2013 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

2013 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
2013 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 15–23, 2013
Teams	12
Finals site	Xcel Energy Center; St. Paul, Minnesota
Champions	Wisconsin (12th title)
Winning coach	Mike Eaves (1st title)
MVP	Nic Kerdiles (Wisconsin)
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The 2013 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 15 and March 23, 2013, at six conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Colorado College Tigers to win their 12th Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions, and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2013 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

2012–13 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings v t e
	Conference record							Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#4 St. Cloud State †	28	18	9	1	37	94	66	42	25	16	1	141	103
#6 Minnesota †	28	16	7	5	37	94	65	40	26	9	5	139	80
#7 North Dakota	28	14	7	7	35	93	71	42	22	13	7	135	103
#12 Wisconsin *	28	13	8	7	33	69	64	42	22	13	7	112	89
#14 Denver	28	14	9	5	33	92	81	39	20	14	5	131	108
#13 Minnesota State	28	16	11	1	33	90	68	41	24	14	3	127	99
Omaha	28	14	12	2	30	92	91	39	19	18	2	127	117
Colorado College	28	11	13	4	26	88	98	42	18	19	5	133	141
Minnesota–Duluth	28	10	13	5	25	75	83	38	14	19	5	99	109
Michigan Tech	28	8	16	4	20	75	92	37	13	20	4	107	116
Bemidji State	28	5	16	7	17	58	87	36	6	22	8	74	110
Alaska–Anchorage	28	2	20	6	10	52	106	36	4	25	7	67	133
Championship: March 23, 2013 † indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round


First round March 15–17					Quarterfinals March 21			Semifinals March 22			Championship March 23



1	St. Cloud State	6	5	—

12	Alaska-Anchorage	1	1	—



2	Minnesota	2*	4	—
								1	St. Cloud State	1
11	Bemidji State	1	3	—
					4	Wisconsin	7	4	Wisconsin	4

					6	Minnesota State	2
3	North Dakota	5	1	6
											4	Wisconsin	3
10	Michigan Tech	3	2	0
											8	Colorado College	2


4	Wisconsin	3	4	—
								2	Minnesota	0
9	Minnesota Duluth	1	1	—
					3	North Dakota	3	8	Colorado College	2

					8	Colorado College	4*
5	Denver	5	1	3

8	Colorado College	3	2	4



6	Minnesota State	4*	1	3

7	Nebraska-Omaha	3	2	1

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Results

First round

All times are local.

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (12) Alaska Anchorage

March 15	St. Cloud State		6–1	Alaska Anchorage	National Hockey Center	Recap
Garrett Milan (2) - (Morley, Benik) - 03:15 David Morley (10) - PP - (Hanowski, Benik) - 15:08		First period		04:24 - Scott Warner (3) - (Allen, Gellert)
Jonny Brodzinski (20) - (LeBlanc, Johnson) - 04:06 Joey Benik (3) - PP - (Morley, Prow) - 07:40 Jimmy Murray (5) - (Hanowski) - 19:21		Second period		No scoring
Jonny Brodzinski (21) - (unassisted) - 00:22		Third period		No scoring
Ryan Faragher ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) Joe Phillippi ( 3 saves / 3 shots )		Goalie stats		Rob Gunderson ( 26 saves / 32 shots )

March 16	St. Cloud State		5–1	Alaska Anchorage	National Hockey Center	Recap
Drew LeBlanc (13) - (Kossila) - 05:46		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
David Morley (11) - (Johnson, Milan) - 04:56 Nic Dowd (14) - PP - (Jensen, LeBlanc) - 09:13 Cory Thorson (10) - (Hanowski, Murray) - 13:20 Ben Hanowski (15) - EN - (Dowd, LeBlanc) - 18:47		Third period		05:58 - Blake Tatchell (9) - (Gellert, Docken)
Ryan Faragher ( 19 saves / 20 shots )		Goalie stats		Chris Kamal ( 41 saves / 45 shots )

