2015 NCHC Tournament

2015 NCHC Men's ice hockey tournament
DatesMarch 13–21, 2015
Teams2
Finals siteTarget Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
ChampionsMiami RedHawks (1st title)
Winning coachEnrico Blasi (1st title)
MVPBlake Coleman (Miami)
NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

The 2015 NCHC Tournament was the second tournament in league history. It was played between March 13 and March 21, 2015. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Miami received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All eight conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are 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 earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advance to the Target Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.[1]

Conference standings

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

2014–15 National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T SOW PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#3 North Dakota† 24 16 6 2 0 50 72 55 42 29 10 3 138 94
#8 Miami * 24 14 9 1 1 44 73 60 40 25 14 1 130 100
#4 Omaha 24 12 8 4 3 43 67 56 39 20 13 6 105 90
#5 Denver 24 13 10 1 1 41 79 68 40 24 14 2 131 99
#6 Minnesota–Duluth 24 12 9 3 0 39 68 59 40 21 16 3 115 97
#10 St. Cloud State 24 11 12 1 0 34 69 56 40 20 19 1 109 97
Western Michigan 24 6 13 5 4 27 51 73 37 14 18 5 98 107
Colorado College 24 2 19 3 1 10 43 95 35 6 26 3 74 136
Championship: March 21, 2015
† indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2015

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

Quarterfinals
March 13–15 		Semifinals
March 20 		Championship
March 21
           
1 North Dakota 5 3 —
8 Colorado College 1 2 —
1 North Dakota 1
6 St. Cloud State 3
2 Miami 5 5 4
7 Western Michigan 3 7 0
6 St. Cloud State 2
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round)
2 Miami 3
3 Omaha 1 1 —
6 St. Cloud State 2** 3 —
2 Miami 6 Third Place
4 Denver 3
4 Denver 4 4 — 1 North Dakota 1
5 Minnesota-Duluth 3 0 — 4 Denver 5

* denotes overtime periods

Results

Quarterfinals

All times are local.

(1) North Dakota vs. (8) Colorado College

March 13 North Dakota 5–1 Colorado College Ralph Engelstad Arena Recap  
Brendan O'Donnell (12) – PP – (Mattson, LaDue) – 08:01 First period No scoring
Nick Mattson (4) – (unassisted) – 14:48
Connor Gaarder (7) – (Poganski) – 19:56 		Second period No scoring
Paul LaDue (5) – (Mattson, L. Johnson) – 04:01
Tucker Poolman (7) – (Stecher, Pattyn) – 07:07 		Third period 02:14 – Matt Hansen (3) – (unassisted)
Zane McIntyre ( 21 saves / 22 shots ) Goalie stats Tyler Marble ( 21 saves / 26 shots )
Chase Perry ( 10 saves / 10 shots )
March 14 North Dakota 3–2 Colorado College Ralph Engelstad Arena Recap  
Jordan Schmaltz (4) – (N. Schmaltz, Parks) – 16:16 First period 15:23 – Teemu Kivihalme (5) – (Roos, Stoykewych)
Brendan O'Donnell (13) – (Mattson, Poganski) – 09:20 Second period No scoring
Connor Gaarder (8) – (Poganski, Chyzyk) – 18:38 Third period 06:10 – Luc Gerdes (4) – (Bradley, Fejes)
Zane McIntyre ( 31 saves / 33 shots ) Goalie stats Tyler Marble ( 28 saves / 31 shots )
North Dakota wins series 2 – 0


