2019 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
March 8–23, 2019 8 Mankato, MinnesotaVerizon Center Minnesota State (3rd title) Mike Hastings (3rd title) Nick Rivera (Minnesota State) WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments ← 2018 2020 →
The 2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 60th conference playoff in league history and 65th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2019 tournament was played between March 8 and March 23, 2019, at four conference arenas, with the championship game being hosted by Minnesota State at their home rink, Verizon Center . By winning the tournament, Minnesota State was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament .
The first two rounds of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams. (teams will NOT be re-seeded with each proceeding round).
The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.
Note: * denotes overtime periods
(Rivera, French) Walker Duehr (9) - 05:09 First period No scoring (Gerard, Scheid) Marc Michaelis (17) - GW PP - 04:48 Second period 16:28 - Connor Merkley (3) (Finnson, Dunn) (Scheid, Tuomie) Marc Michaelis (22) - PP - 05:26 Third period No scoring ( 12 saves / 13 shots ) Dryden McKay Goalie stats Mark Sinclair ( 32 saves / 35 shots )
(Jaremko, Mackey) Reggie Lutz (5) - PP - 01:44(Gerard) Parker Tuomie (14) - GW - 08:57 First period No scoring (Jaremko, Coatta) Reggie Lutz (6) - PP - 14:25(Tuomie) Marc Michaelis (19) - 15:36 Second period No scoring No scoring Third period 10:16 - Adam Wilcox (3) (Wood) ( 18 saves / 19 shots ) Dryden McKay Goalie stats Mark Sinclair ( 27 saves / 31 shots )
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Minnesota State wins series 2–0
No Scoring First period 16:38 - Tyler Cline (9) (Staley) (Loughran, Readman) Joseph Nardi (8) - 02:09(Frantti, Loven) Vincent de Mey (4) - 03:31 Second period 10:30 - Kyle Marino (5) (LaDouce, Doyle)12:46 - Steven Jandric (9) (Newton, Young)16:05 - Chase Ellingson (1) (Hope) (Nardi, Readman) Griffin Loughran (6) - PP - 06:51(Craighead, Beaulieu) Adam Rockwood (7) - EA - 19:46 Third period No scoring (Loughran, Beaulieu) Joseph Nardi (9) - GW - 10:30 Second overtime period No scoring ( 38 saves / 42 shots ) Atte Tolvanen Goalie stats Anton Martinsson ( 39 saves / 44 shots )
No Scoring First period 08:06 - Kylar Hope (8) (Leiter, Jandric) (Black, Rockwood) Denver Pierce (10) - 12:54(Klee, Loven) Vincent de Mey (5) - 13:36 Second period 08:28 - Kyle Marino (6) (Doyle) (Pierce) Troy Loggins (23) - 09:59(Rockwood, Loggins) Darien Craighead (9) - GW PP - 11:58 Third period 17:52 - EA - Tyler Cline (6) (Thompson, Jandric) ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) Atte Tolvanen Goalie stats Anton Martinsson ( 26 saves / 30 shots )
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Northern Michigan wins series 2–0
No Scoring First period 06:56 - Raymond Brice (3) (Parrottino, Reitmeier) No scoring Second period 18:18 - SH - Alec Broetzman (8) (Reitmeier) (Barber, Johnson) Connor Ford (14) - PP - 11:55(Smith, Pohlkamp) Frédéric Létourneau (14) - 12:10(Ford, Kruse) Max Johnson (14) - GW PP - 13:41 Third period No scoring ( 23 saves / 25 shots ) Ryan Bednard Goalie stats Matt Jurusik ( 38 saves / 41 shots )
