2019 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament
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| 2019 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 8–23, 2019 |
| Teams | 7 |
| Finals site | Compton Family Ice Arena Notre Dame, Indiana |
| Champions | Notre Dame (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Jeff Jackson (2nd title) |
| MVP | Cale Morris (Notre Dame) |
Big Ten men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2019 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the sixth tournament in conference history. It was played between March 8 and March 23, 2019, on-campus locations. By Winning the tournament Notre Dame earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format[edit]
The 2019 tournament features a format with all games taking place on the campus of the higher-seeded teams. The tournament opens March 8–10 with three best-of-three quarterfinal series, as the second, third and fourth-seeded teams each hosting a series. The top-seeded team has a bye to the single-elimination semifinals, which is played on March 16. The highest-seeded team remaining after the semifinals hosts the championship game on March 23.[1]
Conference standings[edit]
| Conference record | Overall record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | 3/SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #12 Ohio State † | 24 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 46 | 79 | 52 | 36 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 108 | 83 | |
| #10 Notre Dame * | 24 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 63 | 65 | 40 | 23 | 14 | 3 | 112 | 91 | |
| #20 Minnesota | 24 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 76 | 75 | 38 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 117 | 108 | |
| #17 Penn State | 24 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 101 | 96 | 39 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 177 | 139 | |
| Wisconsin | 24 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 69 | 81 | 37 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 113 | 130 | |
| Michigan | 24 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 76 | 75 | 36 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 110 | 114 | |
| Michigan State | 24 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 30 | 68 | 88 | 36 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 99 | 122 | |
| Championship: March 23, 2019 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll | |||||||||||||||
Bracket[edit]
Teams are reseeded for the semifinals
| Quarterfinals March 8–10[2] | Semifinals March 16/17 | Championship March 23 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ohio State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Penn State | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Notre Dame | 1 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Michigan State | 0 | 0 | — | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Penn State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Notre Dame | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Minnesota | 3* | 4 | — | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Michigan | 2 | 1 | — | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Notre Dame | 2* | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Minnesota | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Penn State | 3 | 6 | 4* | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Wisconsin | 4 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime periods.
Quarterfinals[edit]
(2) Notre Dame vs. (7) Michigan State[edit]
| March 8 | Michigan State | 0 – 1 | Notre Dame | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| First period | No scoring | |||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | Mike O'Leary (6) – (Spencer Stastney, Andrew Peeke) – 2:28 | ||||||
| John Lethemon (23 saves / 24 shots) | Goalie stats | Cale Morris (27 saves / 27 shots) | ||||||
| March 9 | Michigan State | 0 – 2 | Notre Dame | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| First period | Pierce Crawford (2) – (Jack Jenkins) – 2:01 | |||||||
| No scoring | Second period | Graham Slaggert (3) – (Cal Burke) – sh – 10:38 | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| John Lethemon (21 saves / 23 shots) | Goalie stats | Cale Morris (28 saves / 28 shots) | ||||||
| Notre Dame won series 2–0 | |
(3) Minnesota vs. (6) Michigan[edit]
| March 8 | Michigan | 2 – 3 | OT | Minnesota | 3M Arena at Mariucci | Recap | ||
| 8:28 – Michael Pastujov (9) – (Jake Slaker, Griffin Luce) | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| 1:08 – Will Lockwood (16) – (Nick Pastujov, Jack Becker) | Second period | Tyler Sheehy (12) – (Rem Pitlick, Brent Gates) – 4:42 | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | Blake McLaughlin (5) – (Sammy Walker, Sampo Ranta) – 9:06 | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | Brannon McManus (14) – (Rem Pitlick, Tommy Novak) – pp – 10:10 | ||||||
| Strauss Mann (28 saves / 31 shots) | Goalie stats | Mat Robson (32 saves / 34 shots) | ||||||
| March 9 | Michigan | 1 – 4 | Minnesota | 3M Arena at Mariucci | Recap | |||
