2023 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament
| 2023 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 3–18, 2023 |
| Teams | 7 |
| Finals site | 3M Arena at Mariucci Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Champions | Michigan (3rd title) |
| Winning coach | Brandon Naurato (1st title) |
| MVP | Adam Fantilli (Michigan) |
Big Ten men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2023 Big Ten Conference men's ice hockey tournament was the ninth tournament in conference history. It was played between March 3 and March 18, 2023, on-campus locations. As the tournament winner, Michigan earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.
Format
The tournament featured a format with all games taking place on the campus of the higher-seeded teams. The tournament opened with three best-of-three quarterfinal series, as the second, third and fourth-seeded teams each hosting a series. The top-seeded team had a bye to the single-elimination semifinals. The highest-seeded team remaining after the semifinals hosted the championship game.[1]
Conference standings
| Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | OTW | OTL | 3/SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | |||
| #2 Minnesota † | 24 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 106 | 50 | 40 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 168 | 90 | ||
| #3 Michigan * | 24 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 82 | 79 | 41 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 171 | 128 | ||
| #7 Ohio State | 24 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 69 | 63 | 40 | 21 | 16 | 3 | 131 | 101 | ||
| Notre Dame | 24 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 35 | 52 | 60 | 37 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 85 | 97 | ||
| #19 Michigan State | 24 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 65 | 80 | 38 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 107 | 115 | ||
| #8 Penn State | 24 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 71 | 75 | 39 | 22 | 16 | 1 | 129 | 106 | ||
| Wisconsin | 24 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 54 | 92 | 36 | 13 | 23 | 0 | 94 | 126 | ||
| Championship: March 18, 2023 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll | ||||||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams were reseeded for the semifinals
| Quarterfinals March 3–5[2] | Semifinals March 11 | Championship March 18 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Minnesota | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Michigan State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Michigan | 6* | 7 | — | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Wisconsin | 5 | 4 | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Minnesota | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Michigan | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State | 5 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Penn State | 1 | 2* | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Michigan | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Notre Dame | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Michigan State | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime periods.
Results
Quarterfinals
(2) Michigan vs. (7) Wisconsin
| March 3 | Wisconsin | 5 – 6 | OT | Michigan | Yost Ice Arena | Recap | ||
| Sam Stange – (Tyson Jugnauth) – 13:02 Mathieu De St. Phalle – (Sam Stange, Ben Dexheimer) – 11:42 |
First period | 18:31 – Mackie Samoskevich – (Dylan Duke, Seamus Casey) | ||||||
| Mathieu De St. Phalle – (Brock Caufield, Corson Ceulemans) – pp – 3:16 | Second period | 9:38 – Seamus Casey – (T.J. Hughes, Dylan Duke) 8:34 – Adam Fantilli – (Gavin Brindley, Seamus Casey) 0:18 – pp – Adam Fantilli – (Luke Hughes, Gavin Brindley) | ||||||
