2017 NCHC Tournament


The 2017 NCHC Tournament was the fourth tournament in league history. It was played between March 10 and March 18, 2017. 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, Minnesota-Duluth received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2017 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) Denver vs. (8) Colorado College

(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (7) Miami

(3) Western Michigan vs. (6) Nebraska-Omaha

(4) North Dakota vs. (5) St. Cloud State

Semifinals

(1) Denver vs. (4) North Dakota

(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (3) Western Michigan

Third place

(1) Denver vs. (3) Western Michigan

Championship

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

Tournament awards

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

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