2013 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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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) |
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
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.
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.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||
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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 |
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
All times are local.
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
All times are local (UTC−5).
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 ) |
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 ) |
All times are local (UTC−5).
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 ) |
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 ) |
All times are local (UTC−5).
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 ) |
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