2017 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament

The 2017 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the fourth tournament in conference history. It was played between March 16 and March 18, 2017, at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.^[1] As tournament champion Penn State was awarded the Big Ten's automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

2017 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 16–18, 2017
Teams	6
Finals site	Joe Louis Arena Detroit, Michigan
Champions	Penn State (1st title)
Winning coach	Guy Gadowsky (1st title)
MVP	Peyton Jones (Penn State)
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Format

All six Big Ten teams participated in the tournament, which was a single-elimination format. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings. In the quarterfinals, No. 3 played No. 6 and No. 4 played No. 5. In the semifinals, No. 2 played the winner of the first game and No. 1 played the winner of the second game (the teams were not reseeded). The two semifinal winners played each other in the Championship Game.

Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2016–17 Big Ten ice hockey standings v t e
	Conference record									Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	SOW	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#7 Minnesota†	20	14	5	1	0	43	79	58		38	23	12	3	141	104
#17 Wisconsin	20	12	8	0	0	36	72	66		36	20	15	1	122	118
#14 Ohio State	20	11	8	1	1	35	76	62		39	21	12	6	154	113
#8 Penn State*	20	10	9	1	0	31	71	63		39	25	12	2	160	108
Michigan	20	6	12	2	2	22	53	75		35	13	19	3	92	111
Michigan State	20	3	14	3	0	13	47	74		35	7	24	4	84	134
Championship: March 18, 2017 † indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 6, 2017

Bracket

	Quarterfinals^[2] March 16					Semifinals March 17					Championship March 18
						1	Minnesota	3
	4	Penn State	4			4	Penn State	4**
	5	Michigan	1								4	Penn State	2**
											2	Wisconsin	1
						2	Wisconsin	2
	3	Ohio State	6			3	Ohio State	1
	6	Michigan State	3

Note: * denotes overtime periods.

Quarterfinals

All times are local (EST) (UTC−4).

(3) Ohio State vs. (6) Michigan State

March 16	Ohio State		6 – 3		Michigan State	Joe Louis Arena	Recap
Mason Jobst (19) - (Nick Schilkey, Tommy Parran) - 4:09 Nick Schilkey (27) - pp - (Mason Jobst, Dakota Joshua) - 5:44		First period			8:58 - Villiam Haag (7) - (Patr Khodorenko) 12:15 - Dylan Pavelek (2) - (Patr Khodorenko, William Haag) 14:20 - pp - Sam Saliba (10) - (Mason Appleton, Carson Gatt)
Brendon Kearney (3) - (Christian Lampas, Drew Brevig) - 13:54		Second period			No scoring
David Gust (17) - pp - (Mason Jobst) - 0:25 David Gust (17) - (Janik Moser) - 1:38 Tanner Laczynski (10) - (Tommy Parran, Matthew Weis) - 3:51		Third period			No scoring
Matt Tomkins (26 saves / 29 shots)		Goalie stats			Ed Minney (21 saves / 27 shots) John Lethemon (7 saves / 7 shots)

(4) Penn State vs. (5) Michigan

March 16	Penn State		4 – 1		Michigan	Joe Louis Arena	Recap
Liam Folkes (4) - pp - (Brandon Biro, Erik Autio) - 10:50 Nate Sucese (15) - (Denis Smirnov, Ricky DeRosa) - 13:24 David Goodwin (11) - (Alec Marsh, Vince Pedrie) - 19:31		First period			No scoring
Vince Pedrie (8) - (Nate Sucese) - 1:03		Second period			10:19 - pp - James Sanchez (6) - (Tony Calderone, Cooper Marody)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Peyton Jones (30 saves / 31 shots)		Goalie stats			Zach Nagelvoort (30 saves / 34 shots)

Semifinals

(2) Wisconsin vs. (3) Ohio State

March 17	Wisconsin		2 – 1		Ohio State	Joe Louis Arena	Recap
Luke Kunin (22) - (JD Greenway, Tim Davison) - 17:18		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			13:48 - pp - Dakota Joshua (12) - (Mason Jobst, Josh Healey)
Will Johnson (10) - (Seamus Malone, Aidan Cavallini) - 1:30		Third period			No scoring
Jack Berry (23 saves / 24 shots)		Goalie stats			Matt Tomkins (24 saves / 26 shots)

(1) Minnesota vs. (4) Penn State

March 17	Minnesota		3 – 4	2OT	Penn State	Joe Louis Arena	Recap
Rem Pitlick (14) - (Darian Romanko, Ryan Norman) - 7:20 Justin Kloos (18) - pp - (Tyler Sheehy, Rem Pitlick) - 9:55		First period			1:05 - Nikita Pavlychev (4) - (Trevor Hamilton, Ricky DeRosa)
No scoring		Second period			3:48 - Alec Marsh (6) - (Chase Berger, Andrew Sturtz)
Jack Sadek (4) - (Vinni Lettieri) - 3:42		Third period			1:00 - pp - Dylan Richard (9) - (Andrew Sturtz, Vince Pedrie)
No scoring		Second overtime period			13:33 - pp - Erik Autio (3) - (Denis Smirnov, Andrew Sturtz)
Eric Schierhorn (59 saves / 63 shots)		Goalie stats			Peyton Jones (37 saves / 40 shots)

Championship

(2) Wisconsin vs. (4) Penn State

March 18	Wisconsin		1 – 2	2OT	Penn State	Joe Louis Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			15:37 - Liam Folkes (5) - (Brandon Biro, Kris Myllari)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Matt Ustaski (6) - pp - (Luke Kunin, Cameron Hughes) - 11:45		Third period			No scoring
No scoring		Second overtime period			6:43 - Liam Folkes (6) - (Brandon Biro, David Thompson)
Jack Berry (33 saves / 35 shots)		Goalie stats			Peyton Jones (51 saves / 52 shots)

Tournament awards

Most Outstanding Player

• Goaltender: Peyton Jones (Penn State)

All-Tournament Team

• Goaltender: Peyton Jones (Penn State)
• Defensemen: Vince Pedrie (Penn State), Erik Autio (Penn State)
• Forwards: Luke Kunin (Wisconsin), Liam Folkes (Penn State), David Gust (Ohio State)^[3]

References

1. . BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 10, 2017. Archived from the original on March 12, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
2. . BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 11, 2017. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
3. (PDF). BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 19, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.

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