St. Cloud State wins series 2 - 0

(2) Minnesota vs. (11) Bemidji State

March 15	Minnesota		2–1	OT	Bemidji State	Mariucci Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Ben Marshall (6) - (Rau) - 14:14		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			19:22 - EA - Brance Orban (9) - (Illo, Jubinville)
Kyle Rau (15) - (Schmidt, Isackson) - 13:18		First overtime period			No scoring
Adam Wilcox ( 17 saves / 18 shots )		Goalie stats			Andrew Walsh ( 49 saves / 51 shots )

March 16	Minnesota		4–3	Bemidji State	Mariucci Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		16:49 - PP - Jordan George (9) - (Kinne, Illo)
Nick Bjugstad (21) - (Rau, Haula) - PP - 15:33 Nate Condon (12) - (Haula, Budish) - 18:54		Second period		09:27 - Cory Ward (9) - (Rendle, Windle) 15:47 - Jeff Jubinville (6) - (Brewer, Orban)
A.J. Michaelson (3) - (Haula, Budish) - 07:38 Ben Marshall (8) - (unassisted) - 19:07		Third period		No scoring
Adam Wilcox ( 19 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats		Andrew Walsh ( 37 saves / 41 shots )

Minnesota wins series 2–0

(3) North Dakota vs. (10) Michigan Tech

March 15	North Dakota		5–3	Michigan Tech	Ralph Engelstad Arena	Recap
Michael Parks (7) - (Grimaldi) - 07:03 Dillon Simpson (4) - (Kristo, Knight) - PP - 18:07		First period		14:38 - PP - Ryan Furne (6) - (Petan, Khaira)
Derek Rodwell (2) - (unassisted) - 15:45		Second period		01:48 - Jacob Johnstone (2) - (Furne, Stebner)
Danny Kristo (22) - (Simpson, Gleason) - PP - 04:33 Danny Kristo (23) - (O'Donnell, Rowney) - 16:12		Third period		15:14 - Riley Sweeney (2) - (unassisted)
Zane Gothberg ( 31 saves / 34 shots )		Goalie stats		Jamie Phillips ( 19 saves / 24 shots )

March 16	North Dakota		1–2	Michigan Tech	Ralph Engelstad Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		00:20 - Tanner Kero (11) - (Pietila)
Danny Kristo (24) - (Grimaldi) - 14:57		Third period		17:58 - C.J. Eick (3) - (Furne, Stebner)
Clarke Saunders ( 29 saves / 31 shots )		Goalie stats		Pheonix Copley ( 29 saves / 30 shots )

March 17	North Dakota		6–0	Michigan Tech	Ralph Engelstad Arena	Recap
Dillon Simpson (5) - (unassisted) - 12:13		First period		No scoring
Corban Knight (15) - (Kristo, Forbort) - 04:45 Carter Rowney (10) - (Grimaldi, MacWilliam) - 09:24 Mitch MacMillan (5) - (Gaarder, Forbort) - 13:54 Colton St. Clair (3) - (Gleason) - SH - 16:23		Second period		No scoring
Brendan O'Donnell (2) - (Knight, Kristo) - 16:45		Third period		No scoring
Clarke Saunders ( 27 saves / 27 shots ) Tate Maris ( 1 save / 1 shot )		Goalie stats		Pheonix Copley ( 38 saves / 44 shots )

North Dakota wins series 2 - 1

(4) Wisconsin vs. (9) Minnesota-Duluth

March 15	Wisconsin		3–1	Minnesota Duluth	Kohl Center	Recap
No scoring		First period		07:38 - Dan DeLisle (3) - (Herbert, Seidel)
Nic Kerdiles (7) - (Zengerle, Ramage) - 06:21 John Ramage (7) - (Kerdiles, Zengerle) - PP - 15:31		Second period		No scoring
Mark Zengerle (9) - (McCabe) - EA - 19:38		Third period		No scoring
Joel Rumpel ( 26 saves / 27 shots )		Goalie stats		Aaron Crandall ( 30 saves / 32 shots )

March 16	Wisconsin		4–1	Minnesota Duluth	Kohl Center	Recap
Jefferson Dahl (5) - (Little, Simonelli) - 02:48 Michael Mersch (23) - (LaBate, Wittchow) - 04:09 Kevin Schulze (4) - (Kerdiles, Barnes) - 07:53		First period		04:41 - Justin Crandall (7) - (Welinski, Herbert)
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
Tyler Barnes (11) - (Kerdiles, Zengerle) - 10:39		Third period		No scoring
Joel Rumpel ( 29 saves / 30 shots )		Goalie stats		Aaron Crandall ( 3 saves / 6 shots ) Matt McNeely ( 28 saves / 29 shots )