(Johnson) Adam Smith (2) - 05:25(Wright, Pohlkamp) Max Johnson (16) - 09:30(Kruse, Johnson) Connor Ford (15) - GW PP - 10:24 First period 04:35 - PP - Jake Lucchini (10) (Bliss, Smith)11:54 - Jake Lucchini (3) (Smith, Donohue) (Schneider, Theorcharidis) Max Johnson (17) - PP - 07:36 Second period No scoring (unassisted) Frédéric Létourneau (6) - PS - 09:08(unassisted) Connor McDonald (1) - SH EN - 11:05 Third period No scoring ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) Ryan Bednard Goalie stats Matt Jurusik ( 25 saves / 30 shots ) / Devin Kero ( 4 saves / 4 shots )
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Bowling Green wins series 2-0
No Scoring First period 07:20 - Nick Cardelli (9) (Harris, Billett) (Eriksson) Diego Cuglietta (24) - 05:17(Saccoman, Calder) Lukas Kaelble (2) - PP - 18:29 Second period No scoring (Calder, Saccoman) Anthony Nellis (15) - GW PP - 09:49(unassisted) Max Humitz (15) - EN - 19:44 Third period 10:27 - EA - Brad Johnson (3) (Sillinger, Combs) ( 29 saves / 31 shots ) Nick Kossoff Goalie stats Zach Driscoll ( 17 saves / 20 shots )
No Scoring First period No scoring (Nordqvist, Nellis) Max Humitz (16) - 09:29 Second period 12:01 - Justin Baudry (9) (Somoza, Ierullo) (Nordqvist, Cuglietta) Hampus Eriksson (3) - GW PP - 06:30(Cuglietta) Collin Saccoman (10) - EN - 19:22 Third period No scoring ( 39 saves / 40 shots ) Nick Kossoff Goalie stats Zach Driscoll ( 31 saves / 33 shots )
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Lake Superior State wins series 2–0
(Tuomie, Michaelis) Charlie Gerard (11) - 06:18(French, Mackey) Walker Duehr (10) - GW - 07:20 First period 01:37 - Diego Cuglietta (25) (Humitz, Ruggiero) No scoring Second period No scoring No scoring Third period No scoring ( 20 saves / 21 shots ) Dryden McKay Goalie stats Nick Kossoff ( 29 saves / 31 shots )
(Michaelis, Gerard) Julian Napravnik (8) - GW PP - 12:14(Coatta, Scheid) Reggie Lutz (7) - PP - 13:27 First period No scoring No scoring Second period No scoring No scoring Third period No scoring ( 31 saves / 31 shots ) Dryden McKay Goalie stats Nick Kossoff ( 28 saves / 30 shots )
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Minnesota State wins series 2–0
No Scoring First period No scoring No scoring Second period 01:35 - Max Johnson (18) (Létourneau)05:42 - GW - Adam Smith (3) (Ford, Létourneau) (Loggins, Rockwood) Griffin Loughran (7) - 8:55 Third period 00:30 - PP - Brandon Kruse (9) (Rauhauser, Johnson)01:23 - PP - Connor Ford (16) (Rauhauser, Johnson)11:12 - Max Johnson (19) (Kruse, Johnson)19:54 - Cameron Wright (9) (Barber, Linkenheld) ( 36 saves / 42 shots ) Atte Tolvanen Goalie stats Ryan Bednard ( 26 saves / 27 shots )
No Scoring First period 15:12 - Connor Ford (17) (Pohlkamp, Baylis) (Beaulieu, Rockwood) Darien Craighead (10) - 00:21 Second period No scoring No scoring Third period No scoring No scoring Second overtime period 02:09 - GW - Sam Craggs (8) (Cullen, Rauhauser) ( 41 saves / 43 shots ) Atte Tolvanen Goalie stats Ryan Bednard ( 40 saves / 41 shots )
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Bowling Green wins series 2–0
No Scoring First period 14:56 - Frédéric Létourneau (7) (Schneider, Cullen) No scoring Second period No scoring (Zmolek, Coatta) Jake Jaremko (6) - EA - 18:16(McNeely, Tuomie) Connor Mackey (7) - EA - 19:04 Third period 01:28 - PP - Alec Rauhauser (4) (Johnson, Ford) (French, McMahan) Nick Rivera (15) - GW - 01:37 First overtime period No scoring ( 17 saves / 19 shots ) Dryden McKay Goalie stats Ryan Bednard ( 24 saves / 27 shots )
Nick Rivera (Minnesota State)
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