2018 NCHC Tournament

The 2018 NCHC Tournament was the fifth tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 17, 2018. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Denver received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2018 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 Xcel Energy 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

2017–18 National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T SOW PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#6 St. Cloud State 2416441539359402596144101
#5 Denver*2412664467653412310813586
#1 Minnesota–Duluth24131100397956422516313292
#17 North Dakota24810633371684017131011795
Omaha241013103175973617172121134
Western Michigan241013103182943615192115129
Colorado College2481243316385371517599121
Miami24614422462893712205103128
Championship: March 17, 2018
indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 5, 2018

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  Quarterfinals
March 9–11
Semifinals
March 16
Championship
March 17
                               
  1 St. Cloud State 5 2 4* 1 St. Cloud State 3*  
8 Miami 2 3* 3 4 North Dakota 2  
  2 Denver 0 3 6
7 Colorado College 2 2 1     1 St. Cloud State 1
  2 Denver 4
  3 Minnesota-Duluth 5 2
6 Western Michigan 0 0
Third Place
  4 North Dakota 4 4* 2 Denver 3
5 Omaha 0 3 3 Minnesota-Duluth 1   3 Minnesota-Duluth 1
4 North Dakota 4

* denotes overtime periods

Results

All times are local.

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (8) Miami

St. Cloud State won series 2–1

(2) Denver vs. (7) Colorado College

Denver won series 2–1

(3) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (6) Western Michigan

Minnesota–Duluth won series 2–0

(4) North Dakota vs. (5) Omaha

North Dakota won series 2–0

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

(2) Denver vs. (3) Minnesota–Duluth

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

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

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

[2]

References

  1. "Format". Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  2. "Denver Wins 2018 Frozen Faceoff". NCHC. 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
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