2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
| 2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 2–17, 2018 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Berry Events Center Marquette, Michigan |
| Champions | Michigan Tech (11th title) |
| Winning coach | Joe Shawhan (1st title) |
| Most Outstanding Player | (Michigan Tech) |
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2018 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 2 and March 17, 2018, on campus locations. By winning the tournament, Michigan Tech was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format[]
The first two rounds of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.
The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.
Conference Standings[]
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; 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 | ||
#9 Minnesota State |
28 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 67 | 116 | 58 | 40 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 153 | 84 | |
| #20 Northern Michigan | 28 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 61 | 85 | 64 | 43 | 25 | 15 | 3 | 130 | 108 | |
| Bowling Green | 28 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 58 | 87 | 63 | 41 | 23 | 12 | 6 | 122 | 100 | |
| Bemidji State | 28 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 49 | 77 | 63 | 38 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 103 | 95 | |
| #16 Michigan Tech* | 28 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 43 | 82 | 75 | 44 | 22 | 17 | 5 | 134 | 117 | |
| Ferris State | 28 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 68 | 86 | 38 | 14 | 23 | 1 | 87 | 122 | |
| Alabama–Huntsville | 28 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 69 | 86 | 37 | 12 | 23 | 2 | 84 | 121 | |
| Alaska | 28 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 74 | 85 | 36 | 11 | 22 | 3 | 97 | 118 | |
| Lake Superior State | 28 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 59 | 90 | 36 | 10 | 22 | 4 | 76 | 121 | |
| Alaska Anchorage | 28 | 4 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 55 | 102 | 34 | 4 | 26 | 4 | 65 | 124 | |
| Championship: March 17, 2018 indicates conference regular season champion (MacNaughton Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Broadmoor Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 5, 2018 | |||||||||||||||
Bracket[]
Teams are reseeded after the first round
| Quarterfinals March 2–4[1] | Semifinals March 9–11 | Championship March 17 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Minnesota State | 8 | 6 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | Alaska | 2 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Minnesota State | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Michigan Tech | 1 | 4 | 2* | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Northern Michigan | 7 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Alabama-Huntsville | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Michigan Tech | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Northern Michigan | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Bowling Green | 2* | 5 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Ferris State | 1 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Northern Michigan | 6 | 0 | 3* | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Bowling Green | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Bemidji State | 3 | 4 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Michigan Tech | 5 | 5 | — | ||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime periods
Results[]
Quarterfinals[]
(1) Minnesota State vs. (8) Alaska[]
| March 2 | Minnesota State | 8–2 | Alaska | Verizon Arena | Recap | |||
| (Rivera, Spooner) (10) - 02:18 (Spooner) (7) - 10:53 (Zmolek, Suess) Marc Michaelis (17) - GW - 15:58 |
First period | 04:04 - (7) (Staley, Leiter) | ||||||
| (Brickley, Gerads) (5) - 05:58 (Knutson, Hookenson) (13) - 06:16 (Spooner, Rivera) (11) - 08:04 (Suess) (9) - 10:34 |
Second period | 05:29 - (5) (Staley, Frye) | ||||||
| (Tuomie, LaCouvee) C. J. Suess (22) - PP - 08:53 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 21 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 16 saves / 22 shots ) / ( 15 saves / 17 shots ) | ||||||
