2012 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

August 2023 2012 WCHA Men's 200px 2012 WCHA Final Five logo March 9–17, 2012 12 Xcel Energy Center St. Paul, Minnesota North Dakota 17th Dave Hakstol 5th Aaron Dell North Dakota 2011 2011 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament 2013 2013 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament The 2012 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 53rd conference playoff in league history and 58th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2012 tournament was played between March 9 and March 17, 2012, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, North Dakota received the Broadmoor Trophy 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 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 Bracket Teams are reseeded after the first round 3 0 y y First roundMarch 9–11 1 Minnesota 2 7 — 12 Alaska-Anchorage 1 3 — 2 Minnesota-Duluth 4 3** — 11 Minnesota State 2 2 — 3 Denver 0 3 3* 10 Wisconsin 1 1 2 4 North Dakota 4 4 — 9 Bemidji State 1 3 — 5 Colorado College 1 3 — 8 Michigan Tech 3 4* — 6 St. Cloud State 4 3 — 7 Nebraska-Omaha 0 1 — QuarterfinalsMarch 15 4 North Dakota 4 6 St. Cloud State 1 3 Denver 3* 8 Michigan Tech 2 SemifinalsMarch 16 1 Minnesota 3 4 North Dakota 6 2 Minnesota-Duluth 3 3 Denver 4** ChampionshipMarch 17 4 North Dakota 4 3 Denver 0 Note: * denotes overtime periods Results First round (1) Minnesota vs. (12) Alaska-Anchorage Minnesota Alaska-Anchorage Mariucci Arena March 9 2 - 1 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?makamin1.m09 1 No scoring Erik Haula (16) (Schmidt, Parenteau) - 01:42Erik Haula (17) (Schmidt, Hansen) - 09:52 19:58 - PP - Brad Gorham (2) (Scheid, Leinweber) Kent Patterson ( 16 saves / 17 shots ) Chris Kamal ( 32 saves / 34 shots ) March 10 7 - 3 www.wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?makamin1.m10 1 Jake Hansen (12) (Marshall, Alt) - 04:03 00:35 - PP - Matt Bailey (9) (Allen, Docken) 07:57 - PP2 - Matt Bailey (10) (Kwas, Coldwell) 08:20 - PP - Scott Allen (3) (Coldwell, Docken) Zach Budish (11) (Rau, Bjugstad) - 11:16Nick Bjugstad (16) (Haula, Schmidt) - PP - 19:14 Erik Haula (18) (Rau, Budish) - 05:05Erik Haula (19) (Warning, Alt) - 05:23Seth Helgeson (4) (Condon, Matson) - 06:36Sam Warning (6) (Haula, Marshall) - 09:39 Kent Patterson ( 16 saves / 19 shots )Jake Kremer ( 0 saves / 0 shots ) Chris Kamal ( 31 saves / 38 shots ) Minnesota Wins Series 2 - 0 (2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (11) Minnesota State Minnesota-Duluth Minnesota State AMSOIL Arena March 9 4 - 2 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mmndmns1.m09 1 J.T. Brown (22) (Herbert, Oleksuk) - 11:31 Brady Lamb (8) (Grun, Hendrickson) - 01:06 05:29 - Max Gaede (3) (Dorr, Louwerse)19:15 - Joe Schiller (3) (Elbrecht) Brady Lamb (9) (Basaraba) - 11:58Wade Bergman (8) - EN - 19:54 Kenny Reiter ( 26 saves / 28 shots ) Austin Lee ( 34 saves / 37 shots ) March 10 3 - 2 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mmndmns1.m10 1 2 No scoring 19:05 - PP - Matt Leitner (11) (Palmquist) David Grun (3) (Basaraba, Hendrickson) - 13:46 J.T. Brown (23) (Lamb, Oleksuk) - PP - 06:59 03:54 - Tyler Elbrecht (1) (McInnis) Mike Seidel (15) (Flaherty, Connolly) - 04:07 Kenny Reiter ( 47 saves / 49 shots ) Austin Lee ( 56 saves / 59 shots ) Minnesota-Duluth Wins Series 2 - 0 (3) Denver