The 2017 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States, held from March 24 - April 8, 2017. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four â the semifinals and finals â was hosted by the University of Notre Dame and the Chicago Sports Commission at the United Center in Chicago.
Denver defeated Minnesota-Duluth 3âÂÂ2 to win the program's 8th NCAA title.
The tournament is composed of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following were the sites for the 2017 regionals:
The winner of each regional advanced to the Frozen Four:
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 19. Hockey East had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, NCHC had four teams receive a berth, ECAC Hockey had three teams receive a berth, Big Ten Conference had three teams receive a berth, and one team from the Atlantic Hockey, and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) received a berth.
<small>Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.</small>
<small>Note: * denotes overtime period</small>
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Most Outstanding Player(s)
ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament for the thirteenth consecutive year. ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, or ESPN3 and streamed them online via WatchESPN.
In Canada, the tournament was broadcast by TSN and streamed on TSN Go.
Regionals
Frozen Four
Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and will air both the semifinals and the championship.