2014 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament

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The 2014 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the first tournament in conference history, and was played between March 20 and March 22, 2014 at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. [1] The winner of the tournament was the Wisconsin Badgers, who earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

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Format

All six Big Ten teams participated in the tournament, which was a single-elimination format. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings. In the quarterfinals on Thursday, No. 3 played No. 6 and No. 4 played No. 5. On Friday, No. 2 played the winner of the first game and No. 1 played the winner of the second game (the teams were not reseeded). The two semifinal winners played each other on Saturday in the final. [2]

Conference standings

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

2013–14 Big Ten ice hockey standings
Conference recordOverall record
GPWLTSOWPTSGFGAGPWLTGFGA
#2 Minnesota †201433045593741287614386
#7 Wisconsin*2013610406346372411212095
#16 Michigan 2010821336859351813410789
#20 Ohio State 2069542753553718145119100
Michigan State 20596425425536111877993
Penn State 203161010427536826280129
Championship: Wisconsin
† indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014

Bracket

Quarterfinals
March 20 		Semifinals
March 21 		Championship
March 22
2Wisconsin2
3 Michigan 1 6 Penn State 1
6Penn State2**2Wisconsin5*
4 Ohio State 4
1 Minnesota 1
4Ohio State2*4Ohio State3
5 Michigan State 1

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Quarterfinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

(3) Michigan vs. (6) Penn State

March 20Michigan1–22OTPenn State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond period19:37 - Taylor Holstrom (8) - (Juha, Goodwin)
Phil Di Giuseppe (13) - (Nieves) - 11:06Third periodNo scoring
No scoringSecond overtime period12:47 - Zach Saar (5) - (Richard)
Zach Nagelvoort (63 saves / 65 shots)Goalie statsMatthew Skoff (52 saves / 53 shots)

(4) Ohio State vs. (5) Michigan State

March 20Ohio State2–1OTMichigan State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoringFirst period4:04 - Greg Wolfe (13) - (Reimer)
Tanner Fritz (7) - (Greco, Gedig) - 16:26Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Drew Brevig (3) - (Fritz, McCormick) - 4:23First overtime periodNo scoring
Christian Frey (26 saves / 27 shots)Goalie statsJake Hildebrand (32 saves / 34 shots)

Semifinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

(2) Wisconsin vs. (6) Penn State

March 21Wisconsin2–1Penn State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoringFirst periodNo scoring
Michael Mersch (21) - (Dahl, Zulinick) - 1:27
Michael Mersch (22) - PP - (Zengerle, Kerdiles) - 19:49		Second period0:55 - Curtis Loik - (Brooks, Glen)
No scoringThird periodNo scoring
Joel Rumpel (24 saves / 25 shots)Goalie statsMatthew Skoff (32 saves / 34 shots)

(1) Minnesota vs. (4) Ohio State

March 21Minnesota1–3Ohio State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoringFirst period15:20 - PP - Nick Schilkey (13) - (Fritz, McCormick)
Kyle Rau (12) - (Cammarata, Boyd) - 4:47Second periodNo scoring
No scoringThird period9:08 - Ryan Dzingel (21) - (Lundey)
19:33 - EN - Anthony Greco (5) - (Brevig)
Adam Wilcox (22 saves / 24 shots)Goalie statsChristian Frey (30 saves / 31 shots)

Championship

All times are local (UTC−5).

(2) Wisconsin vs. (4) Ohio State

March 22Wisconsin5–4OTOhio State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
Jake McCabe (8) - (Zengerle, Kerdiles) - PP - 19:37First period4:51 - Ryan Dzingel (22) - (Oddo, Brevig)
8:56 - Nick Oddo (9) - (Schilkey, Dzingel)
Morgan Zulinick (4) - (Soleway, Simonelli) - PP - 11:24Second period12:40 - Clark Cristofoli (1) - (McCormick, Oddo)
Jefferson Dahl (4) - (Zulinick, McCabe) - 13:38
Tyler Barnes (13) (Kerdiles, Zengerle) - 13:56		Third period13:08 - Tanner Fritz (8) - (McCormick, Cristofoli)
Mark Zengerle (10) - (Barnes, Kerdiles) - 7:48First overtime periodNo scoring
Joel Rumpel (28 saves / 32 shots)Goalie statsChristian Frey (31 saves / 36 shots)

Tournament awards

Most Outstanding Player

All-Tournament Team

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