2023 NCHC Tournament
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
| 2023 NCHC Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 10–18, 2023 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Champions | St. Cloud State (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Brett Larson (1st title) |
| MVP | Jami Krannila (St. Cloud State) |
NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2023 NCHC Tournament was the ninth tournament in league history. It was played between March 10 and 18, 2023. 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, St. Cloud State earned the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.[1][2]
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.[3]
| Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | OTW | OTL | SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | |||
| #6 Denver † | 24 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 94 | 53 | 40 | 30 | 10 | 0 | 150 | 86 | ||
| #11 Western Michigan | 24 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 86 | 60 | 39 | 23 | 15 | 1 | 148 | 102 | ||
| #20 Omaha | 24 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 42 | 71 | 64 | 37 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 109 | 97 | ||
| #5 St. Cloud State * | 24 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 41 | 85 | 68 | 41 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 133 | 95 | ||
| Minnesota Duluth | 24 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 33 | 65 | 81 | 37 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 95 | 114 | ||
| #17 North Dakota | 24 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 75 | 70 | 39 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 127 | 110 | ||
| Colorado College | 24 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 37 | 60 | 38 | 13 | 22 | 3 | 79 | 99 | ||
| Miami | 24 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 39 | 96 | 36 | 8 | 24 | 4 | 73 | 137 | ||
| Championship: March 18, 2023 † 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.[4]
| Quarterfinals March 10–12 | Semifinals March 17 | Championship March 18 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Denver | 6 | 7 | - | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Miami | 2 | 2 | - | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Denver | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Colorado College | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Western Michigan | 1 | 2 | - | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Colorado College | 3 | 3* | - | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Colorado College | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | St. Cloud State | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Omaha | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | North Dakota | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | St. Cloud State | 3* | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | North Dakota | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | St. Cloud State | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Minnesota Duluth | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||
* denotes overtime periods