The 2019 NCHC Tournament is the sixth

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in league history. It was played between March 15 and 23, 2019. Quarterfinal 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 2019 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. Game 1 of the series between Western Michigan and Colorado College was delayed 1 day due to the effects from

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Standings

Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals * denotes overtime periods

Results

All times are local.

Quarterfinals

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

(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (7) Omaha

(3) Western Michigan vs. (6) Colorado College

(4) Denver vs. (5) North Dakota

Semifinals

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (6) Colorado College

(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (4) Denver

Third place

(4) Denver vs. (6) Colorado College

Championship

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (2) Minnesota–Duluth

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

*F Robby Jackson (St. Cloud State) *F

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(St. Cloud State) *F

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(St. Cloud State) *D Jimmy Schuldt (St. Cloud State) *D

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(Minnesota–Duluth) *G

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* (Minnesota–Duluth) * Most Valuable Player(s)

References

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