2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates	March 13–22, 2014
Teams	8
Finals site	Van Andel Arena; Grand Rapids, Michigan
Champions	Minnesota State (1st title)
Winning coach	Mike Hastings (1st title)
MVP	(Minnesota State)
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The 2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 13 and March 22, 2014, at four conference arenas and the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. By winning the tournament, Minnesota State was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format[]

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. The top eight or ten conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advance to the Van Andel Arena for the WCHA Final Five, a holdover from previous tournaments where it was used as the collective name of the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.^[1]

Conference Standings[]

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

2013–14 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings v t
	Conference record							Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#6 Ferris State	28	20	6	2	42	92	62	43	29	11	3	138	94
#11 Minnesota State*	28	20	7	1	41	95	58	41	26	14	1	130	95
Alaska	28	14	12	2	30	97	77	37	18	15	4	126	103
Bowling Green	28	13	11	4	30	89	73	39	18	15	6	119	104
Michigan Tech	28	12	11	5	29	78	78	40	14	19	7	99	108
Alaska–Anchorage	28	12	12	4	28	74	77	38	18	16	4	105	107
Northern Michigan	28	13	14	1	27	77	75	38	15	21	2	102	108
Bemidji State	28	10	14	4	24	72	76	38	10	21	7	92	118
Lake Superior State	28	12	16	0	24	70	84	36	16	19	1	94	114
Alabama–Huntsville	28	2	25	1	5	30	114	38	2	35	1	41	166
Championship: Minnesota State indicates conference regular season champion (MacNaughton Cup); * indicates conference tournament champion (Broadmoor Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014

Bracket[]

Teams are reseeded after the first round

First round March 13–15					Semifinals March 21			Championship March 22

1	Ferris State	8	3**	—	1	Ferris State	5*
8	Bemidji State	0	2	—	6	Alaska–Anchorage	4

2	Minnesota State	3	5*	—
7	Northern Michigan	2	4	—				1	Ferris State	1
								2	Minnesota State	4

3	Alaska	3*	1	4
6	Alaska–Anchorage	2	2	5

4	Bowling Green	2	5	—	2	Minnesota State	4
5	Michigan Tech	1	2	—	4	Bowling Green	0

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Results[]

First round[]

All times are local.

(1) Ferris State vs. (8) Bemidji State[]

March 14	Ferris State		8–0	Bemidji State	Ewigleben Arena	Recap
(12) - (Thompson, Czarnowczan) - 10:47 (9) - (DeMartino) - 12:33		First period		No scoring
(3) - (Babinski, Robertson) - 10:59 (13) - (Thompson, Kane) - 16:15		Second period		No scoring
(10) - (White, Czarnowczan) - 5:23 (13) - (Huff, Mayhew) - 5:58 (9) - (Robertson, McDonald) - 12:47 (10) - (Kane, White) - 13:49		Third period		No scoring
( 26 saves / 26 shots )		Goalie stats		( 15 saves / 23 shots ) / ( 0 saves / 0 shots )

March 15	Ferris State		3–2	2OT	Bemidji State	Ewigleben Arena	Recap
(5) - (Binkley, Buzzeo) - 3:50		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			(2) - (Ward) - 1:17 (3) - (Illo, Harms) - 6:17
(12) - en - (Lowney, McDonald) - 19:15		Third period			No scoring
(6) - sh - (White, Thompson) - 5:15		Second overtime period			No scoring
( 34 saves / 36 shots )		Goalie stats			( 38 saves / 41 shots )

Ferris State wins series 2–0

(2) Minnesota State vs. (7) Northern Michigan[]

March 14	Minnesota State		3–2	Northern Michigan	Verizon Wireless Center	Recap
Matt Leitner (10) - (Nelson, Gervais) - 3:44		First period		No scoring
(13) - pp - (Bļugers, Stepan) - 4:24 (6) - pp - (Stepan, Bļugers) - 8:23		Second period		(4) - (Shine, Maschmeyer) - 15:01
No scoring		Third period		(5) - pp - (Vigier) - 3:32
( 16 saves / 18 shots )		Goalie stats		( 22 saves / 25 shots )

March 15	Minnesota State		5–4	OT	Northern Michigan	Verizon Wireless Center	Recap
Matt Leitner (11) - (Gervais, Huggins) - 19:59		First period			(3) - (Kesti) - 7:18
(20) - pp - (Bļugers, Stepan) - 14:00		Second period			(4) - (Shine) - 3:21
(14) - (Leitner, Grant) - 7:22 (15) - pp - (Palmquist, Stepan) - 15:37		Third period			(16) - pp - (Maschmeyer, Sooth) - 4:44 (6) - pp - (Jones, Vigier) - 12:11
(8) - (Palmquist, McInnis) - 16:32		First overtime period			No scoring
( 28 saves / 32 shots )		Goalie stats			( 53 saves / 58 shots )

Minnesota State wins series 2–0

(3) Alaska vs. (6) Alaska–Anchorage[]

March 13	Alaska		3–2	OT	Alaska–Anchorage	Carlson Center	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
(1) (Youngmun, Hochhausen) - 11:59		Second period			(2) - (unassisted) - 2:44
(12) - PP - (Atkinson) - 13:54		Third period			(8) - (unassisted) - 6:24
Colton Beck (14) - (Basara, Woods) - 3:40		First overtime period			No scoring
( 20 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats			( 27 saves / 30 shots )

