2019 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament

The 2019 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the sixth tournament in conference history. It was played between March 8 and March 23, 2019, on-campus locations. By Winning the tournament Notre Dame earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

2019 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 8–23, 2019
Teams	7
Finals site	Compton Family Ice Arena Notre Dame, Indiana
Champions	Notre Dame (2nd title)
Winning coach	Jeff Jackson (2nd title)
MVP	Cale Morris (Notre Dame)
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Format

The 2019 tournament features a format with all games taking place on the campus of the higher-seeded teams. The tournament opens March 8–10 with three best-of-three quarterfinal series, as the second, third and fourth-seeded teams each hosting a series. The top-seeded team has a bye to the single-elimination semifinals, which is played on March 16. The highest-seeded team remaining after the semifinals hosts the championship game on March 23.

Conference standings

2018–19 Big Ten Hockey Standings
	Conference record									Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	3/SW	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#12 Ohio State †	24	13	7	4	3	46	79	52		36	20	11	5	108	83
#10 Notre Dame *	24	11	11	2	2	37	63	65		40	23	14	3	112	91
#20 Minnesota	24	11	10	3	0	36	76	75		38	18	16	4	117	108
#17 Penn State	24	11	12	1	1	35	101	96		39	22	15	2	177	139
Wisconsin	24	9	10	5	2	34	69	81		37	14	18	5	113	130
Michigan	24	9	10	5	2	34	76	75		36	13	16	7	110	114
Michigan State	24	8	12	4	2	30	68	88		36	12	19	5	99	122
Championship: March 23, 2019 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals

	Quarterfinals March 8–10							Semifinals March 16/17					Championship March 23
								1	Ohio State	1
								4	Penn State	5
	2	Notre Dame	1	2	—
	7	Michigan State	0	0	—
													4	Penn State	2
													2	Notre Dame	3
	3	Minnesota	3*	4	—
	6	Michigan	2	1	—
								2	Notre Dame	2*
								3	Minnesota	1
	4	Penn State	3	6	4*
	5	Wisconsin	4	2	3

Note: * denotes overtime periods.

Quarterfinals

(2) Notre Dame vs. (7) Michigan State

March 8	Michigan State		0 – 1		Notre Dame	Compton Family Ice Arena	Recap
		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			Mike O'Leary (6) – (Spencer Stastney, Andrew Peeke) – 2:28
John Lethemon (23 saves / 24 shots)		Goalie stats			Cale Morris (27 saves / 27 shots)

March 9	Michigan State		0 – 2		Notre Dame	Compton Family Ice Arena	Recap
		First period			Pierce Crawford (2) – (Jack Jenkins) – 2:01
No scoring		Second period			Graham Slaggert (3) – (Cal Burke) – sh – 10:38
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
John Lethemon (21 saves / 23 shots)		Goalie stats			Cale Morris (28 saves / 28 shots)

Notre Dame won series 2–0

(3) Minnesota vs. (6) Michigan

March 8	Michigan		2 – 3	OT	Minnesota	3M Arena at Mariucci	Recap
8:28 – Michael Pastujov (9) – (Jake Slaker, Griffin Luce)		First period			No scoring
1:08 – Will Lockwood (16) – (Nick Pastujov, Jack Becker)		Second period			Tyler Sheehy (12) – (Rem Pitlick, Brent Gates) – 4:42
No scoring		Third period			Blake McLaughlin (5) – (Sammy Walker, Sampo Ranta) – 9:06
No scoring		First overtime period			Brannon McManus (14) – (Rem Pitlick, Tommy Novak) – pp – 10:10
Strauss Mann (28 saves / 31 shots)		Goalie stats			Mat Robson (32 saves / 34 shots)

March 9	Michigan		1 – 4		Minnesota	3M Arena at Mariucci	Recap
		First period			Tommy Novak (4) – (Scott Reedy, Tyler Nanne) – 5:25 Scott Reedy (7) – (unassisted) – 12:42 Rem Pitlick (20) – (Tyler Sheehy) – 15:43
No scoring		Second period			Rem Pitlick (20) – (Tyler Sheehy, Brannon McManus) – pp – 17:02
13:39 – Adam Winborg (4) – (Michael Pastujov, Nick Blankenburg)		Third period			No scoring
Strauss Mann (24 saves / 38 shots)		Goalie stats			Mat Robson (22 saves / 23 shots)

