2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates	March 12–20, 2004
Teams	10
Finals site	Xcel Energy Center; St. Paul, MN
Champions	Minnesota (13th title)
Winning coach	Don Lucia (2nd title)
MVP	Kellen Briggs (Minnesota)
Attendance	82,564
	WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 2003 2005 →

The 2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 45th conference playoff in league history and 50th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2004 tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 2004, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Format[]

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference schools participated in the tournament with teams seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.

Conference Standings[]

Note: PTS = Points; GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2003–04 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings v t
	Conference							Overall
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#5 North Dakota†	28	20	5	3	43	122	62	41	30	8	3	182	90
#4 Minnesota–Duluth	28	19	7	2	40	119	71	45	28	13	4	185	123
#8 Wisconsin	28	14	7	7	35	85	62	43	22	13	8	123	93
#1 Denver	28	13	10	5	31	93	90	44	27	12	5	149	120
#6 Minnesota*	28	15	12	1	31	101	86	44	27	14	3	178	127
St. Cloud State	28	12	12	4	28	81	89	38	18	16	4	113	118
#15 Colorado College	28	11	15	2	24	77	75	39	20	16	3	126	98
Alaska–Anchorage	28	7	18	3	17	68	103	40	14	23	3	104	140
Minnesota State	28	6	18	4	16	83	139	39	10	24	5	124	179
Michigan Tech	28	6	19	3	15	66	118	38	8	25	5	97	161
Championship: Minnesota † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll

Bracket[]

Teams are reseeded after the first round

First round^[2] March 12–14					Quarterfinal^[3] March 18			Semifinals March 19			Championship March 20

1	North Dakota	6	4*	—				1	North Dakota	4
10	Michigan Tech	2	3	—	7	Colorado College	1	8	Alaska-Anchorage	2
					8	Alaska-Anchorage	4
2	Minnesota-Duluth	3	6	6
9	Minnesota State	4*	2	5

3	Wisconsin	2	4	1							1	North Dakota	4
8	Alaska-Anchorage	3	0	4							5	Minnesota	5

4	Denver	3	1	–
7	Colorado College	4	6	–
											Third Place
5	Minnesota	6	7	–				2	Minnesota-Duluth	4
6	St. Cloud State	1	3	–				5	Minnesota	7		2	Minnesota-Duluth	4
											8	Alaska-Anchorage	2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First Round[]

(1) North Dakota vs. (10) Michigan Tech[]

March 12^[4]	North Dakota		6 – 2	Michigan Tech	Ralph Engelstad Arena	Recap
(Stafford, Schneider) Zach Parise - 03:27		First period		08:39 - Clay Wilson
(Bochenski, Parise) Brady Murray - PP - 01:28 (Parise, Stafford) - GW - 16:41		Second period		No scoring
(Parise, Murray) Drew Stafford - 00:26 (McMahon) - 01:44 (Lundbohm, Fuher) Colby Genoway - 07:25		Third period		05:14 - (Markham, Radovich)
( 13 saves / 15 shots )		Goalie stats		( 20 saves / 25 shots ) / ( 7 saves / 8 shots )

March 13^[5]	North Dakota		4 – 3	OT	Michigan Tech	Ralph Engelstad Arena	Recap
(Jones, Parise) - PP - 14:22		First period			11:21 - PP - Colin Murphy (Dora, Engelhardt) 19:00 - PP - (Pittis)
No scoring		Second period			13:34 - Brett Engelhardt (Schwartz)
(Bochenski, Murray) Zach Parise - 05:39 (Fuher) Chris Porter - 08:53		Third period			No scoring
( 23 saves / 26 shots )		Goalie stats			( 42 saves / 46 shots )

North Dakota won series 2–0

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (9) Minnesota State-Mankato[]

March 12^[6]	Minnesota-Duluth		3 – 4	OT	Minnesota State-Mankato	Duluth Entertainment Convention Center	Recap
(Stapleton, Geisler) Luke Stauffacher - 06:02		First period			10:06 - (Metcalf)
(Peluso, Geisler) Junior Lessard - PP - 07:36 (Geisler, Smith) Justin Williams - 19:56		Second period			01:25 - PP - David Backes (Johns, Clower) 06:34 - (Forsythe, Morin)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
No scoring		First overtime period			12:18 - GW - (Forscythe, Joseph)
( 34 saves / 38 shots )		Goalie stats			( 46 saves / 49 shots )

