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The 2014 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the first tournament in conference history, and was played between March 20 and March 22, 2014 at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[1] The winner of the tournament was the Wisconsin Badgers, who earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2014 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 on Thursday, No. 3 played No. 6 and No. 4 played No. 5. On Friday, No. 2 played the winner of the first game and No. 1 played the winner of the second game (the teams were not reseeded). The two semifinal winners played each other on Saturday in the final.[2]

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
#2 Minnesotadagger 20 14 3 3 0 45 59 37 36 25 5 6 125 72
#4 Wisconsin* 20 13 6 1 0 40 63 46 34 22 10 2 111 85
#15 Michigan 20 10 8 2 1 33 68 59 34 18 12 4 106 87
#20 Ohio State 20 6 9 5 4 27 53 55 34 16 13 5 109 93
Michigan State 20 5 9 6 4 25 42 55 35 11 17 7 78 91
Penn State 20 3 16 1 0 10 42 75 34 7 25 2 77 126
Championship: Wisconsin
dagger indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014

Bracket[]

  Quarterfinals
March 20
    Semifinals
March 21
    Championship
March 22
                           
        2 Wisconsin 2  
  3 Michigan 1     6 Penn State 1    
  6 Penn State 2**         2 Wisconsin 5*
      4 Ohio State 4
        1 Minnesota 1    
  4 Ohio State 2*     4 Ohio State 3  
  5 Michigan State 1  

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Quarterfinals[]

All times are local (UTC−5).

(3) Michigan vs. (6) Penn State[]

March 20 Michigan 1–2 2OT Penn State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period 19:37 - Taylor Holstrom (8) - (Juha, Goodwin)
Phil Di Giuseppe (13) - (Nieves) - 11:06 Third period No scoring
No scoring Second overtime period 12:47 - Zach Saar (5) - (Richard)
Zach Nagelvoort (63 saves / 65 shots) Goalie stats Matthew Skoff (52 saves / 53 shots)


(4) Ohio State vs. (5) Michigan State[]

March 20 Ohio State 2–1 OT Michigan State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period 4:04 - Greg Wolfe (13) - (Reimer)
Tanner Fritz (7) - (Greco, Gedig) - 16:26 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period No scoring
Drew Brevig (3) - (Fritz, McCormick) - 4:23 First overtime period No scoring
Christian Frey (26 saves / 27 shots) Goalie stats Jake Hildebrand (32 saves / 34 shots)


Semifinals[]

All times are local (UTC−5).

(2) Wisconsin vs. (6) Penn State[]

March 21 Wisconsin 2–1 Penn State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
Michael Mersch (21) - (Dahl, Zulinick) - 1:27
Michael Mersch (22) - PP - (Zengerle, Kerdiles) - 19:49
Second period 0:55 - Curtis Loik - (Brooks, Glen)
No scoring Third period No scoring
Joel Rumpel (24 saves / 25 shots) Goalie stats Matthew Skoff (32 saves / 34 shots)


(1) Minnesota vs. (4) Ohio State[]

March 21 Minnesota 1–3 Ohio State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
No scoring First period 15:20 - PP - Nick Schilkey (13) - (Fritz, McCormick)
Kyle Rau (12) - (Cammarata, Boyd) - 4:47 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period 9:08 - Ryan Dzingel (21) - (Lundey)
19:33 - EN - Anthony Greco (5) - (Brevig)
Adam Wilcox (22 saves / 24 shots) Goalie stats Christian Frey (30 saves / 31 shots)


Championship[]

All times are local (UTC−5).

(2) Wisconsin vs. (4) Ohio State[]

March 22 Wisconsin 5–4 OT Ohio State Xcel Energy Center Recap  
Jake McCabe (8) - (Zengerle, Kerdiles) - PP - 19:37 First period 4:51 - Ryan Dzingel (22) - (Oddo, Brevig)
8:56 - Nick Oddo (9) - (Schilkey, Dzingel)
Morgan Zulinick (4) - (Soleway, Simonelli) - PP - 11:24 Second period 12:40 - Clark Cristofoli (1) - (McCormick, Oddo)
Jefferson Dahl (4) - (Zulinick, McCabe) - 13:38
Tyler Barnes (13) (Kerdiles, Zengerle) - 13:56
Third period 13:08 - Tanner Fritz (8) - (McCormick, Cristofoli)
Mark Zengerle (10) - (Barnes, Kerdiles) - 7:48 First overtime period No scoring
Joel Rumpel (28 saves / 32 shots) Goalie stats Christian Frey (31 saves / 36 shots)


Tournament awards[]

Most Outstanding Player[]

All-Tournament Team[]

References[]

  1. 2014 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved on March 25, 2014.
  2. Jovenitti, Tony. "Big Ten Tournament Preview", March 19, 2014. Retrieved on March 25, 2014. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. 
  3. 2014 All-Tournament Team. BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference (March 22, 2014). Retrieved on March 22, 2015.

External links[]

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