2004 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
| 2004 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 11–20, 2004 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Fleet Center Boston, Massachusetts |
| Champions | Maine (5th title) |
| Winning coach | Tim Whitehead[1] (1st title) |
| MVP | Jimmy Howard (Maine) |
Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2004 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 20th Tournament in the history of the conference. It was played between March 11 and March 20, 2004. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Fleet Center in Boston, Massachusetts, the home venue of the NHL's Boston Bruins. By winning the tournament Maine received the Hockey East's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format[]
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The team that finishes ninth in the conference is not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third seed and sixth seeds, and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played a best-of-three with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-elimination game, with the winner advancing to the championship game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Conference Standings[]
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #3 Boston College† | 24 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 88 | 45 | 42 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 143 | 81 | |
| #2 Maine* | 24 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 36 | 77 | 42 | 44 | 33 | 8 | 3 | 141 | 69 | |
| Massachusetts | 24 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 27 | 47 | 63 | 37 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 93 | 99 | |
| #11 New Hampshire | 24 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 26 | 82 | 76 | 41 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 138 | 116 | |
| Providence | 24 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 20 | 63 | 66 | 37 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 106 | 92 | |
| Massachusetts–Lowell | 24 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 56 | 65 | 40 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 105 | 116 | |
| Merrimack | 24 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 53 | 79 | 36 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 86 | 110 | |
| Boston University | 24 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 17 | 57 | 71 | 38 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 103 | 108 | |
| Northeastern | 24 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 16 | 56 | 72 | 34 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 92 | 103 | |
| Championship: Maine † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll | ||||||||||||||
Bracket[]
| Quarterfinals[2] March 11–13 |
Semifinals[3] March 19 |
Championship March 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Boston College | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Maine | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Boston University | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | Boston University | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Maine | 2 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Merrimack | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | Maine | 2*** | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Massachusetts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Massachusetts | 6 | 3 | – | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Massachusetts-Lowell | 3 | 1 | – | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | New Hampshire | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | Massachusetts | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Providence | 1 | 4* | 0 | 4 | New Hampshire | 2 | |||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals[]
(1) Boston College vs. (8) Boston University[]
| March 11[4] | Boston College | 2 – 3 | Boston University | Conte Forum | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 08:57 - PP - (Redlihs, Mullen) 11:11 - (Radoslovich, Van der Gulik) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 16:17 - GW - (Skladany, Laliberte) | ||||||
| (Hennes) Andrew Alberts - 05:40 (Collins) Ben Eaves - EA - 19:20 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 7 saves / 10 shots ) | Goalie stats | Sean Fields ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
| March 12[5] | Boston College | 4 – 0 | Boston University | Conte Forum | Recap | |||
| (Forrest, Voce) Ryan Shannon - GW PP - 10:09 (Gionta) Ryan Shannon - 16:51 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Murphy, Hennes) Ned Havern - 13:30 (Eaves) Tony Voce - EN SH - 17:46 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 14 saves / 14 shots ) | Goalie stats | Sean Fields ( 37 saves / 40 shots ) | ||||||
| March 13[6] | Boston College | 2 – 3 | Boston University | Conte Forum | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 08:57 - PP - (Miller, Whitney) | ||||||
| (Forrest) Tony Voce - 05:12 | Second period | 10:21 - (Laliberte, Skladany) 11:46 - GW - Bryan Miller (Redlihs) 15:15 - | ||||||
| (Voce, Eaves) Ben Eaves - PP - 15:25 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 17 saves / 21 shots ) | Goalie stats | Sean Fields ( 35 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
| Boston University won series 2–1 | |
(2) Maine vs. (7) Merrimack[]
| March 12[7] | Maine | 2 – 1 | Merrimack | Alfond Arena | Recap | |||
| Colin Shields - SH - 07:29 | First period | 08:34 - PP - (Johnson, Pomponio) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Zabowicz, Mullin) Colin Shields - GW - 13:43 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 14 saves / 15 shots ) Jimmy Howard | Goalie stats | ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
| March 13[8] | Maine | 3 – 2 | Merrimack | Alfond Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 17:05 - Brendon Clark (Sullivan, Caron) | ||||||
| (Jackson, Penner) Colin Shields - 13:39 | Second period | 17:05 - PP - (Schmidt, Gough) | ||||||
| (Murphy) - SH - 02:15 (Damon, Lundin) - GW - 07:43 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 9 saves / 11 shots ) Frank Doyle | Goalie stats | ( 33 saves / 36 shots ) | ||||||
