1988 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament
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| Teams | 12 |
|---|---|
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Lake Superior State Lakers (1st title) |
| Runner-up | St. Lawrence Saints (2nd title game) |
| Semifinalists |
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| Winning coach | Frank Anzalone (1st title) |
| MOP | Bruce Hoffort (Lake Superior State) |
| Attendance | 27,582 |
The 1988 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1987–88 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 41st such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 18 and April 2, 1988, and concluded with Lake Superior State defeating St. Lawrence 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 Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York.
For the first time the NCAA tournament was expanded to 12 teams (four more than the previous seven years) partially as a result of an increasing number of programs as well as two additional conferences being created in the interim.
This was the first tournament to include an independent school since 1960, more than a year before the ECAC was founded.
The championship game is remembered for a missed infraction towards the end of regulation by LSSU player Pete Stauber that should have given St. Lawrence a penalty shot but resulted in no call from the official.[1]
Qualifying teams
[edit]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 placed it in the western bracket with the intention to place an additional independent in the eastern regional in 1989. As a result, the two western conferences (WCHA and CCHA) would split only three open spots as opposed to the East's four open spots.
| East | West | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth type | Appearance | Last bid | Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth type | Appearance | Last bid |
| 1 | Maine | Hockey East | 31–7–2 | At-large bid | 2nd | 1987 | 1 | Minnesota | WCHA | 32–8–0 | At-large bid | 15th | 1987 |
| 2 | St. Lawrence | ECAC Hockey | 27–7–0 | Tournament champion | 10th | 1987 | 2 | Lake Superior State | CCHA | 30–6–6 | At-large bid | 2nd | 1985 |
| 3 | Northeastern | Hockey East | 20–12–4 | Tournament champion | 2nd | 1982 | 3 | Wisconsin | WCHA | 27–12–2 | Tournament champion | 9th | 1983 |
| 4 | Harvard | ECAC Hockey | 21–9–0 | At-large bid | 13th | 1987 | 4 | Bowling Green | CCHA | 28–11–2 | Tournament champion | 7th | 1987 |
| 5 | Vermont | ECAC Hockey | 21–9–3 | At-large bid | 1st | Never | 5 | Michigan State | CCHA | 25–14–3 | At-large bid | 10th | 1987 |
| 6 | Lowell | Hockey East | 20–15–2 | At-large bid | 1st | Never | 6 | Merrimack | Independent | 32–4–0 | At-large bid | 1st | Never |
Format
[edit]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 two-game aggregate 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 two-game aggregates once more with the victors advancing to the National Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game.
Tournament Bracket
[edit]| First round March 18–20 | Quarterfinals March 25–27 | Frozen Four March 31-April 1 | National Championship April 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| E1 | Maine | 5 | 4 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||
| W4 | Bowling Green | 5 | 5 | 10 | W4 | Bowling Green | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| E5 | Vermont | 1 | 1 | 2 | E1 | Maine | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| W2 | Lake Superior State | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| W2 | Lake Superior State | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| E3 | Northeastern | 5 | 3 | 8 | W6 | Merrimack | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| W6 | Merrimack | 3 | 7 | 10 | W2 | Lake Superior State | 4* | ||||||||||||||||
