The 2016 NCHC Tournament was the third

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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

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. By winning the tournament,

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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

for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a

single-elimination A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...

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

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

*F Mikey Eyssimont* (St. Cloud State) *F Dominic Toninato (Minnesota-Duluth) *F

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(North Dakota) *D Ethan Prow (St. Cloud State) *D Willie Raskob (Minnesota-Duluth) *G

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

References

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