2018–19 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season

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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.

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
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

2018–19 ECAC Hockey Standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#7 Quinnipiacdagger 22 14 6 2 30 77 47 38 26 10 2 133 73
#8 Cornelldagger 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
dagger indicates conference regular season champion (Cleary Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Whitelaw Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll
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
dagger 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]

NCAA Division I Men's Hockey Final PairWise Rankings[6]
Rank Team PWR RPI Conference
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
                       
1 St. Cloud State (1) 1
4 American International 2
4 American International 0
WestFargo – 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
NortheastManchester – 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
MidwestAllentown – 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
EastProvidence – 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
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
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