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The 2012 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 9 and March 17, 2012 at six conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. The University of North Dakota received the Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions, and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2012 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 were 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 advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five used 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 were 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

Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#4 Minnesotadagger 28 20 8 0 40 88 57 43 28 14 1 155 99
#6 Minnesota–Duluth 28 16 7 5 37 103 73 41 25 10 6 147 106
#12 Denver 28 16 8 4 36 96 79 43 25 14 4 139 111
#5 North Dakota* 28 16 11 1 33 82 73 42 26 13 3 135 108
Colorado College 28 15 12 1 31 95 86 36 18 16 2 114 104
St. Cloud State 28 12 12 4 28 86 74 39 17 17 5 120 104
Nebraska–Omaha 28 11 12 5 27 83 85 38 14 18 6 106 112
Michigan Tech 28 11 13 4 26 85 87 39 16 19 4 111 116
Bemidji State 28 11 14 3 25 72 89 38 17 18 3 101 109
Wisconsin 28 11 15 2 24 76 83 37 17 18 2 105 102
Minnesota State 28 8 18 2 18 73 102 38 12 24 2 101 129
Alaska–Anchorage 28 5 22 1 11 60 111 36 9 25 2 85 134
Championship: North Dakota 4, Denver 0
dagger indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion

Bracket[]

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  First round
March 11–13
Quarterfinals
March 15
Semifinals
March 16
Championship
March 17
                                         
  1  Minnesota 2 7   1  Minnesota 3  
12  Alaska-Anchorage 1 3 4  North Dakota 4     4  North Dakota 6  
  6  St. Cloud State 1  
  2  Minnesota-Duluth 4 3**
11  Minnesota State 2 2
  3  Denver 0 3 3*     4  North Dakota 4
10  Wisconsin 1 1 2     3  Denver 0
  4  North Dakota 4 4
9  Bemidji State 1 3
  5  Colorado College 1 3 2  Minnesota-Duluth 3
8  Michigan Tech 3 4* 3  Denver 3*     3  Denver 4**
  8  Michigan Tech 2  
  6  St. Cloud State 4 3
7  Nebraska-Omaha 0 1

Note: * denotes overtime periods

First round[]

(1) Minnesota vs. (12) Alaska-Anchorage[]

March 9 Minnesota 2 - 1 Alaska-Anchorage Mariucci Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
Erik Haula (16) (Schmidt, Parenteau) - 01:42
Erik Haula (17) (Schmidt, Hansen) - 09:52
Second period 19:58 - PP - Brad Gorham (2) (Scheid, Leinweber)
No scoring Third period No scoring
Kent Patterson ( 16 saves / 17 shots ) Goalie stats Chris Kamal ( 32 saves / 34 shots )
March 10 Minnesota 7 - 3 Alaska-Anchorage Mariucci Arena Recap  
Jake Hansen (12) (Marshall, Alt) - 04:03 First period No scoring
Zach Budish (11) (Rau, Bjugstad) - 11:16
Nick Bjugstad (16) (Haula, Schmidt) - PP - 19:14
Second period 00:35 - PP - Matt Bailey (9) (Allen, Docken)
07:57 - PP2 - Matt Bailey (10) (Kwas, Coldwell)
08:20 - PP - Scott Allen (3) (Coldwell, Docken)
Erik Haula (18) (Rau, Budish) - 05:05
Erik Haula (19) (Warning, Alt) - 05:23
Seth Helgeson (4) (Condon, Matson) - 06:36
Sam Warning (6) (Haula, Marshall) - 09:39
Third period No scoring
Kent Patterson ( 16 saves / 19 shots )
Jake Kremer ( 0 saves / 0 shots )
Goalie stats Chris Kamal ( 31 saves / 38 shots )
Minnesota Wins Series 2 - 0


(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (11) Minnesota State[]

March 9 Minnesota-Duluth 4 - 2 Minnesota State AMSOIL Arena Recap  
J.T. Brown (22) (Herbert, Oleksuk) - 11:31 First period No scoring
Brady Lamb (8) (Grun, Hendrickson) - 01:06 Second period 05:29 - Max Gaede (3) (Dorr, Louwerse)
19:15 - Joe Schiller (3) (Elbrecht)
Brady Lamb (9) (Basaraba) - 11:58
Wade Bergman (8) - EN - 19:54
Third period No scoring
Kenny Reiter ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Goalie stats Austin Lee ( 34 saves / 37 shots )
March 10 Minnesota-Duluth 3 - 2 2OT Minnesota State AMSOIL Arena Recap  
No scoring First period 19:05 - PP - Matt Leitner (11) (Palmquist)
David Grun (3) (Basaraba, Hendrickson) - 13:46 Second period No scoring
J.T. Brown (23) (Lamb, Oleksuk) - PP - 06:59 Third period 03:54 - Tyler Elbrecht (1) (McInnis)
Mike Seidel (15) (Flaherty, Connolly) - 04:07 Second overtime period No scoring
Kenny Reiter ( 47 saves / 49 shots ) Goalie stats Austin Lee ( 56 saves / 59 shots )
Minnesota-Duluth Wins Series 2 - 0