(2) Miami vs. (7) Western Michigan

March 13 Miami 5–3 Western Michigan Goggin Ice Center Recap  
Blake Coleman (14) – (Barber, Paulides) – 09:42 First period 18:43 – Colton Hargrove (13) – (Dries)
Louie Belpedio (5) – PP – (unassisted) – 12:07 Second period 06:11 – SH – Sheldon Dries (14) – (unassisted)
Kevin Morris (5) – PP – (Coleman, Belpedio) – 06:54
Blake Coleman (14) – (Barber, Joyaux) – 12:48
Alex Gacek (4) – EN – (unassisted) – 19:18 		Third period 01:44 – Kyle Novak (8) – (Muir, Nitsche)
Ryan McKay ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) Goalie stats Lukas Hafner ( 20 saves / 24 shots )
March 14 Miami 5–7 Western Michigan Goggin Ice Center Recap  
Riley Barber (18) – (Sullivan, McKay) – 02:24 First period 12:11 – SH – Frederik Tiffels (10) – (unassisted)
Austin Czarnik (6) – (Murphy, Coleman) – PP – 08:28
Austin Czarnik (7) – (Louis) – 11:03 		Second period 01:33 – Frederik Tiffels (11) – (unassisted)
02:17 – Nolan LaPorte (11) – (Dries, Hargrove)
09:48 – Colton Hargrove (14) – (LaPorte, Dries)
02:17 – PP – Kyle Novak (5) – (Kessel, Kovacs)
19:16 – Chris Dienes (5) – (Hargrove, Fleming)
Sean Kuraly (18) – (Morris, Louis) – EA – 16:22
Blake Coleman (16) – (Czarnik, Kuraly) – EA – 19:37 		Third period 19:48 – EN – Will Kessel (7) – (Kovacs, Moldenhauer)
Ryan McKay ( 11 saves / 16 shots )
Jay Williams ( 7 saves / 8 shots ) 		Goalie stats Lukas Hafner ( 19 saves / 22 shots )
Frank Slubowski ( 25 saves / 27 shots )
March 15 Miami 4–0 Western Michigan Goggin Ice Center Recap  
Scott Dornbrock (2) – (Gacek, Wideman) – 10:30 First period No scoring
Riley Barber (19) – (Murphy, Coleman) – 01:57
Austin Czarnik (8) – (Morris, Louis) – 03:12 		Second period No scoring
Blake Coleman (17) – EN – (Morris) – 15:07 Third period No scoring
Jay Williams ( 35 saves / 35 shots ) Goalie stats Frank Slubowski ( 8 saves / 11 shots )
Lukas Hafner ( 14 saves / 14 shots )
Miami wins series 2–1


(3) Omaha vs. (6) St. Cloud State

March 13 Omaha 1–2 2OT St. Cloud State CenturyLink Center Omaha Recap  
No scoring First period 14:02 – David Morley (14) – (Nevalainen, Ilvonen)
Austin Ortega (19) – (Guentzel, Cooper) – SH – 09:43 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period No scoring
No scoring Second overtime period 09:49 – Joey Benik (14) – (Morley)
Ryan Massa ( 7 saves / 8 shots )
Kirk Thompson ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) 		Goalie stats Charlie Lindgren ( 45 saves / 46 shots )
March 14 Omaha 1–3 St. Cloud State CenturyLink Center Omaha Recap  
No scoring First period 15:59 – PP – David Morley (16) – (Storm, Ilvonen)
No scoring Second period 11:47 – Nick Oliver (3) – (Rehkamp, Daly)
Grant Gallo (2) – (Brady, Guentzel) – EA – PP – 16:44 Third period 17:38 – Joey Benik (14) – (Murray)
Kirk Thompson ( 25 saves / 28 shots ) Goalie stats Charlie Lindgren ( 35 saves / 36 shots )
St. Cloud State wins series 2 – 0


