2018–19 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season
2018–19 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season | |||||
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The KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York hosted the 2019 Frozen Four
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Duration | October 6, 2018– April 13, 2019 |
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NCAA tournament | 2019 | ||||
National championship | KeyBank Center Buffalo, New York |
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NCAA champion | Minnesota–Duluth | ||||
Hobey Baker Award | Cale Makar (Massachusetts) |
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The 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season began in October 2018 and ended with the Frozen Four in April 2019.[1] This was the 72nd season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held, and United States college ice hockey's 125th year overall.
Contents
Polls
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Regular season
Overtime rule changes
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a proposal to allow conferences to use one of two alternative formats to award points in their league standings after the mandatory five-on-five, five-minute overtime period.
After a traditional five-minute, five-on-five overtime, conferences may use either a five-minute, three-on-three overtime period and a shootout or only a shootout to award additional conference points. Conferences are not required to use one of the alternative systems and may end play after the five-minute overtime.
During non-conference regular-season games, these alternative options are not permitted, and a game would end in a tie after the traditional five-minute overtime.
In regular-season tournaments that require advancement, a 20-minute sudden death format can be implemented for overtime, instead of the traditional five-minute overtime period. These tournaments also may use the three-on-three and shootout or the standalone shootout format.[2]
Each conference's approach if no goal is scored in the initial five-minute overtime:[3]
- Atlantic Hockey, ECAC & Hockey East: game ends in tie
- Big Ten, NCHC & WCHA: Five-minute, three-on-three overtime; if still tied a sudden-death shootout follows
Points Explanation:[4]
- Atlantic Hockey, ECAC & Hockey East: Teams are awarded two points for each conference win in regulation or five-on-five overtime. Teams are awarded one point for a tie.
- Big Ten, NCHC & WCHA: Teams are awarded three points for each conference win in regulation or five-on-five overtime. A three-on-three overtime or shootout win is worth two points in the standings while the team that loses the three-on-three overtime/shootout receives just one point. The three-on-three overtime and shootouts only affect conference standings while the game is officially a tie for NCAA purposes.
Season tournaments
Tournament | Dates | Teams | Champion |
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IceBreaker Invitational | October 12–13 | 4 | Notre Dame |
Friendship Four | November 22–23 | 4 | Union |
Catamount Cup | December 28–29 | 4 | Vermont |
Desert Hockey Classic | December 28–29 | 4 | Clarkson |
Ledyard Bank Classic | December 29–30 | 4 | Providence |
Great Lakes Invitational | December 30–31 | 4 | Lake Superior State |
Fortress Invitational | January 4–5 | 4 | Western Michigan |
Three Rivers Classic | January 4–5 | 4 | Brown |
Beanpot | February 4, 11 | 4 | Northeastern |
Standings
- Template:2018–19 Atlantic Hockey standings
- Template:2018–19 Big Ten Hockey standings
- Template:2018–19 Division I Independent ice hockey standings (men)
2018–19 ECAC Hockey Standings
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Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||
GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
#7 Quinnipiac | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 77 | 47 | 38 | 26 | 10 | 2 | 133 | 73 | |
#8 Cornell | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 64 | 41 | 36 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 108 | 73 | |
#11 Clarkson* | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 65 | 42 | 39 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 122 | 78 | |
#14 Harvard | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 77 | 58 | 33 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 106 | 83 | |
Dartmouth | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 23 | 53 | 55 | 34 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 87 | 93 | |
Yale | 22 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 23 | 53 | 57 | 33 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 85 | 88 | |
Union | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 60 | 64 | 39 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 112 | 102 | |
Brown | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 21 | 52 | 59 | 34 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 89 | 97 | |
Princeton | 22 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 60 | 66 | 31 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 83 | 96 | |
Colgate | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 43 | 64 | 36 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 55 | 111 | |
Rensselaer | 22 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 16 | 49 | 67 | 36 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 69 | 117 | |
St. Lawrence | 22 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 51 | 84 | 37 | 6 | 29 | 2 | 75 | 149 | |
Championship: March 23, 2019 indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll |
2018–19 National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings
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Conference record | Overall record | ||||||||||||||
GP | W | L | T | SOW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
#3 Minnesota–Duluth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | |
Colorado College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | |
Miami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | |
#10 Denver | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Omaha | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
#13 North Dakota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
#5 St. Cloud State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
#18 Western Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Championship: March 23, 2019 indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated October 9, 2018 |
PairWise Rankings
The PairWise Rankings (PWR) are a statistical tool designed to approximate the process by which the NCAA selection committee decides which teams get at-large bids to the 16-team NCAA tournament. Although the NCAA selection committee does not use the PWR as presented by USCHO, the PWR has been accurate in predicting which teams will make the tournament field.
