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The 1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 35th conference playoff in league history and 42nd season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 11 and March 19, 1994. First round games were played at home team campus sites while all 'Final Five' matches were held at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee. By winning the tournament, Minnesota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All nine conference teams participated in the tournament as did Mankato State which was slated to join the WCHA as a full member in two years. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 9 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated while Mankato State was seeded tenth. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advanced to the Bradley Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses 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 and the remaining two playing in a quarterfinal game. The semifinal pitted the top remaining seed against the winner of the quarterfinal game while the two other teams that received byes were matched against one another with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a Third Place contest. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

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

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Quarterfinals

(1) Colorado College vs. (10) Michigan Tech

(2) Minnesota vs. (9) Denver

(3) Wisconsin vs. (8) North Dakota

(4) St. Cloud State vs. (7) Minnesota-Duluth

(5) Northern Michigan vs. (6) Alaska-Anchorage

Quarterfinal

(5) Northern Michigan vs. (10) Michigan Tech

Semifinals

(2) Minnesota vs. (10) Michigan Tech

(3) Wisconsin vs. (4) St. Cloud State

Third Place

(3) Wisconsin vs. (10) Michigan Tech

Championship

(2) Minnesota vs. (4) St. Cloud State

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

• F Brian Bonin (Minnesota)
• F Bill Lund (St. Cloud State)
• F Jeff Nielsen (Minnesota)
• D Mickey Elick (Wisconsin)
• D Chris McAlpine* (Minnesota)
• G Grant Sjerven (St. Cloud State)

* Most Valuable Player(s)

See also

• Western Collegiate Hockey Association men's champions

References

1. "Minnesota Men's Team History". Retrieved June 1, 2014.
2. "Doug Woog Year-by-Year Coaching Record". Retrieved June 1, 2014.
3. "WCHA Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
4. "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 113-128" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
5. "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved June 1, 2014.

External links

• WCHA.com
• 1993–94 WCHA Standings
• 1993–94 NCAA Standings
• 2012–13 Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves Media Guide
• 2013–14 Colorado College Tigers Media Guide
• 2013–14 Denver Pioneers Media Guide
• 2013–14 Minnesota Golden Gophers Media Guide Archived 2014-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
• 2012–13 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs Media Guide
• 2013–14 North Dakota Hockey Media Guide
• 2006–07 Northern Michigan Wildcats Media Guide
• 2011–12 St. Cloud State Huskies Media Guide
• 2003–04 Wisconsin Badgers Media Guide

• WCHA men's ice hockey tournament
• 1993–94 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season