1989 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament

The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1988–89 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 42nd such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 17 and April 1, 1989, and concluded with Harvard defeating Minnesota 4-3 in overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues with the 'Frozen Four' games being played at the St. Paul Civic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

This was the last tournament in which the semifinal games were played on separate days and the last tournament to feature a consolation game.

Qualifying teams The NCAA permitted 12 teams to qualify for the tournament and divided its qualifiers into two regions (East and West). Each of the tournament champions from the four Division I conferences (CCHA, ECAC, Hockey East and WCHA) received automatic invitations into the tournament with At-large bids making up the remaining 8 teams. The NCAA permitted one Independent team to participate in the tournament and because the previous year the independent qualifier was placed in the West pool the two eastern conferences (ECAC and Hockey East) would split only three open spots as opposed to the West's four open spots. The top four remaining western teams and the top three remaining eastern teams received invitations and were seeded with the automatic qualifiers according to their ranking.

East West SeedSchoolConference RecordBerth typeAppearanceLast bidSeedSchoolConference RecordBerth type AppearanceLast bid1 Maine Hockey East 29–11–0 Tournament champion 3rd 19881 Michigan State CCHA 34–7–1 Tournament champion 11th 19882 Harvard ECAC Hockey 27–3–0 At-large bid 14th 19882 Minnesota WCHA 31–10–3 At-large bid 16th 19883 St. Lawrence ECAC Hockey 29–5–0 Tournament champion 11th 19883 Lake Superior State CCHA 27–9–6 At-large bid 3rd 19884 Boston College Hockey East 22–9–4 At-large bid 16th 19874 Northern Michigan WCHA 25–15–2 Tournament champion 3rd 19815 Providence Hockey East 19–15–2 At-large bid 6th 19855 Bowling Green CCHA 26–16–3 At-large bid 8th 19886 St. Cloud State Independent 19–14–2 At-large bid 1st Never6 Wisconsin WCHA 23–14–5 At-large bid 10th 1988

Format The tournament featured four rounds of play. The three odd-number ranked teams from one region were placed into a bracket with the three even-number ranked teams of the other region. The teams were then seeded according to their ranking with the top two teams in each bracket receiving byes into the quarterfinals. In the first round the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds played best-of-three series to determine which school advanced to the Quarterfinals with the winners of the 4 vs. 5 series playing the first seed and the winner of the 3 vs. 6 series playing the second seed. In the Quarterfinals the matches were best-of-three series once more with the victors advancing to the National Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games were played at the St. Paul Civic Center and all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game.

Tournament Bracket

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(E3) St. Lawrence vs. (W6) Wisconsin

(E4) Boston College vs. (W5) Bowling Green

(W3) Lake Superior State vs. (E6) St. Cloud State

(W4) Northern Michigan vs. (E5) Providence

Quarterfinals

(E1) Maine vs. (E5) Providence

(E2) Harvard vs. (W3) Lake Superior State

(W1) Michigan State vs. (E4) Boston College

(W2) Minnesota vs. (W6) Wisconsin

Frozen Four

National Semifinal

(W1) Michigan State vs. (E2) Harvard

(E1) Maine vs. (W2) Minnesota

Consolation Game

(E1) Maine vs. (W1) Michigan State

National Championship

(W2) Minnesota vs. (E2) Harvard

Scoring summary Period Team Goal Assist(s) Time Score 1st MINJon AndersonB. Hankinson and Olimb 6:24 1–0 MIN 2nd HARTed Donato – PPMacDonald and Bourbeau 26:30 1–1 HARLane MacDonaldYoung 30:29 2–1 HAR MINJason Miller – PPPitlick and Chorske 33:01 2–2 3rd HARTed DonatoSneddon and Vukonich 52:53 3–2 HAR MINPeter Hankinson – PPPederson and Skarda 56:34 3–3 1st Overtime HAREd Krayer – GWB. McCormack and Ciavaglia 64:15 4–3 HAR Penalty summary Period Team Player Penalty Time PIM 1st HAREd KrayerCross-checking 13:21 2:00 HARNick CaroneHigh-sticking 15:33 2:00 HARKevan MelroseHolding 17:39 2:00 2nd MINLance PitlickElbowing 20:56 2:00 MINTodd RichardsHolding 25:57 2:00 MINTom ChorskeHooking 27:22 2:00 HARKevin SneddonHooking 31:08 2:00 MINTom ChorskeInterference 37:10 2:00 HARJosh CaplanElbowing 38:44 2:00 3rd MINTom PedersonRoughing 40:46 2:00 HARNick CaroneHolding 47:29 2:00 HARAllen BourbeauHigh-sticking 49:59 2:00 HARJohn WeisbrodCross-checking 54:46 2:00 1st Overtime none

Shots by period Team 1 2 3 OT T Harvard 11 9 6 2 28 Minnesota 10 10 14 1 35

Goaltenders Team Name Saves Goals against Time on ice HAR Chuckie Hughes 32 3 64:15 MIN Robb Stauber 24 4 64:15

All-Tournament Team G: Allain Roy (Harvard) D: Todd Richards (Minnesota) D: Kevin Sneddon (Harvard) F: Jon Anderson (Minnesota) F: Ted Donato* (Harvard) F: Lane MacDonald (Harvard) * Most Outstanding Player(s)

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