2015 NCHC Tournament

August 2023 2015 NCHC Men's 200px March 13–21, 2015 8 Target Center Minneapolis, Minnesota Miami RedHawks 1st Enrico Blasi 1st Blake Coleman Miami 2014 2014 NCHC Tournament 2016 2016 NCHC Tournament The 2015 NCHC Tournament was the second tournament in league history. It was played between March 13 and March 21, 2015. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Miami received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. Format The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All eight conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams. The winners of the first round series advance to the Target Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.http://www.nchchockey.com/news_article/show/491055?referrer_id=878553 NCHC Frozen Faceoff Match-ups, Times Announced 16 March 2015 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 3/1/1 QuarterfinalsMarch 13–15 1 North Dakota 5 3 — 8 Colorado College 1 2 — 2 Miami 5 5 4 7 Western Michigan 3 7 0 3 Omaha 1 1 — 6 St. Cloud State 2** 3 — 4 Denver 4 4 — 5 Minnesota-Duluth 3 0 — SemifinalsMarch 20 1 North Dakota 1 6 St. Cloud State 3 2 Miami 6 4 Denver 3 ChampionshipMarch 21 6 St. Cloud State 2 2 Miami 3 Third Place 1 North Dakota 1 4 Denver 5 * denotes overtime periods Results Quarterfinals All times are local. (1) North Dakota vs. (8) Colorado College North Dakota Colorado College Ralph Engelstad Arena March 13 5–1 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mcc_ndk1.m13 1 Brendan O'Donnell (12) – PP – (Mattson, LaDue) – 08:01 Nick Mattson (4) – (unassisted) – 14:48Connor Gaarder (7) – (Poganski) – 19:56 Paul LaDue (5) – (Mattson, L. Johnson) – 04:01Tucker Poolman (7) – (Stecher, Pattyn) – 07:07 02:14 – Matt Hansen (3) – (unassisted) Zane McIntyre ( 21 saves / 22 shots ) Tyler Marble ( 21 saves / 26 shots )Chase Perry ( 10 saves / 10 shots ) March 14 3–2 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mcc_ndk1.m14 1 Jordan Schmaltz (4) – (N. Schmaltz, Parks) – 16:16 15:23 – Teemu Kivihalme (5) – (Roos, Stoykewych) Brendan O'Donnell (13) – (Mattson, Poganski) – 09:20 Connor Gaarder (8) – (Poganski, Chyzyk) – 18:38 06:10 – Luc Gerdes (4) – (Bradley, Fejes) Zane McIntyre ( 31 saves / 33 shots ) Tyler Marble ( 28 saves / 31 shots ) North Dakota wins series 2 – 0 (2) Miami vs. (7) Western Michigan Miami Western Michigan Goggin Ice Center March 13 5–3 hwww.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mmiawmu1.m13 1 Blake Coleman (14) – (Barber, Paulides) – 09:42 18:43 – Colton Hargrove (13) – (Dries) Louie Belpedio (5) – PP – (unassisted) – 12:07 06:11 – SH – Sheldon Dries (14) – (unassisted) Kevin Morris (5) – PP – (Coleman, Belpedio) – 06:54Blake Coleman (14) – (Barber, Joyaux) – 12:48Alex Gacek (4) – EN – (unassisted) – 19:18 01:44 – Kyle Novak (8) – (Muir, Nitsche) Ryan McKay ( 31 saves / 34 shots ) Lukas Hafner ( 20 saves / 24 shots ) March 14 5–7 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mmiawmu1.m14 2 Riley Barber (18) – (Sullivan, McKay) – 02:24 12:11 – SH – Frederik Tiffels (10) – (unassisted) Austin Czarnik (6) – (Murphy, Coleman) – PP – 08:28Austin Czarnik (7) – (Louis) – 11:03 01:33 – Frederik Tiffels (11) – (unassisted)02:17 – Nolan LaPorte (11) – (Dries, Hargrove)09:48 – Colton Hargrove (14) – (LaPorte, Dries)02:17 – PP – Kyle Novak (5) – (Kessel, Kovacs)19:16 – Chris Dienes (5) – (Hargrove, Fleming) Sean Kuraly (18) – (Morris, Louis) – EA – 16:22Blake Coleman (16) – (Czarnik, Kuraly) – EA – 19:37 19:48 – EN – Will Kessel (7) – (Kovacs, Moldenhauer) Ryan McKay ( 11 saves / 16 shots )Jay Williams ( 7 saves / 8 shots ) Lukas Hafner ( 19 saves / 22 shots )Frank Slubowski ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) March 15 1 4–0 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mmiawmu1.m15 1 Scott Dornbrock (2) – (Gacek, Wideman) – 10:30 Riley Barber (19) – (Murphy, Coleman) – 01:57Austin Czarnik (8) – (Morris, Louis) – 03:12 Blake Coleman (17) – EN – (Morris) – 15:07 Jay Williams ( 35 saves / 35 shots ) Frank Slubowski ( 8 saves / 11 shots )Lukas Hafner ( 14 saves / 14 shots ) Miami wins series 2–1 (3) Omaha vs. (6) St. Cloud State Omaha St. Cloud State CenturyLink Center Omaha March 13 1–2 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mstcuno1.m13 