| Maine won series 2–0 | |
(3) Massachusetts vs. (6) Massachusetts-Lowell[]
| March 11[9] | Massachusetts | 6 – 3 | Massachusetts-Lowell | William D. Mullins Memorial Center | Recap | |||
| (Demianiuk) - 10:54 (Pöck, Demianiuk) Greg Mauldin - 16:37 |
First period | 05:09 - (Martin) | ||||||
| (Pöck) Stephen Werner - 03:03 (Werner, Jarman) - GW - 05:48 (Jarman) Thomas Pöck - PP - 11:03 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Pöck, Kuiper) - 13:11 | Third period | 11:30 - Ben Walter (Fletcher, O'Brien) 16:35 - Bobby Robins (Tejchma, Martin) | ||||||
| ( 39 saves / 42 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 12 saves / 18 shots ) | ||||||
| March 12[10] | Massachusetts | 3 – 1 | Massachusetts-Lowell | William D. Mullins Memorial Center | Recap | |||
| (Solon, Aduba) - 10:20 | First period | 10:52 - (Pandolfo, Kinley) | ||||||
| (Solon, Trovato) - GW - 12:12 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Greg Mauldin - 14:36 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 23 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 21 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
| Massachusetts won series 2–0 | |
(4) New Hampshire vs. (5) Providence[]
| March 11[11] | New Hampshire | 2 – 1 | Providence | Whittemore Center | Recap | |||
| (Saviano, Mounsey) Sean Collins - 07:52 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 16:31 - PP - Cody Loughlean (Wood, Pemberton) | ||||||
| (Saviano, Aikins) Sean Collins - GW - 07:12 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) Mike Ayers | Goalie stats | Bobby Goepfert ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
| March 12[12] | New Hampshire | 3 – 4 | OT | Providence | Whittemore Center | Recap | ||
| (Yandle, Martz) Jacob Micflikier - 09:13 (Aikins, Yandle) Sean Collins - 15:18 |
First period | 09:51 - Chase Watson (Gajda, Goodwin) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 17:54 - (Robinson, Lundberg) | ||||||
| (Hemingway, Micflikier) - PP - 04:18 | Third period | 07:37 - (Stamoulis, Watson) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 02:49 - GW - Colin McDonald (McCreary) | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 26 shots ) Mike Ayers | Goalie stats | Bobby Goepfert ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
| March 13[13] | New Hampshire | 1 – 0 | Providence | Whittemore Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Micflikier, Martz) - GW - 17:22 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 19 shots ) Mike Ayers | Goalie stats | Bobby Goepfert ( 26 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
| New Hampshire won series 2–1 | |
Semifinals[]
(2) Maine vs. (8) Boston University[]
| March 19[14] | Maine | 1 – 0 | Boston University | Fleet Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Jankus) - GW - 07:09 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 21 saves / 21 shots ) Jimmy Howard | Goalie stats | Sean Fields ( 31 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
(3) Massachusetts vs. (4) New Hampshire[]
| March 19[15] | Massachusetts | 5 – 2 | New Hampshire | Fleet Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 13:41 - Steve Saviano | ||||||
| (Vitek) Greg Mauldin - 10:21 | Second period | 03:30 - Jacob Micflikier (Horst, Mounsey) | ||||||
| (Regan, Jarman) - 07:20 (Werner, Jarman) - GW - 14:32 (Lang, Vitek) Thomas Pöck - 17:04 (Pöck) - EN - 18:05 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) | Goalie stats | Mike Ayers ( 28 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
Championship[]
(2) Maine vs. (3) Massachusetts[]
| March 20[16] | Maine | 2 – 1 | 3OT | Massachusetts | Fleet Center | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Léviellé) Dustin Penner - PP - 16:24 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 13:47 - PP - Greg Mauldin (Degon, Pöck) | ||||||
| (Deschamps, Lyall) - GW - 09:27 | Third overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 63 saves / 64 shots ) Jimmy Howard | Goalie stats | ( 59 saves / 61 shots ) | ||||||
Tournament awards[]
All-Tournament Team[]
- F Greg Mauldin (Massachusetts)
- F Colin Shields (Maine)
- F (Massachusetts)
- D Thomas Pöck (Massachusetts)
- D Prestin Ryan (Maine)
- G Jimmy Howard* (Maine)
* Tournament MVP(s)
Tournament Three Stars[]
- 3 Dustin Penner (Maine)
- 2 Thomas Pöck (Massachusetts)
- 1 Jimmy Howard (Maine)
References[]
- ^ "Maine Men's Team History". Archived from the original on 2013-07-03. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Hockey East men's Hockey 2003-04 Week 25". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Hockey East men's Hockey 2003-04 Week 26". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Boston University 3, Boston College 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-11. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Boston College 4, Boston University 0". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Boston University 4, Boston College 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Maine 2, Merrimack 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Maine 3, Merrimack 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Massachusetts 6, Massachusetts-Lowell 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-11. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Massachusetts 3, Massachusetts-Lowell 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "New Hampshire 2, Providence 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-11. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Providence 4, New Hampshire 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "New Hampshire 1, Providence 0". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Maine 1, Boston University 0". USCHO.com. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Massachusetts 5, New Hampshire 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "Maine 2, Massachusetts 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ "2004 Hockey East Championship". Inside College Hockey. 2004-03-20. Archived from the original on 2013-07-03. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
External links[]
Categories:
- Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
- 2003–04 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season