(4) Denver vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth

March 13 Denver 4–3 Minnesota-Duluth Magness Arena Recap  
Ty Loney (8) – (unassisted) – 10:52 First period 05:00 – Kyle Osterberg (6) – (Toninato, Corrin)
No scoring Second period 04:42 – Andy Welinski (9) – (D. Johnson, Cameranesi)
Ty Loney (9) – (Janssen, Q. Shore) – 01:22
Danton Heinen (15) – (LaLeggia, N. Zajac) – PP – 06:46
Ty Loney (10) – (Q. Shore, LaLeggia) – 15:26 		Third period 03:32 – Cal Decowski (4) – (Thomas)
Tanner Jaillet ( 27 saves / 30 shots ) Goalie stats Kasimir Kaskisuo ( 28 saves / 32 shots )
March 14 Denver 4–0 Minnesota-Duluth Magness Arena Recap  
Trevor Moore (20) – (unassisted) – 19:38 First period No scoring
Danton Heinen (16) – (Butcher, Levin) – 07:36
Matt Tabrum (2) – (Jacobson, Arnold) – 12:38 		Second period No scoring
Joey LaLeggia (13) – (unassisted) – EA – 17:37 Third period No scoring
Evan Cowley ( 36 saves / 36 shots ) Goalie stats Kasimir Kaskisuo ( 28 saves / 31 shots )
Denver wins series 2–0


Semifinals

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

March 20 North Dakota 1–3 St. Cloud State Target Center Recap  
Keaton Thompson (3) – (Poolman, Simonson) – 15:02 First period 19:35 – David Morley (17) – (Brodzinski, Prow)
19:54 – Joey Benik (15) – (Russell)
No scoring Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 18:55 – EN – Joe Rehkamp (5) – (Bertsch, Rabey)
Zane McIntyre ( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Goalie stats Charlie Lindgren ( 19 saves / 20 shots )


(2) Miami vs. (4) Denver

March 20 Miami 6–3 Denver Target Center Recap  
Riley Barber (20) – (Caito) – 14:15
Anthony Louis (8) – (Czarnik, Caito) – 18:58 		First period 17:27 – Will Butcher (3) – (Didier)
Cody Murphy (12) – (Coleman) – 04:53
Austin Czarnik (9) – (Morris) – 18:26 		Second period 18:52 – PP – Daniel Doremus (11) – (unassisted)
Louie Belpedio (6) – (Louis, Morris) – 09:38
Alex Gacek (5) – (Wideman, Paulides) – EN – 17:32 		Third period 06:05 – Trevor Moore (21) – (Heinen, Doremus)
Jay Williams ( 22 saves / 25 shots ) Goalie stats Evan Cowley ( 15 saves / 18 shots )
Tanner Jaillet ( 8 saves / 10 shots )


Third Place

(1) North Dakota vs. (4) Denver

March 21 North Dakota 1–5 Denver Target Center Recap  
Connor Gaarder (9) – (O'Donnell, Poolman) – 14:34 First period 15:07 – Josiah Didier (3) – (unassisted)
17:50 – Quentin Shore (10) – (N. Zajac, Loney)
No scoring Second period 10:27 – Matt Tabrum (3) – (VanVoorhis, N. Zajac)
No scoring Third period 06:02 – Nick Neville (1) – (Arnold, Tabrum)
17:50 – Emil Romig (4) – (Moore)
Zane McIntyre ( 30 saves / 35 shots ) Goalie stats Tanner Jaillet ( 25 saves / 26 shots )


Championship

(2) Miami vs. (6) St. Cloud State

March 21 Miami 3–2 St. Cloud State Target Center Recap  
Blake Coleman (18) – (Barber, Murphy) – 16:15 First period 06:03 – PP – Jonny Brodzinski (20) – (Prow, Benik)
Blake Coleman (19) – (Czarnik, Belpedio) – PP – 07:37
Blake Coleman (20) – (Joyaux) – 09:20 		Second period 12:00 – Joey Benik (16) – (Prow)
No scoring Third period No scoring
Jay Williams ( 18 saves / 20 shots ) Goalie stats Charlie Lindgren ( 18 saves / 21 shots )


Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

References

  1. ^ "NCHC Frozen Faceoff Match-ups, Times Announced". March 16, 2015.

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