2018 NCHC Tournament

The 2018 NCHC Tournament was the fifth tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 17, 2018. Quarterfinal games 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, Denver received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2018 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.
===Conference standings===
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
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	National Collegiate Hockey Conference
Team 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	SL 	GF 	GA 	Pts
St. Cloud State Huskies 	24 	19 	2 	3 	2 	94 	52 	62
Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs 	24 	14 	9 	1 	0 	75 	48 	43
Western Michigan Broncos 	24 	13 	10 	1 	1 	80 	78 	41
Denver Pioneers 	24 	11 	10 	3 	3 	54 	55 	39
North Dakota Fighting Hawks 	24 	12 	11 	1 	0 	59 	58 	37
Colorado College Tigers 	24 	9 	12 	3 	0 	65 	65 	30
Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks 	24 	5 	17 	2 	1 	56 	89 	18
Miami RedHawks 	24 	5 	17 	2 	1 	49 	87 	18
==Bracket==
Teams are reseeded after the first round
* denotes overtime periods
==Results==
All times are local.
===Quarterfinals===
====(1) St. Cloud State vs. (8) Miami====
====(2) Denver vs. (7) Colorado College====
====(3) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (6) Western Michigan====
====(4) North Dakota vs. (5) Omaha====
===Semifinals===
====(1) St. Cloud State vs. (4) North Dakota====
====(2) Denver vs. (3) Minnesota–Duluth====
===Third place===
====(3) Minnesota–Duluth vs. (4) North Dakota====
===Championship===
====(1) St. Cloud State vs. (2) Denver====
==Tournament awards==
===Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team===
*F Henrik Borgström (Denver)
*F Nick Poehling (St. Cloud State)
*F Logan O’Connor (Denver)
*D Ian Mitchell (Denver)
*D Jack Ahcan (St. Cloud State)
*G Tanner Jaillet* (Denver)
* Most Valuable Player(s)
==References==
NCHC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2018
Category:Ice hockey in Minnesota
Category:2018 in hockey