vs. (10) Wisconsin Denver Wisconsin Magness Arena March 9 0 - 1 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mdenwis1.m09 2 No scoring 14:10 - Sean Little (2) (McCabe, Ramage) Juho Olkinuora ( 29 saves / 30 shots ) Joel Rumpel ( 28 saves / 28 shots ) March 10 3 - 1 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mdenwis1.m10 1 No scoring Nate Dewhurst (3) (Jackson, Lee) - 04:04Luke Salazar (10) (Zucker, N. Shore) - 12:53Nick Shore (12) - EN - 19:04 06:54 - Justin Schultz (16) (McCabe) Sam Brittain ( 27 saves / 28 shots ) Joel Rumpel ( 39 saves / 41 shots ) March 11 1 3 - 2 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mdenwis1.m11 1 1 No scoring Ty Loney (9) (Salazar, D. Shore) - 11:17 06:40 - SH - Mark Zengerle (13)12:32 - Tyler Barnes (11) (Simonelli, Schultz) Nick Shore (13) (Zucker, D. Shore) - PP - 11:17 Luke Salazar (11) (D. Shore, Mayfield) - 01:40 Sam Brittain ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) Joel Rumpel ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) Denver Wins Series 2 - 1 (4) North Dakota vs. (9) Bemidji State North Dakota Bemidji State Ralph Engelstad Arena March 9 4 - 1 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mbmjndk1.m09 1 Connor Gaarder (3) (Parks, Rowney) - PP - 17:10 Corban Knight (13) (Nelson) - 07:15 Mark MacMillan (6) (Rowney, Parks) - 14:08Ben Blood (3) (Rowney) - PP - EN - 19:05 13:05 - Aaron McLeod (9) (Mattson, Wacker) Aaron Dell ( 28 saves / 29 shots ) Dan Bakala ( 19 saves / 22 shots ) March 10 4 - 3 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mbmjndk1.m10 1 Connor Gaarder (4) (Sinkbeil, MacMillan) - 13:48 Carter Rowney (17) (MacMillan, Parks) - 07:30Michael Parks (17) (MacMillan, Rowney) - 18:17 06:25 - Jordan George (4) (Hunt, Kinne) Dillon Simpson (17) (Lamoureux) - 05:06 16:04 - Jamie MacQueen (4) (Boehm, Hunt)16:23 - Jamie MacQueen (5) (Walters) Brad Eidsness ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Dan Bakala ( 28 saves / 32 shots ) North Dakota Wins Series 2 - 0 (5) Colorado College vs. (8) Michigan Tech Colorado College Michigan Tech World Arena March 9 1 - 3 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mcc_mtu1.m09 2 No scoring 17:12 - David Johnstone (10) Rylan Schwartz (23) (Guentzel, J. Schwartz) - PP2 - 00:39 03:41 - Dennis Rix (4) (Reddick, Pietila)10:21 - Alex MacLeod (7) (D. Johnstone, J. Johnstone) Josh Thorimbert ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Josh Robinson ( 16 saves / 17 shots ) March 10 3 - 4 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mcc_mtu1.m10 2 1 Andrew Hamburg (3) (Skalbeck, Thorimbert) - 08:23 01:08 - David Johnstone (11)06:46 - Brett Olson (10) (Baker, Stebner) Andrew Hamburg (4) (McDermott) - 03:50 Scott Winkler (7) (Krushelnyski, Dineen) - 08:52 18:55 - EA - Steven Seigo (5) (Pietila, Gordic) 03:30 - David Johnstone (12) (Sova, Fillion) Josh Thorimbert ( 37 saves / 41 shots ) Josh Robinson ( 29 saves / 32 shots ) Michigan Tech Wins Series 2 - 0 (6) St. Cloud State vs. (7) Nebraska-Omaha St. Cloud State Nebraska-Omaha National Hockey Center March 9 4 - 0 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mstcuno1.m09 1 Joe Rehkamp (2) (Milan, Bertsch) - 02:30Ben Hanowski (21) (Festler, Prochno) - PP - 16:50 Andrew Prochno (5) (Festler, Novak) - 11:32 Taylor Johnson (2) (Zabkowicz, Olover) - PP - 19:36 Mike Lee ( 27 saves / 27 shots ) Ryan Massa ( 24 saves / 28 shots ) March 