For Division I men, all teams are included in comparisons starting in the 2013–14 season (formerly, only teams with a Ratings Percentage Index of .500 or above, or teams under consideration, were included). The PWR method compares each team with every other such team, with the winner of each “comparison” earning one PWR point. After all comparisons are made, the points are totaled up and rankings listed accordingly.
With 60 Division I men's teams, the greatest number of PWR points any team could earn is 59, winning the comparison with every other team. Meanwhile, a team that lost all of its comparisons would have no PWR points.
Teams are then ranked by PWR point total, with ties broken by the teams’ RPI ratings, which starting in 2013–14 is weighted for home and road games and includes a quality wins bonus (QWB) for beating teams in the top 20 of the RPI (it also is weighted for home and road).
When it comes to comparing teams, the PWR uses three criteria which are combined to make a comparison: RPI, record against common opponents and head-to-head competition. Starting in 2013–14, the comparison of record against teams under consideration was dropped because all teams are now under comparison.[5]
Rank | Team | PWR | RPI | Conference |
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1 | St. Cloud State | 58 | .6117* | NCHC |
1 | Minnesota–Duluth | 58 | .5833 | NCHC |
3 | Minnesota State | 57 | .5796* | WCHA |
4 | Massachusetts | 56 | .5763 | Hockey East |
5 | Clarkson | 55 | .5609* | ECAC Hockey |
6 | Northeastern | 54 | .5593 | Hockey East |
7 | Quinnipiac | 53 | .5588* | ECAC Hockey |
8 | Denver | 52 | .5579 | NCHC |
9 | Ohio State | 51 | .5550 | Big Ten |
10 | Arizona State | 50 | .5508 | Independent |
11 | Cornell | 49 | .5457 | ECAC Hockey |
12 | Notre Dame | 47 | .5433 | Big Ten |
12 | Harvard | 47 | .5425 | ECAC Hockey |
14 | Providence | 46 | .5423 | Hockey East |
15 | Bowling Green | 45 | .5408* | WCHA |
16 | Penn State | 44 | .5374 | Big Ten |
17 | Western Michigan | 43 | .5339 | NCHC |
17 | Union | 43 | .5338 | ECAC Hockey |
19 | Minnesota | 41 | .5260 | Big Ten |
20 | North Dakota | 40 | .5281* | NCHC |
21 | UMass Lowell | 39 | .5246 | Hockey East |
22 | Lake Superior State | 38 | .5215* | WCHA |
23 | Colorado College | 37 | .5131* | NCHC |
24 | Northern Michigan | 36 | .5120 | WCHA |
25 | Boston University | 34 | .5101 | Hockey East |
26 | Brown | 33 | .5115 | ECAC Hockey |
26 | Wisconsin | 33 | .5083 | Big Ten |
28 | Michigan | 31 | .5052 | Big Ten |
28 | Maine | 31 | .5032 | Hockey East |
30 | Yale | 30 | .5036 | ECAC Hockey |
31 | American International | 28 | .5012 | Atlantic Hockey |
31 | Michigan State | 28 | .5003 | Big Ten |
33 | New Hampshire | 27 | .4936 | Hockey East |
34 | Boston College | 26 | .4958 | Hockey East |
35 | Bemidji State | 25 | .4864 | WCHA |
35 | RIT | 25 | .4849 | Atlantic Hockey |
37 | Dartmouth | 22 | .4800 | ECAC Hockey |
37 | Miami | 22 | .4790 | NCHC |
37 | Vermont | 22 | .4776 | Hockey East |
40 | Bentley | 21 | .4781 | Atlantic Hockey |
41 | Sacred Heart | 20 | .4780 | Atlantic Hockey |
42 | Michigan Tech | 18 | .4748 | WCHA |
43 | Air Force | 17 | .4745 | Atlantic Hockey |
44 | Princeton | 16 | .4740 | ECAC Hockey |
45 | Niagara | 15 | .4738 | Atlantic Hockey |
45 | Connecticut | 15 | .4713 | Hockey East |
47 | Omaha | 13 | .4684 | NCHC |
48 | Alaska | 12 | .4666 | WCHA |
49 | Robert Morris | 11 | .4625 | Atlantic Hockey |
50 | Colgate | 10 | .4619 | ECAC Hockey |
51 | Rensselaer | 9 | .4615 | ECAC Hockey |
52 | Army | 8 | .4541 | Atlantic Hockey |
53 | Mercyhurst | 7 | .4515 | Atlantic Hockey |
53 | Canisius | 7 | .4510 | Atlantic Hockey |
55 | Merrimack | 5 | .4447 | Hockey East |
56 | Holy Cross | 4 | .4435 | Atlantic Hockey |
57 | Ferris State | 3 | .4420 | WCHA |
58 | Alabama–Huntsville | 2 | .4299 | WCHA |
59 | St. Lawrence | 1 | .4186 | ECAC Hockey |
60 | Alaska Anchorage | 0 | .3935 | WCHA |
*A team's RPI has been adjusted to remove negative effect from defeating a weak opponent Note: A team's record is based only on games against other Division I hockey schools which are eligible for the NCAA tournament;[6] PairWise Rankings were last updated March 25, 2019, 12:22pm ET |
2019 NCAA tournament
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Regional semifinals March 29–30 |
Regional Finals March 30–31 |
Semifinals April 11 |
Championship April 13 |
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1 | St. Cloud State (1) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | American International | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | American International | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
West – Fargo – Fri/Sat | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Denver | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | Denver | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Ohio State | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
