2019 NCHC Tournament
| 2019 NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Dates | March 15–23, 2019 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Champions | Minnesota-Duluth (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Scott Sandelin (2nd title) |
| MVP | (Minnesota–Duluth) |
NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2019 NCHC Tournament is the sixth tournament in league history. It was played between March 15 and 23, 2019. Quarterfinal were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota-Duluth received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format[]
The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All eight 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 Xcel Energy Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.[1]
Game 1 of the series between Western Michigan and Colorado College was delayed 1 day due to the effects from Winter Storm Ulmer.[2]
Standings[]
| Conference record | Overall record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | 3/SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #5 St. Cloud State † | 24 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 62 | 94 | 52 | 39 | 30 | 6 | 3 | 156 | 85 | |
| #1 Minnesota–Duluth * | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 75 | 48 | 42 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 133 | 79 | |
| #18 Western Michigan | 24 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 79 | 78 | 37 | 21 | 15 | 1 | 129 | 115 | |
| #3 Denver | 24 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 39 | 55 | 56 | 41 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 116 | 83 | |
| #20 North Dakota | 24 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 56 | 55 | 37 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 93 | 90 | |
| Colorado College | 24 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 66 | 66 | 41 | 17 | 20 | 4 | 117 | 114 | |
| Omaha | 24 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 53 | 86 | 36 | 9 | 24 | 3 | 90 | 132 | |
| Miami | 24 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 49 | 86 | 38 | 11 | 23 | 4 | 87 | 122 | |
Championship: March 23, 2019 indicates conference regular season champion (Penrose Cup)* indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll | |||||||||||||||
Bracket[]
Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals
| Quarterfinals March 15–18 |
Semifinals March 22 |
Championship March 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | St. Cloud State | 5 | 6 | 1 | St. Cloud State | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | Miami | 2 | 3 | 6 | Colorado College | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Denver | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | North Dakota | 0 | 2 | 1 | St. Cloud State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Minnesota–Duluth | 3** | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Western Michigan | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Colorado College | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Third Place | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Minnesota–Duluth | 2* | 4 | 2 | Minnesota–Duluth | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Omaha | 1 | 1 | 4 | Denver | 0 | 4 | Denver | 6 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Colorado College | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
* denotes overtime periods
Results[]
All times are local.
Quarterfinals[]
(1) St. Cloud State vs. (8) Miami[]
| March 15 | St. Cloud State | 5 – 2 | Miami | Herb Brooks National Hockey Center | Recap | |||
| (Ahcan, J. Poehling) – 03:43 (Brodzinski, B. Lizotte) – PP – 17:35 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (N. Poehling, J. Poehling) Ryan Poehling – GW – 14:30 | Second period | 11:18 – (Mahalak, Rymsha) | ||||||
| (unassisted) Jack Ahcan – 03:57 (Fitzgerald, J. Lizotte) – 16:12 |
Third period | 00:24 – (Gruden) | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 25 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 32 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16 | St. Cloud State | 6 – 3 | Miami | Herb Brooks National Hockey Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 06:23 – (Daschke) | ||||||
| (Hentges) – 04:32 (Jackson, B. Lizotte) Jimmy Schuldt – 05:55 |
Second period | 11:53 – (Lown, Mahalak) | ||||||
| (Newell, Schuldt) – 00:49 (Brodzinski) Sam Hentges – GW – 06:42 (Hentges) – 11:12 (Jackson, Newell) Blake Lizotte – EN – 17:27 |
Third period | 04:38 – (Corbett, Hutton) | ||||||
| ( 18 saves / 21 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 39 saves / 44 shots ) | ||||||
| St. Cloud State won series 2–0 | |
(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (7) Omaha[]
| March 15 | Minnesota–Duluth | 2 – 1 | OT | Omaha | AMSOIL Arena | Recap | ||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Mackay, Samberg) Riley Tufte – 03:31 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:04 – EA – (Jones, Weiss) | ||||||
| (Miller, Anderson) – GW – 13:42 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 28 shots ) Hunter Shepard | Goalie stats | ( 39 saves / 41 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16 | Minnesota–Duluth | 4 – 1 | Omaha | AMSOIL Arena | Recap | |||
| (Anderson, Samberg) Jackson Cates – 11:46 | First period | 09:40 – (Morelli, Olofsson) | ||||||
