| Year: | 2006 |
| Conference: | WCHA |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Dates: | March 10–18, 2006 |
| Teams: | 10 |
| Finalarena: | Xcel Energy Center |
| Finalcity: | St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Champions: | North Dakota |
| Titlecount: | 7th |
| Coach: | Dave Hakstol[1] |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Jordan Parise |
| Mvpteam: | North Dakota |
| Attendance: | 87,579 |
| Prevseason Year: | 2005 |
| Prevseason Link: | 2005 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament |
| Nextseason Year: | 2007 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2007 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament |
The 2006 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 47th conference playoff in league history and 52nd season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2006 tournament played between March 10 and March 18, 2006 at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, North Dakota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams 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 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.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Teams are reseeded after the first round
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
* Most Valuable Player(s)]]
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