1993 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament explained

Year:1993
Conference:WCHA
Gender:Men's
Dates:March 12–20, 1993
Teams:10
Finalarena:Civic Center
Finalcity:St. Paul, Minnesota
Champions:Minnesota[1]
Titlecount:8th
Coach:Doug Woog[2]
Coachcount:1st
Mvp:Travis Richards[3]
Mvpteam:Minnesota
Attendance:50,737
Prevseason Year:1992
Prevseason Link:1992 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Nextseason Year:1994
Nextseason Link:1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1993 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 34th conference playoff in league history and 41st season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 1993. First round games were played at home team campus sites while all 'Final Five' matches were held at the Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1993 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All nine conference teams participated in the tournament as did Alaska-Anchorage which was slated to join the WCHA as a full member the following year. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 9 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated while Alaska-Anchorage was seeded tenth. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advanced to the Civic Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two playing in a quarterfinal game. The semifinal pitted the top remaining seed against the winner of the quarterfinal game while the two other teams that received byes were matched against one another with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a Third Place contest. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1993 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against[4]

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first roundNote: * denotes overtime period(s)

Quarterfinals

(5) Northern Michigan vs. (6) Denver

Quarterfinal

(4) Michigan Tech vs. (5) Northern Michigan

Semifinals

(2) Wisconsin vs. (3) Minnesota

Third Place

(1) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (2) Wisconsin

Championship

(3) Minnesota vs. (5) Northern Michigan

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

[5]

MVP

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Minnesota Men's Team History. 2014-06-01.
  2. News: Doug Woog Year-by-Year Coaching Record. 2014-06-01.
  3. News: WCHA Awards. College Hockey Historical Archive. 2014-06-01.
  4. News: 2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 113-128. WCHA. 2014-06-01.
  5. News: 2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144. WCHA. 2014-06-01.