| Mathieu De St. Phalle – (Cruz Lucius) – 13:40 Dominick Mersch – (Zach Urdahl) – 13:21 |
Third period | 0:23 – Mackie Samoskevich – (Luke Hughes, Adam Fantilli) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 10:54 – Steven Holtz – (Rutger McGroarty, Jay Keranen) | ||||||
| Kyle McClellan (30 saves / 36 shots) | Goalie stats | Erik Portillo (38 saves / 43 shots) | ||||||
| March 4 | Wisconsin | 4 – 7 | Michigan | Yost Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| Cruz Lucius – (Mathieu De St. Phalle, Corson Ceulemans) – pp – 9:11 | First period | 11:53 – Rutger McGroarty – (Mackie Samoskevich, Adam Fantilli) 6:17 – pp – Adam Fantilli – (Luke Hughes, Gavin Brindley) 1:02 – Adam Fantilli – (Steven Holtz, Jay Keranen) | ||||||
| Mathieu De St. Phalle – (Cruz Lucius, Dominick Mersch) – 1:03 Mathieu De St. Phalle – (Brock Caufield, Carson Bantle) – 6:09 |
Second period | 19:29 – Adam Fantilli – (Rutger McGroarty, Keaton Pehrson) | ||||||
| Carson Bantle – (Brock Caufield, Tyson Jugnauth) – 16:51 | Third period | 2:20 – Nolan Moyle – (Frank Nazar, Dylan Duke) 1:27 – T.J. Hughes – (Luke Hughes) 0:54 – Mackie Samoskevich – (Unassisted) | ||||||
| Kyle McClellan (36 saves / 43 shots) | Goalie stats | Erik Portillo (36 saves / 40 shots) | ||||||
| Michigan won series 2–0 | |
(3) Ohio State vs. (6) Penn State
| March 3 | Penn State | 1 – 5 | Ohio State | Value City Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 4:31 – Davis Burnside – (Stephen Halliday, Dominic Vidoli) | ||||||
| Ture Linden – (Ashton Calder, Jimmy Dowd, Jr.) – pp – 11:00 | Second period | 4:34 – Tyler Duke – (Tate Singleton, Stephen Halliday) 5:18 – Cam Thiesing – (Mason Lohrei) 13:58 – pp – Cole McWard – (Jake Wise, Stephen Halliday) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 12:02 – Stephen Halliday – (Unassisted) | ||||||
| Liam Soulière (34 saves / 39 shots) | Goalie stats | Jakub Dobeš (33 saves / 34 shots) | ||||||
| March 4 | Penn State | 2 – 1 | OT | Ohio State | Value City Arena | Recap | ||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Ryan Kirwan – (Xander Lamppa) – 16:03 | Third period | 18:26 – Joe Dunlap – (Tyler Duke, Jake Wise) | ||||||
| Kevin Wall – (Connor MacEachern, Dylan Gratton) – 10:35 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| Liam Soulière (55 saves / 56 shots) | Goalie stats | Jakub Dobeš (30 saves / 32 shots) | ||||||
| March 5 | Penn State | 1 – 3 | Ohio State | Value City Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Kevin Wall – (Connor McMenamin, Dylan Gratton) – 6:28 | Second period | 12:08 – pp – Cole McWard – (Stephen Halliday, Jake Wise) 15:45 – Scooter Brickey – (Dominic Vidoli) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 18:17 – Tate Singleton – (Mason Lohrei) | ||||||
| Liam Soulière (22 saves / 24 shots) | Goalie stats | Jakub Dobeš (30 saves / 31 shots) | ||||||
| Ohio State won series 2–1 | |
(4) Notre Dame vs. (5) Michigan State
| March 3 | Michigan State | 0 – 1 | Notre Dame | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 3:47 – Grant Silianoff – (Trevor Janicke, Jack Adams) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Dylan St. Cyr (20 saves / 21 shots) | Goalie stats | Ryan Bischel (36 saves / 36 shots) | ||||||
| March 4 | Michigan State | 4 – 2 | Notre Dame | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 17:13 – Solag Bakich – (Trevor Janicke, Ben Brinkman) | ||||||
| Jeremy Davidson – (Nicolas Muller, David Gucciardi) – pp – 8:38 Matt Basgall – (Tiernan Shoudy, Daniel Russell) – 16:37 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Nash Nienhuis – (Jeremy Davidson, Nicolas Muller) – 3:27 Karsen Dorwart – (Daniel Russell, Jagger Joshua) – 5:34 |
