Английская Википедия:2021 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament

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The 2021 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States. It took place between March 26 and April 10, 2021.

The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the highest level of competition in college hockey. The first two rounds took place at four regional sites from March 26 to 28, and the tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and finals – was hosted by Robert Morris University at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh from April 8 to 10.

The SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire was selected to host the Northeast Region, but pulled out on January 26, 2021, due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. The Times Union Center in Albany, New York was selected as a replacement site.

This year's tournament featured, as of 2022, the longest game in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament history, when the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs defeated the North Dakota Fighting Hawks by a score of 3–2 in five overtimes, totaling 142:13 minutes of play, in the West Regional Final.

This tournament's Frozen Four teams were also notable for a number of reasons. First, it was just the second time in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament history in which three of the final four teams came from one state. This first occurred in 1992, when the Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, and Lake Superior State Lakers, all from Michigan, made the Frozen Four. In this year’s tournament, three teams came from Minnesota, these teams being the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs, St. Cloud State Huskies, and Minnesota State Mavericks. Also, this year's tournament was only the third time since 1992, when Regional Tournaments were first conducted, that no teams ranked no. 1 in their respective Regional Tournament advanced to the Frozen Four. This also occurred in the 1998 and 2007 tournaments.

Tournament procedure

The tournament is composed of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas.

Regional semifinals and finals

• March 26–27

East Regional, Webster Bank Arena – Bridgeport, Connecticut (Hosts: Sacred Heart and Yale)

Midwest Regional, Scheels Arena – Fargo, North Dakota (Host: North Dakota)

• March 27–28

Northeast Regional, Times Union Center – Albany, New York (Hosts: ECAC)

West Regional, Budweiser Events Center – Loveland, Colorado (Host: Denver)

National semifinals and championship (Frozen Four and championship)

• April 8 and April 10

PPG Paints Arena – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Host: Robert Morris University)

Qualifying teams

The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 21, 2021.

Typically, teams are seeded according to their PairWise rankings (PWR); however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing a severe lack of inter-conference games among the league, using the PWR would not be a reliable representation of overall NCAA standings. As a result, the NCAA Selection Committee awarded seeds manually based on varying factors, including perceived strength of conference and performance against the best teams in conference. Once seeds were determined, matchups were adjusted to prevent teams from the same conference meeting in the first round, as well as minimize the amount of traveling required due to the pandemic.

The NCHC and Big Ten each had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, Hockey East and WCHA each had three teams receive a berth, and one team from Atlantic Hockey and the ECAC each received a berth.

ECAC Tournament champions St. Lawrence earned an autobid but were forced to withdraw from the tournament as a result of a positive COVID-19 test among the team's coaching staff. Quinnipiac was selected to replace St. Lawrence as ECAC's autobid.

On March 25, it was announced that Notre Dame would be forced to withdraw from the tournament due to COVID protocols. As a result, their matchup with Boston College was ruled a no-contest and the Eagles automatically advanced to the Northeast Regional Final. Similarly, on March 26, the NCAA announced Michigan was forced to withdraw as well due to COVID protocols. As a result, Minnesota–Duluth automatically advanced to the Midwest Regional Final.

Midwest Regional – Fargo							East Regional – Bridgeport
Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type	Appearance	Last bid	Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type	Appearance	Last bid
1	North Dakota (1)	NCHC	21–5–1	Tournament champion	33rd	2017	1	Wisconsin (4)	Big Ten	20–9–1	At-Large bid	26th	2014
2	Michigan	Big Ten	15–10–1	At-Large bid	38th	2018	2	Massachusetts	Hockey East	16–5–4	Tournament champion	3rd	2019
3	Minnesota Duluth	NCHC	14–10–2	At-Large bid	14th	2019	3	Lake Superior State	WCHA	19–6–3	Tournament champion	11th	1996
4	American International	Atlantic Hockey	15–3–0	Tournament champion	2nd	2019	4	Bemidji State	WCHA	15–9–3	At-Large bid	5th	2010
West Regional – Loveland							Northeast Regional – Albany
Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type	Appearance	Last bid	Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type	Appearance	Last bid
1	Minnesota (3)	Big Ten	23–6–0	Tournament champion	38th	2017	1	Boston College (2)	Hockey East	17–5–1	At-Large bid	36th	2016
2	Minnesota State	WCHA	20–4–1	At-Large bid	7th	2019	2	St. Cloud State	NCHC	17–10–0	At-Large bid	15th	2019
3	Quinnipiac	ECAC	17–7–4	Replacement Autobid	7th	2019	3	Boston University	Hockey East	10–4–1	At-Large bid	37th	2018
4	Omaha	NCHC	14–10–1	At-Large bid	4th	2015	4	Notre Dame	Big Ten	14–13–2	At-Large bid	12th	2019

Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.

