2019 NCHC Tournament

The 2019 NCHC Tournament is the sixth tournament in league history. It was played between March 15 and 23, 2019. Quarterfinal were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota-Duluth received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
==Format==
The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All eight conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.
The winners of the first round series advance to the Xcel Energy Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.
Game 1 of the series between Western Michigan and Colorado College was delayed 1 day due to the effects from Winter Storm Ulmer.
===Standings===
National Collegiate Hockey Conference	National Collegiate Hockey Conference	National Collegiate Hockey Conference	National Collegiate Hockey Conference	National Collegiate Hockey Conference	National Collegiate Hockey Conference	National Collegiate Hockey Conference	National Collegiate Hockey Conference
Team 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	GF 	GA 	Pts
St. Cloud State Huskies 	24 	16 	4 	4 	93 	59 	53
Denver Pioneers 	24 	12 	6 	6 	76 	53 	46
Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs 	24 	13 	11 	0 	79 	56 	39
North Dakota Fighting Hawks 	24 	8 	10 	6 	71 	68 	33
Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks 	24 	10 	13 	1 	75 	97 	31
Western Michigan Broncos 	24 	10 	13 	1 	82 	94 	31
Colorado College Tigers 	24 	8 	12 	4 	63 	85 	31
Miami RedHawks 	24 	6 	14 	4 	62 	89 	24
==Bracket==
Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals
* denotes overtime periods
==Results==
All times are local.
===Quarterfinals===
====(1) St. Cloud State vs. (8) Miami ====
====(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (7) Omaha ====
====(3) Western Michigan vs. (6) Colorado College====
====(4) Denver vs. (5) North Dakota ====
===Semifinals===
====(1) St. Cloud State vs. (6) Colorado College====
====(2) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (4) Denver====
===Third place===
====(4) Denver vs. (6) Colorado College====
===Championship===
====(1) St. Cloud State vs. (2) Minnesota–Duluth====
==Tournament awards==
===Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team===
*F Robby Jackson (St. Cloud State)
*F Blake Lizotte (St. Cloud State)
*F Patrick Newell (St. Cloud State)
*D Jimmy Schuldt (St. Cloud State)
*D Mikey Anderson (Minnesota–Duluth)
*G Hunter Shepard* (Minnesota–Duluth)
* Most Valuable Player(s)
==References==
NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2019
Category:Ice hockey in Minnesota