The 2015 NCHC Tournament was the second

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in league history. It was played between March 13 and March 21, 2015. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the

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. By winning the tournament,

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received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2015 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

for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a

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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 * denotes overtime periods

Results

Quarterfinals

All times are local.

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

(2) Miami vs. (7) Western Michigan

(3) Omaha vs. (6) St. Cloud State

(4) Denver vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth

Semifinals

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

(2) Miami vs. (4) Denver

Third Place

(1) North Dakota vs. (4) Denver

Championship

(2) Miami vs. (6) St. Cloud State

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

*F Blake Coleman* (Miami) *F

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(Miami) *F Joey Benik (St. Cloud State) *D Louie Belpedio (Miami) *D

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(St. Cloud State) *G

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(St. Cloud State) * Most Valuable Player(s)

References

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