Wisconsin wins series 2–0

(5) Denver vs. (8) Colorado College

March 15	Denver		5–3	Colorado College	Magness Arena	Recap
Larkin Jacobson (5) - (Mayfield, Doremus) - 16:17 Quentin Shore (8) - (N. Shore, Zajac) - 17:46		First period		11:07 - Eamonn McDermott (3) - (Krushelnyski, Schwartz)
Shawn Ostrow (15) - (Knowlton, Mayfield) - PP - 08:46 Zac Larraza (12) - (Doremus, Tabrum) - 16:45		Second period		12:07 - Aaron Harstad (2) - (Taft, Krushelnyski)
Ty Loney (8) - (unassisted) - 08:51		Third period		07:00 - Alexander Krushelnyski (14) - (Schwartz)
Juho Olkinuora ( 39 saves / 42 shots )		Goalie stats		Joe Howe ( 34 saves / 39 shots )

March 16	Denver		1–2	Colorado College	Magness Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		09:44 - Rylan Schwartz (16) - (Taft, Krushelnyski)
Quentin Shore (9) - (Knowlton, Brittain) - 00:33		Second period		05:58 - Archie Skalbeck (12) - (Hamburg, Winkler)
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
Sam Brittain ( 20 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats		Joe Howe ( 41 saves / 42 shots )

March 17	Denver		3–4	Colorado College	Magness Arena	Recap
Nick Shore (14) - (Loney, Zajac) - 12:34 Daniel Doremus (11) - (Makowski) - 13:54		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		03:51 - Cody Bradley (4) - (Fejes, Hamburg) 06:55 - Hunter Fejes (7) - (Hamburg, Bradley) 08:56 - SH - Rylan Schwartz (17) - (unassisted)
David Makowski (9) - (N. Shore) - 03:39		Third period		09:49 - Charlie Taft (6) - (Schwartz)
Juho Olkinuora ( 22 saves / 26 shots )		Goalie stats		Joe Howe ( 37 saves / 40 shots )

Colorado College wins series 2 - 1

(6) Minnesota State vs. (7) Nebraska-Omaha

March 15	Minnesota State		4–3	OT	Nebraska-Omaha	Verizon Wireless Center	Recap
Zach Palmquist (6) - (Leitner, Nelson) - PP - 17:06		First period			05:16 - Brent Gwidt (8) - (Raubenheimer, Sustr)
Jean-Paul Lafontaine (9) - (Palmquist, Lehrke) - PP - 03:47		Second period			05:53 - Matt White (16) - (unassisted) 18:24 - PP - Ryan Walters (22) - (Sustr, Zombo)
Bryce Gervais (7) - (Lafontaine, Jutzi) - 09:39		Third period			No scoring
Chase Grant (7) - (Lafontaine, Elbrecht) - 07:04		First overtime period			No scoring
Stephon Williams ( 32 saves / 35 shots )		Goalie stats			John Faulkner ( 30 saves / 34 shots )

March 16	Minnesota State		1–2	Nebraska-Omaha	Verizon Wireless Center	Recap
Matt Leitner (16) - (Grant) - 10:46		First period		14:17 - Tanner Lane (3) - (Adams, Polk)
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		05:21 - Dominic Zombo (11) - (O'Rourke, Megna)
Stephon Williams ( 25 saves / 27 shots )		Goalie stats		John Faulkner ( 34 saves / 35 shots )

March 17	Minnesota State		3–1	Nebraska-Omaha	Verizon Wireless Center	Recap
Bryce Gervais (8) - (Grant, Leitner) - 08:23		First period		No scoring
Max Gaede (1) - (Herndon, Lehrke) - 13:45		Second period		18:43 - Dominic Zombo (12) - (Archibald, Walters)
Matt Leitner (17) - (LaFontaine, Hayes) - PP - 04:30		Third period		No scoring
Stephon Williams ( 26 saves / 27 shots )		Goalie stats		John Faulkner ( 32 saves / 35 shots )

