2010 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament

2010 NCAA Division I Men's
ice hockey tournament
	File:2010 Men's Frozen Four logo.png 2010 Frozen Four logo
Teams	16
Finals site	Ford Field; Detroit, Michigan;
Champions	Boston College Eagles (4th title)
Runner-up	Wisconsin Badgers (9th title game)
Semifinalists	Miami RedHawks (2nd Frozen Four); RIT Tigers (1st Frozen Four);
Winning coach	Jerry York (4th title)
MOP	Ben Smith (Boston College)
Attendance	171,795
	← 2009 ; NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournaments; 2011 →;

The 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 16 schools in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The tournament began on March 26, 2010, and ended with the championship game on April 10, in which Boston College defeated Wisconsin 5–0 to win its fourth national championship.^[1]

Procedure

Albany

Worcester

Fort Wayne

St. Paul

Detroit

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2010 Regionals (blue) and Frozen Four (red)

The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2010 regionals:^[1]

March 26 and 27: East Regional, Times Union Center – Albany, New York (Hosts: ECAC Hockey League and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute); West Regional, Xcel Energy Center – St. Paul, Minnesota (Host: University of Minnesota)

March 27 and 28: Midwest Regional, Allen County War Memorial Coliseum – Fort Wayne, Indiana (Host: University of Notre Dame); Northeast Regional, DCU Center – Worcester, Massachusetts (Host: College of the Holy Cross)

Each regional winner will advance to the Frozen Four:^[1]

April 8 and 10: Ford Field – Detroit, Michigan (Hosts: Central Collegiate Hockey Association and the Detroit Metro Sports Commission)

Qualifying teams

The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 21, 2010.^[2] The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) and Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) each had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, Hockey East had three teams receive a berth, College Hockey America (CHA) and ECAC Hockey had two berths each, and Atlantic Hockey had one team receive a berth.

Midwest Regional – Fort Wayne					East Regional – Albany
Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type	Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type
1	Miami (1)	CCHA	27–7–7	At-large bid	1	Denver (2)	WCHA	27–9–4	At-large bid
2	Bemidji State	CHA	23–9–4	At-large bid	2	Cornell	ECAC Hockey	21–8–4	Tournament champion
3	Michigan	CCHA	25–17–1	Tournament champion	3	New Hampshire	Hockey East	17–13–7	At-large bid
4	Alabama–Huntsville	CHA	12–17–3	Tournament champion	4	RIT	Atlantic Hockey	26–11–1	Tournament champion
Northeast Regional – Worcester					West Regional – St. Paul
Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type	Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type
1	Boston College (4)	Hockey East	25–10–3	Tournament champion	1	Wisconsin (3)	WCHA	25–10–4	At-large bid
2	North Dakota	WCHA	25–12–5	Tournament champion	2	St. Cloud State	WCHA	23–13–5	At-large bid
3	Yale	ECAC Hockey	20–9–3	At-large bid	3	Northern Michigan	CCHA	20–12–8	At-large bid
4	Alaska*	CCHA	18–11–9	At-large bid	4	Vermont	Hockey East	17–14–7	At-large bid

Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.

* Alaska has since been stripped of their tournament appearance due to NCAA violations found during a 2014 investigation.

Preliminary rounds

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
All times are local (EDT/CDT).

Midwest Regional – Fort Wayne, Indiana

Regional semifinals March 27			Regional final March 28

1	Miami	2

4	Alabama–Huntsville	1
			1	Miami	3**

			3	Michigan	2
3	Michigan	5

2	Bemidji State	1

Regional semifinals

March 27, 2010
4:00 PM

(4) Alabama–Huntsville

1–2
(0–1, 0–1, 1–0)

(1) Miami

War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN

Game reference

Cameron Talbot

Goalies

Cody Reichard

Referees:
Steve Marofsky
Ryan Sweeney

	0 – 1	10:24 – Curtis McKenzie (Camper, Wideman)
	0 – 2	26:06 – Cameron Schilling (McKenzie)
Brennan Barker (Desmet, Cseter) – 59:21	1 – 2

20 min

Penalties

12 min

17

Shots

38

March 27, 2010
7:30 PM

(3) Michigan

5–1
(1–0, 1–0, 3–1)

