| 1999 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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| Dates | March 12–20, 1999 |
| Teams | 10 |
| Finals site | Target Center Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Champions | Denver[1] (12th title) |
| Winning coach | George Gwozdecky[2] (1st title) |
| MVP | Stephen Wagner[3] (Denver) |
| Attendance | 42,226 |
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments
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The 1999 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 40th conference playoff in league history and 47th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 1999 tournament played between March 12 and March 20, 1999, at five conference arenas and the Target CenterinMinneapolis, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Denver was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All nine conference teams participated in the tournament as did Mankato State which was slated to join the WCHA as a full member the following year. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 9 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated while Mankato State was seeded tenth. 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 Target 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.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
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| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #5 North Dakota† | 28 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 50 | 142 | 76 | 40 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 199 | 104 | |
| #6 Colorado College | 28 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 40 | 103 | 68 | 42 | 29 | 12 | 1 | 169 | 111 | |
| #8 Denver* | 28 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 32 | 101 | 95 | 41 | 26 | 13 | 2 | 154 | 126 | |
| Wisconsin | 28 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 29 | 76 | 81 | 38 | 15 | 19 | 4 | 98 | 110 | |
| Minnesota | 28 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 26 | 90 | 99 | 43 | 15 | 19 | 9 | 139 | 157 | |
| Alaska-Anchorage | 28 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 25 | 57 | 71 | 36 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 74 | 92 | |
| St. Cloud State | 28 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 20 | 79 | 95 | 39 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 122 | 122 | |
| Michigan Tech | 28 | 9 | 19 | 0 | 18 | 67 | 99 | 38 | 9 | 28 | 1 | 86 | 145 | |
| Minnesota-Duluth | 28 | 4 | 20 | 4 | 12 | 71 | 102 | 38 | 7 | 27 | 4 | 100 | 139 | |
| Championship: Denver † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Coaches Poll Top 10 Poll | ||||||||||||||
Teams are reseeded after the first round
| First round[4] March 12–14, 1999 | Quarterfinal[5] March 18, 1999 | Semifinals March 19, 1999 | Championship March 20, 1999 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | North Dakota | 2 | 3 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Mankato State | 3* | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | North Dakota | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Colorado College | 3 | 5* | — | 5 | Minnesota | 5 | 5 | Minnesota | 2 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Minnesota-Duluth | 1 | 4 | — | 7 | St. Cloud State | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Denver | 2 | 4 | — | 1 | North Dakota | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Michigan Tech | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | Denver | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Wisconsin | 2 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | St. Cloud State | 5 | 3 | — | 2 | Colorado College | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Denver | 3* | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Minnesota | 4 | 1 | — | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Alaska-Anchorage | 0 | 0 | — | ||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
| March 12[6] | North Dakota | 2 – 3 | OT | Mankato State | Ralph Engelstad Arena | |||
| Peter Armbrust - 19:04 | First period | 02:01 - Ryan Schrick 08:43 - Tim Wolfe | ||||||
| Mike Commodore - 08:46 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 05:14 - GW - Andy Fermoyle | ||||||
| Karl Goehring ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) | Goalie stats | Eric Pateman ( 44 saves / 46 shots ) | ||||||
| March 13[7] | North Dakota | 3 – 2 | Mankato State | Ralph Engelstad Arena | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | 01:31 - Tyler Baines | ||||||
| Jason Blake - 00:49 Lee Goren - 13:46 Brad Defauw - GW - 14:05 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 15:25 - Peter Holoien | ||||||
| Karl Goehring ( 28 saves / 30 shots ) | Goalie stats | Eric Pateman ( 39 saves / 42 shots ) | ||||||
| March 14[8] | North Dakota | 10 – 0 | Mankato State | Ralph Engelstad Arena | ||||
| Jeff Panzer - GW PP - 07:30 Adam Calder - 09:44 Jesse Bull - 14:45 Jason Blake - 15:18 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Jeff Panzer - 05:58 Peter Armbrust - 13:12 Brad Williamson - 13:38 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Brad Williamson - PP - 01:04 Jason Blake - 03:14 Wes Dorey - 03:38 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Karl Goehring ( 23 saves / 23 shots ) | Goalie stats | Eric Pateman ( 29 saves / 35 shots ) / Todd Kelzenberg ( 27 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
| North Dakota won series 2–1 | |
| March 12[9] | Colorado College | 3 – 1 | Minnesota-Duluth | Colorado Springs World Arena | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Jon Austin - 11:38 Justin Morrison - GW PP - 15:51 Jon Austin - EN - 19:57 |
Third period | 17:25 - Shawn Pogreba | ||||||