(3) Denver vs. (10) Wisconsin[]

March 9 Denver 0 - 1 Wisconsin Magness Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 14:10 - Sean Little (2) (McCabe, Ramage)
Juho Olkinuora ( 29 saves / 30 shots ) Goalie stats Joel Rumpel ( 28 saves / 28 shots )
March 10 Denver 3 - 1 Wisconsin Magness Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
Nate Dewhurst (3) (Jackson, Lee) - 04:04
Luke Salazar (10) (Zucker, N. Shore) - 12:53
Nick Shore (12) - EN - 19:04
Third period 06:54 - Justin Schultz (16) (McCabe)
Sam Brittain ( 27 saves / 28 shots ) Goalie stats Joel Rumpel ( 39 saves / 41 shots )
March 11 Denver 3 - 2 OT Wisconsin Magness Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
Ty Loney (9) (Salazar, D. Shore) - 11:17 Second period 06:40 - SH - Mark Zengerle (13)
12:32 - Tyler Barnes (11) (Simonelli, Schultz)
Nick Shore (13) (Zucker, D. Shore) - PP - 11:17 Third period No scoring
Luke Salazar (11) (D. Shore, Mayfield) - 01:40 First overtime period No scoring
Sam Brittain ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) Goalie stats Joel Rumpel ( 30 saves / 33 shots )
Denver Wins Series 2 - 1


(4) North Dakota vs. (9) Bemidji State[]

March 9 North Dakota 4 - 1 Bemidji State Ralph Engelstad Arena Recap  
Connor Gaarder (3) (Parks, Rowney) - PP - 17:10 First period No scoring
Corban Knight (13) (Nelson) - 07:15 Second period No scoring
Mark MacMillan (6) (Rowney, Parks) - 14:08
Ben Blood (3) (Rowney) - PP - EN - 19:05
Third period 13:05 - Aaron McLeod (9) (Mattson, Wacker)
Aaron Dell ( 28 saves / 29 shots ) Goalie stats Dan Bakala ( 19 saves / 22 shots )
March 10 North Dakota 4 - 3 Bemidji State Ralph Engelstad Arena Recap  
Connor Gaarder (4) (Sinkbeil, MacMillan) - 13:48 First period No scoring
Carter Rowney (17) (MacMillan, Parks) - 07:30
Michael Parks (17) (MacMillan, Rowney) - 18:17
Second period 06:25 - Jordan George (4) (Hunt, Kinne)
Dillon Simpson (17) (Lamoureux) - 05:06 Third period 16:04 - Jamie MacQueen (4) (Boehm, Hunt)
16:23 - Jamie MacQueen (5) (Walters)
Brad Eidsness ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Goalie stats Dan Bakala ( 28 saves / 32 shots )
North Dakota Wins Series 2 - 0


(5) Colorado College vs. (8) Michigan Tech[]

March 9 Colorado College 1 - 3 Michigan Tech World Arena Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period 17:12 - David Johnstone (10)
Rylan Schwartz (23) (Guentzel, J. Schwartz) - PP2 - 00:39 Third period 03:41 - Dennis Rix (4) (Reddick, Pietila)
10:21 - Alex MacLeod (7) (D. Johnstone, J. Johnstone)
Josh Thorimbert ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Goalie stats Josh Robinson ( 16 saves / 17 shots )
March 10 Colorado College 3 - 4 OT Michigan Tech World Arena Recap  
Andrew Hamburg (3) (Skalbeck, Thorimbert) - 08:23 First period 01:08 - David Johnstone (11)
06:46 - Brett Olson (10) (Baker, Stebner)
Andrew Hamburg (4) (McDermott) - 03:50 Second period No scoring
Scott Winkler (7) (Krushelnyski, Dineen) - 08:52 Third period 18:55 - EA - Steven Seigo (5) (Pietila, Gordic)
No scoring First overtime period 03:30 - David Johnstone (12) (Sova, Fillion)
Josh Thorimbert ( 37 saves / 41 shots ) Goalie stats Josh Robinson ( 29 saves / 32 shots )
Michigan Tech Wins Series 2 - 0


(6) St. Cloud State vs. (7) Nebraska-Omaha[]

