2005 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament explained

Year:2005
Conference:WCHA
Gender:Men's
Dates:March 11–19, 2005
Teams:10
Finalarena:Xcel Energy Center
Finalcity:St. Paul, Minnesota
Champions:Denver
Titlecount:14th
Coach:George Gwozdecky[1]
Coachcount:3rd
Mvp:Brett Sterling
Mvpteam:Colorado College
Attendance:77,746
Prevseason Year:2004
Prevseason Link:2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Nextseason Year:2006
Nextseason Link:2006 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2005 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 46th conference playoff in league history and 51st season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2005 tournament was played between March 11 and March 19, 2005, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Denver was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference schools participated in the tournament with teams 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 Xcel Energy 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.

Conference standings

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

Bracket

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

First round

(5) North Dakota vs. (6) Minnesota-Duluth

Quarterfinal

(4) Wisconsin vs. (5) North Dakota

Semifinals

(2) Colorado College vs. (3) Minnesota

Third Place

(3) Minnesota vs. (5) North Dakota

Championship

(1) Denver vs. (2) Colorado College

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)]]

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See also

External links

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Notes and References

  1. News: Denver Men's Team History . 2013-06-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140203210010/http://www.uscho.com/stats/history/denver/mens-hockey/ . 2014-02-03 . live .
  2. News: 2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144. WCHA. 2014-06-01.