2001 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

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The 2001 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 42nd conference playoff in league history and 48th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2001 tournament was played between March 9 and March 17, 2001, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, the home of the NHL's Minnesota Wild. By winning the tournament, St. Cloud State was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament. This was the inaugural year in which the Xcel Energy Center hosted the WCHA final five and it remained there until the conclusion of the 2013 tournament.

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Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference schools participated in the tournament with teams 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 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 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.

Conference standings

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

ConferenceOverall
GPWLTPTSGFGAGPWLTGFGA
#2 North Dakota2818464211580462989183121
#5 St. Cloud State*282080401116941319116894
#9 Minnesota 28188238107704227132171109
#6 Colorado College 281711034106814127131150108
#8 Wisconsin 28141043281864122154133129
Denver 28141133184783819154116104
Minnesota State-Mankato 28131412791993819181128135
Michigan Tech 286193156910536824491135
Alaska-Anchorage 284204126110436724582132
Minnesota-Duluth 283223968121397284103166
Championship: St. Cloud State
indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

First round [2]
March 9–11, 2001
Quarterfinal [3]
March 15, 2001
Semifinals
March 16, 2001
Championship
March 17, 2001
1North Dakota264
10Minnesota-Duluth320
1North Dakota2
2St. Cloud State584Colorado College44Colorado College1
9Alaska-Anchorage125Wisconsin3
3Minnesota731North Dakota5
8Michigan Tech212St. Cloud State6*
4Colorado College37
7Minnesota State-Mankato032St. Cloud State3
3Minnesota0
5Wisconsin66
6Denver42

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Quarterfinals

(1) North Dakota vs. (10) Minnesota-Duluth

March 9 [4] North Dakota2 – 3Minnesota-Duluth Ralph Engelstad Arena Recap  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(Notermann, Dorey) David Lundbohm - 01:13Second period12:17 - PP - Matt Mathias (Homstol, Lessard)
15:13 - Ryan Homstol (Gunderson, Otten)
(Dorey, Hammer) Ryan Bayda - 11:14Third period17:48 - GW - Mark Gunderson (Otten)
15:13 - Ryan Homstol (Gunderson, Otten)
Karl Goehring ( 24 saves / 27 shots )Goalie stats Rob Anderson ( 35 saves / 37 shots )
March 10 [5] North Dakota6 – 2Minnesota-Duluth Ralph Engelstad Arena Recap  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(Schneekloth, Roche) Jeff Panzer - PP - 08:53
(Skarperud, Spiewak) Tyler Palmiscno - 12:33
(Bayda, Panzer) Bryan Lundbohm - GW - 14:58
(Roche, Mazurak) Wes Dorey - PP - 19:13
Second period07:01 - Mark Carlson (Reierson, Medak)
08:01 - Matt Mathias
(Skarperud, Spiewak) Aaron Schneekloth - 10:24
(Lundbohm, Notermann) Wes Dorey - 13:19
Third periodNo scoring
Andy Kollar ( 19 saves / 21 shots )Goalie stats Rob Anderson ( 33 saves / 38 shots ) / Adam Coole ( 0 saves / 1 shots )
March 11 [6] North Dakota4 – 0Minnesota-Duluth Ralph Engelstad Arena Recap  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
Ryan Bayda - GW - 07:31
(Skarperud, Panzer) Kevin Spiewak - 12:16
Second periodNo scoring
(Dorey, Lundbohm) Jason Notermann - 03:11
Jeff Panzer - 05:27
Third periodNo scoring
Karl Goehring ( 25 saves / 25 shots )Goalie stats Rob Anderson ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) / Adam Coole ( 5 saves / 5 shots )
North Dakota won series 2–1

