The 2018 NCHC Tournament was the fifth

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in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 17, 2018. 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 2018 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

All times are local.

Quarterfinals

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (8) Miami

(2) Denver vs. (7) Colorado College

(3) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (6) Western Michigan

(4) North Dakota vs. (5) Omaha

Semifinals

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

(2) Denver vs. (3) Minnesota–Duluth

Third place

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

Championship

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

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

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(Denver) *F

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(St. Cloud State) *F Logan O'Connor (Denver) *D Ian Mitchell (Denver) *D

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(St. Cloud State) *G

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* (Denver) * Most Valuable Player(s)

References

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