| Jeff Sanger ( 22 saves / 23 shots ) | Goalie stats | Brant Nicklin ( 37 saves / 39 shots ) | ||||||
| March 13[10] | Colorado College | 5 – 4 | OT | Minnesota-Duluth | Colorado Springs World Arena | |||
| Justin Morrison - 10:15 Trent Clark - 10:58 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Cam Kryway - 09:00 | Second period | 03:01 - Ryan Nosan 03:01 - SH - Jeff Scissons | ||||||
| Scott Swanson - PP - 00:58 | Third period | 13:20 - PP - Andy Reierson 19:18 - Jesse Fibiger | ||||||
| Brian Swanson - GW - 06:17 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| Jeff Sanger ( 31 saves / 35 shots ) | Goalie stats | Brant Nicklin ( 44 saves / 49 shots ) | ||||||
| Colorado College won series 2–0 | |
| March 12[11] | Denver | 2 – 1 | Michigan Tech | Denver Coliseum | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Bryce Wallnutt - 07:21 Bjorn Engstrom - GW - 08:33 |
Second period | 00:27 - Devin Hartnell | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Stephen Wagner ( 18 saves / 19 shots ) | Goalie stats | David Weninger ( 33 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
| March 13[12] | Denver | 4 – 2 | Michigan Tech | Denver Coliseum | ||||
| James Petterson - PP - 00:48 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Paul Veres - 04:47 | Second period | 11:35 - PP - Mat Snesrud 19:31 - Matt Ulwelling | ||||||
| Bjorn Engstrom - GW - 08:32 Joe Ritson - EN - 19:31 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Stephen Wagner ( 17 saves / 19 shots ) | Goalie stats | David Weninger ( 26 saves / 29 shots ) | ||||||
| Denver won series 2–0 | |
| March 10[13] | Wisconsin | 2 – 5 | St. Cloud State | Kohl Center | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | 06:03 - PP - Jason Goulet 12:28 - Matt Noga | ||||||
| Dave Tanabe - PP - 02:37 Dustin Kuk - 19:15 |
Second period | 04:47 - GW - Ryan Forbes 17:02 - PP - Jason Goulet | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:27 - EN - George Awada | ||||||
| Graham Melanson ( 28 saves / 32 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dean Weasler ( 36 saves / 38 shots ) | ||||||
| March 14[14] | Wisconsin | 2 – 3 | St. Cloud State | Kohl Center | ||||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Steven Reinprecht - PP - 17:11 | Second period | 10:44 - Tyler Arnason 13:11 - SH - Tyler Arnason | ||||||
| Kevin Granato - 10:19 | Third period | 11:45 - GW - George Awada | ||||||
| Graham Melanson ( 29 saves / 32 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dean Weasler ( 30 saves / 32 shots )) | ||||||
| St. Cloud State won series 2–0 | |
| March 12[15] | Minnesota | 4 – 0 | Alaska-Anchorage | Mariucci Arena | ||||
| Aaron Miskovich - GW - 10:53 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| John Pohl - 03:05 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Mike Anderson - 11:34 Erik Wendell - 15:14 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Adam Hauser ( 26 saves / 26 shots ) | Goalie stats | Gregg Naumenko ( 29 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||
| March 13[16] | Minnesota | 1 – 0 | Alaska-Anchorage | Mariucci Arena | ||||
| Rico Pagel - GW - 19:02 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Adam Hauser ( 17 saves / 17 shots ) | Goalie stats | Gregg Naumenko ( 31 saves / 32 shots ) | ||||||
| Minnesota won series 2–0 | |
| March 18[17] | Minnesota | 5 – 3 | St. Cloud State | Target Center | ||||
| Wyatt Smith - 00:09 Dave Spehar - 15:10 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Reggie Berg - PP - 16:29 | Second period | 15:47 - PP - George Awada | ||||||
| Dave Spehar - GW - 06:39 Reggie Berg - EN - 19:06 |
Third period | 10:29 - George Awada 12:00 - Matt Bailey | ||||||
| Adam Hauser ( 36 saves / 39 shots ) | Goalie stats | Dean Weasler ( 33 saves / 37 shots ) | ||||||
| March 19[18] | North Dakota | 6 – 2 | Minnesota | Target Center | ||||
| Jason Blake - 01:06 Jeff Panzer - 12:07 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Jeff Panzer - GW PP - 01:22 Jason Ulmer - 05:41 Brad Defauw - PP - 13:16 Brad Williamson - PP - 17:36 |
Second period | 04:33 - PP - Erik Wendell 12:05 - PP - Reggie Berg | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Karl Goehring ( 40 saves / 42 shots ) | Goalie stats | Adam Hauser ( 34 saves / 39 shots ) / Rob LaRue ( 0 saves / 1 shots ) | ||||||
| March 19[19] | Colorado College | 2 – 3 | OT | Denver | Target Center | |||
| K.J. Voorhees - 03:26 Justin Morrison - SH - 07:19 |
First period | 09:19 - Jon Newman 18:56 - Paul Comrie | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 08:38 - GW - Paul Veres | ||||||
| Jeff Sanger ( 33 saves / 36 shots ) | Goalie stats | Stephen Wagner ( 39 saves / 41 shots ) | ||||||
| March 20[20] | Colorado College | 7 – 4 | Minnesota | Target Center | ||||
| Scott Swanson - PP - 04:57 Mike Stuart - PP - 08:46 |
First period | 06:06 - PP - John Pohl | ||||||
| Justin Morrison - 00:43 Justin Morrison - 06:06 Cam Kryway - GW - 11:31 Jesse Heerema - 12:33 |
Second period | 03:29 - Mike Anderson 05:19 - PP - Dave Spehar | ||||||
| Justin Morrison - EN - 19:30 | Third period | 09:30 - PP - Aaron Miskovich | ||||||
| Colin Zulianello ( 25 saves / 29 shots ) | Goalie stats | Adam Hauser ( 7 saves / 10 shots ) / Rob LaRue ( 20 saves / 23 shots ) | ||||||
| March 20[21] | North Dakota | 3 – 4 | Denver | Target Center | ||||
| Peter Armbrust - 03:36 Jeff Ulmer - 17:43 |
First period | 09:54 - PP - Paul Comrie | ||||||
| Brad Defauw - 05:57 | Second period | 08:01 - PP - Paul Veres 14:35 - Joe Ritson | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 04:46 - GW - Shawn Kurulak | ||||||
| Karl Goehring ( 28 saves / 31 shots ) | Goalie stats | Stephen Wagner ( 33 saves / 35 shots ) | ||||||
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