March 13^[7]	Minnesota-Duluth		6 – 2	Minnesota State-Mankato	Duluth Entertainment Convention Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
(Unklesbay, Caig) Beau Geisler - 04:31 (Schwabe) Junior Lessard - 05:43 (Geisler, Schwabe) Junior Lessard - GW PP - 07:06 (Lessard, Geisler) Luke Stauffacher - 14:21		Second period		01:54 - (Rankin) 18:03 - Shane Joseph (Clower, Backes)
(Schwabe, Stapleton) Junior Lessard - PP - 06:04 (Lessard) Justin Williams - 14:21		Third period		No scoring
( 26 saves / 28 shots )		Goalie stats		( 38 saves / 44 shots ) / ( 5 saves / 5 shots )

March 14^[8]	Minnesota-Duluth		6 – 5	Minnesota State-Mankato	Duluth Entertainment Convention Center	Recap
(Schwabe, Lessard) - PP - 01:23 (Geisler, Smith) T. J. Caig - 02:33 (Hammond) - 04:53 (Peluso, Schwabe) Tim Stapleton - PP - 07:21 - 10:32		First period		14:24 - SH - David Backes (Joseph)
(Peluso, Geisler) - GW PP - 06:35		Second period		01:48 - PP - Rob Rankin (Morin, Peto) 11:44 - PP - (Morin, Peto) 19:48 - (Kisio, Thompson)
No scoring		Third period		15:38 - Shane Joseph (McKelvie, Peto)
( 26 saves / 28 shots )		Goalie stats		( 11 saves / 15 shots ) / ( 26 saves / 28 shots )

Minnesota-Duluth won series 2–1

(3) Wisconsin vs. (8) Alaska-Anchorage[]

March 12^[9]	Wisconsin		2 – 3	Alaska-Anchorage	Kohl Center	Recap
(Earl, Likens) Jake Dowell - PP - 02:51		First period		09:01 - PP - (Segal, Bourne) 18:54 - PP - (Fournier, King)
(Gilbert, Suter) - PP - 05:14		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		05:56 - GW PP - Justin Johnson (Fournier, Glencross)
( 21 saves / 24 shots ) Bernd Brückler		Goalie stats		( 45 saves / 47 shots )

March 13^[10]	Wisconsin		4 – 0	Alaska-Anchorage	Kohl Center	Recap
Rene Bourque - GW - 02:00		First period		No scoring
(Earl, Dowell) - 02:39 (Bourque, Joudrey) Ryan MacMurchy - 03:24 (Burish) - 14:30		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
( 16 saves / 16 shots ) Bernd Brückler		Goalie stats		Kevin Reiter ( 41 saves / 45 shots )

March 14^[11]	Wisconsin		1 – 4	Alaska-Anchorage	Kohl Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period		10:42 - (Segal)
No scoring		Second period		08:38 - GW - 12:33 - PP - Curtis Glencross (Fournier, Smith) 18:30 - Curtis Glencross
(MacMurchy, Boeser) Andrew Joudrey - PP - 13:05		Third period		No scoring
( 19 saves / 23 shots ) Bernd Brückler		Goalie stats		( 29 saves / 30 shots )

Alaska-Anchorage won series 2–1

(4) Denver vs. (7) Colorado College[]

March 12^[12]	Denver		3 – 4	Colorado College	Magness Arena	Recap
(Handza, Halme) - 10:02		First period		04:07 - Marty Sertich (Canzanello, Zaba)
(Corbin, Skinner) Gabe Gauthier - 13:38		Second period		No scoring
(Carle, Keith) - PP - 13:53		Third period		07:22 - (Cox, Slattengren) 09:57 - Trevor Frischmon (Stuart, Canzanello) 11:48 - GW - (Petiot, Cox)
( 22 saves / 26 shots ) Adam Berkhoel		Goalie stats		Matt Zaba ( 18 saves / 21 shots )

