2014 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament

2014 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament
DatesMarch 20–22, 2014
Teams6
Finals siteXcel Energy Center
Saint Paul, Minnesota
ChampionsWisconsin (1st title)
Winning coachMike Eaves (1st title)
MVPMark Zengerle (Wisconsin)
Big Ten men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

The 2014 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the first tournament in conference history, and was played between March 20 and March 22, 2014 at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[1] The winner of the tournament was the Wisconsin Badgers, who earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

All six Big Ten teams participated in the tournament, which was a single-elimination format. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings. In the quarterfinals on Thursday, No. 3 played No. 6 and No. 4 played No. 5. On Friday, No. 2 played the winner of the first game and No. 1 played the winner of the second game (the teams were not reseeded). The two semifinal winners played each other on Saturday in the final.[2]

Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2013–14 Big Ten ice hockey standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T SOW PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#2 Minnesota† 20 14 3 3 0 45 59 37 41 28 7 6 143 86
#7 Wisconsin* 20 13 6 1 0 40 63 46 37 24 11 2 120 95
#16 Michigan 20 10 8 2 1 33 68 59 35 18 13 4 107 89
#20 Ohio State 20 6 9 5 4 27 53 55 37 18 14 5 119 100
Michigan State 20 5 9 6 4 25 42 55 36 11 18 7 79 93
Penn State 20 3 16 1 0 10 42 75 36 8 26 2 80 129
Championship: Wisconsin
† indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014

Bracket

Quarterfinals
March 20 		Semifinals
March 21 		Championship
March 22
2 Wisconsin 2
3 Michigan 1 6 Penn State 1
6 Penn State 2** 2 Wisconsin 5*
4 Ohio State 4
1 Minnesota 1
4 Ohio State 2* 4 Ohio State 3
5 Michigan State 1

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Quarterfinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

(3) Michigan vs. (6) Penn State

March 20 Michigan 1–2 2OT Penn State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period 19:37 - Taylor Holstrom (8) - (Juha, Goodwin)
Phil Di Giuseppe (13) - (Nieves) - 11:06 Third period No scoring
No scoring Second overtime period 12:47 - Zach Saar (5) - (Richard)
Zach Nagelvoort (63 saves / 65 shots) Goalie stats Matthew Skoff (52 saves / 53 shots)


(4) Ohio State vs. (5) Michigan State

March 20 Ohio State 2–1 OT Michigan State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period 4:04 - Greg Wolfe (13) - (Reimer)
Tanner Fritz (7) - (Greco, Gedig) - 16:26 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period No scoring
Drew Brevig (3) - (Fritz, McCormick) - 4:23 First overtime period No scoring
Christian Frey (26 saves / 27 shots) Goalie stats Jake Hildebrand (32 saves / 34 shots)


Semifinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

(2) Wisconsin vs. (6) Penn State

March 21 Wisconsin 2–1 Penn State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
Michael Mersch (21) - (Dahl, Zulinick) - 1:27
Michael Mersch (22) - PP - (Zengerle, Kerdiles) - 19:49 		Second period 0:55 - Curtis Loik - (Brooks, Glen)
No scoring Third period No scoring
Joel Rumpel (24 saves / 25 shots) Goalie stats Matthew Skoff (32 saves / 34 shots)


(1) Minnesota vs. (4) Ohio State

March 21 Minnesota 1–3 Ohio State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period 15:20 - PP - Nick Schilkey (13) - (Fritz, McCormick)
Kyle Rau (12) - (Cammarata, Boyd) - 4:47 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 9:08 - Ryan Dzingel (21) - (Lundey)
19:33 - EN - Anthony Greco (5) - (Brevig)
Adam Wilcox (22 saves / 24 shots) Goalie stats Christian Frey (30 saves / 31 shots)


Championship

All times are local (UTC−5).

(2) Wisconsin vs. (4) Ohio State

March 22 Wisconsin 5–4 OT Ohio State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
Jake McCabe (8) - (Zengerle, Kerdiles) - PP - 19:37 First period 4:51 - Ryan Dzingel (22) - (Oddo, Brevig)
8:56 - Nick Oddo (9) - (Schilkey, Dzingel)
Morgan Zulinick (4) - (Soleway, Simonelli) - PP - 11:24 Second period 12:40 - Clark Cristofoli (1) - (McCormick, Oddo)
Jefferson Dahl (4) - (Zulinick, McCabe) - 13:38
Tyler Barnes (13) (Kerdiles, Zengerle) - 13:56 		Third period 13:08 - Tanner Fritz (8) - (McCormick, Cristofoli)
Mark Zengerle (10) - (Barnes, Kerdiles) - 7:48 First overtime period No scoring
Joel Rumpel (28 saves / 32 shots) Goalie stats Christian Frey (31 saves / 36 shots)


Tournament awards

Most Outstanding Player

All-Tournament Team

References

  1. ^ "2014 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament". BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  2. ^ Jovenitti, Tony; Jashvina Shah (March 19, 2014). "Big Ten Tournament Preview". College Hockey News. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  3. ^ "2014 All-Tournament Team" (PDF). BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 22, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2015.