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Hockey East Association is a college athletic conference which operates in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference.

Hockey East came into existence in 1984 for men's hockey when most of its current members split apart from what is today known as the ECAC Hockey League. The women's league began play in 2002.

There are currently 11 member schools; the men's division of Hockey East has ten members, while the women's division has eight.

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List of Men's Hockey East Championship Games

The Hockey East Championship Game has been held in Boston since 1987, at the FleetCenter, now the TD Banknorth Garden, since 1996. The first two were held in Providence, Rhode Island at the Providence Civic Center (now the Dunkin' Donuts Center).

The final game and the semifinal games are held on consecutive nights in mid-March at the Garden. The quarterfinal round takes place the previous weekend. The top eight teams in the league advance to the quarterfinal round: the quarterfinal round series are 2-out-of-3 series with all games played at the higher seed's rink. There have been two cases where the #8 seed won on the #1 team's ice.

List of Women's Hockey East Championship Games

The Hockey East Championship has been held in Boston since its inception in 2003. The event was held at Northeastern's Matthews Arena in 2003 and 2004 before moving to BU's Walter Brown Arena in 2005. The tournament returned to Matthews Arena in 2006.

Conference Arenas

School Hockey Arena Arena capacity
Boston College Conte Forum 7,500
Boston University Agganis Arena 7,000
Maine Alfond Arena 5,641
Mass-Amherst Mullins Center 8,329
Mass-Lowell Tsongas Arena 6,496
Merrimack Volpe Complex 3,617
New Hampshire Whittemore Center 6,501
Northeastern Matthews Arena 6,000
Providence Schneider Arena 3,030
Vermont Gutterson Fieldhouse 4,035

Hockey East (Men's) Awards

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