2012 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament explained

Year:2012
Conference:WCHA
Gender:Men's
Dates:March 9–17, 2012
Teams:12
Finalarena:Xcel Energy Center
Finalcity:St. Paul, Minnesota
Champions:North Dakota
Titlecount:17th
Coach:Dave Hakstol
Coachcount:5th
Mvp:Aaron Dell
Mvpteam:North Dakota
Prevseason Year:2011
Prevseason Link:2011 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Nextseason Year:2013
Nextseason Link:2013 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2012 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 9 and March 17, 2012 at six conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. North Dakota received the Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All twelve conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 12 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top six seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advance 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 are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top two teams automatically advancing to the semifinals. All Final Five games will be broadcast by Fox Sports North and carried by Root Sports Rocky Mountain and Fox College Sports Central.

Conference standings

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

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first roundNote: * denotes overtime periods

Results

First round

(6) St. Cloud State vs. (7) Nebraska-Omaha

Quarterfinals

(4) North Dakota vs. (6) St. Cloud State

Semifinals

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (3) Denver

Championship

(3) Denver vs. (4) North Dakota

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)]]

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External links

Notes and References

  1. News: WCHA Tourney History. WCHA. 2014-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20140702170427/http://www.wcha.com/men/tourney/history.php. 2014-07-02. dead.