2016 NCHC Tournament


The 2016 NCHC Tournament was the third tournament in league history. It was played between March 11 and March 19, 2016. 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, St. Cloud State received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2016 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.

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
All times are local.

Quarterfinals

(1) North Dakota vs. (8) Colorado College

(2) St. Cloud State vs. (7) Western Michigan

(3) Denver vs. (6) Nebraska-Omaha

(4) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (5) Miami

Semifinals

(1) North Dakota vs. (4) Minnesota–Duluth

(2) St. Cloud State vs. (3) Denver

Third place

(1) North Dakota vs. (3) Denver

Championship

(2) St. Cloud State vs. (4) Minnesota–Duluth

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team">List of NCHC All-Tournament Team">Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player