W2 | Denver | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
NE1 | Massachusetts (4) | 4* | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Massachusetts (4) | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Harvard | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Massachusetts (4) | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
Northeast – Manchester – Fri/Sat | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | Notre Dame | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | Clarkson | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Notre Dame | 3* | |||||||||||||||||
NE1 | Massachusetts (4) | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
MW1 | Minnesota–Duluth (2) | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Minnesota–Duluth (2) | 2* | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Bowling Green | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Minnesota–Duluth (2) | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Midwest – Allentown – Sat/Sun | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Quinnipiac | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | Quinnipiac | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Arizona State | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
MW1 | Minnesota–Duluth (2) | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
E4 | Providence | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Minnesota State (3) | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Providence | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Providence | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
East – Providence – Sat/Sun | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | Cornell | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | Northeastern | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Cornell | 5 |
Note: * denotes overtime period
Player stats
Scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes[7]
Player | Class | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
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Alex Limoges | Sophomore | Penn State | 39 | 23 | 27 | 50 | 10 |
Taro Hirose | Junior | Michigan State | 36 | 15 | 35 | 50 | 14 |
Cale Makar | Sophomore | Massachusetts | 41 | 16 | 33 | 49 | 31 |
Patrick Newell | Senior | St. Cloud State | 39 | 21 | 26 | 47 | 8 |
Joseph Duszak | Junior | Mercyhurst | 37 | 16 | 31 | 47 | 42 |
Blake Christensen | Junior | American International | 41 | 16 | 31 | 47 | 22 |
Jacob Pritchard | Senior | Massachusetts | 41 | 16 | 31 | 47 | 8 |
Josh Wilkins | Junior | Providence | 40 | 20 | 26 | 46 | 10 |
Rem Pitlick | Junior | Minnesota | 38 | 21 | 24 | 45 | 30 |
Nico Sturm | Junior | Clarkson | 39 | 14 | 31 | 45 | 33 |
Adam Fox | Junior | Harvard | 32 | 9 | 36 | 45 | 14 |
Leading goaltenders
The following goaltenders lead the NCAA in goals against average.[7]
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
Player | Class | Team | GP | Min | W | L | T | GA | SO | SV% | GAA |
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Andrew Shortridge | Junior | Quinnipiac | 27 | 1544:39 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 39 | 4 | .940 | 1.51 |
Filip Lindberg | Freshman | Massachusetts | 17 | 939:31 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 4 | .934 | 1.60 |
Dryden McKay | Freshman | Minnesota State | 34 | 2011:26 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 59 | 4 | .927 | 1.76 |
Hunter Shepard | Junior | Minnesota–Duluth | 42 | 2556:19 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 75 | 7 | .923 | 1.76 |
Ryan Bednard | Junior | Bowling Green | 32 | 1961:52 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 58 | 3 | .927 | 1.77 |
Matthew Galajda | Sophomore | Cornell | 27 | 1591:50 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 48 | 5 | .923 | 1.81 |
Devin Cooley | Sophomore | Denver | 20 | 1169:27 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 36 | 4 | .934 | 1.85 |
Tommy Nappier | Sophomore | Ohio State | 20 | 1160:38 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 4 | .934 | 1.86 |
Hayden Hawkey | Senior | Providence | 41 | 2463:31 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 75 | 8 | .921 | 1.88 |
Jake Kielly | Junior | Clarkson | 39 | 2325:53 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 74 | 5 | .929 | 1.91 |
Awards
Big Ten
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ECAC
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Hockey East
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NCHC
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WCHA
Coaching changesThis table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2018–19 season until the day before the first day of the 2019–2020 season.
See alsoReferences
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