March 9 St. Cloud State 4 - 0 Nebraska-Omaha National Hockey Center Recap  
Joe Rehkamp (2) (Milan, Bertsch) - 02:30
Ben Hanowski (21) (Festler, Prochno) - PP - 16:50
First period No scoring
Andrew Prochno (5) (Festler, Novak) - 11:32 Second period No scoring
Taylor Johnson (2) (Zabkowicz, Olover) - PP - 19:36 Third period No scoring
Mike Lee ( 27 saves / 27 shots ) Goalie stats Ryan Massa ( 24 saves / 28 shots )
March 10 St. Cloud State 3 - 1 Nebraska-Omaha National Hockey Center Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
Jared Festler (15) (Hanowski, Dowd) - PP - 00:22 Second period 07:16 - Dominic Zombo (2) (Gwidt, Jaycob Megna)
Ben Hanowski (22) (Bertsch, Jensen) - 19:17
Travis Novak (12) - EN - 19:59
Third period No scoring
Mike Lee ( 32 saves / 33 shots ) Goalie stats John Faulkner ( 35 saves / 37 shots )
St. Cloud State Wins Series 2 - 0


Quarterfinals[]

(3) Denver vs. (8) Michigan Tech[]

March 15 Denver 3 - 2 OT Michigan Tech Xcel Energy Center Recap  
Ty Loney (10) (D. Shore) - 03:50 First period 10:45 - Blake Pietila (10) (Fillion)
No scoring Second period No scoring
Luke Salazar (12) (Loney, D. Shore) - 15:28 Third period 00:18 - Ryan Furne (12) (Baker)
Jason Zucker (21) (LaLeggia, N. Shore) - 02:18 First overtime period No scoring
Juho Olkinuora ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) Goalie stats Josh Robinson ( 41 saves / 44 shots )


(4) North Dakota vs. (6) St. Cloud State[]

March 15 North Dakota 4 - 1 St. Cloud State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
Corban Knight (14) (MacMillan, MacWilliam) - 07:40 First period 16:14 - PP - Ben Hanowski (23) (Dowd, Prochno)
Brock Nelson (24) (Blood, Forbort) - 15:51 Second period No scoring
Brock Nelson (25) (Kristo) - EN - 19:00
Danny Kristo (18) - EN,PP - 19:33
Third period No scoring
Aaron Dell ( 29 saves / 30 shots ) Goalie stats Mike Lee ( 24 saves / 26 shots )


Semifinals[]

(1) Minnesota vs. (4) North Dakota[]

March 16 Minnesota 3 - 6 North Dakota Xcel Energy Center Recap  
Kyle Rau (17) (Haula, Schmidt) - PP - 12:37 First period No scoring
Jake Hansen (13) (Haula, Schmidt) - PP - 05:55
Zach Budish (12) (Holl, Rau) - 10:01
Second period 14:51 - Derek Forbort (2) (Lamoureux)
No scoring Third period 05:31 - Michael Parks (10) (Rowney, Forbort)
06:01 - Brock Nelson (26) (Senkbeil)
09:42 - Mario Lamoureux (2) (Pattyn, Parks)
10:19 - PP - Corban Knight (15) (Mattson, Kristo)
16:10 - Mario Lamoureux (3) (MacMillan, Blood)
Kent Patterson ( 22 saves / 28 shots ) Goalie stats Aaron Dell ( 22 saves / 25 shots )


(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (3) Denver[]

March 16 Minnesota-Duluth 3 - 4 2OT Denver Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period 08:01 - Shawn Ostrow (11) (Dewhurst)
Mike Seidel (16) (Lamb, Oleksuk) - PP - 10:57
Mike Seidel (17) (Connolly, Kishel) - 13:45
Second period 03:26 - Jason Zucker (22) (N. Shore)
06:02 - Dustin Jackson (2) (Ostrow, Mermis)
Jack Connolly (19) (Olsen, Seidel) - 12:38 Third period No scoring
No scoring Second overtime period 08:14 - Zac Larraza (1) (Didier)
Kenny Reiter ( 45 saves / 49 shots ) Goalie stats Sam Brittain ( 67 saves / 70 shots )


Championship[]

(3) Denver vs. (4) North Dakota[]

March 17 Denver 0 - 4 North Dakota Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period 17:43 - PP - Brock Nelson (27) (Simpson, Knight)
18:29 - Carter Rowney (18) (MacMillan, Forbort)
No scoring Second period 09:58 - PP - Michael Parks (11) (Rowney, Forbort)
No scoring Third period 07:11 - SH - Mark MacMillan (7)
Juho Olkinuora ( 18 saves / 22 shots )
Adam Murray ( 7 saves / 7 shots )
Goalie stats Aaron Dell ( 22 saves / 22 shots )


Tournament awards[]

All-Tournament Team[1][]

* Most Valuable Player(s)

References[]

  1. "WCHA Tourney History", WCHA. Retrieved on 2014-06-26. 

External Links[]



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