2014 NCHC Tournament
| 2014 NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 13–22, 2014 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Target Center Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Champions | Denver[1] (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Jim Montgomery[2] (1st title) |
| MVP | [3] (Denver) |
NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2014 NCHC Tournament was the first tournament in league history. It was played between March 13 and March 22, 2014. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Denver received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format[]
The tournament features three rounds of play. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed play a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the semifinals. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest remaining seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds are matched against one another with the winners advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Regular season standings[]
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SOW = Shootout Wins; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
| Conference record | Overall record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | SOW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
#8 St. Cloud State |
24 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 48 | 87 | 64 | 38 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 136 | 107 | |
| #13 North Dakota | 24 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 76 | 63 | 42 | 25 | 14 | 3 | 127 | 102 | |
| Omaha | 24 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 42 | 82 | 69 | 37 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 117 | 120 | |
| Minnesota–Duluth | 24 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 69 | 70 | 36 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 104 | 104 | |
| Western Michigan | 24 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 66 | 69 | 40 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 103 | 106 | |
| #17 Denver* | 24 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 35 | 60 | 58 | 42 | 20 | 16 | 6 | 112 | 98 | |
| Colorado College | 24 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 52 | 72 | 37 | 7 | 24 | 6 | 74 | 121 | |
| Miami | 24 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 56 | 80 | 38 | 15 | 20 | 3 | 111 | 115 | |
| Championship: Denver indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014 | |||||||||||||||
Bracket[]
Teams are reseeded after the Quarterfinals
| Quarterfinals[5] March 13–16 |
Semifinals[6] March 21 |
Championship March 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | St. Cloud State | 4 | 3 | — | 2 | North Dakota | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Miami | 5* | 4 | — | 8 | Miami | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota | 4 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Colorado College | 2 | 3* | 3 | 6 | Denver | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Miami | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Omaha | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Denver | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Third Place | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Minnesota-Duluth | 2 | 3 | — | 5 | Western Michigan | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Western Michigan | 3 | 4 | — | 6 | Denver | 4 | 2 | North Dakota | 5 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Western Michigan | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
* denotes overtime periods
Results[]
Quarterfinals[]
(1) St. Cloud State vs. (8) Miami[]
| March 14[8] | St. Cloud State | 4 – 5 | OT | Miami | Herb Brooks National Hockey Center | Recap | ||
| (Murray, Tedesco) - 08:29 | First period | 02:40 - (Wideman, Doherty) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 04:07 - SH - (Kuraly, Barber) | ||||||
| (Daly, Morley) Kevin Gravel - 00:31 (Murray, Prow) Nic Dowd - 10:39 (Dowd, Kossila) Kevin Gravel - EA PP - 19:59 |
Third period | 06:49 - PP - (Czarnik, Greenberg) 11:06 - Sean Kuraly (Louis Barber) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 10:10 - GW - Riley Barber (Kuraly, Kossila) | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 27 shots ) / ( 7 saves / 8 shots ) Charlie Lindgren | Goalie stats | Ryan McKay ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| March 15[9] | St. Cloud State | 3 – 4 | Miami | Herb Brooks National Hockey Center | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) Kevin Gravel - 10:30 (Morley, Prow) - 17:22 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Gravel, Kossila) Nic Dowd - PP - 09:20 | Third period | 03:59 - Sean Kuraly (Barber, Joyaux) 07:42 - Austin Czarnik (Coleman, Murphy) 12:08 - PP - Anthony Louis (Barber, Kuraly) 19:57 - GW - (Louis, Joyaux) | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 30 shots ) | Goalie stats | Ryan McKay ( 25 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
| Miami won series 2–0 | |
(2) North Dakota vs. (7) Colorado College[]
| March 14[10] | North Dakota | 4 – 2 | Colorado College | Ralph Engelstad Arena | Recap | |||
| (MacMillan, LaDue) Drake Caggiula - 12:11 | First period | 01:15 - (Stoykewych, Olofsson) 07:05 - Aaron Harstad (Slavin, Rothstein) | ||||||
| (MacMillan, Caggiula) Michael Parks - PP - 07:14 (unassisted) - GW - 18:07 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Schmaltz, Rodwell) Brendan O'Donnell - 08:08 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 20 saves / 22 shots ) Zane Gothberg | Goalie stats | ( 18 saves / 22 shots ) | ||||||
| March 15[11] | North Dakota | 2 – 3 | OT | Colorado College | Ralph Engelstad Arena | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | 16:43 - Peter Stoykewych (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Mattson) Drake Caggiula - 03:45 | Second period | 01:17 - (Stoykewych) | ||||||
