2017 NCHC Tournament

The 2017 NCHC Tournament was the fourth tournament in league history. It was played between March 10 and March 18, 2017. 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, Minnesota-Duluth received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2017 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

2016–17 National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T SOW PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#1 Denver241833259824244337415280
#2 Minnesota–Duluth*241554352835642287714095
#10 Western Michigan24139214279754022135113114
#9 North Dakota241112113569634021163127104
St. Cloud State241013103164693616191105109
Omaha24913202974893917175122128
Miami245145323578036920791113
Colorado College244164117437736824470120
Championship: March 18, 2017
indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 6, 2017

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  Quarterfinals
March 10–12
Semifinals
March 17
Championship
March 18
                               
  1 Denver 4 4 1 Denver 0  
8 Colorado College 0 0 4 North Dakota 1  
  2 Minnesota-Duluth 5* 5
7 Miami 4 3     4 North Dakota 3
  2 Minnesota-Duluth 4
  3 Western Michigan 1 5 2*
6 Omaha 2* 2 1
Third Place
  4 North Dakota 5 6* 2 Minnesota-Duluth 5
5 St. Cloud State 2 5 3 Western Michigan 2   1 Denver 3
3 Western Michigan 1

* denotes overtime periods

Results

All times are local.

(1) Denver vs. (8) Colorado College

Denver won series 2–0

(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (7) Miami

Minnesota–Duluth won series 2–0

(3) Western Michigan vs. (6) Nebraska-Omaha

Western Michigan won series 2–1

(4) North Dakota vs. (5) St. Cloud State

North Dakota won series 2–0

(1) Denver vs. (4) North Dakota

(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (3) Western Michigan

(1) Denver vs. (3) Western Michigan

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

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

Notes:

[2]

References

  1. "Format". Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  2. "Bulldogs capture 2017 Frozen Faceoff for first NCHC title". NCHC. 2017-03-18. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
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