1985 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament explained

Year:1985
Gender:men's
Division:Division I
Teams:8
Frozenfourarena:Joe Louis Arena
Frozenfourcity:Detroit, Michigan
Champions:Rensselaer Engineers
Titlecount:2nd
Champgamecount:2nd
Champffcount:5th
Runnerup:Providence Friars
Gamecount:1st
Runnerffcount:3rd
Semifinal1:Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs
Frozenfourcount:2nd
Semifinal2:Boston College Eagles
Frozenfourcount2:12th
Coach:Mike Addesa
Coachcount:1st
Mop:Chris Terreri
Mopteam:Providence
Attendance:39,318

The 1985 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the culmination of the 1984–85 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 38th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 22 and 30, 1985, and concluded with Rensselaer defeating Providence 2-1. All Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues while all succeeding games were played at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

Qualifying teams

[1] The NCAA permitted 8 teams to qualify for the tournament and divided its qualifiers into two regions (East and West). Each of the tournament champions from the four Division I conferences (CCHA, ECAC, Hockey East and WCHA) received automatic invitations into the tournament with At-large bids making up the remaining 4 teams, 1 from each conference.

East West
SeedSchoolConference RecordBerth typeAppearanceLast bidSeedSchoolConference RecordBerth type AppearanceLast bid
1RensselaerECAC Hockey32–2–0Tournament champion6th19841Michigan StateCCHA37–5–0Tournament champion7th1984
2Boston CollegeHockey East27–12–2At-large bid13th19842Minnesota–DuluthWCHA33–8–3Tournament champion3rd1984
3HarvardECAC Hockey21–7–2At-large bid10th19833MinnesotaWCHA30–12–3At-large bid12th1983
4ProvidenceHockey East21–15–5Tournament champion5th19834Lake Superior StateCCHA27–15–0At-large bid1stNever

Format

The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two odd-number ranked teams from one region were placed into a bracket with the two even-number ranked teams of the other region. The teams were then seeded according to their ranking. In the Quarterfinals the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds played two-game aggregate series to determine which school advanced to the Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games were played at the Joe Louis Arena and all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game with the losers playing in a Third Place game.

Tournament Bracket

[2] Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Quarterfinals

(W2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (E3) Harvard

Semifinal

(E1) Rensselaer vs. (W2) Minnesota–Duluth

Third Place Game

(W2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (E2) Boston College

National Championship

(E1) Rensselaer vs. (E4) Providence

Scoring summary
PeriodTeamGoalAssist(s)TimeScore
1stalign=center style=";" RPINeil Hernberg – PPDiPronio and Hammondalign=center 4:29align=center 1–0 RPI
2ndalign=center style=";" RPIGeorge Servinis – GW SHunassistedalign=center 23:49align=center 2–0 RPI
3rdalign=center style=";" PCPaul Cavallini – PPArmy and Rooneyalign=center 50:00align=center 2–1 RPI
Penalty summary
PeriodTeamPlayerPenaltyTimePIM
1stalign=center style=";" PCMike BrillCross-Checkingalign=center 2:44align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" RPIMaurice MansiTrippingalign=center 7:23align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" PCGord CruickshankTrippingalign=center 9:07align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" RPIKraig NienhuisUnnecessary Roughnessalign=center 11:10align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" PCPeter TaglianettiUnnecessary Roughnessalign=center 11:10align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" PCGord CruickshankHoldingalign=center 16:12align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" PCPeter TaglianettiHigh–Stickingalign=center 18:30align=center 2:00
2ndalign=center style=";" RPIMark JoorisHookingalign=center 20:38align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" RPIMike SadeghpourCross-Checkingalign=center 22:06align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" PCNowel CatterallSlashingalign=center 36:12align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" RPIKen HammondHoldingalign=center 38:30align=center 2:00
3rdalign=center style=";" PCRene BoudreaultSlashingalign=center 42:12align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" PCNowel CatterallDelay of Gamealign=center 47:39align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" RPIJohn CarterHookingalign=center 48:33align=center 2:00
Shots by period
Team123T
align=center style=";" Providence align=center 8 align=center 4 align=center 10 align=center 22
align=center style=";" Rensselaer align=center 14 align=center 17 align=center 11 align=center 42
Goaltenders
TeamNameSavesGoals againstTime on ice
align=center style=";" PC align=center 40 align=center 2 align=center
align=center style=";" RPI align=center 21 align=center 1 align=center

All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)[3]

[4]

References

Notes and References

  1. News: NCAA Division 1 Tournament . College Hockey Historical Archives . 2013-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202145059/http://augenblick.org/chha/ncaa_trn.html . 2014-02-02 . live .
  2. News: NCAA Tournament. College Hockey Historical Archives. May 19, 2013.
  3. News: NCAA Division I Awards . College Hockey Historical Archives. 2013-07-17.
  4. News: NCAA Frozen Four Records . NCAA.org . 2013-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120817163005/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/frozen_4/2009/f4recs.pdf . 2012-08-17 . live .

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