| (Caggiula, MacMillan) Jordan Schmaltz - 16:04 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 07:00 - GW - (Rothstein, Wamsganz) | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Zane Gothberg | Goalie stats | ( 44 saves / 46 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16[12] | North Dakota | 4 – 3 | Colorado College | Ralph Engelstad Arena | Recap | |||
| (Pattyn, Rodwell) Nick Mattson - 03:41 (Thompson, Grimaldi) Troy Stecher - 10:06 (Gaarder, Rodwell) - 12:22 |
First period | 06:41 - (Bradley, Slavin) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 17:17 - (Collett) | ||||||
| (Grimaldi) Brendan O'Donnell - GW - 02:29 | Third period | 18:31 - EA - (Slavin, Skalbeck) | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 30 shots ) Zane Gothberg | Goalie stats | ( 27 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
| North Dakota won series 2–1 | |
(3) Nebraska-Omaha vs. (6) Denver[]
| March 13[13] | Nebraska-Omaha | 4 – 3 | Denver | CenturyLink Center | ||||
| (Montpetit, Parizek) Ryan Walters - 18:14 (Brady, Guentzel) - PP - 19:22 |
First period | 07:27 - (Butcher, Marcinew) | ||||||
| (Walters, Cooper) - PP - 18:19 | Second period | 02:34 - (Doremus) | ||||||
| (Walters, Megna) - GW PP - 10:57 | Third period | 02:41 - Joey LaLeggia (Moore, Zajac) | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) | Goalie stats | Sam Brittain ( 26 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
| March 14[14] | Nebraska-Omaha | 1 – 5 | Denver | CenturyLink Center | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 13:38 - (Loney, Marcinew) 18:43 - GW - Trevor Moore (Loney, Doremus) | ||||||
| (Guentzel, Zombo) Brian Cooper - 01:10 | Third period | 06:15 - (Arnold) 07:04 - (Makowski, Loney) 13:25 - PP - Will Butcher (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 20 saves / 24 shots ) / ( 4 saves / 5 shots ) | Goalie stats | Sam Brittain ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) / ( 2 saves / 2 shots ) | ||||||
| March 15[15] | Nebraska-Omaha | 0 – 2 | Denver | CenturyLink Center | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 06:16 - GW - (Doremus, Didier) 18:09 - EN - (Makowski) | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 28 shots ) | Goalie stats | Sam Brittain ( 34 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| Denver won series 2–1 | |
(4) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (5) Western Michigan[]
| March 14[16] | Minnesota-Duluth | 2 – 3 | Western Michigan | AMSOIL Arena | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | 17:25 - PP - (Oesterle, LaPorte) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Corrin, Molenaar) - 18:30 (Crandall) - EA - 19:44 |
Third period | 00:25 - (LaPorte, Kessel) 18:18 - GW EN - (Dries) | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 21 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 31 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| March 15[17] | Minnesota-Duluth | 3 – 4 | Western Michigan | AMSOIL Arena | ||||
| (Crandall) - 01:21 (Molenaar, Toninato) - 14:47 |
First period | 15:35 - PP - (Balisy, Brown) | ||||||
| (Herbert, Farley) - 12:00 | Second period | 05:25 - Chase Balisy (Dries, Cichy) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 06:22 - (Berschbach, Balisy) 07:49 - GW - (Brown, Balisy) | ||||||
| ( 7 saves / 11 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 34 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
| Western Michigan won series 2–0 | |
Semifinals[]
(2) North Dakota vs. (8) Miami[]
| March 21[18] | North Dakota | 0 – 3 | Miami | Target Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 11:24 - GW PP - Blake Coleman (Caito) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 19:33 - Austin Czarnik (Coleman) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 06:13 - Anthony Louis (Barber) | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 28 shots ) Zane Gothberg | Goalie stats | Ryan McKay ( 32 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
(5) Western Michigan vs. (6) Denver[]
| March 21[19] | Western Michigan | 3 – 4 | Denver | Target Center | Recap | |||
| (Oesterle, Hargrove) - 00:42 | First period | 08:34 - (Didier) 13:03 - (Moore) | ||||||
| (Kovacs, Nitsche) - 06:11 (Dienes) - 18:06 |
Second period | 19:56 - Joey LaLeggia (Didier, Doremus) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 15:07 - GW - (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) Sam Brittain | Goalie stats | ( 19 saves / 23 shots ) | ||||||
Third place[]
(2) North Dakota vs. (5) Western Michigan[]
| March 22[20] | North Dakota | 5 – 0 | Western Michigan | Target Center | Recap | |||
| (Thompson, O'Donnell) - GW - 01:42 (Pattyn, Stecher) - 10:27 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Simpson, Johnson) Jordan Schmaltz - 11:00 (Pattyn, Mattson) Rocco Grimaldi - 13:30 (Mattson, O'Donnell) Paul LaDue - PP - 14:53 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 25 shots ) Zane Gothberg | Goalie stats | ( 24 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
Championship[]
(6) Denver vs. (8) Miami[]
| March 22[21] | Denver | 4 – 3 | Miami | Target Center | Recap | |||
| (Larraza, Butcher) Nolan Zajac - PP - 03:13 (Zajac, Loney) - 13:48 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 13:08 - PP - Anthony Louis (Kuraly, Wideman) 16:08 - Sean Kuraly (unassisted) | ||||||
| (unassisted) - 01:06 (Marcinew) - GW - 06:47 |
Third period | 18:27 - EA - Anthony Louis (Coleman, Czarnik) | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 26 shots ) Sam Brittain | Goalie stats | Ryan McKay ( 24 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
Tournament awards[]
All-Tournament Team[]
- F * (Denver)
- F (Denver)
- F Anthony Louis (Miami)
- D Joey LaLeggia (Denver)
- D Nolan Zajac (Denver)
- G Sam Brittain (Denver)
* Most Valuable Player(s)
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External links[]
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