(2) Bemidji State

War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN
Attendance: 4,133

Game reference

Shawn Hunwick

Goalies

Dan Bakala

Referees:
John Gravelese
Jeff Bunyon

Luke Glendening (Langlais, Kampfer) – 06:15	1 – 0
Louie Caporusso (Brown, Lebler) – 39:22	2 – 0
	2 – 1	50:24 – pp – Ian Lowe (Read)
Carl Hagelin (Lynch, Langlais) – 52:24	3 – 1
Carl Hagelin (Rust, Kampfer) sh – 56:03	4 – 1
Brian Lebler (Hagelin, Rust) – en – 58:02	5 – 1

20 min

Penalties

12 min

31

Shots

27

Regional final

March 28, 2010
8:00 PM

(3) Michigan

2 – 3 (2OT)
(1–1, 1–1, 0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

(1) Miami

War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN
Attendance: 3,204

Game reference

Shawn Hunwick

Goalies

Connor Knapp

Referees:
John Gravelese, Jeff Bunyon
Chris Aughe, Bob Bernard

	0 – 1	12:08 – pp – Pat Cannone (McKenzie, Camper)
David Wohlberg (Glendening, Kampfer) – 13:42	1 – 1
Chad Langlais (Kampfer, Caporusso) – pp – 20:49	2 – 1
	2 – 2	23:18 – pp – Pat Cannone (McKenzie, Camper)
	2 – 3	81:54 – Alden Hirschfeld (Vogelhuber)

14 min

Penalties

14 min

57

Shots

35

The regional final between Michigan and Miami was not without controversy. In the first overtime, Michigan appeared to score what would have been the game-winning goal. However, the goal was ruled off due to what replay showed to be an early whistle. Miami won the game, scoring a goal in the second overtime.

East Regional – Albany, New York

Regional semifinals March 26			Regional final March 27

1	Denver	1

4	RIT	2
			4	RIT	6

			3	New Hampshire	2
3	New Hampshire	6

2	Cornell	2

Regional semifinals

March 26, 2010
3:00 PM

(4) RIT

2–1
(1–0, 0–0, 1–1)

(1) Denver

Times Union Center, Albany, NY

Game reference

Jared DeMichiel

Goalies

Marc Cheverie

Referees:
Matt Shegos, Mark Wilkins
Tony Molina, Bruce Vida

Chris Tanev – 5:02	1 – 0
Cameron Burt (Favot, Ringwald) – pp – 52:36	2 – 0
	2 – 1	54:34 – pp – Joe Colborne (Ruegsegger, Wiercioch)

6 min

Penalties

4 min

25

Shots

40

March 26, 2010
6:30 PM

(3) New Hampshire

6–2
(0–1, 2–0, 4–1)

(2) Cornell

Times Union Center, Albany, NY
Attendance: 4,073

Game reference

Brian Foster

Goalies

Ben Scrivens

Referees:
Derek Shepherd, Marco Hunt
Dan Carey, Bob Keltie

	0 – 1	19:11 – Tyler Roeszler (Devin)
Bobby Butler – 36:47	1 – 1
Mike Sislo (Burke, Kessel) – 37:13	2 – 1
Paul Thompson (Butler, DeSimone) – 42:52	3 – 1
Bobby Butler (Thompson, DeSimone) – 46:38	4 – 1
Mike Sislo (LeBlanc, Burke) – 55:14	5 – 1
	5 – 2	57:49 – Dan Nicholls (Nash, Ross)
Paul Thompson (Kessel) – en – 59:27	6 – 2

4 min

Penalties

2 min

37

Shots

26

Regional final

March 27, 2010
6:30 PM

(4) RIT

6–2
(1–1, 3–0, 2–1)

(3) New Hampshire

Times Union Center, Albany, NY
Attendance: 3,737

Game reference

Jared DeMichiel

Goalies

Brian Foster

Referees:
Derek Shepherd
Marco Hunt

Chris Haltigin (Mazzei, Favot) – 14:10	1 – 0
	1 – 1	19:01 – Phil DeSimone (Kostolansky, Kipp)
Tyler Brenner (Favot, Ringwald) – 33:23	2 – 1
Brent Alexin (Haltigin, Saracino) – 33:36	3 – 1
Steven Matic (Murphy, Burt) – 34:57	4 – 1
Tyler Brenner – 50:01	5 – 1
	5 – 2	57:31 – Blake Kessel (Kostolansky)
Tyler Mazzei (Favot) – en – 58:06	6 – 2