Minnesota won series 2–0

(4) Penn State vs. (5) Wisconsin

March 8	Wisconsin		4 – 3		Penn State	Pegula Ice Arena	Recap
11:07 – Tarek Baker (7) – (unassisted) 17:12 – pp – Sean Dhooghe (13) – (Wyatt Kalynuk, Linus Weissbach)		First period			Alex Limoges (18) – (Liam Folkes, Cole Hults) – 18:20
7:28 – Sean Dhooghe (14) – (Max Zimmer, Tarek Baker)		Second period
18:10 – Sean Dhooghe (15) – (Roman Ahcan, Seamus Malone)		Third period			Paul DeNaples (2) – (Liam Folkes, Evan Barratt) – 3:43 Alex Limoges (19) – (Evan Barratt, Liam Folkes) – pp – 7:48
Daniel Lebedeff (37 saves / 40 shots)		Goalie stats			Peyton Jones (38 saves / 42 shots)

March 9	Wisconsin		2 – 6		Penn State	Pegula Ice Arena	Recap
3:27 – Linus Weissbach (8) – (Jack Gorniak)		First period			Alex Limoges (20) – (Adam Pilewicz, Alex Stevens) – 8:49
No scoring		Second period			Liam Folkes (15) – (Adam Pilewicz, Alex Limoges) – 2:43 Brandon Biro (15) – (Chase Berger) – 8:48 Nate Sucese (17) – (Ludvig Larsson, Paul DeNaples) – 11:40 Evan Bell (1) – (Brandon Biro, Liam Folkes) – pp – 16:06
8:01 – Matthew Freytag (7) – (Seamus Malone)		Third period			Alex Limoges (21) – (Liam Folkes, James Gobetz) – 15:37
Daniel Lebedeff (34 saves / 39 shots) Jack Berry (11 saves / 12 shots)		Goalie stats			Peyton Jones (24 saves / 25 shots)

March 10	Wisconsin		3 – 4	OT	Penn State	Pegula Ice Arena	Recap
5:24 – Brock Caufield (6) – (Wyatt Kalynuk, Dominick Mersch)		First period			Liam Folkes (16) – (Denis Smirnov) – 1:18
9:46 – pp – Max Zimmer (4) – (Sean Dhooghe, Seamus Malone) 10:10 – Josh Ess – (Max Zimmer)		Second period			Cole Hults (5) – (Ludvig Larsson) – pp – 4:09 Alex Limoges (16) – (Liam Folkes, Paul DeNaples) – 18:54
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
No scoring		First overtime period			Liam Folkes (17) – (Alex Limoges, Evan Barratt) – 10:50
Daniel Lebedeff (46 saves/ 50 shots)		Goalie stats			Peyton Jones (36 saves/ 39 shots)

Penn State won series 2–1

Semifinals

(2) Notre Dame vs. (3) Minnesota

March 16	Minnesota		1 – 2	OT	Notre Dame	Compton Family Ice Arena	Recap
5:44 – Sampo Ranta (6) – (Ben Brinkman, Sammy Walker)		First period			Cam Morrison (9) – (Mike O'Leary, Michael Graham) – 2:00
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
No scoring		First overtime period			Michael Graham (12) – (Andrew Peeke, Mike O'Leary) – pp – 0:53
Mat Robson (35 saves/ 37 shots)		Goalie stats			Cale Morris (25 saves/ 26 shots)

(1) Ohio State vs. (4) Penn State

March 17	Penn State		5 – 1		Ohio State	Value City Arena	Recap
11:23 – Liam Folkes (18) – (Alex Limoges) 19:59 – Alex Limoges (23) – (Evan Barratt, Evan Bell)		First period			No scoring
14:52 – pp – Brandon Biro (16) – (Kris Myllari, Chase Berger)		Second period			No scoring
2:22 – Nate Sucese (18) – (unassisted) 19:13 – sh, en – Nate Sucese (19) – (Ludvig Larsson, Evan Bell)		Third period			John Wiitala (9) – (Gordi Myer) – 15:38
Peyton Jones (31 saves/ 32 shots)		Goalie stats			Tommy Nappier (31 saves/ 35 shots)

Championship

(2) Notre Dame vs. (4) Penn State

March 23	Penn State		2 – 3		Notre Dame	Compton Family Ice Arena	Recap
8:04 – Sam Sternschein (9) – (Nikita Pavlychev, Evan Bell) 16:53 – Alec Marsh (7) – (Brandon Biro, Chase Berger)		First period			Spencer Stastney (1) – (Graham Slaggert) – 3:43 Cal Burke (12) – (Colin Theisen, Andrew Peeke) – 16:19
No scoring		Second period			Cam Morrison (10) – (Mike O'Leary, Bobby Nardella) – 18:24
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Peyton Jones (26 saves/ 29 shots)		Goalie stats			Cale Morris (46 saves/ 48 shots)

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

• G: Cale Morris* (Notre Dame)
• D: Andrew Peeke (Notre Dame)
• D: Spencer Stastney (Notre Dame)
• F: Cam Morrison (Notre Dame)
• F: Liam Folkes (Penn State)
• F: Alex Limoges (Penn State)

* Most Outstanding Player