2018 NCHC Men's ice hockey tournament
March 9–17, 2018 8 Xcel Energy CenterSaint Paul, Minnesota Denver Pioneers (2nd title) Jim Montgomery (2nd title) Tanner Jaillet (Denver) NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 2017 2019 →
The 2018 NCHC Tournament was the fifth tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 17, 2018. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota . By winning the tournament, Denver received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament .
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 Xcel Energy 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.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Teams are reseeded after the first round
All times are local.
(Winiecki, Benson) Jack Ahcan - 06:02 First period 15:28 - Kiefer Sherwood (Hutton, Belpedio) (Jackson, Brodzinski) Jimmy Schuldt - PP - 06:11(unassisted) Blake Lizotte - GW - 15:14 Second period No scoring (Jackson, Borgen) Easton Brodzinski - PP - 11:39(Fitzgerald, Ahcan) Mikey Eyssimont - EN - 18:50 Third period 04:26 - Gordie Green (Sherwood, Hutton) ( 24 saves / 26 shots ) Dávid Hrenák Goalie stats Ryan Larkin ( 24 saves / 28 shots )
No Scoring First period 01:54 - Josh Melnick (Mahalak, Sherwood)17:33 - Grant Hutton (Sherwood, Mahalak) (Eyssimont, Jackson) Ryan Poehling - PP - 07:20 Second period No scoring (Ahcan, B. Lizotte) Blake Winiecki - PP - 02:43 Third period No scoring No scoring First overtime period 07:10 - GW - Grant Hutton (Belpedio, Knies) ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) Dávid Hrenák Goalie stats Ryan Larkin ( 30 saves / 32 shots )
No Scoring First period 09:31 - Grant Hutton (Sherwood, Green)16:22 - PP - Casey Gilling (Dornbrock, Mahalak) (Jackson, Eyssimont) Jimmy Schuldt - 01:26(Ahcan) Mikey Eyssimont - 18:13 Second period 01:31 - Karch Bachman (LaValle) (J. Lizotte, Borgen) Judd Peterson - PP - 14:08 Third period No scoring (Newell, Ahcan) Mikey Eyssimont - GW - 08:14 First overtime period No scoring ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) Dávid Hrenák Goalie stats Ryan Larkin ( 30 saves / 32 shots )
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St. Cloud State won series 2–1
No Scoring First period No scoring No scoring Second period No scoring No scoring Third period 05:07 - GW PP - Westin Michaud (Blumenschein, Halloran)09:27 - Mason Bergh (Bradley, McCaskill) ( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Tanner Jaillet Goalie stats Alex Leclerc ( 37 saves / 37 shots )
No Scoring First period 16:41 - SH - Trey Bradley (unassisted) (Mitchell, Lukosevicius) Henrik Borgström - PP - 02:06 Second period 17:40 - Kristian Blumenschein (Bradley, Bergh) (Lukosevicius, Borgström) Troy Terry - 02:17(Mitchell, Hillman) Troy Terry - GW - 14:29 Third period No scoring ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) Tanner Jaillet Goalie stats Alex Leclerc ( 46 saves / 49 shots )
(Staub, Hillman) Logan O'Connor - 05:11(Terry) Tariq Hammond - GW - 15:57 First period No scoring (Terry, Borgström) Jarid Lukosevicius - 06:33(Terry) Henrik Borgström - 14:40(Lukosevicius, Hammond) Liam Finlay - 14:58 Second period No scoring (Terry, Borgström) Jarid Lukosevicius - 08:51 Third period 07:35 - Mason Bergh (Bradley, Williams) ( 18 saves / 18 shots ) Tanner Jaillet / ( 9 saves / 10 shots ) Devin Cooley Goalie stats Alex Leclerc ( 25 saves / 29 shots ) / Alec Calvaruso ( 9 saves / 11 shots )
