2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was an American college ice hockey tournament in 2009 played between March 13 and March 21, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Minnesota-Duluth won their third WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were 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 host 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 used 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: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2008–09 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings
Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#13 North Dakota2817743896744324154146118
#7 Denver281684369668402312513296
Wisconsin28141133192784020164131106
Colorado College28129731798238161210103103
Minnesota28121152987833717137119105
St. Cloud State28131322883813818173122107
#8 Minnesota–Duluth*2810117277872432213812898
Minnesota State28111342688903815176117122
Alaska–Anchorage289145236993361417595111
Michigan Tech28219711479438625762122
Championship: Minnesota–Duluth
indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll

Tiebreakers

  • Wisconsin and Colorado College each finished the regular season with 31 points. Wisconsin won the tiebreaker, having the better head-to-head record of the two teams.[1]

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  First round
March 13–14
Quarterfinal
March 19
Semifinals
March 20
Championship
March 21
                                         
  1 North Dakota 5 4   1 North Dakota 0  
10 Michigan Tech 1 3 4 Minnesota 1     5 Minnesota-Duluth 3  
  5 Minnesota-Duluth 2  
  2 Denver 3 4
9 Alaska-Anchorage 2 3
  3 Wisconsin 7 4     2 Denver 0
8 Minnesota State 1 2     5 Minnesota-Duluth 4
  4 Colorado College 1 1
7 Minnesota-Duluth 4 3
Third place
  5 Minnesota 4 3 2 Denver 3
6 St. Cloud State 2 0 3 Wisconsin 0   1 North Dakota 1
3 Wisconsin 4

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

North Dakota won series 2–0

(2) Denver vs. (9) Alaska-Anchorage

Denver won series 2–0

(3) Wisconsin vs. (8) Minnesota State

Wisconsin won series 2–0

(4) Colorado College vs. (7) Minnesota-Duluth

Minnesota-Duluth won series 2–0

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

Minnesota won series 2–0

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

(1) North Dakota vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth

(2) Denver vs. (3) Wisconsin

(1) North Dakota vs. (3) Wisconsin

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

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

[2]

References

  1. "Wisconsin Badgers: 2008-2009 Men's Hockey Schedule/Results". USCHO. Archived from the original on 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
  2. "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
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