2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates	March 8–23, 2019
Teams	8
Finals site	Mankato, Minnesota; Verizon Center
Champions	Minnesota State (3rd title)
Winning coach	Mike Hastings (3rd title)
Most Outstanding Player	(Minnesota State)
	WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 2018 2020 →

The 2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 8 and March 23, 2019 on campus locations. By winning the tournament, Minnesota State was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2019 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. (teams will NOT be re-seeded with each proceeding round).^[1]

The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.

Standings[]

2018–19 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Standings v t
	Conference record								Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	3/SW	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#6 Minnesota State †*	28	22	5	1	1	68	99	43	42	32	8	2	147	76
Northern Michigan	28	18	8	2	0	56	82	57	39	21	16	2	104	96
#13 Bowling Green	28	16	8	4	3	55	77	52	41	25	11	5	133	75
Lake Superior State	28	16	10	2	0	50	91	69	38	23	13	2	123	93
Bemidji State	28	13	11	4	2	45	71	63	38	15	17	6	95	94
Michigan Tech	28	13	12	3	1	43	68	63	38	14	20	4	90	101
Alaska	28	12	14	2	2	40	57	81	36	12	21	3	72	114
Alabama–Huntsville	28	8	18	2	2	28	61	93	38	8	28	2	67	129
Ferris State	28	7	18	3	0	24	68	96	36	10	23	3	90	123
Alaska Anchorage	28	2	23	3	2	11	29	86	34	3	28	3	40	115
Championship: March 23, 2019 indicates conference regular season champion (MacNaughton Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Broadmoor Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket[]

Quarterfinals March 8–9					Semifinals March 15–16					Championship March 23

1	Minnesota State	3	4	X

8	Alabama–Huntsville	1	1	X
					1	Minnesota State	2	2	X

					4	Lake Superior	1	0	X
4	Lake Superior	4	3	X

5	Bemidji State	2	1	X
										1	Minnesota State	3*

										3	Bowling Green	2
3	Bowling Green	3	6	X

6	Michigan Tech	2	2	X
					2	Northern Michigan	1	1	X

					3	Bowling Green	6	2**	X
2	Northern Michigan	5**	4	X

7	Alaska	4	3	X

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Results[]

Quarterfinals[]

(1) Minnesota State vs. (8) Alabama–Huntsville[]

March 8	Minnesota State		3-1	Alabama–Huntsville	Verizon Arena	Recap
(Rivera, French) Walker Duehr (9) - 05:09		First period		No scoring
(Gerard, Scheid) Marc Michaelis (17) - GW PP - 04:48		Second period		16:28 - (3) (Finnson, Dunn)
(Scheid, Tuomie) Marc Michaelis (22) - PP - 05:26		Third period		No scoring
( 12 saves / 13 shots ) Dryden McKay		Goalie stats		( 32 saves / 35 shots )

March 9	Minnesota State		4–1	Alabama–Huntsville	Verizon Arena	Recap
(Jaremko, Mackey) (5) - PP - 01:44 (Gerard) (14) - GW - 08:57		First period		No scoring
(Jaremko, Coatta) (6) - PP - 14:25 (Tuomie) Marc Michaelis (19) - 15:36		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		10:16 - (3) (Wood)
( 18 saves / 19 shots ) Dryden McKay		Goalie stats		( 27 saves / 31 shots )

Minnesota State wins series 2–0

(2) Northern Michigan vs. (7) Alaska[]

March 8	Northern Michigan		5–4	2OT	Alaska	Berry Events Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period			16:38 - (9) (Staley)
(Loughran, Readman) (8) - 02:09 (Frantti, Loven) (4) - 03:31		Second period			10:30 - (5) (LaDouce, Doyle) 12:46 - (9) (Newton, Young) 16:05 - (1) (Hope)
(Nardi, Readman) (6) - PP - 06:51 (Craighead, Beaulieu) (7) - EA - 19:46		Third period			No scoring
(Loughran, Beaulieu) (9) - GW - 10:30		Second overtime period			No scoring
( 38 saves / 42 shots )		Goalie stats			( 39 saves / 44 shots )

March 9	Northern Michigan		4–3	Alaska	Berry Events Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period		08:06 - (8) (Leiter, Jandric)
(Black, Rockwood) (10) - 12:54 (Klee, Loven) (5) - 13:36		Second period		08:28 - (6) (Doyle)
(Pierce) Troy Loggins (23) - 09:59 (Rockwood, Loggins) (9) - GW PP - 11:58		Third period		17:52 - EA - (6) (Thompson, Jandric)
( 26 saves / 29 shots )		Goalie stats		( 26 saves / 30 shots )

Northern Michigan wins series 2–0

(3) Bowling Green vs. (6) Michigan Tech[]