| March 3 | Minnesota State | 6–2 | Alaska | Verizon Arena | Recap | |||
| (Frye) (8) - PP - 00:51 (Lutz, Scheid) (6) - PP - 15:21 |
First period | 10:50 - (2) (Rivera, Lewis) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Lewis) (8) - GW SH - 05:43 (Spooner, Brickley) Connor Mackey (6) - 06:08 (Knutson, Tuomie) Daniel Brickley (10) - PP - 07:36 (Tuomie, Knutson) Marc Michaelis (18) - PP - 10:38 |
Third period | 18:03 - PP - (11) (Van Tetering, Woods) | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 24 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 33 saves / 39 shots ) | ||||||
| Minnesota State wins series 2–0 | |
(2) Northern Michigan vs. (7) Alabama–Huntsville[]
| March 2 | Northern Michigan | 7–1 | Alabama–Huntsville | Berry Events Center | Recap | |||
| (Rockwood, Beaulieu) Troy Loggins (18) - SH - 01:59 (Heikkila, Paskaruk) (2) - GW - 04:47 (Diamantoni, Rockwood) (21) - 05:35 (Beaulieu, Rockwood) (10) - PP - 08:50 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Rockwood, Loggins) (11) - 17:19 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Klimek, Craighead) Philip Beaulieu (10) - 06:51 (Diamantoni, Tolvanen) (22) - 07:20 |
Third period | 18:58 - PP - (1) (Dunn, Kestner) | ||||||
| ( 13 saves / 14 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 4 saves / 8 shots ) / ( 28 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
| March 3 | Northern Michigan | 2–3 | Alabama–Huntsville | Berry Events Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Klimek, Beaulieu) Troy Loggins (19) - 03:52 (Beaulieu, Rockwood) (2) - 14:18 |
Second period | 11:47 - (22) (McHugh) 17:22 - (2) (Poulsen) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:31 - GW - (23) (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 11 saves / 14 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 22 saves / 24 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4 | Northern Michigan | 5–2 | Alabama–Huntsville | Berry Events Center | Recap | |||
| (Loggins, Beaulieu) (12) - 02:45 | First period | 10:54 - (24) (Poulsen) | ||||||
| (Nardi, Black) (11) - 00:55 (Beaulieu, Rockwood) Troy Loggins (20) - GW PP - 13:11 (Loggins, Beaulieu) (13) - PP - 14:58 |
Second period | 06:41 - PP - (3) (Gosselin, Larson) | ||||||
| (Rockwood) Troy Loggins (21) - EH EN - 19:38 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 16 saves / 18 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 28 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
| Northern Michigan wins series 2–1 | |
(3) Bowling Green vs. (6) Ferris State[]
| March 2 | Bowling Green | 2–1 | OT | Ferris State | Slater Family Ice Arena | Recap | ||
| (McLain, Spezia) (7) - 15:38 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 15:50 - PP - (2) (Rutkowski, Recktenwald) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (McLain, Spezia) (8) - GW - 12:05 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 34 saves / 35 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 62 saves / 64 shots ) | ||||||
| March 3 | Bowling Green | 5–2 | Ferris State | Slater Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Reichert, Johnson) (3) - 05:25 (Baylis, Rauhauser) Max Johnson (11) - PP - 14:22 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Pohlkamp, Ford) Alec Rauhauser (9) - GW - 04:11 | Second period | 07:44 - (3) (Rutkowski, Recktenwald) 14:08 - (3) (Killins, MacDougall) | ||||||
| (Wright, Baylis) (9) - 02:25 (Johnson, Baylis) (17) - PP - 15:55 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 33 saves / 35 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 32 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
| Bowling Green wins series 2-0 | |
(4) Bemidji State vs. (5) Michigan Tech[]
| March 2 | Bemidji State | 3–5 | Michigan Tech | Sanford Center | Recap | |||
| (Harris) (3) - 06:46 (Bauman, Miller) (8) - PP - 17:41 |
First period | 07:20 - (13) (L'Esperance, Meek) | ||||||
| (Miller, Baudry) (4) - PP - 03:18 | Second period | 16:43 - PP - (14) (Reinke, Auk) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 13:19 - PP - (15) (Auk, Reinke) 18:30 - GW - (3) (Steman) 19:44 - EN - (10) (Lucchini, L'Esperance) | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 31 shots ) Michael Bitzer | Goalie stats | ( 22 saves / 25 shots ) | ||||||