| E2 | St. Lawrence | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| W1 | Minnesota | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| E4 | Harvard | 5 | 3 | 8 | W5 | Michigan State | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| W5 | Michigan State | 6 | 5 | 11 | W1 | Minnesota | 2 | Third-place game | |||||||||||||||
| E2 | St. Lawrence | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| E2 | St. Lawrence | 7 | 3 | 10 | E1 | Maine | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| W3 | Wisconsin | 7 | 4 | 11 | W3 | Wisconsin | 0 | 4 | 4 | W1 | Minnesota | 2 | |||||||||||
| E6 | Lowell | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
First round
[edit](E3) Northeastern vs. (W6) Merrimack
[edit]| March 18 | Northeastern | 5 – 3 | Merrimack | Matthews Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 00:09 - Mark Ziliotto (unassisted) | ||||||
| (MacDougall, Dowd) Rico Rossi - 01:34 | Second period | 06:27 - PP - Brad Atol (Keating) 09:38 - Jim Alcott (Atol) | ||||||
| (Averill, Rossi) Dave Buda - 01:15 (Heffernan, Sullivan) Brian Dowd - 02:06 06:47 - GW - Brian Sullivan (Heffernan, O'Brien) 19:21 - PP - Dave O'Brien (Sullivan, Heffernan) | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (37 saves / 40 shots) Bruce Racine | Goalie stats | Jim Hrivnak (34 saves / 39 shots) | ||||||
| March 19 | Northeastern | 3 – 7 | Merrimack | Matthews Arena | Recap | |||
| (Buda) Brian Dowd - PP - 04:34 (Lodin, Heffernan) Dave O'Brien - PP - 12:13 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) Dave Buda - 00:11 | Second period | 13:57 - Jim Vesey (Ziliotto, Lebeau) 19:27 - Mark Ziliotto (Jay) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 01:24 - Jim Alcott (Pion) 03:23 - GW - Mark Ziliotto (unassisted) 11:00 - Jocko Magadini (Locke) 17:13 - Mark Ziliotto (Lebeau) 19:00 - Richard Pion (Heinze, Boyce) | ||||||
| (38 saves / 45 shots) Bruce Racine | Goalie stats | Jim Hrivnak (23 saves / 26 shots) | ||||||
| Merrimack won series 10–8 | |
(E4) Harvard vs. (W5) Michigan State
[edit]| March 18[4] | Harvard | 5 – 6 | Michigan State | Bright Hockey Center | ||||
| (Armstrong, Sweeney) Andy Janfanza - PP – 04:43 | First period | 00:57 – Brian McReynolds (Gibson) 01:26 – Kevin Miller (Marshall, Ki. Miller) 07:54 - PP – Bobby Reynolds (Tilley, Cole) 10:44 - PP – Jeff Harding (Cole, Beadle) | ||||||
| (Hartje, Sweeney) Andy Janfanza - PP – 11:35 (Weisbrod, Murphy) Mike Vukonich – 18:08 | Second period | 00:40 – Tom Tilley (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Donato, Armstrong) Jerry Pawlowski – 17:23 (unassisted) Peter Ciavaglia – 19:20 | Third period | 09:56 – GW – Kevin Miller (Luongo, Hamilton) | ||||||
| (9 saves / 13 shots) John Devin (20 saves / 22 shots) Mike Francis | Goalie stats | Jason Muzzatti (28 saves / 33 shots) | ||||||
| March 19[4] | Harvard | 3 – 5 | Michigan State | Bright Hockey Center | ||||
| No scoring | First period | 03:33 - PP – Danton Cole (Murray, Reynolds) 15:46 – Mike O'Toole (Cole, Reynolds) | ||||||
| (Vukonich, Pawlowski) John Weisbrod – 05:08 | Second period | 06:03 – Bruce Rendall (Luongo, McReynolds) | ||||||
| (Hartje) Jerry Pawlowski - PP – 09:39 (unassisted) Josh Caplan - SH – 18:18 | Third period | 00:19 – PP GW – Kevin Miller (Luongo, Hamilton) 19:56 - EN – Mike O'Toole (unassisted) | ||||||
| (14 saves / 18 shots) Mike Francis | Goalie stats | Jason Muzzatti (26 saves / 29 shots) | ||||||