(2) St. Cloud State vs. (9) Alaska-Anchorage

March 9 [7] St. Cloud State5 – 1Alaska-Anchorage National Hockey Center Recap  
Chris Purslow - 04:36
(Arnason) Brandon Sampair - GW - 17:06
First periodNo scoring
(Arnason, Sampair) Mark Hartigan - PP - 15:48Second periodNo scoring
Chris Purslow - 04:52
(Arnason, Hartigan) Nate DiCasmirro - PP - 11:11
Third period05:49 - Vladimir Novak (Gilkerson, Ludwig)
Scott Meyer ( 20 saves / 21 shots )Goalie stats Chris King ( 14 saves / 18 shots ) / Kevin Reiter ( 6 saves / 7 shots )
March 10 [8] St. Cloud State8 – 2Alaska-Anchorage National Hockey Center Recap  
(Motzko, Meyer) Chris Purslow - 01:16
(Eastman, Hartigan) Joe Motzko - 06:01
(Hartigan) Joe Motzko - GW - 10:48
(DiCasmirro, Arnason) Mark Hartigan - PP - 18:04
First period19:26 - Petr Chytka (Leitner, Cygan)
(Westcott) Brandon Sampair - PP - 18:15Second period03:26 - Vladimir Novak (Garvin)
(Malone) Ritchie Larson - 01:16
(Westcott, DiCasmirro) Mark Hartigan - 10:53
(DiCasmirro, Finger) Ryan Malone - 14:49
Third periodNo scoring
Scott Meyer ( 25 saves / 27 shots )Goalie stats Chris King ( 5 saves / 9 shots ) / Kevin Reiter ( 22 saves / 26 shots ))
St. Cloud State won series 2–0

(3) Minnesota vs. (8) Michigan Tech

March 9 [9] Minnesota7 – 2Michigan Tech Mariucci Arena Recap  
(Koalska, Anthony) Stuart Senden - 00:58
(Leopold, Westrum) Grant Potulny - PP - 08:55
(Pohl, Martin) Jeff Taffe - GW - 10:11
(Senden) Nick Anthony - 13:03
First period12:34 - PP - Brett Engelhardt (Snesrud, Way)
(Martin, Miskovich) Dylan Mills - PP - 11:49Second periodNo scoring
(Westrum) Troy Riddle - 17:21
(Tharp, Westrum) Nick Angell - 18:13
Third period16:18 - Jarrett Weinberger (Patterson)
Adam Hauser ( 16 saves / 18 shots )Goalie stats Brian Rodgers ( 25 saves / 32 shots )
March 10 [10] Minnesota3 – 1Michigan Tech Mariucci Arena Recap  
(Koalska, Anthony) Ben Tharp - 17:01First periodNo scoring
(Anthony, Koalska) Stuart Senden - GW - 17:12Second periodNo scoring
(Martin) Nick Anthony - 14:44Third period03:43 - Chris Durno (Ulwelling)
Adam Hauser ( 26 saves / 27 shots )Goalie stats Brian Rodgers ( 38 saves / 41 shots )
Minnesota won series 2–0

(4) Colorado College vs. (7) Minnesota State-Mankato

March 9Colorado College3 – 0OTMinnesota State-Mankato Colorado Springs World Arena Recap
March 10Colorado College7 – 3Minnesota State-Mankato Colorado Springs World Arena Recap
Colorado College won series 2–0

(5) Wisconsin vs. (6) Denver

March 9 [11] Wisconsin6 – 4Denver Alliant Energy Center Recap  
(Bourque, Hukalo) Dany Heatley - 14:30
(Boeser) Matt Hussey - 15:48
First period07:38 - PP - Ryan Caldwell (Paradise, James)
07:51 - Kelly Popadynetz (Engstrom, Hartmann)
08:29 - Max Bull (Doell, Barber)
(Brooks, Hukalo) Rene Bourque - 07:48
(Jensen, Boeser) Dany Heatley - PP - 09:37
(Heatley, Hussey) Rene Bourque - GW - 17:42
Second periodNo scoring
(Bourque, Heatley) David Hukalo - PP - 06:45Third period19:41 - PP - Judd Stauss (Weber)
Graham Melanson ( 28 saves / 31 shots )Goalie stats Wade Dubielewicz ( 26 saves / 31 shots ) / Adam Berkhoel ( 10 saves / 11 shots )
March 10 [12] Wisconsin6 – 2Denver Alliant Energy Center Recap  
No ScoringFirst periodNo scoring
(Wheeler, Dessner) Kent Davyduke - 00:55
(Brooks, Doman) Matt Murray - 12:48
(Winchester) Dany Heatley - GW - 13:34
Second period06:16 - Ryan Caldwell (Paradise)
07:50 - David Neale (Stauss)
(Hergert) Kevin Granato - 10:56
(Bourque, Heatley) Jeff Dessner - PP - 15:02
(Jensen) Kent Davyduke - EN - 18:49
Third periodNo scoring
Graham Melanson ( 41 saves / 43 shots )Goalie stats Adam Berkhoel ( 19 saves / 23 shots ) / Wade Dubielewicz ( 0 saves / 1 shots )
Wisconsin won series 2–0

