2019 NCHC Tournament

The 2019 NCHC Tournament is the sixth tournament in league history. It was played between March 15 and 23, 2019. Quarterfinal 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, Minnesota-Duluth received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2019 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]

Game 1 of the series between Western Michigan and Colorado College was delayed 1 day due to the effects from Winter Storm Ulmer.[2]

Standings

2018–19 National Collegiate Hockey Conference Standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T 3/SW PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#5 St. Cloud State241923262945239306315685
#1 Minnesota–Duluth *2414910437548422911213379
#18 Western Michigan241310114179783721151129115
#3 Denver24111033395556412412511683
#20 North Dakota2412111037565537181729390
Colorado College24912303066664117204117114
Omaha245172118538636924390132
Miami2451721184986381123487122
Championship: March 23, 2019
indicates conference regular season champion (Penrose Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals

  Quarterfinals
March 15–18
Semifinals
March 22
Championship
March 23
                               
  1 St. Cloud State 5 6 1 St. Cloud State 5  
8 Miami 2 3 6 Colorado College 2  
  4 Denver 2 4
5 North Dakota 0 2     1 St. Cloud State 2
  2 Minnesota–Duluth 3**
  3 Western Michigan 1 5 2
6 Colorado College 2 2 3
Third Place
  2 Minnesota–Duluth 2* 4 2 Minnesota–Duluth 3
7 Omaha 1 1 4 Denver 0   4 Denver 6
6 Colorado College 1

* denotes overtime periods

Results

All times are local.

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

St. Cloud State won series 2–0

(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (7) Omaha

Minnesota–Duluth won series 2–0

(3) Western Michigan vs. (6) Colorado College

Colorado College won series 2–1

(4) Denver vs. (5) North Dakota

Denver won series 2–0

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (6) Colorado College

(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (4) Denver

(4) Denver vs. (6) Colorado College

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

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

[3]

References

  1. "Format". Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  2. "WMU hockey playoff series vs. Colorado College pushed back to Saturday". Michigan Live. March 15, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
  3. "Minnesota Duluth Tops St. Cloud State in Double OT for Frozen Faceoff Title". SB Nation. March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
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