2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 45th conference playoff in league history and 50th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2004 tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 2004, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference schools participated in the tournament with teams seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.

Conference Standings

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

2003–04 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings
Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#5 North Dakota282053431226241308318290
#4 Minnesota–Duluth28197240119714528134185123
#8 Wisconsin281477358562432213812393
#1 Denver28131053193904427125149120
#6 Minnesota*281512131101864427143178127
St. Cloud State28121242881893818164113118
#15 Colorado College2811152247775392016312698
Alaska–Anchorage28718317681034014233104140
Minnesota State28618416831393910245124179
Michigan Tech286193156611838825597161
Championship: Minnesota
indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  First round[2]
March 12–14
Quarterfinal[3]
March 18
Semifinals
March 19
Championship
March 20
                                         
  1 North Dakota 6 4*   1 North Dakota 4  
10 Michigan Tech 2 3 7 Colorado College 1     8 Alaska-Anchorage 2  
  8 Alaska-Anchorage 4  
  2 Minnesota-Duluth 3 6 6
9 Minnesota State 4* 2 5
  3 Wisconsin 2 4 1     1 North Dakota 4
8 Alaska-Anchorage 3 0 4     5 Minnesota 5
  4 Denver 3 1
7 Colorado College 4 6
Third Place
  5 Minnesota 6 7 2 Minnesota-Duluth 4
6 St. Cloud State 1 3 5 Minnesota 7   2 Minnesota-Duluth 4
8 Alaska-Anchorage 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

(1) North Dakota vs. (10) Michigan Tech

North Dakota won series 2–0

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (9) Minnesota State-Mankato

Minnesota-Duluth won series 2–1

(3) Wisconsin vs. (8) Alaska-Anchorage

Alaska-Anchorage won series 2–1

(4) Denver vs. (7) Colorado College

Colorado College won series 2–0

(5) Minnesota vs. (6) St. Cloud State

Minnesota won series 2–0

(7) Colorado College vs. (8) Alaska-Anchorage

(1) North Dakota vs. (8) Alaska-Anchorage

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (5) Minnesota

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (8) Alaska-Anchorage

(1) North Dakota vs. (5) Minnesota

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

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See also

References

  1. "Minnesota Men's Team History". Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  2. "WCHA men's Hockey 2003-04 Week 25". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  3. "WCHA men's Hockey 2003-04 Week 26". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  4. "North Dakota 6, Michigan Tech 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  5. "North Dakota 4, Michigan Tech 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
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  7. "Minnesota-Duluth 6, Minnesota State 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  8. "Minnesota-Duluth 6, Minnesota State 5". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  9. "Alaska-Anchorage 3, Wisconsin 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
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  11. "Alaska-Anchorage 4, Wisconsin 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-14. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  12. "Colorado College 4, Denver 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  13. "Colorado College 6, Denver 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  14. "Minnesota 6, St. Cloud State 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  15. "Minnesota 7, St. Cloud State 3". USCHO.com. 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  16. "Alaska-Anchorage 4, Colorado College 1". USCHO.com. 2004-03-18. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  17. "North Dakota 4, Alaska-Anchorage 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  18. "Minnesota 7, Minnesota-Duluth 4". USCHO.com. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  19. "Minnesota-Duluth 4, Alaska-Anchorage 2". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  20. "Minnesota 5, North Dakota 4". USCHO.com. 2004-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  21. "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
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