2022 NCHC Tournament

The 2022 NCHC Tournament was the ninth tournament in league history. It was played between March 11 and 19, 2022. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four matches were held at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As the tournament winner, Minnesota Duluth earned the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
==Format==
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were 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 advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.
===Standings===
==Bracket==
Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals
* denotes overtime periods
==Results==
===Quarterfinals===
====(1) Denver vs. (8) Miami====
Denver Won Series 2–0	
====(2) North Dakota vs. (7) Colorado College====
North Dakota Won Series 2–0	
====(3) Western Michigan vs. (6) Omaha====
Western Michigan Won Series 2–0	
====(4) St. Cloud State vs. (5) Minnesota Duluth====
Minnesota Duluth Won Series 2–0	
===Semifinals===
====(1) Denver vs. (5) Minnesota Duluth====
====(2) North Dakota vs. (3) Western Michigan====
===Championship===
====(3) Western Michigan vs. (5) Minnesota Duluth====
==Tournament awards==
===Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team===
*F: Blake Biondi (Minnesota Duluth)
*F: Ty Glover (Western Michigan)
*F: Dominic James (Minnesota Duluth)
*D: Ronnie Attard (Western Michigan)
*D: Wyatt Kaiser (Minnesota Duluth)
*G: Ryan Fanti* (Minnesota Duluth)
* Most Valuable Player(s)
==References==
NCHC Tournament
Category:National Collegiate Hockey Conference Tournament
Category:Ice hockey in Minnesota