2014 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament

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.

2014 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 20–22, 2014
Teams	6
Finals site	Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul, Minnesota
Champions	Wisconsin (1st title)
Winning coach	Mike Eaves (1st title)
MVP	Mark Zengerle (Wisconsin)
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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

2013–14 Big Ten ice hockey standings v t e
	Conference record									Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	SOW	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#2 Minnesota†	20	14	3	3	0	45	59	37		41	28	7	6	143	86
#7 Wisconsin*	20	13	6	1	0	40	63	46		37	24	11	2	120	95
#16 Michigan	20	10	8	2	1	33	68	59		35	18	13	4	107	89
#20 Ohio State	20	6	9	5	4	27	53	55		37	18	14	5	119	100
Michigan State	20	5	9	6	4	25	42	55		36	11	18	7	79	93
Penn State	20	3	16	1	0	10	42	75		36	8	26	2	80	129
Championship: Wisconsin † 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

• Center: Mark Zengerle

All-Tournament Team

• Goaltender: Christian Frey (Ohio State)
• Defensemen: Drew Brevig (Ohio State), Frankie Simonelli (Wisconsin)
• Forwards: Ryan Dzingel (Ohio State), Michael Mersch (Wisconsin), Mark Zengerle (Wisconsin)^[3]