2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 13 and March 21, 2009 at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Minnesota-Duluth won their third WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
==Format==
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.
The winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five used 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.
===Conference Standings===
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
====Tiebreakers====
*Wisconsin and Colorado College each finished the regular season with 31 points. Wisconsin won the tiebreaker, having the better head-to-head record of the two teams.
==Bracket==
===First round===
====(1) North Dakota vs. (10) Michigan Tech====
====(2) Denver vs. (9) Alaska-Anchorage====
====(3) Wisconsin vs. (8) Minnesota State====
====(4) Colorado College vs. (7) Minnesota-Duluth====
====(5) Minnesota vs. (6) St. Cloud State====
===Quarterfinal===
====(4) Minnesota vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth====
===Semifinals===
====(1) North Dakota vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth====
====(2) Denver vs. (3) Wisconsin====
===Third place===
====(1) North Dakota vs. (3) Wisconsin====
===Championship===
====(2) Denver vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth====
==Tournament awards==
===All-Tournament Team===
*Goaltender: Alex Stalock (Minnesota-Duluth)
*Defensemen: Josh Meyers (Minnesota-Duluth), Patrick Wiercioch (Denver)
*Forwards: Mike Connolly (Minnesota-Duluth), Jordy Murray (Wisconsin), MacGregor Sharp (Minnesota-Duluth)
===MVP===
*Alex Stalock (Minnesota-Duluth)
==References==
==External links==
*2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Category:2009 in hockey
Category:Western Collegiate Hockey Association
Category:NCAA Tournaments