March 13^[13]	Denver		1 – 6	Colorado College	Magness Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period		11:43 - Colin Stuart (Polaski, Sweatt) 15:27 - GW - Brett Sterling (Petoit, Liebel) 18:24 - (Slattengren, Crabb)
(Carle, Skinner) Gabe Gauthier - PP - 05:00		Second period		08:20 - PP - (Canzanello, Sertich) 17:46 - PP - (Stuart, Sertich)
No scoring		Third period		06:50 - PP - Brett Sterling (Canzanello, Crabb)
( 10 saves / 13 shots ) Adam Berkhoel / ( 13 saves / 16 shots ) Glenn Fisher		Goalie stats		Curtis McElhinney ( 35 saves / 36 shots )

Colorado College won series 2–0

(5) Minnesota vs. (6) St. Cloud State[]

March 12^[14]	Minnesota		6 – 1	St. Cloud State	Mariucci Arena	Recap
(Fleming) - 10:02 (Riddle, Vanek) Matt Koalska - GW PP - 14:58		First period		12:30 - (Szabo, Jensen)
(Martin, Riddle) Thomas Vanek - 06:18 (Vanek, Kennedy) Ryan Potulny - 09:44 (Vannelli) - 14:44		Second period		No scoring
(Riddle, Ballard) Ryan Potulny - PP - 15:21		Third period		No scoring
( 26 saves / 27 shots ) Kellen Briggs		Goalie stats		( 14 saves / 18 shots ) / ( 19 saves / 21 shots )

March 13^[15]	Minnesota		7 – 3	St. Cloud State	Mariucci Arena	Recap
(Ballard, Riddle) Ryan Potulny - PP - 19:46		First period		No scoring
(Riddle) Ryan Potulny - 12:52 (Potulny, Ballard) - PP - 19:14		Second period		00:22 - (Szabo)
(Vanek, Koalska) - GW PP - 01:39 (Tallackson, Guyer) Grant Potulny - PP - 07:16 (Vanek, Vannelli) - 08:38 (Potulny, Tallackson) - 09:13		Third period		00:24 - SH - Matt Hendricks (Reeder) 09:33 - (Peters, Doyle)
( 23 saves / 26 shots ) Kellen Briggs		Goalie stats		( 39 saves / 46 shots )

Minnesota won series 2–0

Quarterfinal[]

(7) Colorado College vs. (8) Alaska-Anchorage[]

March 18^[16]	Colorado College		1 – 4	Alaska-Anchorage	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
(Sterling, Polaski) Trevor Frischmon - 09:21		Second period		09:51 - (Anderson, Arcand-Kootenay) 10:41 - GW - (Johnson, Gilchrist) 19:24 - (Novak)
No scoring		Third period		19:43 - EN - (Kronschnabel, Green)
( 7 saves / 9 shots ) Matt Zaba / ( 7 saves / 8 shots ) Curtis McElhinney		Goalie stats		( 44 saves / 45 shots )

Semifinals[]

(1) North Dakota vs. (8) Alaska-Anchorage[]

March 19^[17]	North Dakota		4 – 2	Alaska-Anchorage	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
(Parise, Bochenski) Brady Murray - 15:56		First period		No scoring
(Hale, Prpich) - 02:16 (Bochenski, Murray) Zach Parise - GW - 09:01 (Jones, McMahon) Ryan Hale - 15:50		Second period		10:30 - PP - Curtis Glencross (Bourne, Segal)
No scoring		Third period		17:18 -
( 22 saves / 24 shots ) Jordan Parise		Goalie stats		( 41 saves / 45 shots )

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (5) Minnesota[]

March 19^[18]	Minnesota-Duluth		4 – 7	Minnesota	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
(Stapleton, Peluso) Luke Stauffacher - 02:08 (Unklesbay, Geisler) - 09:06 (Williams, Lessard) - 14:21		First period		14:03 - PP - (Potulny, Koalska) 19:25 - Danny Irmen (Guyer, Fleming)
No scoring		Second period		04:51 - SH - Danny Irmen (Ballard) 14:25 - Ryan Potulny
(Schwabe, Lessard) Justin Williams - 00:40		Third period		03:45 - GW - Thomas Vanek (Riddle, Koalska) 14:41 - Andy Sertich (Waibel, Vannelli) 19:24 - Barry Tallackson (Waibel, Fleming)
( 34 saves / 40 shots )		Goalie stats		Kellen Briggs ( 27 saves / 31 shots )