Quarterfinal

(4) Colorado College vs. (5) Wisconsin

March 15 [13] Minnesota4 – 3Wisconsin Xcel Energy Center Recap  
(Preissing, Manning) Joe Cullen - 04:02
(Clark, Jozsa) Noah Clarke - 14:26
First period13:12 - Dany Heatley
No scoringSecond periodNo scoring
(Cullen, Manning) Peter Sejna - 19:13
(Cullen, Sejna) Justin Morrison - GW EN - 19:25
Third period00:53 - PP - Rene Bourque (Heatley, Hukalo)
19:49 - Dany Heatley (Granato, Brooks)
Jeff Sanger ( 37 saves / 40 shots )Goalie stats Graham Melanson ( 30 saves / 33 shots )

Semifinals

(1) North Dakota vs. (4) Colorado College

March 16 [14] North Dakota2 – 1Colorado College Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No ScoringFirst period04:26 - Mark Cullen (Sejna, Morrison)
(Bayda, Panzer) Aaron Schneekloth - PP - 03:27
(Dorey, Roche) Jason Notermann - GW - 10:51
Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Karl Goehring ( 18 saves / 19 shots )Goalie stats Colin Zulianello ( 18 saves / 20 shots )

(2) St. Cloud State vs. (3) Minnesota

March 16 [15] St. Cloud State3 – 0Minnesota Xcel Energy Center Recap  
(Arnason, Sampair) Chris Purslow - GW - 05:07
(Arnason, Westcott) Nate DiCasmirro - 05:47
First periodNo scoring
(Westcott) Tyler Arnason - SH - 09:46Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Scott Meyer ( 23 saves / 23 shots )Goalie stats Adam Hauser ( 18 saves / 21 shots )

Third Place

(3) Minnesota vs. (4) Colorado College

March 17 [16] Minnesota4 – 5Colorado College Xcel Energy Center Recap  
(Pohl) Erik Westrum - PP - 08:13
(Westrum, Leopold) Troy Riddle - 10:32
First period06:01 - SH - Mark Cullen (Clark)
(Pohl, Leopold) Erik Westrum - 08:46Second period13:05 - PP - Joe Cullen (Kim, Stuart)
14:54 - PP - Mike Stuart (Morrison, Kim)
(Leopold) John Pohl - PP - 15:18Third period14:29 - Peter Sejna (Cullen)
16:55 - Justin Morrison
Pete Samargia ( 27 saves / 32 shots )Goalie stats Jeff Sanger ( 37 saves / 41 shots )

Championship

(1) North Dakota vs. (2) St. Cloud State

March 17 [17] North Dakota5 – 6OTSt. Cloud State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No ScoringFirst period12:10 - Tyler Arnason (Westcott, Meyer)
(Bayda, Mazurak) Jeff Panzer - 05:21Second period08:10 - Derek Eastman (Malone, Cullen)
15:06 - PP - Joe Motzko (Anderson, Eastman)
16:06 - Tyler Arnason (DiCasmirro)
(Skarperud) Kevin Spiewak - 08:11
(Hammer, Lundbohm) Jeff Panzer - 14:25
Jason Notermann - 18:58
(Lundbohm) Travis Roche - EA - 19:49
Third period12:24 - PP - Tyler Arnason (Sampair, Eastman)
No scoringFirst overtime period11:33 - GW - Derek Eastman (Malone, Cullen)
Andy Kollar ( 30 saves / 36 shots )Goalie stats Scott Meyer ( 33 saves / 38 shots )

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

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See also

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