| Michigan State won series 11–8 | |
(W3) Wisconsin vs. (E6) Lowell
[edit]| March 19 | Wisconsin | 7 – 1 | Lowell | Dane County Coliseum | Recap | |||
| (Tuttle, Stanton) Paul Ranheim - 00:18 | First period | 10:38 - Tony Lopilato (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Byce, Shuchuk) Chris Tancill - PP GW - 09:16 (unassisted) John Byce - 12:15 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) John Byce - 01:02 (Tuttle, Semandel) Paul Ranheim - 04:20 (Rohlik, Stanton) Don Granato - 12:10 (unassisted) John Byce - 19:51 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (22 saves / 23 shots) Dean Anderson | Goalie stats | David Delfino (27 saves / 34 shots) | ||||||
| March 20 | Wisconsin | 4 – 4 | Lowell | Dane County Coliseum | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 00:19 - Tony Lopilato (Dohaney, Thomas) 17:42 - PP - Tim Foley (Charron, Dohaney) | ||||||
| (Semandel, Tuttle) Paul Ranheim - 04:17 (Snedden) John Byce - 05:19 | Second period | 08:41 - Bill Dohaney (Lopilato) | ||||||
| (Scheid, Tancill) John Byce - PP - 09:18 (Ranheim, Byce) Steve Tuttle - EA - 19:52 | Third period | 17:59 - John Borrell (Dohaney, Thomas) | ||||||
| (29 saves / 33 shots) Dean Anderson | Goalie stats | Ken Stein (40 saves / 44 shots) | ||||||
| Wisconsin won series 11–5 | |
(W4) Bowling Green vs. (E5) Vermont
[edit]| March 18 | Bowling Green | 5 – 1 | Vermont | BGSU Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Meharry, Emerson) Scott Paluch - PP - 04:48 (Gribble, Emerson) Brent Regan - GW - 12:55 (Gribble, Meharry) Joe Quinn - PP - 18:14 | First period | 17:38 - SH - Kyle McDonough (unassisted) | ||||||
| (Paluch, Arthur) Joe Quinn - 07:45 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Gribble, Barber) Greg Parks - 06:02 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (15 saves / 16 shots) Paul Connell | Goalie stats | Mike Millham (26 saves / 31 shots) | ||||||
| March 19 | Bowling Green | 5 – 1 | Vermont | BGSU Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Paluch, Barber) Greg Parks - 00:43 (Williams, Ruchty) Pierrick Maïa - GW - 02:47 | First period | 03:25 - Toby Ducolon (McDonough) | ||||||
| (Gribble) Scott Paluch - 05:13 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Paluch, Parks) Marc Potvin - PP - 02:09 (Leggett) Brian Meharry - 13:53 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (26 saves / 27 shots) Paul Connell | Goalie stats | Phil Marrandette (20 saves / 25 shots) | ||||||
| Bowling Green won series 10–2 | |
Quarterfinals
[edit](E1) Maine vs. (W4) Bowling Green
[edit]| March 25 | Maine | 5 – 1 | Bowling Green | Alfond Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 06:12 - PP - Brent Regan (Meharry, Gribble) | ||||||
| (McHugh) Vince Guidotti - 03:22 (Corkum) Dave Wensley - GW - 09:38 (Norris, Wensley) Dave Capuano - PP - 09:38 (D. Capuano, Thyer) Dave Nonis - 17:14 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) Mario Thyer - 14:37 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (26 saves / 27 shots) Scott King | Goalie stats | Paul Connell (30 saves / 35 shots) | ||||||
| March 26 | Maine | 4 – 3 | Bowling Green | Alfond Arena | Recap | |||
| (Jenkins, Studnikca) Jim Burke - 06:12 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Wensley, Weinrich) Bob Corkum - 14:02 | Second period | 03:21 - PP - Andy Gribble (Paluch) | ||||||
| (Thyer, Weinrich) Christian Lalonde - PP - 09:17 (D. Capuano, Scremin) Mario Thyer - GW - 14:58 | Third period | 13:22 - Nelson Emerson (Leggett) 19:38 - Thad Rusiecki (Emerson) | ||||||