March 8	Bowling Green		3–2	Michigan Tech	Slater Family Ice Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period		06:56 - (3) (Parrottino, Reitmeier)
No scoring		Second period		18:18 - SH - (8) (Reitmeier)
(Barber, Johnson) (14) - PP - 11:55 (Smith, Pohlkamp) (14) - 12:10 (Ford, Kruse) Max Johnson (14) - GW PP - 13:41		Third period		No scoring
( 23 saves / 25 shots )		Goalie stats		( 38 saves / 41 shots )

March 9	Bowling Green		6–2	Michigan Tech	Slater Family Ice Arena	Recap
(Johnson) (2) - 05:25 (Wright, Pohlkamp) Max Johnson (16) - 09:30 (Kruse, Johnson) (15) - GW PP - 10:24		First period		04:35 - PP - (10) (Bliss, Smith) 11:54 - (3) (Smith, Donohue)
(Schneider, Theorcharidis) Max Johnson (17) - PP - 07:36		Second period		No scoring
(unassisted) (6) - PS - 09:08 (unassisted) (1) - SH EN - 11:05		Third period		No scoring
( 25 saves / 27 shots )		Goalie stats		( 25 saves / 30 shots ) / ( 4 saves / 4 shots )

Bowling Green wins series 2-0

(4) Lake Superior State vs. (5) Bemidji State[]

March 8	Lake Superior State		4–2	Bemidji State	Taffy Abel Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period		07:20 - (9) (Harris, Billett)
(Eriksson) (24) - 05:17 (Saccoman, Calder) (2) - PP - 18:29		Second period		No scoring
(Calder, Saccoman) (15) - GW PP - 09:49 (unassisted) (15) - EN - 19:44		Third period		10:27 - EA - (3) (Sillinger, Combs)
( 29 saves / 31 shots )		Goalie stats		( 17 saves / 20 shots )

March 9	Lake Superior State		3–1	Bemidji State	Taffy Abel Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
(Nordqvist, Nellis) (16) - 09:29		Second period		12:01 - (9) (Somoza, Ierullo)
(Nordqvist, Cuglietta) Hampus Eriksson (3) - GW PP - 06:30 (Cuglietta) (10) - EN - 19:22		Third period		No scoring
( 39 saves / 40 shots )		Goalie stats		( 31 saves / 33 shots )

Lake Superior State wins series 2–0

Semifinals[]

(1) Minnesota State vs. (4) Lake Superior State[]

March 15	Minnesota State		2–1	Lake Superior State	Verizon Arena	Recap
(Tuomie, Michaelis) (11) - 06:18 (French, Mackey) Walker Duehr (10) - GW - 07:20		First period		01:37 - (25) (Humitz, Ruggiero)
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
( 20 saves / 21 shots ) Dryden McKay		Goalie stats		( 29 saves / 31 shots )

March 16	Minnesota State		2–0	Lake Superior State	Verizon Arena	Recap
(Michaelis, Gerard) (8) - GW PP - 12:14 (Coatta, Scheid) (7) - PP - 13:27		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
( 31 saves / 31 shots ) Dryden McKay		Goalie stats		( 28 saves / 30 shots )

Minnesota State wins series 2–0

(2) Northern Michigan vs. (3) Bowling Green[]

March 15	Northern Michigan		1–6	Bowling Green	Berry Events Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		01:35 - Max Johnson (18) (Létourneau) 05:42 - GW - (3) (Ford, Létourneau)
(Loggins, Rockwood) (7) - 8:55		Third period		00:30 - PP - (9) (Rauhauser, Johnson) 01:23 - PP - (16) (Rauhauser, Johnson) 11:12 - Max Johnson (19) (Kruse, Johnson) 19:54 - (9) (Barber, Linkenheld)
( 36 saves / 42 shots )		Goalie stats		( 26 saves / 27 shots )

March 16	Northern Michigan		1–2	2OT	Bowling Green	Berry Events Center	Recap
No Scoring		First period			15:12 - (17) (Pohlkamp, Baylis)
(Beaulieu, Rockwood) (10) - 00:21		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
No scoring		Second overtime period			02:09 - GW - (8) (Cullen, Rauhauser)
( 41 saves / 43 shots )		Goalie stats			( 40 saves / 41 shots )

Bowling Green wins series 2–0

Championship[]

(1) Minnesota State vs. (3) Bowling Green[]

March 23	Minnesota State		3–2	OT	Bowling Green	Verizon Arena	Recap
No Scoring		First period			14:56 - (7) (Schneider, Cullen)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
(Zmolek, Coatta) (6) - EA - 18:16 (McNeely, Tuomie) Connor Mackey (7) - EA - 19:04		Third period			01:28 - PP - Alec Rauhauser (4) (Johnson, Ford)
(French, McMahan) (15) - GW - 01:37		First overtime period			No scoring
( 17 saves / 19 shots ) Dryden McKay		Goalie stats			( 24 saves / 27 shots )

Tournament awards[]

Most Outstanding Player[]

(Minnesota State)

References[]

^ "WCHA Postseason Tournament - Western Collegiate Hockey Association".

[1] "WCHA Postseason Tournament - Western Collegiate Hockey Association".

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