| First period | Tommy Novak (4) – (Scott Reedy, Tyler Nanne) – 5:25 Scott Reedy (7) – (unassisted) – 12:42 Rem Pitlick (20) – (Tyler Sheehy) – 15:43 | |||||||
| No scoring | Second period | Rem Pitlick (20) – (Tyler Sheehy, Brannon McManus) – pp – 17:02 | ||||||
| 13:39 – Adam Winborg (4) – (Michael Pastujov, Nick Blankenburg) | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Strauss Mann (24 saves / 38 shots) | Goalie stats | Mat Robson (22 saves / 23 shots) | ||||||
| Minnesota won series 2–0 | |
(4) Penn State vs. (5) Wisconsin[edit]
| March 8 | Wisconsin | 4 – 3 | Penn State | Pegula Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| 11:07 – Tarek Baker (7) – (unassisted) 17:12 – pp – Sean Dhooghe (13) – (Wyatt Kalynuk, Linus Weissbach) |
First period | Alex Limoges (18) – (Liam Folkes, Cole Hults) – 18:20 | ||||||
| 7:28 – Sean Dhooghe (14) – (Max Zimmer, Tarek Baker) | Second period | |||||||
| 18:10 – Sean Dhooghe (15) – (Roman Ahcan, Seamus Malone) | Third period | Paul DeNaples (2) – (Liam Folkes, Evan Barratt) – 3:43 Alex Limoges (19) – (Evan Barratt, Liam Folkes) – pp – 7:48 | ||||||
| Daniel Lebedeff (37 saves / 40 shots) | Goalie stats | Peyton Jones (38 saves / 42 shots) | ||||||
| March 9 | Wisconsin | 2 – 6 | Penn State | Pegula Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| 3:27 – Linus Weissbach (8) – (Jack Gorniak) | First period | Alex Limoges (20) – (Adam Pilewicz, Alex Stevens) – 8:49 | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | Liam Folkes (15) – (Adam Pilewicz, Alex Limoges) – 2:43 Brandon Biro (15) – (Chase Berger) – 8:48 Nate Sucese (17) – (Ludvig Larsson, Paul DeNaples) – 11:40 Evan Bell (1) – (Brandon Biro, Liam Folkes) – pp – 16:06 | ||||||
| 8:01 – Matthew Freytag (7) – (Seamus Malone) | Third period | Alex Limoges (21) – (Liam Folkes, James Gobetz) – 15:37 | ||||||
| Daniel Lebedeff (34 saves / 39 shots) Jack Berry (11 saves / 12 shots) |
Goalie stats | Peyton Jones (24 saves / 25 shots) | ||||||
| March 10 | Wisconsin | 3 – 4 | OT | Penn State | Pegula Ice Arena | Recap | ||
| 5:24 – Brock Caufield (6) – (Wyatt Kalynuk, Dominick Mersch) | First period | Liam Folkes (16) – (Denis Smirnov) – 1:18 | ||||||
| 9:46 – pp – Max Zimmer (4) – (Sean Dhooghe, Seamus Malone) 10:10 – Josh Ess – (Max Zimmer) |
Second period | Cole Hults (5) – (Ludvig Larsson) – pp – 4:09 Alex Limoges (16) – (Liam Folkes, Paul DeNaples) – 18:54 | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | Liam Folkes (17) – (Alex Limoges, Evan Barratt) – 10:50 | ||||||
| Daniel Lebedeff (46 saves/ 50 shots) | Goalie stats | Peyton Jones (36 saves/ 39 shots) | ||||||
| Penn State won series 2–1 | |
Semifinals[edit]
(2) Notre Dame vs. (3) Minnesota[edit]
| March 16 | Minnesota | 1 – 2 | OT | Notre Dame | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | ||
| 5:44 – Sampo Ranta (6) – (Ben Brinkman, Sammy Walker) | First period | Cam Morrison (9) – (Mike O'Leary, Michael Graham) – 2:00 | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | Michael Graham (12) – (Andrew Peeke, Mike O'Leary) – pp – 0:53 | ||||||
| Mat Robson (35 saves/ 37 shots) | Goalie stats | Cale Morris (25 saves/ 26 shots) | ||||||
(1) Ohio State vs. (4) Penn State[edit]
| March 17 | Penn State | 5 – 1 | Ohio State | Value City Arena | Recap | |||
| 11:23 – Liam Folkes (18) – (Alex Limoges) 19:59 – Alex Limoges (23) – (Evan Barratt, Evan Bell) |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| 14:52 – pp – Brandon Biro (16) – (Kris Myllari, Chase Berger) | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| 2:22 – Nate Sucese (18) – (unassisted) 19:13 – sh, en – Nate Sucese (19) – (Ludvig Larsson, Evan Bell) |
Third period | John Wiitala (9) – (Gordi Myer) – 15:38 | ||||||
| Peyton Jones (31 saves/ 32 shots) | Goalie stats | Tommy Nappier (31 saves/ 35 shots) | ||||||
Championship[edit]
(2) Notre Dame vs. (4) Penn State[edit]
| March 23 | Penn State | 2 – 3 | Notre Dame | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| 8:04 – Sam Sternschein (9) – (Nikita Pavlychev, Evan Bell) 16:53 – Alec Marsh (7) – (Brandon Biro, Chase Berger) |
First period | Spencer Stastney (1) – (Graham Slaggert) – 3:43 Cal Burke (12) – (Colin Theisen, Andrew Peeke) – 16:19 | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | Cam Morrison (10) – (Mike O'Leary, Bobby Nardella) – 18:24 | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Peyton Jones (26 saves/ 29 shots) | Goalie stats | Cale Morris (46 saves/ 48 shots) | ||||||
Tournament awards[edit]
All-Tournament Team[edit]
- G: Cale Morris* (Notre Dame)
- D: Andrew Peeke (Notre Dame)
- D: Spencer Stastney (Notre Dame)
- F: Cam Morrison (Notre Dame)
- F: Liam Folkes (Penn State)
- F: Alex Limoges (Penn State)
References[edit]
- ^ "2019 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament". BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 2, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ "Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Bracket Announced". BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 3, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ^ "2019 All-Tournament Team" (PDF). BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 24, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2019.