| (23 saves / 26 shots) Scott King | Goalie stats | Paul Connell (24 saves / 27 shots) John Burke (2 saves / 3 shots) | ||||||
| Maine won series 9–4 | |
(E2) St. Lawrence vs. (W3) Wisconsin
[edit]| March 26 | St. Lawrence | 7 – 0 | Wisconsin | Appleton Arena | Recap | |||
| (Baker) Brian McColgan - PP GW - 01:43 (Ball) Russ Mann - 18:51 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Lammens, Consorte) Andy Pritchard - 08:02 (McColgan, McGeough) Peter Lappin - PP - 09:17 (Baker) Joe Day - 14:48 (Witherall) Joe Day - 16:42 (Ball) Chris Consorte - 18:49 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (23 saves / 23 shots) Paul Cohen | Goalie stats | Dean Anderson (33 saves / 40 shots) | ||||||
| March 27 | St. Lawrence | 3 – 4 | Wisconsin | Appleton Arena | Recap | |||
| (Consorte, Pritchard) Martyn Ball - 13:55 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 03:48 - Dennis Snedden (unassisted) 09:23 - Joe Decker (Andringa) 18:02 - Paul Ranheim (Tuttle, Andringa) | ||||||
| (T. Lappin) Peter Lappin - SH - 04:46 (Consorte, P. Lappin) Andy Pritchard - 10:50 | Third period | 14:34 - GW - Paul Stanton (Tancill, Poss) | ||||||
| (28 saves / 32 shots) Paul Cohen | Goalie stats | Dean Anderson (33 saves / 36 shots) | ||||||
| St. Lawrence won series 10–4 | |
(W1) Minnesota vs. (W5) Michigan State
[edit]| March 25[4] | Minnesota | 4 – 2 | Michigan State | Mariucci Arena | ||||
| (Miller) Paul Broten – 07:03 (Broten, Grannis) Todd Richards – 19:42 | First period | 03:15 – Bobby Reynolds (Russell, Cole) | ||||||
| (Hankinson, Orth) Scott Bloom – GW – 10:54 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Broten) David Grannis – 18:38 | Third period | 14:12 – Bruce Rendall (unassisted) | ||||||
| (29 saves / 31 shots) Robb Stauber | Goalie stats | Jason Muzzatti (26 saves / 30 shots) | ||||||
| March 26[4] | Minnesota | 4 – 3 | Michigan State | Mariucci Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | 05:42 – Kip Miller (Murray, Beadle) | ||||||
| (Werness, Skarda) Jay Cates – 17:14 | Second period | 10:02 - PP – Kip Miller (Murray, Beadle) 15:35 – Kip Miller (Kv. Miller, Hamilton) | ||||||
| (Cates) Grant Bischoff – 07:44 (unassisted) Todd Richards – 13:10 (Skarda) Jason Miller – EN GW – 19:56 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (32 saves / 35 shots) Robb Stauber | Goalie stats | Jason Muzzatti (28 saves / 31 shots) | ||||||
| Minnesota won series 8–5 | |
(W2) Lake Superior State vs. (W6) Merrimack
[edit]| March 25 | Lake Superior State | 3 – 4 | Merrimack | Norris Center | Recap | |||
| (Dowd, Vermette) Pete Stauber - 18:16 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Stauber, Keczmer) Mark Vermette - 03:26 (deCarle) Mark Vermette - PP - 13:41 | Second period | 07:45 - PP - Richard Pion (Kiene, Boyce) 11:20 - Richard Pion (Alcott) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 05:58 - Mark Ziliotto (Vesey) 19:08 - GW - Jim Vesey (LeBeau, Jay) | ||||||
| (25 saves / 29 shots) Bruce Hoffort | Goalie stats | Jim Hrivnak (38 saves / 41 shots) | ||||||
| March 26 | Lake Superior State | 5 – 0 | Merrimack | Norris Center | Recap | |||
| (unassisted) - Karl Johnston - SH GW - 17:43 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Dowd, Johnston) - Anthony Palumbo - PP - 12:48 (Vermette) Craig Hewson - 15:03 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (deCarle, Barnett) - Anthony Palumbo - 10:04 (Barnett, Dowd) - Anthony Palumbo - PP - 11:29 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (21 saves / 21 shots) Bruce Hoffort | Goalie stats | Jim Hrivnak (35 saves / 40 shots) | ||||||
| Lake Superior State won series 8–4 | |
Frozen Four
[edit]National Semifinal
