2025 NCHC Tournament


The 2025 NCHC Tournament was the 11th tournament in league history. It was played between March 14 and 22, 2025. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the semifinal and championship matches were held at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As the tournament winner, Western Michigan, earned the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.
The winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.

Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals.
Note: * denotes overtime period

Results

Note: All game times are local.

Quarterfinals

(1) Western Michigan vs. (8) St. Cloud State

Western Michigan wins series 2–0

(2) Arizona State vs. (7) Minnesota Duluth

Arizona State wins series 2–0

(3) Denver vs. (6) Colorado College

Denver wins series 2–1

(4) Omaha vs. (5) North Dakota

North Dakota wins series 2–0

Tournament awards

Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team">List of NCHC All-Tournament Teams">Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)