Minnesota State wins series 2 - 1

Quarterfinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

(4) Wisconsin vs. (6) Minnesota State

March 21	Wisconsin		7–2	Minnesota State	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
Tyler Barnes (12) - (unassisted) - 01:03 Jefferson Dahl (6) - (Little) - SH - 06:11 Nic Kerdiles (8) - (Zengerle, Ramage) - 08:11		First period		No scoring
Jefferson Dahl (7) - (McCabe) - SH - 08:50 Tyler Barnes (13) - (unassisted) - 12:24		Second period		10:53 - PP - Zach Palmquist (7) - (Lafontaine, Leitner) 13:51 - PP - Eriah Hayes (20) - (Lafontaine, Leitner)
Frankie Simonelli (3) - (Barnes, Kerdiles) - 11:05 Joseph LaBate (8) - (Woods, Mersch) - 17:16		Third period		No scoring
Joel Rumpel ( 38 saves / 40 shots )		Goalie stats		Stephon Williams ( 14 saves / 19 shots ) Phil Cook ( 6 saves / 8 shots )

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

March 21	North Dakota		3–4	OT	Colorado College	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
Drake Caggiula (7) - (Grimaldi, Rowney) - 14:23 Danny Kristo (25) - (O'Donnell) - 19:50		First period			03:06 - PP - Rylan Schwartz (18) - (Bradley, Rapuzzi)
No scoring		Second period			07:54 - SH - Alexander Krushelnyski (15) - (Schwartz)
Drake Caggiula (8) - (St. Clair, Pattyn) - 12:45		Third period			03:42 - Hunter Fejes (8) - (Hamburg)
No scoring		First overtime period			04:52 - Peter Stoykewych (2) - (Maric, Collett)
Clarke Saunders ( 19 saves / 23 shots )		Goalie stats			Joe Howe ( 29 saves / 32 shots )

Semifinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (4) Wisconsin

March 22	St. Cloud State		1–4	Wisconsin	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
Ben Hanowski (16) - (Dowd, Jensen) - PP - 14:29		First period		10:46 - Joseph LaBate (9) - (Woods, McCabe)
No scoring		Second period		02:08 - PP - John Ramage (8) - (Kerdiles, Woods)
No scoring		Third period		10:29 - PP - Nic Kerdiles (9) - (Ramage, LaBate) 18:49 - EN - Tyler Barnes (14) - (unassisted)
Ryan Faragher ( 17 saves / 21 shots )		Goalie stats		Joel Rumpel ( 30 saves / 31 shots )

(2) Minnesota vs. (8) Colorado College

March 22	Minnesota		0–2	Colorado College	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		00:59 - Rylan Schwartz (19) - (Stoykewych, McDermott) 04:24 - Charlie Taft (7) - (Krushelnyski)
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
Adam Wilcox ( 18 saves / 20 shots )		Goalie stats		Joe Howe ( 35 saves / 35 shots )

Championship

All times are local (UTC−5).

(4) Wisconsin vs. (8) Colorado College

March 23	Wisconsin		3–2	Colorado College	Xcel Energy Center	Recap
Tyler Barnes (15) - (Kerdiles, Simonelli) - 19:43		First period		No scoring
Sean Little (3) - (McCabe, Dahl) - 03:28 Nic Kerdiles (10) - (Ramage, Zengerle) - 16:15		Second period		07:19 - Charlie Taft (8) - (Schwartz) 19:32 - Rylan Schwartz (20) - (Krushennyski)
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
Joel Rumpel ( 20 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats		Joe Howe ( 30 saves / 33 shots )

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

F Tyler Barnes (Wisconsin)
F Nic Kerdiles* (Wisconsin)
F Rylan Schwartz (Colorado College)
D John Ramage (Wisconsin)
D Peter Stoykewych (Colorado College)
G Joel Rumpel (Wisconsin)

* Most Valuable Player(s)

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References

^ "WCHA Tourney History". WCHA. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014.

External links

[1] "WCHA Tourney History". WCHA. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014.

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