2022 NCHC Tournament
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
| 2022 NCHC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 11–19, 2022 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Champions | Minnesota Duluth (3rd title) |
| Winning coach | Scott Sandelin (3rd title) |
| MVP | Ryan Fanti (Minnesota Duluth) |
NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2022 NCHC Tournament was the eighth tournament in league history. It was played between March 11 and 19, 2022. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four matches were held at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As the tournament winner, Minnesota Duluth earned the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Standings
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were 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 advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.[1]
| Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | OTW | OTL | 3/SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | |||
| #1 Denver † | 24 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 98 | 55 | 41 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 175 | 93 | ||
| #9 North Dakota † | 24 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 78 | 58 | 39 | 24 | 14 | 1 | 119 | 99 | ||
| #6 Western Michigan | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 84 | 68 | 39 | 26 | 12 | 1 | 138 | 101 | ||
| #11 St. Cloud State | 24 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 84 | 69 | 37 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 133 | 97 | ||
| #5 Minnesota Duluth * | 24 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 61 | 56 | 42 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 109 | 93 | ||
| Omaha | 24 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 65 | 74 | 38 | 21 | 17 | 0 | 123 | 102 | ||
| Colorado College | 24 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 48 | 87 | 36 | 9 | 24 | 3 | 79 | 116 | ||
| Miami | 24 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 54 | 105 | 36 | 7 | 27 | 2 | 94 | 153 | ||
| Championship: March 19, 2022 † indicates conference regular season champion (Penrose Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Frozen Faceoff Championship Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll | ||||||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals
| Quarterfinals March 11–13 | Semifinals March 18 | Championship March 19 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Denver | 5 | 5 | - | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Miami | 2 | 1 | - | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Denver | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Minnesota Duluth | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota | 2 | 2 | - | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Colorado College | 1 | 1 | - | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Minnesota Duluth | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| (Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Western Michigan | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Western Michigan | 4 | 5* | - | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Omaha | 2 | 4 | - | ||||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Western Michigan | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | St. Cloud State | 2 | 3 | - | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Minnesota Duluth | 5 | 4* | - | ||||||||||||
* denotes overtime periods