6 min

Penalties

12 min

33

Shots

26

Northeast Regional – Worcester, Massachusetts

Regional semifinals March 27			Regional final March 28

1	Boston College	3

4	Alaska	1
			1	Boston College	9

			3	Yale	7
3	Yale	3

2	North Dakota	2

Regional semifinals

March 27, 2010
1:30 PM

(4) Alaska

1–3
(0–1, 1–0, 0–2)

(1) Boston College

DCU Center, Worcester, MA
Attendance: 6,572

Game reference

Scott Greenham

Goalies

John Muse

Referees:
Todd Anderson
Brad Shepherd

	0 – 1	08:54 – sh – Matt Lombardi (Price, Shea)
Andy Taranto (Knelsen, Sova) – pp – 37:32	1 – 1
	1 – 2	43:46 – Pat Mullane (Carey, Alber)
	1 – 3	59:48 – en – Matt Price

10 min

Penalties

10 min

29

Shots

32

March 27, 2010
5:00 PM

(3) Yale

3–2
(1–0, 2–0, 0–2)

(2) North Dakota

DCU Center, Worcester, MA
Attendance: 6,572

Game reference

Ryan Rondeau

Goalies

Brad Eidsness

Referees:
Brian Hill
Steve McInchak

Denny Kearney (Dignard) – 05:48	1 – 0
Denny Kearney (Limbert) – 32:49	2 – 0
Mark Arcobello (O'Neill) – 37:46	3 – 0
	3 – 1	42:59 – Brett Hextall
	3 – 2	45:58 – Matt Frattin

14 min

Penalties

10 min

23

Shots

36

Regional final

March 28, 2010
5:30 PM

(3) Yale

7–9
(1–2, 3–4, 3–3)

(1) Boston College

DCU Center, Worcester, MA
Attendance: 6,054

Game reference

Billy Blase
Ryan Rondeau
Jeff Malcolm

Goalies

John Muse

Referees:
Todd Anderson
Brad Shepherd

	0 – 1	05:21 – Brian Gibbons (Atkinson)
13:32 – Brian O'Neill (Arcobello, Miller)	1 – 1
	1 – 2	16:34 – sh – Carl Sneep
	1 – 3	22:23 – Joe Whitney (Mullane, Shea)
24:46 – pp – Mark Arcobello (Miller, Martin)	2 – 3
	2 – 4	24:57 – Cam Atkinson
	2 – 5	30:29 – Cam Atkinson (Gibbons, Whitney)
	2 – 6	34:46 – Joe Whitney (Smith)
37:10 – Mark Arcobello (Peel, O'Neill)	3 – 6
38:27 – pp – Denny Kearney (Martin)	4 – 6
	4 – 7	44:16 – Cam Atkinson (Whitney)
	4 – 8	46:53 – Jimmy Hayes (Shea, Smith)
	4 – 9	47:16 – Jimmy Hayes (Samuelsson)
53:32 – pp – Mark Arcobello (O'Neill, Miller)	5 – 9
55:55 – Brian O'Neill (Arcobello)	6 – 9
58:38 – Broc Little (Arcobello, Miller)	7 – 9

14 min

Penalties

18 min

39

Shots

39

West Regional – St. Paul, Minnesota

Regional semifinals March 26			Regional final March 27

1	Wisconsin	3

4	Vermont	2
			1	Wisconsin	5

			2	St. Cloud State	3
3	Northern Michigan	3

2	St. Cloud State	4**

Regional semifinals

March 26, 2010
5:00 PM

(3) Northern Michigan

3 – 4 (2OT)
(2–1, 1–1, 0–1, 0–0, 1–0)

(2) St. Cloud State

Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN

Game reference

Brian Stewart

Goalies

Mike Lee

Referees:
Tim Benedetto, Kevin Shea
Chris Federico, Tim Low

	0 – 1	8:14 – Travis Novak (LeBlanc)
	0 – 2	12:25 – pp – Ryan Lasch (Roe, Raboin)
Justin Florek (Brown, Gustafsson) – pp – 14:04	1 – 2
	1 – 3	32:52 – pp – Garrett Roe (Lasch, Marvin)
Ray Kaunisto – 36:12	2 – 3
Erik Spady (Oliver, Florek) – 56:11	3 – 3
	3 – 4	80:23 – pp – Tony Mosey (Roe, LeBlanc)

