2020 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2020 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the seventh tournament in conference history. It was scheduled to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020, on-campus locations. On March 12, 2020, the Big Ten announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.[1]

2020 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dates	March 6–21, 2020
Teams	7
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Format

The tournament featured a format with all games taking place on the campus of the higher-seeded teams. The tournament opened with three best-of-three quarterfinal series, as the second, third and fourth-seeded teams each hosting a series. The top-seeded team had a bye to the single-elimination semifinals. The highest-seeded team remaining after the semifinals was intended to host the championship game.[2]

Conference standings

2019–20 Big Ten ice hockey Standings
	Conference record									Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	3/SW	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#9 Penn State	24	12	8	4	1	41	79	70		34	20	10	4	121	88
#10 Ohio State	24	11	9	4	1	38	62	62		34	18	11	5	91	80
#17 Michigan	24	11	10	3	2	38	65	52		34	16	14	4	92	72
#18 Minnesota	24	9	8	7	4	38	66	62		34	14	13	7	95	94
Notre Dame	24	9	9	6	4	37	59	59		34	14	13	7	90	91
Michigan State	24	11	11	2	0	35	54	54		34	15	17	2	80	82
Wisconsin	24	7	15	2	2	25	63	89		34	14	18	2	110	124
Championship: March 21, 2020 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 1, 2020

Bracket

Teams were reseeded for the semifinals

	Quarterfinals March 6–8[3]							Semifinals March 14					Championship March 21
								1	Penn State
	2	Ohio State	9	2*	—			4	Minnesota
	7	Wisconsin	1	1	—
	3	Michigan	3	3	—
	6	Michigan State	0	0	—
								2	Ohio State
	4	Minnesota	0	2	3			3	Michigan
	5	Notre Dame	1	1	2

Note: * denotes overtime periods.

Results

Quarterfinals

(2) Ohio State vs. (7) Wisconsin

March 6	Wisconsin		1 – 9		Ohio State	Value City Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			7:41 – Collin Peters – (Carson Meyer, Grant Gabriele) 11:39 – Carson Meyer – (Tanner Laczynski, Tate Singleton)
No scoring		Second period			1:02 – Carson Meyer – (Tate Singleton) 4:42 – Carson Meyer – (unassisted) 13:54 – pp – Carson Meyer – (unassisted) 17:28 – sh – Quinn Preston – (Ronnie Hine, Matt Miller)
Wyatt Kalnyuk – (Dylan Holloway, Ty Emberson) – 12:25		Third period			0:29 – Quinn Preston – (Matt Miller, Austin Pooley) 3:14 – Tanner Laczynski – (Tate Singleton) 12:12 – pp – Wyatt Ege – (Quinn Preston, Austin Pooley)
Jack Berry (10 saves / 14 shots) Daniel Lebedeff (7 saves / 10 shots) Johan Blomquist (6 saves / 8 shots)		Goalie stats			Tommy Nappier (31 saves / 32 shots)

March 7	Wisconsin		1 – 2	OT	Ohio State	Value City Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Dylan Holloway – (Wyatt Kalynuk, Ty Pelton-Byce) – pp – 14:01		Second period			8:07 – pp – Carson Meyer – (Tanner Laczynski, Quinn Preston)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
No scoring		First overtime period			1:12 – Jaedon Leslie – (Ronnie Hein, Gustaf Westlund)
Jack Berry (27 saves / 29 shots)		Goalie stats			Tommy Nappier (29 saves / 30 shots)

Ohio State won series 2–0

(3) Michigan vs. (6) Michigan State

March 6	Michigan State		0 – 3		Michigan	Yost Ice Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			9:54 – Jake Slaker – pp – (Will Lockwood, Nick Blankenburg)
No scoring		Second period			2:52 – Johnny Beecher – (Jacob Hayhurst, Luke Martin) 19:53 – Nick Pastujov – pp – (Jimmy Lambert)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
John Lethemon (17 saves / 20 shots)		Goalie stats			Strauss Mann (25 saves / 25 shots)

March 7	Michigan State		0 – 3		Michigan	Yost Ice Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			5:20 – Will Lockwood – pp – (Nick Blankenburg, Jake Slaker) 18:28 – Johnny Beecher – (unassisted)
No scoring		Third period			19:13 – Jake Slaker – (Nick Pastujov)
John Lethemon (23 saves / 26 shots)		Goalie stats			Strauss Mann (20 saves / 20 shots)

Michigan won series 2–0

(4) Minnesota vs. (5) Notre Dame

March 6	Notre Dame		1 – 0		Minnesota	3M Arena at Mariucci	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Trevor Janicke – (Colin Theisen, Mike O'Leary) – 16:24		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Cale Morris (12 saves / 12 shots)		Goalie stats			Jack LaFontaine (25 saves / 26 shots)

March 7	Notre Dame		1 – 2		Minnesota	3M Arena at Mariucci	Recap
No scoring		First period			1:24 – Ryan Zuhlsdorf – (Sammy Walker, Blake McLaughlin)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Cam Morrison – (Michael Graham, Alex Steeves) – pp – 10:14		Third period			3:27 – Cullen Munson – (Jonny Sorenson, Joey Marooney)
Cale Morris (18 saves / 20 shots)		Goalie stats			Jack LaFontaine (30 saves / 31 shots)

March 8	Notre Dame		2 – 3		Minnesota	3M Arena at Mariucci	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Alex Steeves – (Tory Dello) – 5:25		Second period			10:18 – Ben Meyers – pp – (Blake McLaughlin, Robbie Stucker) 11:06 – Sampo Ranta – (Scott Reedy, Brannon McManus) 16:03 – Ben Meyers – pp – (Sammy Walker, Scott Reedy)
Cam Morrison – (Alex Steeves, Spencer Stastney) – pp – 10:36		Third period			No scoring
Cale Morris (18 saves / 21 shots)		Goalie stats			Jack LaFontaine (23 saves / 25 shots)

Minnesota won series 2–1

References

1. "Big Ten Statement on Competitions, Recruiting". Big Ten Conference. March 12, 2020. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
2. "2020 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament". BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. February 29, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
3. "Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Bracket Announced". BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. February 29, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020.