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2014 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

The 2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 55th conference playoff in league history and 60th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2014 tournament was played between March 13 and March 22, 2014, at four conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota State received the Broadmoor Trophy and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. The top eight or ten 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 Van Andel Arena for the WCHA Final Five, a holdover from previous tournaments where it was used as the collective name of the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination 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

<small>Note: * denotes overtime periods</small>

Results

First round

<small>All times are local.</small>

(1) Ferris State vs. (8) Bemidji State

(2) Minnesota State vs. (7) Northern Michigan

(3) Alaska vs. (6) Alaska–Anchorage

(4) Bowling Green vs. (5) Michigan Tech

Semifinals

<small>All times are local (UTC−4).</small>

(2) Minnesota State vs. (4) Bowling Green

(1) Ferris State vs. (6) Alaska–Anchorage

Championship

<small>All times are local (UTC−4).</small>

(1) Ferris State vs. (2) Minnesota State

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Most Valuable Player(s)

References

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