| (Anderson, Krieger) – GW PP – 07:14 (Richards, Mackay) Cole Koepke – 19:54 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Cates, Wolff) – 06:11 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 18 saves / 19 shots ) Hunter Shepard | Goalie stats | ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| Minnesota–Duluth won series 2–0 | |
(3) Western Michigan vs. (6) Colorado College[]
| March 16 | Western Michigan | 1 – 2 | Colorado College | Lawson Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Passolt, Rueschhoff) – 02:04 | First period | 11:57 – (Conzo, Bradley) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | overtime period | 06:42 – GW – (Copeland, Versich) | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 25 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 29 saves / 30 shots ) | ||||||
| March 17 | Western Michigan | 5 – 2 | Colorado College | Lawson Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Allison, Lee) – 01:56 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (DiPietro, Lee) – 16:51 (Conrad, Passolt) Corey Schueneman – GW – 19:33 |
Second period | 09:40 – (Bergh) 19:48 – (Michaud) | ||||||
| (Orchard, Passolt) – 01:44 (Schueneman) – 13:08 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 35 saves / 40 shots ) | ||||||
| March 18 | Western Michigan | 2 – 3 | Colorado College | Lawson Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 16:47 – PP – (Bergh, Yoon) | ||||||
| (Passolt, Orchard) – 18:49 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Orchard, Passolt) – EA – 17:36 | Third period | 05:16 – (Copeland, Michaud) 07:16 – GW – (Yoon, Bergh) | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 25 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) | ||||||
| Colorado College won series 2–1 | |
(4) Denver vs. (5) North Dakota[]
| March 15 | Denver | 2 – 0 | North Dakota | Magness Arena | Recap | |||
| (Lukosevicius, Davies) – GW – 19:00 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Heikkinen) – 11:44 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 32 saves / 32 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 15 saves / 17 shots ) | ||||||
| March 16 | Denver | 4 – 2 | North Dakota | Magness Arena | Recap | |||
| (Lancaster, Mitchell) – PP – 03:45 | First period | 14:33 – (Mismash, Bernard-Docker) | ||||||
| (Mendel, Mitchell) – 01:02 (Guttman, Pettersen) Jarid Lukosevicius – GW – 14:38 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) – EN – 18:27 | Third period | 05:42 – (Shaw) | ||||||
| ( 40 saves / 42 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 14 saves / 17 shots ) | ||||||
| Denver won series 2–0 | |
Semifinals[]
(1) St. Cloud State vs. (6) Colorado College[]
| March 22 | St. Cloud State | 5 – 2 | Colorado College | Xcel Energy Center | Recap | |||
| (B. Lizotte, Schuldt) Patrick Newell - PP - 12:51 (J. Lizotte) - 12:51 |
First period | 09:47 - PP - (Bradley, Yoon) | ||||||
| (Meier, B. Lizotte) - GW - 09:38 | Second period | 04:39 - (Olson, Poolman) | ||||||
| (Newell, Fitzgerald) Jack Ahcan - 12:51 (Fitzgerald, Bushy) - 16:47 |
Third period | 14:47 - PP - (Yoon, Bergh) | ||||||
| ( 31 saves / 33 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 22 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (4) Denver[]
| March 22 | Denver | 0 – 3 | Minnesota–Duluth | Xcel Energy Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) Cole Koepke - GW - 00:42 (unassisted) - EN - 18:22 (unassisted) Cole Koepke - EN - 19:39 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 25 saves / 25 shots ) Hunter Shepard | Goalie stats | ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
Third place[]
(4) Denver vs. (6) Colorado College[]
| March 23 | Denver | 6 – 1 | Colorado College | Xcel Energy Center | Recap | |||
| (Pettersen) Jarid Lukosevicius - 05:49 | First period | 15:01 - PP - (Bergh, Versich) | ||||||
| (Lancaster, Pettersen) Ian Mitchell - GW PP - 08:29 (Davies, Stapley) - 09:28 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Finlay, McLellan) Ian Mitchell - 00:27 (McLellan, Mitchell) - 05:37 (Stapley, Mitchell) - 12:11 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 22 saves / 23 shots ) | Goalie stats | ( 23 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
Championship[]
(1) St. Cloud State vs. (2) Minnesota–Duluth[]
| March 17 | St. Cloud State | 2 – 3 | 2OT | Minnesota–Duluth | Xcel Energy Center | Recap | ||
| (B. Lizotte, Newell) - EA - 07:45 | First period | 10:49 - Mikey Anderson (Perunovich, Mackay) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (B. Lizotte, Achan) Patrick Newell - PP - 00:28 | Third period | 15:09 - SH - (Laderoute) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second overtime period | 07:29 - GW - (Laderoute, Jacques) | ||||||
| ( 27 saves / 30 shots ) | Goalie stats | Hunter Shepard ( 37 saves / 39 shots ) | ||||||
Tournament awards[]
Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team[]
- F (St. Cloud State)
- F Blake Lizotte (St. Cloud State)
- F Patrick Newell (St. Cloud State)
- D Jimmy Schuldt (St. Cloud State)
- D Mikey Anderson (Minnesota–Duluth)
- G Hunter Shepard* (Minnesota–Duluth)
* Most Valuable Player(s)
References[]
- ^ "Format". Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "WMU hockey playoff series vs. Colorado College pushed back to Saturday". Michigan Live. March 15, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ "Minnesota Duluth Tops St. Cloud State in Double OT for Frozen Faceoff Title". SB Nation. March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
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