Dates March 13–21, 2009 | Teams 10 | |
Finals site Xcel Energy Center
St. Paul, Minnesota Champions Minnesota-Duluth (3rd title) Winning coach Scott Sandelin (1st title) MVP Alex Stalock (Minnesota-Duluth) | ||
The 2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 13 and March 21, 2009 at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Minnesota-Duluth won their third WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
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Format
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.
The winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.
Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Tiebreakers
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the first round
All-Tournament Team
* Most Valuable Player(s)