[edit](E1) Maine vs. (W2) Lake Superior State
[edit]| March 31 | Maine | 3 – 6 | Lake Superior State | Olympic Center | Recap | |||
| (Thyer, Lalonde) Dave Capuano - 00:52 (Weinrich, Golden) Dave Capuano - PP - 02:48 | First period | 14:30 - PP - Mike deCarle (Stauber) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 08:23 - Mike deCarle (Barnett, Johnston) 09:08 - Jim Dowd (Stauber) 18:37 - GW - Kord Cernich (Barnett, Palumbo) | ||||||
| (Weinrich, Perron) Mike Golden - 03:01 | Third period | 11:32 - Karl Johnston (Dyer, Hossack) 12:25 - Jim Dowd (Stauber, Chapdelaine) | ||||||
| (29 saves / 35 shots) Scott King | Goalie stats | Bruce Hoffort (33 saves / 36 shots) | ||||||
(W1) Minnesota vs. (E2) St. Lawrence
[edit]| April 1 | Minnesota | 2 – 3 | St. Lawrence | Olympic Center | Recap | |||
| (Broten) David Espe - 00:28 | First period | 07:19 - PP - Peter Lappin (McGeough, Baker) | ||||||
| (Cates, P. Hankinson) Randy Skarda - PP - 05:39 | Second period | 12:03 - Peter Lappin (White, Buckeridge) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:48 - GW - Peter Lappin (Day, Robertson) | ||||||
| (34 saves / 37 shots) Robb Stauber | Goalie stats | Paul Cohen (36 saves / 38 shots) | ||||||
Third-place game
[edit](E1) Maine vs. (W1) Minnesota
[edit]| April 2 | Maine | 5 – 2 | Minnesota | Olympic Center | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 19:41 - Jay Cates (Broten, Grannis) | ||||||
| (Jenkins, Scremin) Guy Perron - 09:14 (D. Capuano) Dave Wensley - PP - 11:02 (J. Capuano, Lalonde) Dave Capuano - GW - 13:55 | Second period | 15:44 - Jay Cates (Broten, Strot) | ||||||
| (Guidotti) Eric Weinrich - 01:33 (Golden) Vince Guidotti - 14:39 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| (39 saves / 41 shots) Al Loring | Goalie stats | Robb Stauber (38 saves / 43 shots) Al Fritzinger (0 saves / 0 shots) | ||||||
National Championship
[edit](W2) Lake Superior State vs. (E2) St. Lawrence
[edit]| April 2 | Lake Superior State | 4 – 3 | OT | St. Lawrence | Olympic Center | |||
| Scoring summary | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Team | Goal | Assist(s) | Time | Score |
| 1st | LSSU | Tim Harris | Laprade and Keczmer | 05:46 | 1–0 LSSU |
| LSSU | Kord Cernich - PP | Palumbo and deCarle | 16:48 | 2–0 LSSU | |
| 2nd | SLU | Doug Murray | McColgan and P. Lappin | 22:16 | 2–1 LSSU |
| SLU | Russ Mann | unassisted | 27:39 | 2–2 | |
| LSSU | Kord Cernich - PP | deCarle and Vermette | 32:19 | 3–2 LSSU | |
| SLU | Brian McColgan - PP | P. Lappin and Baker | 37:24 | 3–3 | |
| 3rd | None | ||||
| 1st Overtime | LSSU | Mark Vermette - GW | Hossack and Dowd | 64:46 | 4–3 LSSU |
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- G: Bruce Hoffort* (Lake Superior State)
- D: Kord Cernich (Lake Superior State)
- D: Brian McColgan (St. Lawrence)
- F: Dave Capuano (Maine)
- F: Mike de Carle (Lake Superior State)
- F: Pete Lappin (St. Lawrence)
* Most Outstanding Player(s)[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "SLU-LSSU national championship controversy". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
- ^ "NCAA Division 1 Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ "NCAA Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Michigan State 2013-14 Hockey History" (PDF). Michigan State Spartans. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2016. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
- ^ "NCAA Division I Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ "NCAA Frozen Four Records" (PDF). NCAA.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
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