2019-20 CCC season

This is the 2019-20 Commonwealth Coast Conference season. This is the conference's fourth season under this name.

On October 4, 2019 the Commonwealth Coast Conference, an all-sport NCAA Division III conference, announced it would be starting to sponsor women's hockey. It will assume operations of the Colonial Hockey Conference. As part of the announcement it was announced that the Suffolk Rams would be joining the conference for 2020-21 and that Western New England Golden Bears would be starting a women's team for 2020-21. This will make six of the seven members of the CHC also being full members of the CCC with the Becker Hawks being an associate member of the conference for both men's and women's hockey. With having seven members the conference will retain its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Membership changes

• The Curry Colonels move their home games to the Canton Ice House in Canton, Massachusetts from the Max Ulin Memorial Rink in Milton, Massachusetts.

Membership

Team	Location	Arena
Becker Hawks	Worcester, Massachusetts	Worcester Sports Center
Curry Colonels	Milton, Massachusetts	Canton Ice House
Endicott Gulls	Beverly, Massachusetts	Raymond J Bourque Arena
Nichols Bison	Dudley, MA	Levy Rink
Salve Regina Seahawks	Newport, Rhode Island	Portsmouth Abbey Ice Rink
University of New England Nor'Easters	Biddeford, Maine	Harold Alfond Forum
Wentworth Leopards	Boston, Massachusetts	Walter Brown Arena, Allied Veterans Rink
Western New England Golden Bears	Springfield, Massachusetts	Olympia Ice Center

Standings

For 2019-20 the conference adopted a modified point system as allowed by the NCAA where three points for a regulation time win two points for an overtime or shootout win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss, and no points for a regulation loss.  The league would play five-on-five overtime for five minutes and then three-on-three overtime for five additional minutes and then a sudden death shootout. Games decided in overtime are considered ties for NCAA records and PairWise calculations for NCAA tournament selection.

Commonwealth Coast Conference								Overall Record
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Endicott Gulls	18	16	2	0	77	36	46	27	22	5	0	108	47
University of New England Nor'Easters	18	14	2	2	97	27	46	26	18	5	3	126	54
Curry Colonels	18	12	4	2	80	43	38	26	17	6	3	105	60
Salve Regina Seahawks	18	10	7	1	62	63	31	25	13	11	1	87	88
Nichols Bison	18	8	8	2	62	56	26	25	10	13	2	80	80
Wentworth Leopards	18	3	12	3	58	77	12	28	9	16	3	91	109
Becker Hawks	18	2	15	1	35	105	7	23	3	19	1	45	130
Western New England Golden Bears	18	1	16	1	32	96	4	24	3	19	2	47	112

Note: UNE finished ahead of Endicott via tie-breaker after finishing tied head-to-head, the second tie-break is conference record against other conference opponents in rank order in which UNE earned 8 points against Curry while Endicott earned 6.

Conference Tournament

Format

The top six teams qualify for the single elimination tournament. All games are held at the higher seeded team's rink. The tournament winner earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Quarterfinals

• Wentworth Leopards defeated Curry Colonels 2-1
• Nichols Bison defeated Salve Regina Seahawks 5-4 (ot)

Semifinals

• Wentworth Leopards defeated University of New England Nor'Easters 2-1
• Endicott Gulls defeated Nichols Bison 3-2 (ot)

Final

• Endicott Gulls defeated Wentworth Leopards 2-0