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1986 Hockey East Men's ice hockey tournament
1986 Hockey East Men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 7–15, 1986
Teams	7
Finals site	Providence Civic Center; Providence, Rhode Island
Champions	Boston University (1st title)
Winning coach	Jack Parker (1st title)
MVP	Peter Marshall (Boston University)
	Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1985 1987 →

The 1986 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 2nd Tournament in the history of the conference. It was played between March 7 and March 15, 1986. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were, for the first time, played at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island. This was the final year the Hockey East championship was decided at a venue outside of the state of Massachusetts (as of 2014). By winning the tournament, Boston University received the Hockey East's automatic bid to the 1986 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play. In the quarterfinals, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seeds, and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played a two-game series where the team that scored the most total goals was declared the winner and advanced to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the first seed was matched against the lowest remaining quarterfinalist while the other remaining quarterfinalists met in a single-elimination game with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a third-place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1986 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

1985–86 Hockey East standings v t e
	Conference							Overall
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Boston College†	34	23	9	2	48	158	123	42	26	13	3	188	154
Boston University*	34	20	11	3	43	147	127	43	25	14	4	184	156
Northeastern	34	18	14	2	38	165	158	39	20	17	2	185	185
Providence	34	11	22	1	23	105	140	39	14	24	1	122	160
Maine	34	8	25	1	17	118	177	40	11	28	1	142	201
Lowell	34	5	27	2	12	118	166	42	11	29	2	156	205
New Hampshire	34	5	27	2	12	114	188	37	5	29	3	121	199
Championship: Boston University † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion

Bracket

^[4] Teams are reseeded after the quarterfinals

Quarterfinals March 7–10				Semifinals March 14			Championship March 15

				1	Boston College	5

				6	Lowell	2
2	Boston University	1	4

7	New Hampshire	1	3
							1	Boston College	4

							2	Boston University	9
3	Northeastern	2	4

6	Lowell	4	3
				2	Boston University	3	Consolation

				4	Providence	2
4	Providence	5	5				4	Providence	5

5	Maine	4	2				6	Lowell	8