2016 NCHC Tournament

The 2016 NCHC Tournament was the third tournament in league history. It was played between March 11 and March 19, 2016. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, St. Cloud State received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2016 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 Target 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]

Conference Standings

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

2015–16 National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T SOW PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#1 North Dakota241941159894944346416281
#4 St. Cloud State*2417611531045341319117590
#6 Denver2417520537452412510613496
#16 Minnesota–Duluth24111031376444401916510782
Miami249132231546536151838697
Omaha24815102560833618171103107
Western Michigan2451811175610336825380142
Colorado College244191013479936629171145
Champions: St. Cloud State
indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 13, 2016

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  Quarterfinals
March 11–13
Semifinals
March 18
Championship
March 19
                               
  1 North Dakota 7 5 1 North Dakota 2  
8 Colorado College 1 1 4 Minnesota-Duluth 4  
  2 St. Cloud State 4* 4
7 Western Michigan 3 2     2 St. Cloud State 3
  4 Minnesota-Duluth 1
  3 Denver 5 4**
6 Omaha 2 3
Third Place
  4 Minnesota-Duluth 5 3 2 St. Cloud State 4
5 Miami 4 1 3 Denver 2   1 North Dakota 1
3 Denver 1

* denotes overtime periods

Results

All times are local.

(1) North Dakota vs. (8) Colorado College

North Dakota won series 2–0

(2) St. Cloud State vs. (7) Western Michigan

St. Cloud State won series 2–0

(3) Denver vs. (6) Nebraska-Omaha

Denver won series 2–0

(4) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (5) Miami

Minnesota–Duluth won series 2–0

(1) North Dakota vs. (4) Minnesota–Duluth

(2) St. Cloud State vs. (3) Denver

(1) North Dakota vs. (3) Denver

(2) St. Cloud State vs. (4) Minnesota–Duluth

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s) [2]

References

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