16 min

Penalties

12 min

45

Shots

54

March 26, 2010
8:00 PM

(4) Vermont

2–3
(2–1, 0–2, 0–0)

(1) Wisconsin

Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN
Attendance: 7,281

Game reference

Rob Madore

Goalies

Scott Gudmandson

Referees:
Chip McDonald, Peter Feola
Dave Brown, Glen Cooke

	0 – 1	5:51 – pp – Justin Schultz (Geoffrion, Stepan)
Dan Lawson (Miller) – 7:22	1 – 1
Brian Roloff (Stålberg, Lawson) – pp – 15:54	2 – 1
	2 – 2	24:02 – pp – Michael Davies (Stepan, B. Smith)
	2 – 3	39:16 – pp – Blake Geoffrion (Schultz, B. Smith)

18 min

Penalties

16 min

29

Shots

42

Regional final

March 27, 2010
8:00 PM

(2) St. Cloud St.

3–5
(1–3, 0–0, 2–2)

(1) Wisconsin

Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN
Attendance: 7,182

Game reference

Mike Lee (out 15:21)
Dan Dunn (in 15:21)

Goalies

Scott Gudmandson

Referees:
Tim Benedetto, Kevin Shea
Chris Federico, Tim Lowe

	0 – 1	02:31 – John Mitchell (Bohmbach, Murray)
	0 – 2	13:18 – Blake Geoffrion (McDonagh, C. Smith)
Jared Festler (Lasch, Marvin) – 14:48	1 – 2
	1 – 3	15:21 – Jake Gardiner (C. Smith, Geoffrion)
Jared Festler- sh – 24:16	2 – 3
	2 – 4	46:54 – John Mitchell (Bohmbach, Gardiner)
Tony Mosey (Eddy) – 57:10	3 – 4
	3 – 5	58:52 – en – Aaron Bendickson (Geoffrion)

16 min

Penalties

20 min

29

Shots

44

Frozen Four – Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan

National semifinals April 8			National championship April 10

MW1	Miami	1

NE1	Boston College	7
			NE1	Boston College	5

			W1	Wisconsin	0
E4	RIT	1

W1	Wisconsin	8

Semifinals

April 8, 2010
5:00 PM

RIT

1–8
(0–2, 1–4, 0–2)

Wisconsin

Ford Field, Detroit, MI

Game reference

Jared DeMichiel (out 54:55)
Jan Ropponen (in 54:55, out 57:27)
Shane Madolora (in 57:27)

Goalies

Scott Gudmandson

Referees:
Tim Benedetto, Jeff Bunyon
Chris Aughe, Bob Bernard

	0 – 1	01:27 – John Mitchell (Goloubef, Schultz)
	0 – 2	09:38 – Derek Stepan (McDonagh)
	0 – 3	22:18 – Jordy Murray (Bendickson)
	0 – 4	24:26 – pp – Justin Schultz (B. Smith, Stepan)
	0 – 5	31:15 – pp – Michael Davies (B. Smith, Geoffrion)
	0 – 6	33:24 – pp – Blake Geoffrion (B. Smith, Stepan)
Tyler Brenner (Ringwald, Favot) – pp – 39:32	1 – 6
	1 – 7	47:28 – Craig Smith (Bohmbach, B. Smith)
	1 – 8	47:48 – Derek Stepan (Street, B. Smith)

29 min

Penalties

10 min

14

Shots

37

April 8, 2010
8:30 PM

Boston College

7–1
(1–0, 2–0, 4–1)

Miami

Ford Field, Detroit, MI
Attendance: 34,954

Game reference

John Muse

Goalies

Connor Knapp (out 23:08)
Cody Reichard (in 23:08)

Referees:
Derek Shepherd, Marco Hunt
Tony Czech, Matt Ulwelling

Ben Smith (J. Whitney, S. Whitney) – pp – 18:32	1 – 0
Jimmy Hayes (Mullane, Dumoulin) – pp – 22:06	2 – 0
Joe Whitney (Dumoulin, Gibbons) – 23:08	3 – 0
	3 – 1	Joe Hartman (Camper, Hirschfeld) – 45:19
Cam Atkinson (Gibbons, Whitney) – 50:10	4 – 1
Patch Alber (Smith, Dumoulin) – 50:44	5 – 1
Paul Carey (Shea, Mullane) – 51:45	6 – 1
Ben Smith(Hayes, Kreider) – 56:21	7 – 1

