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1991 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
1991 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 1–11, 1991
Teams	8
Finals site	Civic Center; St. Paul, Minnesota
Champions	Northern Michigan (2nd title)
Winning coach	Rick Comley (2nd title)
MVP	Bill Pye (Northern Michigan)
Attendance	44,287
	WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 1990 1992 →

The 1991 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 32nd conference playoff in league history and 39th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 1 and March 11, 1991. First round games were played at home team campus sites, while all "Final Four" matches were held at the Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Northern Michigan was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1991 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. The team that finished ninth in the conference was not eligible for tournament play. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advanced to the semifinal and championship rounds held at the Civic Center. All Final Four games used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top remaining seed matched against lowest remaining seed in one semifinal game while the two other semifinalists meeting with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers competing in a Third Place contest. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1991 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference standings

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

1990–91 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings v t e
	Conference							Overall
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Northern Michigan†*	32	25	3	4	54	185	89	47	38	5	4	283	133
Minnesota	32	22	5	5	49	151	97	45	30	10	5	215	142
Wisconsin	32	19	11	2	40	132	108	44	26	15	3	174	143
North Dakota	32	18	12	2	38	148	127	43	24	17	2	207	171
St. Cloud State	32	12	16	4	28	124	152	41	18	19	4	170	186
Minnesota-Duluth	32	11	15	6	28	114	133	40	14	19	7	142	164
Michigan Tech	32	9	21	2	20	105	134	41	13	25	3	139	164
Colorado College	32	9	22	1	19	106	139	40	13	26	1	129	169
Denver	32	5	25	2	12	95	182	38	6	30	2	109	224
Championship: Northern Michigan † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion

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Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

First Round March 1–3					Semifinals March 10			Championship March 11

1	Northern Michigan	7	6	—

8	Colorado College	0	3	—
					1	Northern Michigan	8

					4	North Dakota	4
2	Minnesota	5	6	—

7	Michigan Tech	3	5	—
								1	Northern Michigan	4
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round)
								2	Minnesota	2
3	Wisconsin	5	5	—

6	Minnesota-Duluth	1	2	—
					2	Minnesota	3	Third place

					3	Wisconsin	2
4	North Dakota	2	10	7				3	Wisconsin	2

5	St. Cloud State	4	2	4				4	North Dakota	5