Third period | 13:34 – pp – Jack Adams – (Drew Bavaro, Hunter Strand) | ||||||
| Dylan St. Cyr (31 saves / 33 shots) | Goalie stats | Ryan Bischel (28 saves / 32 shots) | ||||||
| March 5 | Michigan State | 4 – 2 | Notre Dame | Compton Family Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| Nicolas Muller – (Erik Middendorf, Jeremy Davidson) – 8:33 | First period | 15:05 – pp – Justin Janicke – (Landon Slaggert, Chayse Primeau) | ||||||
| Jeremy Davidson – (Nicolas Muller) – 8:59 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Tiernan Shoudy – (Nash Nienhuis, Miroslav Mucha) – 13:18 Nicolas Muller – (Unassisted) – en – 1:43 |
Third period | 3:23 – pp – Hunter Strand – (Solag Bakich, Nick Leivermann) | ||||||
| Dylan St. Cyr (37 saves / 39 shots) | Goalie stats | Ryan Bischel (24 saves / 27 shots) | ||||||
| Michigan State won series 2–1 | |
Semifinals
(1) Minnesota vs. (5) Michigan State
| March 11 | Michigan State | 1 – 5 | Minnesota | 3M Arena at Mariucci | Recap | |||
| Jeremy Davidson – (Miroslav Mucha, Nash Nienhuis) – pp – 15:13 | First period | 6:21 – pp – Jaxon Nelson – (Matthew Knies, Mike Koster) 2:09 – John Mittelstadt – (Ryan Chesley, Ryan Johnson) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 18:00 – Aaron Huglen – (Cal Thomas, Rhett Pitlick) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 11:36 – Logan Cooley – (Brock Faber, Mike Koster) 4:01 – en – Logan Cooley – (Jimmy Snuggerud, Ryan Chesley) | ||||||
| Dylan St. Cyr (19 saves / 23 shots) | Goalie stats | Justen Close (29 saves / 30 shots) | ||||||
(2) Michigan vs. (3) Ohio State
| March 11 | Ohio State | 3 – 7 | Michigan | Yost Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 19:37 – Gavin Brindley – (Adam Fantilli, Luke Hughes) 15:12 – Seamus Casey – (Ethan Edwards) 9:33 – Mackie Samoskevich – (Keaton Pehrson, Luke Hughes) | ||||||
| Jake Wise – (Travis Treloar, Cole McWard) – pp – 8:17 | Second period | 2:55 – Adam Fantilli – (Rutger McGroarty, Gavin Brindley) | ||||||
| Travis Treloar – (Mason Lohrei) – pp – 18:28 Cam Thiesing – (Stephen Halliday, Jake Wise) – 4:26 |
Third period | 13:40 – Jackson Hallum – (Frank Nazar) 2:50 – en – Adam Fantilli – (Keaton Pehrson) 1:14 – en – Rutger McGroarty – (Adam Fantilli) | ||||||
| Jakub Dobeš (38 saves / 43 shots) | Goalie stats | Erik Portillo (35 saves / 38 shots) | ||||||
Championship
(1) Minnesota vs. (2) Michigan
| March 18 | Michigan | 4 – 3 | Minnesota | 3M Arena at Mariucci | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 13:08 – Brody Lamb – (Logan Cooley) | ||||||
| Rutger McGroarty – (Ethan Edwards, Gavin Brindley) – 16:48 Rutger McGroarty – (Keaton Pehrson, Adam Fantilli) – 16:14 |
Second period | 9:11 – Logan Cooley – (Jimmy Snuggerud, Matthew Knies) | ||||||
| Seamus Casey – (Gavin Brindley, Rutger McGroarty) – 14:30 Dylan Duke – (T.J. Hughes, Gavin Brindley) – 8:14 |
Third period | 18:03 – Rhett Pitlick – (Bryce Brodzinski, Jackson LaCombe) | ||||||
| Erik Portillo (22 saves / 25 shots) | Goalie stats | Justen Close (27 saves / 31 shots) | ||||||
Tournament awards
- G: Justen Close (Minnesota)
- D: Seamus Casey (Michigan)
- D: Luke Hughes (Michigan)
- F: Logan Cooley (Minnesota)
- F: Adam Fantilli * (Michigan)
- F: Rutger McGroarty (Michigan)
References
- ^ "2023 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament". BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. February 25, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ "Big Ten Announces Hockey Tournament Bracket". BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. February 25, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ "2023 Big Ten Hockey Tournament All-Tournament Team" (PDF). BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.