8 min

Penalties

14 min

30

Shots

18

National Championship

April 10, 2010
7:00 PM

Boston College

5–0
(1–0, 0–0, 4–0)

Wisconsin

Ford Field, Detroit, MI
Attendance: 37,592

Game reference
				Referees: Matt Shegos, Mark Wilkins Bruce Vida, Tony Molina

Scoring summary
Period	Team	Goal	Assist(s)	Time	Score
1st	BC	Ben Smith (16) – GW PP	S. Whitney and J. Whitney	12:57	1–0 BC
2nd	None
3rd	BC	Cam Atkinson (29)	J. Whitney and Gibbons	41:38	2–0 BC
	BC	Chris Kreider (15)	Hayes and Samuelsson	43:40	3–0 BC
	BC	Cam Atkinson (30) – PP	Gibbons and J. Whitney	47:20	4–0 BC
	BC	Matt Price (5) – EN	unassisted	55:29	5–0 BC
Penalty summary
Period	Team	Player	Penalty	Time	PIM
1st	BC	Joe Whitney	Interference	1:17	2:00
	WIS	Ryan McDonagh	Cross–Checking	5:24	2:00
	WIS	John Mitchell	Contact to the Head Elbowing	11:04	2:00
2nd	WIS	Jake Gardiner	Interference	23:16	2:00
2nd	BC	Joe Whitney	Clipping	24:21	2:00
3rd	WIS	Craig Smith	Contact to the Head Elbowing	46:32	2:00
	WIS	Podge Turnbull	Contact to the Head	47:20	2:00
	BC	Joe Whitney	Unsportsmanlike Conduct	50:19	2:00
	BC	Brian Gibbons	Slashing	57:52	2:00
	WIS	Craig Smith	Slashing	57:52	2:00

Shots by period
Team	1	2	3	T
Boston College	12	6	8	26
Wisconsin	5	9	6	20

Goaltenders
Team	Name	Saves	Goals against	Time on ice
BC	John Muse	20	0	60:00
WIS	Scott Gudmandson	20	4	58:41

Record by conference

Conference	# of Bids	Record	Win %	Regional Finals	Frozen Four	Championship Game	Champions
CCHA	4	3–4	.429	2	1	–	–
WCHA	4	4–4	.500	2	1	1	–
Hockey East	3	5–2	.714	2	1	1	1
CHA	2	0–2	.000	–	–	–	–
ECAC Hockey	2	1–2	.333	1	–	–	–
Atlantic Hockey	1	2–1	.667	1	1	–	–

Media

Television

ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the sixth consecutive year ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU, and ESPN360.

Broadcast Assignments

Regionals

East Regional: John Buccigross & Barry Melrose – Albany, New York
West Regional: Clay Matvick & Jim Paradise – St. Paul, Minnesota
Midwest Regional: Ben Holden & Sean Ritchlin – Fort Wayne, Indiana
Northeast Regional: Dan Parkhurst & Damian DiGiulian – Worcester, Massachusetts

Frozen Four & Championship

Gary Thorne, Barry Melrose, & Clay Matvick – Detroit, Michigan

Radio

Westwood One used exclusive radio rights to air both the semifinals and the championship, AKA the "Frozen Four.

Sean Grande & Cap Raeder

Tournament awards

East Regional

All-East Regional Team

Goaltender: Jared DeMichiel (RIT)
Defensemen: Chris Haltigin (RIT), Dan Ringwald (RIT)
Forwards: Tyler Brenner (RIT), Cameron Burt (RIT), Bobby Butler (New Hampshire)^[3]

Most Outstanding Player

Jared DeMichiel (RIT)^[3]

West Regional

All-West Regional Team

Goaltender: Scott Gudmandson (Wisconsin)
Defensemen: Ryan McDonagh (Wisconsin), Brendan Smith (Wisconsin)
Forwards: Blake Geoffrion (Wisconsin), Garrett Roe (St. Cloud State), Tony Mosey (St. Cloud State)^[4]

MOP

Blake Geoffrion (Wisconsin)^[4]

Frozen Four

G: John Muse (Boston College)
D: Brian Dumoulin (Boston College)
D: Brendan Smith (Wisconsin)
F: Cam Atkinson (Boston College)
F: Ben Smith* (Boston College)
F: Joe Whitney (Boston College)

* Most Outstanding Player(s)^[5]

References

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