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Denver won series 2–1
(Swaney, Samberg) Avery Peterson - GW PP - 04:55(Anderson, Perunovich) Riley Tufte - PP - 14:08 First period No scoring (Anderson, Krieger) Scott Perunovich - 04:55(Perunovich, Anderson) Peter Krieger - PP - 14:08 Second period No scoring (Exell, Wolff) Blake Young - 17:54 Third period No scoring ( 26 saves / 26 shots ) Hunter Shepard Goalie stats Austin Cain ( 8 saves / 12 shots ) / Ben Blacker ( 11 saves / 12 shots )
(Exell, Miller) Louie Roehl - GW - 02:24 First period No scoring No scoring Second period No scoring (unassisted) Jared Thomas - EN - 00:52 Third period No scoring ( 19 saves / 19 shots ) Hunter Shepard Goalie stats Ben Blacker ( 23 saves / 24 shots )
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Minnesota–Duluth won series 2–0
(Poganski, Poolman) Shane Gersich - GW - 13:52 First period No scoring (Gardner, Poolman) Christian Wolanin - PP - 01:00(Shaw) Nick Jones - 12:39(unassisted) Joel Janatuinen - 16:39 Second period No scoring No scoring Third period No scoring ( 25 saves / 25 shots ) Cam Johnson Goalie stats Evan Weninger ( 30 saves / 34 shots )
(Smith, Simonson) Matt Kiersted - 10:13(Olson, Wolanin) Dixon Bowen - 14:05 First period 15:28 - Teemu Pulkkinen (Buchta, Spinner) No scoring Second period 05:25 - Teemu Pulkkinen (Vesel, Jones) (Poolman, Shaw) Nick Jones - 10:14 Third period 05:41 - Jake Randolph (Alferd, Pope) (Kawaguchi, Poolman) Nick Jones - GW - 00:53 First overtime period No scoring ( 18 saves / 21 shots ) Cam Johnson Goalie stats Evan Weninger ( 29 saves / 33 shots )
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North Dakota won series 2–0
(Ahcan, B. Lizotte) Patrick Newell - 05:54 First period No scoring (unassisted) Easton Brodzinski - 05:53 Second period 04:39 - Nick Jones (Olson, Poolman) No scoring Third period 10:10 - PP - Jordan Kawaguchi (Olson, Jones) (unassisted) Nick Poehling - GW - 01:47 First overtime period No scoring ( 21 saves / 23 shots ) Dávid Hrenák Goalie stats Cam Johnson ( 31 saves / 34 shots )
(Mitchell, Terry) Henrik Borgström - 08:55 First period No scoring (O'Connor, Davies) Colin Staub - GW - 04:22 Second period 01:37 - Scott Perunovich (Anderson, Thomas) (O'Connor) Adam Plant - PP EN - 19:11 Third period No scoring ( 24 saves / 25 shots ) Tanner Jaillet Goalie stats Hunter Shepard ( 16 saves / 18 shots )
No Scoring First period 07:22 - Austin Poganski (Jones) No scoring Second period 07:22 - GW - Joel Janatuinen (Poolman) (Samberg, Exell) Mikey Anderson - SH - 16:37 Third period 15:51 - PP - Shane Gersich (Hoff, Poganski)19:04 - PP - Ludvig Hoff (Wolanin, Kawaguchi) ( 27 saves / 31 shots ) Hunter Shepard Goalie stats Cam Johnson ( 27 saves / 28 shots )
No Scoring First period 04:24 - Kohen Olischefski (Barrow, Mitchell)19:54 - GW - Jake Durflinger (O'Connor) No scoring Second period 02:06 - Ryan Barrow (Finlay, Olischefski) (Fitzgerald) Ryan Poehling - 15:54 Third period 17:06 - Dylan Gambrell (unassisted) ( 10 saves / 13 shots ) Dávid Hrenák / ( 13 saves / 14 shots ) Jeff Smith Goalie stats Tanner Jaillet ( 19 saves / 23 shots )
F Henrik Borgström (Denver)
F Nick Poehling (St. Cloud State)
F Logan O'Connor (Denver)
D Ian Mitchell (Denver)
D Jack Ahcan (St. Cloud State)
G Tanner Jaillet* (Denver)
* Most Valuable Player(s)
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