Tournament bracket

Шаблон:16TeamBracket * denotes overtime period
† Michigan and Notre Dame were removed from the tournament due to positive COVID-19 test results.

Results

2021 National Championship

(E2) Massachusetts vs. (NE2) St. Cloud State

Scoring summary
Period	Team	Goal	Assist(s)	Time	Score
1st	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Aaron Bohlinger (1) – GW	Sullivan and Farmer	7:26	1–0 UMA
	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Reed Lebster (2)	Kiefiuk	18:56	2–0 UMA
2nd	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Philip Lagunov (6) – SH	unassisted	25:10	3–0 UMA
	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Matthew Kessel (10) – PP	Chau and Gaudet	33:45	4–0 UMA
3rd	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Bobby Trivigno (11)	Lebster	46:00	5–0 UMA
Penalty summary
Period	Team	Player	Penalty	Time	PIM
1st	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Anthony Del Gaizo	Slashing	15:27	2:00
2nd	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegeSecondaryStyle;" | STC	Seamus Donohue	Tripping	20:24	2:00
	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Ryan Sullivan	Tripping	23:57	2:00
	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Jake Gaudet	Elbowing	30:31	2:00
	align=center style="Шаблон:CollegeSecondaryStyle;" | STC	Bench (served by Zach Okabe)	Too Many Men	32:35	2:00
3rd	None

Shots by period
Team	1	2	3	T
align=center style="Шаблон:CollegeSecondaryStyle;" | St. Cloud State	3	12	10	25
align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | Massachusetts	7	6	9	22

Goaltenders
Team	Name	Saves	Goals against	Time on ice
align=center style="Шаблон:CollegeSecondaryStyle;" | STC	Dávid Hrenák	17	5	60:00
align=center style="Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle;" | UMA	Filip Lindberg	25	0	60:00

All-Tournament team

• G: Filip Lindberg (Massachusetts)
• D: Zac Jones (Massachusetts)
• D: Matthew Kessel (Massachusetts)
• F: Nathan Smith (Minnesota State)
• F: Bobby Trivigno* (Massachusetts)
• F: Nolan Walker (St. Cloud State)

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

Record by conference

Conference	Bids	Record	Win %	Regional Finals	Frozen Four	Championship Game	Champions
NCHC	4	5–4	Шаблон:Winpct	3	2	1	–
Big Ten	4	1–2	Шаблон:Winpct	1	–	–	–
Hockey East	3	4–2	Шаблон:Winpct	2	1	1	1
WCHA	3	3–3	Шаблон:Winpct	2	1	–	–
Atlantic Hockey	1	0–1	Шаблон:Winpct	–	–	–	–
ECAC Hockey	1	0–1	Шаблон:Winpct	–	–	–	–

Note: Two regional semifinal games were declared 'No Contest' and the four teams involved were not credited with a win or a loss in those games.

Media

Television

ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament for the sixteenth consecutive year. ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, and ESPN3, which were streamed online via WatchESPN.

Broadcast assignments

Regionals

• East Regional: John Buccigross, Barry Melrose, and Colby Cohen – Bridgeport, Connecticut
• Midwest Regional: Leah Hextall and Dave Starman – Fargo, North Dakota
• Northeast Regional: Kevin Brown and Sean Ritchlin – Albany, New York
• West Regional: Ben Holden and Fred Pletsch – Loveland, Colorado

Frozen Four

• John Buccigross, Barry Melrose, Colby Cohen, and Quint Kessenich – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Radio

Westwood One had exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and broadcast both the semifinals and the championship.

• Brian Tripp and Dave Starman