2008 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament


The 2008 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 14 and March 22, 2008 at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Denver was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I 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 hosted 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 uses 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

Teams are reseeded after the first round
Note: * denotes overtime period

First Round

(1) Colorado College vs. (10) Alaska-Anchorage

(2) North Dakota vs. (9) Michigan Tech

(3) Denver vs. (8) Minnesota–Duluth

(4) Minnesota State vs. (7) Minnesota

(5) St. Cloud State vs. (6) Wisconsin

Quarterfinal

(5) St. Cloud State vs. (7) Minnesota

Semifinals

(1) Colorado College vs. (7) Minnesota

(2) North Dakota vs. (3) Denver

Third Place

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

Championship

(3) Denver vs. (7) Minnesota

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team">List of WCHA All-Tournament Team">All-Tournament Team

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