1995 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament explained

Year:1995
Conference:WCHA
Gender:Men's
Dates:March 10–18, 1995
Teams:10
Finalarena:Civic Center
Finalcity:St. Paul, Minnesota
Champions:Wisconsin[1]
Titlecount:10th
Coach:Jeff Sauer[2]
Coachcount:5th
Mvp:Kirk Daubenspeck[3]
Mvpteam:Wisconsin
Attendance:55,908
Prevseason Year:1994
Prevseason Link:1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Nextseason Year:1996
Nextseason Link:1996 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 1995 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 36th conference playoff in league history and 43rd season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 10 and March 18, 1995. 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, Wisconsin was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. 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 1995 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) St. Cloud State vs. (6) North Dakota

Quarterfinal

(4) Minnesota vs. (6) North Dakota

Semifinals

(2) Wisconsin vs. (3) Denver

Third Place

(3) Denver vs. (4) Minnesota

Championship

(1) Colorado College vs. (2) Wisconsin

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)]]

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See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Wisconsin Men's Team History. 2014-06-01.
  2. News: Jeff Sauer 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.