College ice hockey tournament
The 2016 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the third tournament in conference history played between March 17 and March 19, 2016 at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota .[1] The winner of the tournament was the Michigan Wolverines , who earned the Big Ten 's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament .
Format
All six Big Ten teams participated in the tournament, which was a single-elimination format. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings. In the quarterfinals, No. 3 played No. 6 and No. 4 played No. 5. In the semifinals, No. 2 played the winner of the first game and No. 1 played the winner of the second game (the teams are not reseeded ). The two semifinal winners played each other in the Championship Game.
Conference standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Conference record
Overall record
GP
W
L
T
SOW
PTS
GF
GA
GP
W
L
T
GF
GA
Minnesota †
20
14
6
0
0
42
76
58
37
20
17
0
121
108
#6 Michigan *
20
12
5
3
2
41
107
68
38
25
8
5
181
115
Penn State
20
10
9
1
1
32
64
72
38
21
13
4
140
122
Ohio State
20
8
8
4
1
29
79
77
36
14
18
4
128
125
Michigan State
20
6
12
2
0
21
47
72
37
10
23
4
93
124
Wisconsin
20
3
13
4
2
15
54
80
35
8
19
8
93
127
Championship : March 18, 2017 † indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll ; updated March 12, 2016
Bracket
Quarterfinals [2] March 17
Semifinals March 18
Championship March 19
1
Minnesota
4
4
Ohio State
4*
4
Ohio State
2
5
Michigan State
3
1
Minnesota
3
2
Michigan
5
2
Michigan
7
3
Penn State
5
3
Penn State
2
6
Wisconsin
2
Note: * denotes overtime periods.
Quarterfinals
All times are local (CT ) (UTC−5 ).
(3) Penn State vs. (6) Wisconsin
March 17
Penn State
5 – 2
Wisconsin
Xcel Energy Center
Recap
Eric Scheid (12) - (Luke Juha, Kevin Kerr) - 12:55 Connor Varley (2) - (Eric Scheid, David Goodwin ) - 16:55
First period
No scoring
Ricky DeRosa (6) - (Luke Juha, Tommy Olczyk) - 13:18 Tommy Olczyk (11) - (Ricky DeRosa) - 14:53
Second period
3:49 - Luke Kunin (19) - (Cameron Hughes, Corbin McGuire)
Eric Scheid (13) - en - (David Goodwin, Luke Juha) - 19:16
Third period
3:26 - Grant Besse (11) - (Eddie Wittchow)
Eamon McAdam (35 saves / 37 shots)
Goalie stats
Matt Jurusik (24 saves / 28 shots)
(4) Ohio State vs. (5) Michigan State
March 17
Ohio State
4 – 3
OT
Michigan State
Xcel Energy Center
Recap
John Wiitala (11) - (Mason Jobst, David Gust ) - 0:38 Tommy Parran (2) - (Josh Healey, Kevin Miller) - 18:52
First period
No scoring
No scoring
Second period
5:15 - pp - Joe Cox (11) - (Travis Walsh, Matt DeBlouw) 8:24 - pp - Matt DeBlouw (9) - (Travis Walsh, Villiam Haac) 11:31 - pp - Michael Ferrantino (10) - (Zach Osburn, Mackenzi MacEachern)
Matthew Weis (11) - (Drew Brevig, Josh Healey) - 3:17
Third period
No Scoring
Mason Jobst (12) - (Craig Dalrymple) - 13:47
First overtime period
No scoring
Christian Frey (31 saves / 34 shots)
Goalie stats
Jake Hildebrand (44 saves / 48 shots)
Semifinals
(2) Michigan vs. (3) Penn State
March 18
Michigan
7 – 2
Penn State
Xcel Energy Center
Recap
Max Shuart (5) - (Michael Downing, Dexter Dancs) - 10:35 Alex Kile (16) - (Tyler Motte, J. T. Compher ) - pp - 16:55
First period
No scoring
Kyle Connor (31) - (J. T. Compher) - 0:48 Kyle Connor (32) - (J. T. Compher. Zach Werenski ) - pp - 5:29 Kyle Connor (33) - (J. T. Compher) - 9:09
Second period
11:45 - pp - Kevin Kerr - (David Goodwin, David Glen)
Cristoval Nieves (10) - (Nicholas Boka, Zach Werenski) - 0:46 Kyle Connor (34) - (J. T. Compher, Tyler Motte) - pp - 10:52
Third period
1:28 - pp - Luke Juha - (David Goodwin, Kevin Kerr)
Steve Racine (40 saves / 42 shots)
Goalie stats
Eamon McAdam (14 saves / 18 shots) Matthew Skoff (18 saves / 21 shots)
(1) Minnesota vs. (4) Ohio State
March 18
Minnesota
4 – 2
Ohio State
Xcel Energy Center
Recap
No scoring
First period
13:01 - Kevin Miller (4) - (Janik Möser)
No scoring
Second period
No scoring
Tyler Sheehy (12) - (Justin Kloos ) - 1:36Vinni Lettieri (7) - (Leon Bristedt, Brent Gates Jr.) - 5:20 Taylor Cammarata (6) - (Tyler Sheehy) - 11:11 Taylor Cammarata (7) - (Tyler Sheehy) - 16:38
Third period
17:44 - David Gust (11) - (Anthony Greco , Matthew Weis)
Eric Schierhorn (27 saves / 29 shots)
Goalie stats
Christian Frey (41 saves / 45 shots)
Championship
(1) Minnesota vs. (2) Michigan
March 19
Minnesota
3 – 5
Michigan
Xcel Energy Center
Recap
No scoring
First period
9:33 - pp - Tyler Motte (30) - (Kyle Connor , Zach Werenski )
Leon Bristedt (20) - (Vinni Lettieri , Jack Glover) - 6:35 Jake Bischoff (6) - (Michael Brodzinski, Justin Kloos ) - 10:21 Justin Kloos (16) - (Tommy Novak, Justin Kloos) - pp - 16:50
Second period
1:31 - pp - J. T. Compher (14) - Zach Werenski, Kyle Connor)
No scoring
Third period
3:28 - Kyle Connor (35) - (J. T. Compher, Zach Werenski) 15:27 - Zach Wereneski (10) - (J. T. Compher, Kyle Connor) 19:37 - en - Tyler Motte (31) - (Sam Piazza)
Eric Schierhorn (30 saves / 34 shots)
Goalie stats
Steve Racine (30 saves / 33 shots)
Tournament awards
References
External links