2010 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament

2010 NCAA Division I men's
ice hockey tournament
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	37,592 (Championship); 107,500 (Frozen Four); 171,795 (Tournament)
	← 2009 ; NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournaments; 2011 →;

The 2010 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament involved 16 schools in

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,
ECAC Hockey League and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
); West Regional,
St. Paul, Minnesota (Host: University of Minnesota
)

March 27 and 28

Each regional winner will advance to the

Frozen Four:^[1]

April 8 and 10

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 (

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

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	sh – 56:03	4 – 1
Brian Lebler (Hagelin, Rust) – en – 58:02	5 – 1

20 minPenalties12 min31Shots27

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	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 minPenalties14 min57Shots35

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 when Kevin Lynch scored on a rebound in a scrum in front of the Miami net. However, after a video review, the goal was disallowed as the play had been whistled dead before the goal was scored to assess a Miami penalty. NCAA Director of Officials Steve Piotrowski clarified that officials blew the whistle as Lynch touched the puck, with a Miami player touching the puck in the crease and the puck briefly stopped underneath Miami goalie Connor Knapp, both occurring before the goal. The game continued until Miami sophomore Alden Hirschfeld scored 1:54 into double overtime, securing the 3-2 RedHawk victory.^[3]^[4]

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	pp – 52:36	2 – 0
	2 – 1	54:34 – pp – Joe Colborne (Ruegsegger, Wiercioch)

6 minPenalties4 min25Shots40

March 26, 2010
6:30 PM

(3) New Hampshire

6–2
(0–1, 2–0, 4–1)

(2) Cornell

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

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	pp – 37:32	1 – 1
	1 – 2	43:46 – Pat Mullane (Carey, Alber)
	1 – 3	59:48 – en – Matt Price

10 minPenalties10 min29Shots32

March 27, 2010
5:00 PM

(3) Yale

3–2
(1–0, 2–0, 0–2)

(2) North Dakota

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	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 minPenalties18 min39Shots39

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	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 minPenalties12 min45Shots54

March 26, 2010 8:00 PM	(4) Vermont	2–3 (2–1, 0–2, 0–0)	(1) Wisconsin	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 minPenalties16 min29Shots42

Regional final

March 27, 2010 8:00 PM	(2) St. Cloud St.	3–5 (1–3, 0–0, 2–2)	(1) Wisconsin	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 minPenalties20 min29Shots44

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	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 minPenalties10 min14Shots37

April 8, 2010
8:30 PM

Boston College

7–1
(1–0, 2–0, 4–1)

Miami

Ben Smith

(Hayes, Kreider) – 56:21

7 – 1

8 minPenalties14 min30Shots18

National Championship

April 10, 2010
7:00 PM

Boston College

5–0
(1–0, 0–0, 4–0)

Wisconsin

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

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)^[5]

Most Outstanding Player

Jared DeMichiel (RIT)^[5]

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)^[6]

MOP

Blake Geoffrion (Wisconsin)^[6]

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)^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship". NCAA. Archived from the original on August 2, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
^ "Miami, Denver, Wisconsin, Boston College Get Top Seeds in NCAA Tournament". USCHO.com. March 21, 2010. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
^ "Michigan hockey team's run ends in 3-2 double-overtime playoff loss to Miami (Ohio)". AnnArbor.com.
^ staff, Associated Press sports (March 30, 2010). "Miami University hockey team basking in glow of double-overtime regional win over Michigan". cleveland.
^ ^a ^b McMillan, Ken (March 27, 2010). "East: RIT Makes Division I History". Inside College Hockey. Archived from the original on March 31, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Gilbert, John (March 28, 2010). "Badgers Pound Out 5–3 victory over Huskies to Reach 2010 NCAA Men's Frozen Four". WCHA.com. Retrieved March 31, 2010. ^{[dead link]}
^ "NCAA Division I Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved July 17, 2013.

[NCAA_Championship_Information-1] "Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship". NCAA. Archived from the original on August 2, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2009.

[2] "Miami, Denver, Wisconsin, Boston College Get Top Seeds in NCAA Tournament". USCHO.com. March 21, 2010. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved March 21, 2010.

[3] "Michigan hockey team's run ends in 3-2 double-overtime playoff loss to Miami (Ohio)". AnnArbor.com.

[4] staff, Associated Press sports (March 30, 2010). "Miami University hockey team basking in glow of double-overtime regional win over Michigan". cleveland.

[East_Awards-5] McMillan, Ken (March 27, 2010). "East: RIT Makes Division I History". Inside College Hockey. Archived from the original on March 31, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2010.

[West_Awards-6] Gilbert, John (March 28, 2010). "Badgers Pound Out 5–3 victory over Huskies to Reach 2010 NCAA Men's Frozen Four". WCHA.com. Retrieved March 31, 2010. ^{[dead link]}

[7] "NCAA Division I Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved July 17, 2013.

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Procedure

Qualifying teams

Preliminary rounds

Midwest Regional – Fort Wayne, Indiana

Regional semifinals

Regional final

East Regional – Albany, New York

Regional semifinals

Regional final

Northeast Regional – Worcester, Massachusetts

Regional semifinals

Regional final

West Regional – St. Paul, Minnesota

Regional semifinals

Regional final

Frozen Four – Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan

Semifinals

National Championship

Record by conference

Media

Television

Broadcast Assignments

Radio

Tournament awards

East Regional

All-East Regional Team

Most Outstanding Player

West Regional

All-West Regional Team

MOP

Frozen Four

References

West Regional –
St. Paul, Minnesota