March 14	Alaska		1–2	Alaska–Anchorage	Carlson Center	Recap
Colton Parayko (5) - (Beck, Quinn) - 19:31		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		Matt Bailey (19) - (Allen) - 2:59 (6) - (Tatchell, Kwas) - 4:27
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
( 22 saves / 24 shots )		Goalie stats		( 25 saves / 26 shots )

March 15	Alaska		4–5	Alaska–Anchorage	Carlson Center	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
Colton Parayko (6) - PP - (Kunyk, Beck) - 16:04		Second period		(13) - (Cameron, Tatchell) - 1:09 Matt Bailey (20) - (Allen) - 5:00 (17) - (Matt Bailey) - 19:46
(3) - (Morley, Quinn) - 5:04 Colton Parayko (7) - (Woods, Perry) - 10:19 (4) - (Quinn, Perry) - 14:47		Third period		(5) - (Cameron, Tatchell) - 13:23 (7) - (Tatchell, Kwas) - 17:15
( 17 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats		( 24 saves / 28 shots )

Alaska–Anchorage wins series 2–1

(4) Bowling Green vs. (5) Michigan Tech[]

March 14	Bowling Green		2–1	Michigan Tech	BGSU Ice Arena	Recap
(12) - pp - (Freibergs, DeSalvo) - 5:55 Ryan Carpenter (7) - (Pohlkamp, Mercier) - 11:52		First period		(11) - pp - (Hanna, Petan) - 10:12
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
( 24 saves / 25 shots )		Goalie stats		Pheonix Copley ( 22 saves / 24 shots )

March 15	Bowling Green		5–2	Michigan Tech	BGSU Ice Arena	Recap
(9) - (Carpenter, Sullivan) - 14:35 (9) - pp - (Carpenter, DeSalvo) - 19:01		First period		No scoring
(2) - (DeSalvo, Mercier) - 13:30		Second period		No scoring
Ryan Carpenter (8) - (Williamson, Murphy) - 2:11 (10) - en - (Carpenter, DeSalvo) - 18:26		Third period		(8) - pp - (Petan, Pietila) - 0:29 (6) - (Johnstone) - 8:42
( 28 saves / 30 shots )		Goalie stats		Pheonix Copley ( 29 saves / 33 shots )

Bowling Green wins series 2–0

Semifinals[]

All times are local (UTC−4).

(2) Minnesota State vs. (4) Bowling Green[]

March 21	Minnesota State		4–0	Bowling Green	Van Andel Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
(9) - (Leitner, Gervais) - 3:52 (16) - sh - (unassisted) - 12:47		Second period		No scoring
(21) - (Bļugers)) - 10:47 Matt Leitner (12) - en - (Gervais) - 18:28		Third period		No scoring
( 36 saves / 36 shots )		Goalie stats		( 32 saves / 35 shots )

(1) Ferris State vs. (6) Alaska–Anchorage[]

March 21	Ferris State		5–4	OT	Alaska–Anchorage	Van Andel Arena	Recap
Gerald Mayhew (5) - pp - (Kane) - 4:41 (14) - (Thompson, Anselmini) - 6:31		First period			(10) - (Coldwell, Leask) - 8:54
(16) - (Buzzeo, Czarnowczan) - 12:50 (11) - (Binkley, Lowney) - 15:29		Second period			(6) - (Kwas, Tatchell) - 7:16 (3) - (Hubbs, Pettitt) - 8:56 (3) - (Dusyk, Trupp) - 11:22
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Gerald Mayhew (6) - (Kane) - 2:38		First overtime period			No scoring
( 34 saves / 38 shots )		Goalie stats			( 8 saves / 12 shots ) ( 10 saves / 11 shots )

Championship[]

All times are local (UTC−4).

(1) Ferris State vs. (2) Minnesota State[]

March 22	Ferris State		1–4	Minnesota State	Van Andel Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		(2) - (Lehrke, Lafontaine) - 9:13 (1) - (Bļugers, Nelson) - 13:50
Gerald Mayhew (7) - (Huff, Kane) - 19:14		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		(1) - (Bļugers) - 8:38 Teodors Bļugers (4) - en - (Leitner) - 19:56
( 28 saves / 31 shots )		Goalie stats		( 25 saves / 26 shots )

Tournament awards[]

All-Tournament Team[]

F Teodors Bļugers (Minnesota State)
F (Minnesota State)
F Gerald Mayhew (Ferris State)
D (Alaska-Anchorage)
D (Minnesota State)
G * (Minnesota State)

* Most Valuable Player(s)

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References[]

^ "WCHA First Round Playoffs Get Underway Thursday; Best-of-Three Series Set for March 13–16". WCHA. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
^ "Minnesota State returns to the NCAA tournament after beating Ferris State for WCHA title". WCHA. 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2014-06-26.

External links[]

[1] "WCHA First Round Playoffs Get Underway Thursday; Best-of-Three Series Set for March 13–16". WCHA. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.

[2] "Minnesota State returns to the NCAA tournament after beating Ferris State for WCHA title". WCHA. 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2014-06-26.

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