1969_WCHA_Men's_Ice_Hockey_Tournament

1969 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

1969 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

College ice hockey tournament


The 1969 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament was the 10th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 6 and March 8, 1969. All East Regional games were played at the Weinberg Coliseum in Ann Arbor, Michigan while West Regional games were held at the DU Arena in Denver, Colorado. By winning the regional tournaments, both the East Regional Champion†, Michigan Tech, and West Regional Champion‡, Denver, were invited to participate in the 1969 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey tournament.

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Format

All member teams in the WCHA were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to the final conference standings. The eight teams were then divided into two separate groups by placing all three teams from Michigan in the east region, held at the Weinberg Coliseum, and all teams west of Minnesota were placed in the west region, held at the DU Arena. The remaining two Minnesota-based universities were divided so that Minnesota went into the east region and Minnesota-Duluth went into the west region. Once each regional group was set the teams were reseeded No. 1 to No. 4 according to their final conference standings. In the Second round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds in each region were matched in a single game with the winners advancing to their regional final games. The winners of the two championship games were declared as co-conference tournament champions.

Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PCT = Winning percentage; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against

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Bracket

Regional semifinals
March 6–7
Regional Finals
March 8
      
E1 Michigan Tech 4
E4 Michigan State 2
E1 Michigan Tech 7
East Regional
E2 Michigan 4
E2 Michigan 8
E3 Minnesota 4
W1 Denver 4
W4 Minnesota-Duluth 1
W1 Denver 3
West Regional
W3 Colorado College 1
W2 North Dakota 4
W3 Colorado College 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

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East Regional

Semifinals

(1) Michigan Tech vs. (4) Michigan State

March 7 Michigan Tech 4 – 2 Michigan State Weinberg Coliseum

(2) Michigan vs. (3) Minnesota

March 7 Michigan 8 – 4 Minnesota Weinberg Coliseum

Finals

(1) Michigan Tech vs. (2) Michigan

March 8 Michigan Tech 7 – 4 Michigan Weinberg Coliseum

West Regional

Semifinals

(1) Denver vs. (4) Minnesota-Duluth

March 6 Denver 4 – 1 Minnesota-Duluth DU Arena

(2) North Dakota vs. (3) Colorado College

March 7 North Dakota 4 – 5 Colorado College DU Arena

Finals

(1) Denver vs. (3) Colorado College

March 8 Denver 3 – 1 Colorado College DU Arena

Tournament awards

None

See also


References

  1. "Michigan Tech Men's Team History". Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  2. "Denver Men's Team History". Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  3. "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 97-112" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  4. "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved June 1, 2014.

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