1989 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament explained

Year:1989
Gender:men's
Division:Division I
Teams:12
Frozenfourarena:St. Paul Civic Center
Frozenfourcity:Saint Paul, Minnesota
Champions:Harvard Crimson
Titlecount:1st
Champgamecount:3rd
Champffcount:11th
Runnerup:Minnesota Golden Gophers
Gamecount:9th
Runnerffcount:14th
Semifinal1:Michigan State Spartans
Frozenfourcount:7th
Semifinal2:Maine Black Bears
Frozenfourcount2:2nd
Coach:Bill Cleary
Coachcount:1st
Mop:Ted Donato
Mopteam:Harvard
Attendance:61,418

The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1988–89 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 42nd such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 17 and April 1, 1989, and concluded with Harvard defeating Minnesota 4-3 in overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues with the 'Frozen Four' games being played at the St. Paul Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Following this tournament, the schedule was changed for future tournaments so that both semifinals would be played on the same day.

Qualifying teams

The NCAA permitted 12 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 8 teams. The NCAA permitted one Independent team to participate in the tournament and because the previous year the independent qualifier was placed in the West pool the two eastern conferences (ECAC and Hockey East) would split only three open spots as opposed to the West's four open spots. The top four remaining western teams and the top three remaining eastern teams received invitations and were seeded with the automatic qualifiers according to their ranking.

East West
SeedSchoolConference RecordBerth typeAppearanceLast bidSeedSchoolConference RecordBerth type AppearanceLast bid
1MaineHockey East29–11–0Tournament champion3rd19881Michigan StateCCHA34–7–1Tournament champion11th1988
2HarvardECAC Hockey27–3–0At-large bid14th19882MinnesotaWCHA31–10–3At-large bid16th1988
3St. LawrenceECAC Hockey29–5–0Tournament champion11th19883Lake Superior StateCCHA27–9–6At-large bid3rd1988
4Boston CollegeHockey East22–9–4At-large bid16th19874Northern MichiganWCHA25–15–2Tournament champion3rd1981
5ProvidenceHockey East19–15–2At-large bid6th19855Bowling GreenCCHA26–16–3At-large bid8th1988
6St. Cloud StateIndependent19–14–2At-large bid1stNever6WisconsinWCHA23–14–5At-large bid10th1988
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Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The three odd-number ranked teams from one region were placed into a bracket with the three even-number ranked teams of the other region. The teams were then seeded according to their ranking with the top two teams in each bracket receiving byes into the quarterfinals. In the first round the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds played best-of-three series to determine which school advanced to the Quarterfinals with the winners of the 4 vs. 5 series playing the first seed and the winner of the 3 vs. 6 series playing the second seed. In the Quarterfinals the matches were best-of-three series once more with the victors advancing to the National Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games were played at the St. Paul Civic Center and all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game.

Tournament Bracket

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

First round

(W4) Northern Michigan vs. (E5) Providence

Quarterfinals

(W2) Minnesota vs. (W6) Wisconsin

Frozen Four

National Semifinal

(E1) Maine vs. (W2) Minnesota

Consolation Game

(E1) Maine vs. (W1) Michigan State

National Championship

(W2) Minnesota vs. (E2) Harvard

Scoring summary
PeriodTeamGoalAssist(s)TimeScore
1stalign=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MINJon AndersonB. Hankinson and Olimbalign=center 6:24align=center 1–0 MIN
2ndalign=center style=";" HARTed Donato – PPMacDonald and Bourbeaualign=center 26:30align=center 1–1
align=center style=";" HARLane MacDonaldYoungalign=center 30:29align=center 2–1 HAR
align=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MINJason Miller – PPPitlick and Chorskealign=center 33:01align=center 2–2
3rdalign=center style=";" HARTed DonatoSneddon and Vukonichalign=center 52:53align=center 3–2 HAR
align=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MINPeter Hankinson – PPPederson and Skardaalign=center 56:34align=center 3–3
1st Overtimealign=center style=";" HAREd Krayer – GWB. McCormack and Ciavagliaalign=center 64:15align=center 4–3 HAR
Penalty summary
PeriodTeamPlayerPenaltyTimePIM
1stalign=center style=";" HAREd KrayerCross-Checkingalign=center 13:21align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" HARNick CaroneHigh–Stickingalign=center 15:33align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" HARKevan MelroseHoldingalign=center 17:39align=center 2:00
2ndalign=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MINLance PitlickElbowingalign=center 20:56align=center 2:00
align=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MINTodd RichardsHoldingalign=center 25:57align=center 2:00
align=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MINTom ChorskeHookingalign=center 27:22align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" HARKevin SneddonHookingalign=center 31:08align=center 2:00
align=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MINTom ChorskeInterferencealign=center 37:10align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" HARJosh CaplanElbowingalign=center 38:44align=center 2:00
3rdalign=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MINTom PedersonRoughingalign=center 40:46align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" HARNick CaroneHoldingalign=center 47:29align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" HARAllen BourbeauHigh–Stickingalign=center 49:59align=center 2:00
align=center style=";" HARJohn WeisbrodCross–Checkingalign=center 54:46align=center 2:00
Shots by period
Team123OTT
align=center style=";" Harvard align=center 11 align=center 9 align=center 6 align=center 2 align=center 28
align=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " Minnesota align=center 10 align=center 10 align=center 14 align=center 1 align=center 35
Goaltenders
TeamNameSavesGoals againstTime on ice
align=center style=";" HAR align=center 32 align=center 3 align=center 64:15
align=center style="color:white; background:#862334; " MIN align=center 24 align=center 4 align=center 64:15
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All-Tournament Team

* Most Outstanding Player(s)[7]

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Notes and References

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  2. News: NCAA Tournament. College Hockey Historical Archives. May 19, 2013.
  3. News: 1989 National Championship part 1. Harvard Crimson. 2018-05-23. 2018-05-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20180524004034/https://harvard.cloud.pixcel.com/video/1989-ncaa-d1-hockey-championship. dead.
  4. News: 1989 National Championship part 2. Harvard Crimson. 2018-05-23. 2018-05-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20180524004032/https://harvard.cloud.pixcel.com/video/1989-ncaa-d1-hockey-championship-2. dead.
  5. News: 1989 National Championship part 3. Harvard Crimson. 2018-05-23. 2018-05-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20180524004147/https://harvard.cloud.pixcel.com/video/1989-ncaa-d1-hockey-championship-3. dead.
  6. News: 1989 National Championship part 4. Harvard Crimson. 2018-05-23. 2018-05-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20180524080820/https://harvard.cloud.pixcel.com/video/1989-ncaa-d1-hockey-championship-4. dead.
  7. News: NCAA Division I Awards . College Hockey Historical Archives. 2013-07-17.
  8. 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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