10 3 - 1 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mstcuno1.m10 1 No scoring Jared Festler (15) (Hanowski, Dowd) - PP - 00:22 07:16 - Dominic Zombo (2) (Gwidt, Jaycob Megna) Ben Hanowski (22) (Bertsch, Jensen) - 19:17Travis Novak (12) - EN - 19:59 Mike Lee ( 32 saves / 33 shots ) John Faulkner ( 35 saves / 37 shots ) St. Cloud State Wins Series 2 - 0 Quarterfinals (3) Denver vs. (8) Michigan Tech Denver Michigan Tech Xcel Energy Center March 15 3 - 2 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mdenmtu1.m15 1 1 Ty Loney (10) (D. Shore) - 03:50 10:45 - Blake Pietila (10) (Fillion) Luke Salazar (12) (Loney, D. Shore) - 15:28 00:18 - Ryan Furne (12) (Baker) Jason Zucker (21) (LaLeggia, N. Shore) - 02:18 Juho Olkinuora ( 27 saves / 29 shots ) Josh Robinson ( 41 saves / 44 shots ) (4) North Dakota vs. (6) St. Cloud State North Dakota St. Cloud State Xcel Energy Center March 15 4 - 1 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mndkstc1.m15 1 Corban Knight (14) (MacMillan, MacWilliam) - 07:40 16:14 - PP - Ben Hanowski (23) (Dowd, Prochno) Brock Nelson (24) (Blood, Forbort) - 15:51 Brock Nelson (25) (Kristo) - EN - 19:00Danny Kristo (18) - EN,PP - 19:33 Aaron Dell ( 29 saves / 30 shots ) Mike Lee ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) Semifinals (1) Minnesota vs. (4) North Dakota Minnesota North Dakota Xcel Energy Center March 16 3 - 6 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mminndk1.m16 2 Kyle Rau (17) (Haula, Schmidt) - PP - 12:37 Jake Hansen (13) (Haula, Schmidt) - PP - 05:55Zach Budish (12) (Holl, Rau) - 10:01 14:51 - Derek Forbort (2) (Lamoureux) 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 ) Aaron Dell ( 22 saves / 25 shots ) (2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (3) Denver Minnesota-Duluth Denver Xcel Energy Center March 16 3 - 4 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mmndden1.m16 2 2 No scoring 08:01 - Shawn Ostrow (11) (Dewhurst) Mike Seidel (16) (Lamb, Oleksuk) - PP - 10:57Mike Seidel (17) (Connolly, Kishel) - 13:45 03:26 - Jason Zucker (22) (N. Shore)06:02 - Dustin Jackson (2) (Ostrow, Mermis) Jack Connolly (19) (Olsen, Seidel) - 12:38 08:14 - Zac Larraza (1) (Didier) Kenny Reiter ( 45 saves / 49 shots ) Sam Brittain ( 67 saves / 70 shots ) Championship (3) Denver vs. (4) North Dakota Denver North Dakota Xcel Energy Center March 17 0 - 4 wcha.com/men/boxes12.php?mdenndk1.m17 2 No scoring 17:43 - PP - Brock Nelson (27) (Simpson, Knight)18:29 - Carter Rowney (18) (MacMillan, Forbort) 09:58 - PP - Michael Parks (11) (Rowney, Forbort) 07:11 - SH - Mark MacMillan (7) Juho Olkinuora ( 18 saves / 22 shots )Adam Murray ( 7 saves / 7 shots ) Aaron Dell ( 22 saves / 22 shots ) Tournament awards All-Tournament Team F Mario Lamoureux (North Dakota) F Brock Nelson (North Dakota) F Jason Zucker (Denver) D Derek Forbort (North Dakota) D Andrew MacWilliams (North Dakota) G Aaron Dell* (North Dakota) * Most Valuable Player(s) WCHA Tourney History http://wcha.com/men/tourney/history.php WCHA 2014-06-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20140702170427/http://www.wcha.com/men/tourney/history.php 2014-07-02 dead References 2 External links Western Collegiate Hockey Association 'Second Season' Gets Underway Friday with Six First Round Men's WCHA Playoff Series WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Category:WCHA men's ice hockey tournament