2 2 No scoring 14:02 – David Morley (14) – (Nevalainen, Ilvonen) Austin Ortega (19) – (Guentzel, Cooper) – SH – 09:43 09:49 – Joey Benik (14) – (Morley) Ryan Massa ( 7 saves / 8 shots )Kirk Thompson ( 30 saves / 31 shots ) Charlie Lindgren ( 45 saves / 46 shots ) March 14 1–3 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mstcuno1.m14 2 No scoring 15:59 – PP – David Morley (16) – (Storm, Ilvonen) 11:47 – Nick Oliver (3) – (Rehkamp, Daly) Grant Gallo (2) – (Brady, Guentzel) – EA – PP – 16:44 17:38 – Joey Benik (14) – (Murray) Kirk Thompson ( 25 saves / 28 shots ) Charlie Lindgren ( 35 saves / 36 shots ) St. Cloud State wins series 2 – 0 (4) Denver vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth Denver Minnesota-Duluth Magness Arena March 13 4–3 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mdenmnd1.m13 1 Ty Loney (8) – (unassisted) – 10:52 05:00 – Kyle Osterberg (6) – (Toninato, Corrin) 04:42 – Andy Welinski (9) – (D. Johnson, Cameranesi) Ty Loney (9) – (Janssen, Q. Shore) – 01:22Danton Heinen (15) – (LaLeggia, N. Zajac) – PP – 06:46Ty Loney (10) – (Q. Shore, LaLeggia) – 15:26 03:32 – Cal Decowski (4) – (Thomas) Tanner Jaillet ( 27 saves / 30 shots ) Kasimir Kaskisuo ( 28 saves / 32 shots ) March 14 4–0 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mdenmnd1.m14 1 Trevor Moore (20) – (unassisted) – 19:38 Danton Heinen (16) – (Butcher, Levin) – 07:36Matt Tabrum (2) – (Jacobson, Arnold) – 12:38 Joey LaLeggia (13) – (unassisted) – EA – 17:37 Evan Cowley ( 36 saves / 36 shots ) Kasimir Kaskisuo ( 28 saves / 31 shots ) Denver wins series 2–0 Semifinals (1) North Dakota vs. (6) St. Cloud State North Dakota St. Cloud State Target Center March 20 1–3 www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mndkstc1.m20 2 Keaton Thompson (3) – (Poolman, Simonson) – 15:02 19:35 – David Morley (17) – (Brodzinski, Prow)19:54 – Joey Benik (15) – (Russell) 18:55 – EN – Joe Rehkamp (5) – (Bertsch, Rabey) Zane McIntyre ( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Charlie Lindgren ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) (2) Miami vs. (4) Denver Miami Denver Target Center March 20 6–3 http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mdenmia1.m20 1 Riley Barber (20) – (Caito) – 14:15Anthony Louis (8) – (Czarnik, Caito) – 18:58 17:27 – Will Butcher (3) – (Didier) Cody Murphy (12) – (Coleman) – 04:53Austin Czarnik (9) – (Morris) – 18:26 18:52 – PP – Daniel Doremus (11) – (unassisted) Louie Belpedio (6) – (Louis, Morris) – 09:38Alex Gacek (5) – (Wideman, Paulides) – EN – 17:32 06:05 – Trevor Moore (21) – (Heinen, Doremus) Jay Williams ( 22 saves / 25 shots ) Evan Cowley ( 15 saves / 18 shots )Tanner Jaillet ( 8 saves / 10 shots ) Third Place (1) North Dakota vs. (4) Denver North Dakota Denver Target Center March 21 1–5 http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mndkden1.m21 2 Connor Gaarder (9) – (O'Donnell, Poolman) – 14:34 15:07 – Josiah Didier (3) – (unassisted)17:50 – Quentin Shore (10) – (N. Zajac, Loney) 10:27 – Matt Tabrum (3) – (VanVoorhis, N. Zajac) 06:02 – Nick Neville (1) – (Arnold, Tabrum)17:50 – Emil Romig (4) – (Moore) Zane McIntyre ( 30 saves / 35 shots ) Tanner Jaillet ( 25 saves / 26 shots ) Championship (2) Miami vs. (6) St. Cloud State Miami St. Cloud State Target Center March 21 3–2 http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mmiastc1.m21 1 Blake Coleman (18) – (Barber, Murphy) – 16:15 06:03 – PP – Jonny Brodzinski (20) – (Prow, Benik) Blake Coleman (19) – (Czarnik, Belpedio) – PP – 07:37Blake Coleman (20) – (Joyaux) – 09:20 12:00 – Joey Benik (16) – (Prow) Jay Williams ( 18 saves / 20 shots ) Charlie Lindgren ( 18 saves / 21 shots ) Tournament awards Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team F Blake Coleman* (Miami) F Austin Czarnik (Miami) F Joey Benik (St. Cloud State) D Louie Belpedio (Miami) D Tim Daly (St. Cloud State) G Charlie Lindgren (St. Cloud State) * Most Valuable Player(s) References NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Category:National Collegiate Hockey Conference Tournament Category:Ice hockey competitions in Minneapolis Category:College ice hockey tournaments in Minnesota NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Category:2010s in Minneapolis