The 1995 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 36th conference playoff in league history and 43rd season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The

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was played between March 10 and March 18, 1995. First round games were played at home team campus sites while all 'Final Five' matches were held at the

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in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament,

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was awarded the

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and received the

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's automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a

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games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams. The winners of the first round series advanced to the

for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a

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format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two playing in a quarterfinal game. The semifinal pitted the top remaining seed against the winner of the quarterfinal game while the two other teams that received byes were matched against one another with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a Third Place contest. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

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 Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Quarterfinals

(1) Colorado College vs. (10) Alaska-Anchorage

(2) Wisconsin vs. (9) Northern Michigan

(3) Denver vs. (8) Michigan Tech

(4) Minnesota vs. (7) Minnesota-Duluth

(5) St. Cloud State vs. (6) North Dakota

Quarterfinal

(4) Minnesota vs. (6) North Dakota

Semifinals

(1) Colorado College vs. (4) Minnesota

(2) Wisconsin vs. (3) Denver

Third Place

(3) Denver vs. (4) Minnesota

Championship

(1) Colorado College vs. (2) Wisconsin

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

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(Denver) *F

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(Colorado College) *F

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(Minnesota) *D Eric Rud (Colorado College) *D

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(Wisconsin) *G

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* (Wisconsin) * Most Valuable Player(s)

References

External links

WCHA.com1994–95 NCAA Standings2012–13 Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves Media Guide2013–14 Colorado College Tigers Media Guide2013–14 Denver Pioneers Media Guide2013–14 Minnesota Golden Gophers Media Guide

2012–13 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs Media Guide2013–14 North Dakota Hockey Media Guide2006–07 Northern Michigan Wildcats Media Guide2011–12 St. Cloud State Huskies Media Guide2003–04 Wisconsin Badgers Media Guide
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