2019 NCHC Tournament
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
| 2019 NCHC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
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| Dates | March 15–23, 2019 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Champions | Minnesota-Duluth (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Scott Sandelin (2nd title) |
| MVP | Hunter Sheppard (Minnesota–Duluth) |
NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
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.
Standings
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]
| Conference record | Overall record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | 3/SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #5 St. Cloud State † | 24 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 62 | 94 | 52 | 39 | 30 | 6 | 3 | 156 | 85 | |
| #1 Minnesota Duluth * | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 75 | 48 | 42 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 133 | 79 | |
| #18 Western Michigan | 24 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 79 | 78 | 37 | 21 | 15 | 1 | 129 | 115 | |
| #3 Denver | 24 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 39 | 55 | 56 | 41 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 116 | 83 | |
| #20 North Dakota | 24 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 56 | 55 | 37 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 93 | 90 | |
| Colorado College | 24 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 66 | 66 | 41 | 17 | 20 | 4 | 117 | 114 | |
| Omaha | 24 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 53 | 86 | 36 | 9 | 24 | 3 | 90 | 132 | |
| Miami | 24 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 49 | 86 | 38 | 11 | 23 | 4 | 87 | 122 | |
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Miami | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | St. Cloud State | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Colorado College | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Denver | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | North Dakota | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | St. Cloud State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| (Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Minnesota–Duluth | 3** | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Western Michigan | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Colorado College | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Minnesota–Duluth | 3 | Third Place | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Denver | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Minnesota–Duluth | 2* | 4 | 4 | Denver | 6 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Omaha | 1 | 1 | 6 | Colorado College | 1 | ||||||||||
* denotes overtime periods