1982 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

The 1982 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 23rd conference playoff in league history and 30th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 4 and March 14, 1982. First round and semifinal games were played at home team campus sites while the championship match was held at the Winter Sports Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. By winning the tournament, Wisconsin received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

1982 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
DatesMarch 4–14, 1982
Teams6
Finals siteWinter Sports Center
Grand Forks, North Dakota
ChampionsWisconsin[1] (6th title)
Winning coachBob Johnson[2] (6th title)
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments

This as the first WCHA tournament held after the defection of four conference schools to the CCHA.

Format

All member teams were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. As a result of their receiving the Broadmoor Trophy, North Dakota's home venue, Winter Sports Center, served as the site for the Championship game regardless of which teams qualified for the penultimate match. Each series were two-game matchups with the team that scored the most goals advancing to the succeeding round. The top two seeded teams received byes into the semifinal round while the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed met in the first round. The teams that advanced to the semifinal were re-seeded according to the final regular season conference standings, with the first seed matched against lowest remaining seed in one semifinal game and the second seed meeting with the other advancing team with the winners meeting in the championship round. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

1981–82 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings
Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
North Dakota†26197038119814735120218143
Wisconsin*26187137126804735111255126
Minnesota2613112281031023622122153125
Denver269152201191324321193233197
Minnesota-Duluth269161191141414016213192201
Colorado College266182141051503611232152196
Championship: Wisconsin
† indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion

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Bracket

[4] Teams are reseeded after the first round

First Round
March 4–6 		Semifinals
March 9–10 		Championship
March 13–14
1 North Dakota 4 5
3 Minnesota 3 6 4 Denver 3 2
6 Colorado College 1 3 1 North Dakota 0 1
2 Wisconsin 9 3
2 Wisconsin 3 6
4 Denver 5 5 3 Minnesota 4 2
5 Minnesota-Duluth 2 5

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

(3) Minnesota vs. (6) Colorado College
March 5 Minnesota 3 – 1 Colorado College Williams Arena
March 6 Minnesota 6 – 3 Colorado College Williams Arena
Minnesota won series 9–4

(4) Denver vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth
March 4 Denver 5 – 2 Minnesota-Duluth DU Arena
March 5 Denver 5 – 5 Minnesota-Duluth DU Arena
Denver won series 10–7

(1) North Dakota vs. (4) Denver
March 9 North Dakota 4 – 3 Denver Winter Sports Center
March 10 North Dakota 5 – 2 Denver Winter Sports Center
North Dakota won series 9–5

(2) Wisconsin vs. (3) Minnesota
March 9 Wisconsin 3 – 4 Minnesota Dane County Coliseum
March 10 Wisconsin 6 – 2 Minnesota Dane County Coliseum
Wisconsin won series 9–6

(1) North Dakota vs. (2) Wisconsin
March 13 North Dakota 0 – 9 Wisconsin Winter Sports Center
March 14 North Dakota 1 – 3 Wisconsin Winter Sports Center
Wisconsin won series 12–1

Tournament awards

None

See also

References
  1. "Wisconsin Men's Team History". Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  2. "Bob Johnson Year-by-Year Coaching Record". Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  3. "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 113-128" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  4. "2009-10 WCHA Yearbook 129-144" (PDF). WCHA. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
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