| March 3 | Bemidji State | 4–5 | Michigan Tech | Sanford Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 00:41 - Mitch Reinke (3) (L'Esperance, Lucchini) 04:13 - SH - (16) (L'Esperance) | ||||||
| (Whitecloud, Brady) (7) - PP - 11:03 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (G. Fitzgerald, Whitecloud) (15) - EA - 17:48 (L. Fitzgerald) (9) - EA - 18:47 (Brady, Whitecloud) (13) - EA - 19:04 |
Third period | 13:01 - PP - (7) (Auk, Reinke) 12:24 - Joel L'Esperance (9) (Lucchini, Birks) 18:32 - GW EN - (8) (Steman) | ||||||
| ( 20 saves / 24 shots ) Michael Bitzer | Goalie stats | ( 33 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
| Michigan Tech wins series 2–0 | |
Semifinals[]
(1) Minnesota State vs. (5) Michigan Tech[]
| March 9 | Minnesota State | 2–1 | Michigan Tech | Verizon Arena | Recap | |||
| (Rivera, Brickley) (4) - 18:26 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Tuomie, Scheid) (14) - GW PP - 01:22 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 09:19 - Joel L'Esperance (10) (Gould, Lucchini) | ||||||
| ( 18 saves / 19 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | ||||||
| March 10 | Minnesota State | 2–4 | Michigan Tech | Verizon Arena | Recap | |||
| (Brickley) (15) - 12:57 | First period | 09:19 - (8) (unassisted) 15:20 - (9) (Jackson, Beretta) | ||||||
| (Jaremko, Scheid) (7) - PP - 13:13 | Second period | 12:04 - GW - (4) (Gould, L'Esperance) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:53 - EN - (7) (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 31 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| March 11 | Minnesota State | 1–2 | OT | Michigan Tech | Verizon Arena | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Tuomie) (14) - PP - 10:30 | Second period | 06:09 - (11) (Baltus, Donohue) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 15:07 - GW - (12) (unassisted) | ||||||
| ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 41 saves / 42 shots ) | ||||||
| Michigan Tech wins series 2–1 | |
(2) Northern Michigan vs. (3) Bowling Green[]
| March 9 | Northern Michigan | 6–1 | Bowling Green | Berry Events Center | Recap | |||
| (Rockwood, Pierce) Troy Loggins (22) - PP - 14:30 | First period | 01:49 - PP - Max Johnson (12) (Baylis, Rauhauser) | ||||||
| (Rockwood, Beaulieu) (23) - GW PP - 02:20 (Loggins, Rockwood) Philip Beaulieu (11) - 09:17 (Hannoun, Beaulieu) (1) - 09:44 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Craighead) (4) - 10:28 (Diamantoni) (24) - 16:55 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 23 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
| March 10 | Northern Michigan | 0–1 | Bowling Green | Berry Events Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 03:05 - GW PP - (8) (Schilling, Wright) | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 23 saves / 23 shots ) | ||||||
| March 11 | Northern Michigan | 3–2 | OT | Bowling Green | Berry Events Center | Recap | ||
| (Payne) (6) - 18:55 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 00:52 - Max Johnson (13) (McLain, Baylis) | ||||||
| (Black, Diamantoni) (9) - 10:53 | Third period | 19:52 - EA - (18) (Rauhauser, Baylis) | ||||||
| (Black, Vermeulen) Troy Loggins (23) - GW - 15:53 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 30 saves / 32 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 39 saves / 42 shots ) | ||||||
| Northern Michigan wins series 2–1 | |
Championship[]
(2) Northern Michigan vs. (5) Michigan Tech[]
| March 18 | Northern Michigan | 0–2 | Michigan Tech | Berry Events Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 05:36 - GW - (5) (Misiak, Meek) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:13 - EN - Joel L'Esperance (11) (Lucchini, Birks) | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 21 saves / 21 shots ) | ||||||
Tournament awards[]
Most Outstanding Player[]
(Michigan Tech)
References[]
- ^ "Field Is Set For 2018 WCHA Postseason Tournament". wcha.com. February 25, 2018. Archived from the original on April 2, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
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