	50:53 – Brett Berard (4) (Yoder, Moynihan)
	1–6	55:20 – Max Crozier (3) (Berard, Mirageas)

8 min

Penalties

10 min

41

Shots

43

(3) Massachusetts vs. (6) Northeastern

March 14, 2021
4:30 PM

Massachusetts

4 – 1
(2–0, 1–1, 1–0)

Northeastern

Mullins Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Filip Lindberg

Goalies

Connor Murphy

Referees:
Marty Hughes
Terrance Murphy
Linesmen:
Nick Briganti
Jeremy Lovett

(Trivigno, Lopina) Garret Wait (8) – 2:54	1–0
(Trivigno, Kessel) Zac Jones (7) – GW – 8:27	2–0
	2–1	30:37 – Jérémie Bucheler (1) (Struble)
(Felix) Bobby Trivigno (9) – 38:08	3–1
(Harding) Philip Lagunov (3) – 44:16	4–1

4 min

Penalties

2 min

28

Shots

26

(1) Boston College vs. (9) New Hampshire

March 14, 2021
4:30 PM

Boston College

3 – 2
(3–0, 0–2, 0–0)

New Hampshire

Conte Forum, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Spencer Knight

Goalies

Mike Robinson

Referees:
Charles Hanfin
Peter Schlittenhardt
Linesmen:
Kyle Richetelle
Kevin Briganti

(Boldy, Helleson) Alex Newhook (5) – 5:35	1–0
(Powell, Boldy) Mike Hardman (9) – 7:30	2–0
(Ambrosio, Warren) Nikita Nesterenko (8) – GW – 8:25	3–0
	3–1	26:33 – Eric MacAdams (5) (Sato, Verrier)
	3–2	28:56 – Luke Reid (3) (MacAdams, Gendron)

4 min

Penalties

8 min

36

Shots

37

Semifinals

(1) Boston College vs. (7) UMass Lowell

March 17, 2021
4:30 PM

Boston College

5 – 6 (2OT)
(1–0, 3–1, 1–4, 0–0, 0–1)

UMass Lowell

Conte Forum, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Spencer Knight

Goalies

Henry Welsch

Referees:
Scott Hansen
Walker Holton
Linesmen:
Bill Kingdon
Jeff McCorckle

(Boldy, Newhook) Marshall Warren (3) – 7:34	1–0
(Boldy, Newhook) Mike Hardman (10) – 6:44	2–0
(Hardman, St. Ivany) Alex Newhook (6) – 32:40	3–0
	3–1	33:01 – Anthony Baxter (2) (unassisted)
(Boldy) Alex Newhook (7) – 38:47	4–1
	4–2	50:25 – Reid Stefanson (5) (Brown, Blackmun)
	4–3	55:33 – Andre Lee (7) (Blackmun, Wells)
	4–4	56:39 – PP – Lucas Condotta (6) (Lee)
(Boldy, Newhook) Marc McLaughlin (10) – PP – 57:53	5–4
	5–5	58:34 – EA – Anthony Baxter (3) (Levesque, Knoblauch)
	5–6	92:00 – GW – Matt Brown (8) (Barton)

12 min

Penalties

4 min

39

Shots

49

(3) Massachusetts vs. (5) Providence

March 17, 2021
7:00 PM

Massachusetts

5 – 2
(2–2, 1–0, 2–0)

Providence

Mullins Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Filip Lindberg

Goalies

Jaxson Stauber

Referees:
Marty Hughes
Terrance Murphy
Linesmen:
Kevin Briganti
Kyle Richetelle

(Kessel, Trivigno) Josh Lopina (8) – 0:52	1–0
	1–1	6:00 – Brett Berard (5) (Poisson, Mirageas)
(Kessel, Trivigno) Zac Jones (8) – 11:46	2–1
	2–2	8:14 – PP – Parker Ford (7) (Thompson, Callahan)
(Jones) Bobby Trivigno (10) – GW – 21:22	3–2
(Del Gaizo, Felix) George Mika (3) – 49:32	4–2
(unassisted) Marc Del Gaizo (3) – EN – 59:18	5–2

2 min

Penalties

0 min

27

Shots

22

Finals

(3) Massachusetts vs. (7) UMass Lowell

March 20, 2021
7:00 PM

Massachusetts

1 – 0
(1–0, 0–0, 0–0)

UMass Lowell

Mullins Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
Attendance: 0

Game reference

Filip Lindberg

Goalies

Henry Welsch

Referees:
Peter Schlittenhardt
Jeremy Tufts
Linesmen:
Bob Bernard
Nicholas Brignati

(Gicewicz, Chau) Jake Gaudet (3) – GW – 15:32

1–0

4 min

Penalties

4 min

22

Shots

16

Tournament Awards

All-Tournament Team

Goaltender – Filip Lindberg, Massachusetts
Defenceman – Anthony Baxter, UMass Lowell
Defenceman – Zac Jones, Massachusetts
Forward – Matt Brown, UMass Lowell
Forward – Jake Gaudet, Massachusetts
Forward – Bobby Trivigno, Massachusetts

Tournament MVP

Bobby Trivigno, Massachusetts

References

^ "Hockey East Unveils 2021 Tournament and Seeding Format - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
^ McMahon, Mike. "COVID-19 ends season for Merrimack hockey team". Eagle-Tribune. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
^ "2021 Hockey East Men's Tournament - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com.
^ "Hockey East Unveils 2021 Tournament and Seeding Format - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
^ "2021 Hockey East Women's Tournament Field Set". hockeyeastonline.com. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
^ "2021 Hockey East Men's Tournament Field Set - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com. Retrieved March 8, 2021.

External links

2021 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

[1] "Hockey East Unveils 2021 Tournament and Seeding Format - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.

[2] McMahon, Mike. "COVID-19 ends season for Merrimack hockey team". Eagle-Tribune. Retrieved March 6, 2021.

[3] "2021 Hockey East Men's Tournament - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com.

[4] "Hockey East Unveils 2021 Tournament and Seeding Format - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.

[5] "2021 Hockey East Women's Tournament Field Set". hockeyeastonline.com. Retrieved March 13, 2021.

[6] "2021 Hockey East Men's Tournament Field Set - Hockey East Association". hockeyeastonline.com. Retrieved March 8, 2021.

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