Year: | 2022 |
Conference: | Big Ten |
Gender: | men's |
Dates: | March 4–19, 2022 |
Teams: | 7 |
Finalarena: | 3M Arena at Mariucci |
Finalcity: | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Champions: | Michigan |
Titlecount: | 2nd |
Coach: | Mel Pearson |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Mvp: | Erik Portillo |
Mvpteam: | Michigan |
Prevseason Year: | 2021 |
Prevseason Link: | 2021 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament |
Nextseason Year: | 2023 |
Nextseason Link: | 2023 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament |
The 2022 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the eighth tournament in conference history. It was played between March 4 and March 19, 2022, on-campus locations. As the tournament winner, Michigan earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The tournament featured a format with all games taking place on the campus of the higher-seeded teams. The tournament opened with three best-of-three quarterfinal series, as the second, third and fourth-seeded teams each hosted a series. The top-seeded team had a bye to the single-elimination semifinals. The highest-seeded team remaining after the semifinals hosted the championship game.[1]
Teams were reseeded for the semifinalsNote: * denotes overtime periods.