Third Place[]

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (8) Alaska-Anchorage[]

March 20^[19]	Minnesota-Duluth		4 – 2	Alaska-Anchorage	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period		12:14 - Curtis Glencross (Arcand-Kootenay, Reiter)
(Peluso, Lessard) - PP - 09:30 (Geisler, Peluso) Junior Lessard - PP - 13:12 (Hammond, Czech) Luke Stauffacher - GW SH - 19:14		Second period		No scoring
(Miskovich) Bryan McGregor - 10:13		Third period		19:42 - (Smith, Johnson)
( 25 saves / 27 shots )		Goalie stats		Kevin Reiter ( 36 saves / 40 shots )

Championship[]

(1) North Dakota vs. (5) Minnesota[]

March 20^[20]	North Dakota		4 – 5	Minnesota	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
(Parise) Drew Stafford - PP - 16:57		First period		10:39 - Danny Irmen (Guyer, Harrington)
(Parise, Schneider) Brandon Bochenski - 08:50 (Fuher, Bochenski) Zach Parise - 16:47		Second period		04:09 - (Kennedy)
(Parise, Smaby) Brandon Bochenski - SH - 09:18		Third period		02:08 - Thomas Vanek 04:48 - (Harrington, Koalska) 13:58 - GW - Grant Potulny (Irmen)
( 33 saves / 38 shots )		Goalie stats		Kellen Briggs ( 35 saves / 39 shots )

Tournament awards[]

All-Tournament Team[]

F Zach Parise (North Dakota)
F Danny Irmen (Minnesota)
F Brandon Bochenski (North Dakota)
D Matt Jones (North Dakota)
D Keith Ballard (Minnesota)
G Kellen Briggs* (Minnesota)

* Most Valuable Player(s)

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References[]

^ "Minnesota Men's Team History". Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "WCHA men's Hockey 2003-04 Week 25". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "WCHA men's Hockey 2003-04 Week 26". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "North Dakota 6, Michigan Tech 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "North Dakota 4, Michigan Tech 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Minnesota State 4, Minnesota-Duluth 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Minnesota-Duluth 6, Minnesota State 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Minnesota-Duluth 6, Minnesota State 5". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Alaska-Anchorage 3, Wisconsin 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Wisconsin 4, Alaska-Anchorage 0". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Alaska-Anchorage 4, Wisconsin 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Colorado College 4, Denver 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Colorado College 6, Denver 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Minnesota 6, St. Cloud State 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Minnesota 7, St. Cloud State 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Alaska-Anchorage 4, Colorado College 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-18. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "North Dakota 4, Alaska-Anchorage 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Minnesota 7, Minnesota-Duluth 4". USCHO.com. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Minnesota-Duluth 4, Alaska-Anchorage 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "Minnesota 5, North Dakota 4". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^ "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved 2014-06-01.

External links[]

[1] "Minnesota Men's Team History". Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[2] "WCHA men's Hockey 2003-04 Week 25". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[3] "WCHA men's Hockey 2003-04 Week 26". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[4] "North Dakota 6, Michigan Tech 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[5] "North Dakota 4, Michigan Tech 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[6] "Minnesota State 4, Minnesota-Duluth 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[7] "Minnesota-Duluth 6, Minnesota State 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[8] "Minnesota-Duluth 6, Minnesota State 5". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[9] "Alaska-Anchorage 3, Wisconsin 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[10] "Wisconsin 4, Alaska-Anchorage 0". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[11] "Alaska-Anchorage 4, Wisconsin 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[12] "Colorado College 4, Denver 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[13] "Colorado College 6, Denver 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[14] "Minnesota 6, St. Cloud State 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[15] "Minnesota 7, St. Cloud State 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[16] "Alaska-Anchorage 4, Colorado College 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-18. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[17] "North Dakota 4, Alaska-Anchorage 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[18] "Minnesota 7, Minnesota-Duluth 4". USCHO.com. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[19] "Minnesota-Duluth 4, Alaska-Anchorage 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[20] "Minnesota 5, North Dakota 4". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

[21] "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved 2014-06-01.

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