1995 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[4]

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

Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Colorado College†322291451551084330121213143
Wisconsin*3217114381281124324154172152
Denver3218122381311154225152181147
Minnesota321611537121954425145169133
St. Cloud State3215161311261133817201146139
North Dakota3214153311201413918183151169
Minnesota-Duluth3213154301241273816184146146
Michigan Tech3212173271091403915204136175
Northern Michigan3210193231101364013243142171
Alaska-Anchorage3210220201061423611250122169
Championship: Wisconsin
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  First Round
March 10–12		 Quarterfinal
March 16		 Semifinals
March 17		 Championship
March 18
                                         
  1 Colorado College 11 5 —   1 Colorado College 5*  
10 Alaska-Anchorage 3 2 — 4 Minnesota 3     4 Minnesota 4  
  6 North Dakota 2  
  2 Wisconsin 3 5 5
9 Northern Michigan 4 4 1
  3 Denver 5* 5 —     1 Colorado College 3
8 Michigan Tech 4 2 —     2 Wisconsin 4*
  4 Minnesota 5* 4 —
7 Minnesota-Duluth 4 3 —
Third place
  5 St. Cloud State 2 2 — 2 Wisconsin 5
6 North Dakota 3 5 — 3 Denver 4   3 Denver 4
4 Minnesota 5*

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Quarterfinals

(1) Colorado College vs. (10) Alaska-Anchorage

Colorado College won series 2–0

(2) Wisconsin vs. (9) Northern Michigan

Wisconsin won series 2–1

(3) Denver vs. (8) Michigan Tech

Denver won series 2–0

(4) Minnesota vs. (7) Minnesota-Duluth

Minnesota won series 2–0

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

North Dakota won series 2–0

Quarterfinal

(4) Minnesota vs. (6) North Dakota

Semifinals

(1) Colorado College vs. (4) Minnesota

(2) Wisconsin vs. (3) Denver

Third Place

(3) Denver vs. (4) Minnesota

Championship

(1) Colorado College vs. (2) Wisconsin

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team[5]

  • F Jason Elders (Denver)
  • F Peter Geronazzo (Colorado College)
  • F Ryan Kraft (Minnesota)
  • D Eric Rud (Colorado College)
  • D Mark Strobel (Wisconsin)
  • G Kirk Daubenspeck* (Wisconsin)

* Most Valuable Player(s)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wisconsin Men's Team History". Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  2. ↑ "Jeff Sauer Year-by-Year Coaching Record". Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  3. ↑ "WCHA Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  4. ↑ "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 113-128" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  5. ↑ "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
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