2023–24 NCHC season

2023–24 NCHC season
2023–24 NCHC season
Season	2023–24
Conference	NCHC
Division	Division I
Sport	ice hockey
Duration	October 7, 2023–; March 9, 2023
Number of teams	8
NHL Entry Draft
Regular season
Season champions	North Dakota
Season MVP	Jackson Blake
Top scorer	Jackson Blake
NCHC Tournament
Tournament champions	Denver
Runners-up	Omaha
Tournament MVP	McKade Webster
Top scorer	Jackson Blake
NCAA tournament
Bids	4
Team(s)	Denver; North Dakota; Omaha; Western Michigan
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The 2023–24 NCHC season is the 11th season of play for National Collegiate Hockey Conference and takes place during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The season will began on October 7, 2023, and conclude on March 9, 2023.^[1]

Coaches

Records

Team	Head coach	Season at school	Record at school	NCHC record
Colorado College	Kris Mayotte	3	22–46–6	12–32–3
Denver	David Carle	6	116–53–13	68–42–9
Miami	Chris Bergeron	5	28–90–13	17–71–9
Minnesota Duluth	Scott Sandelin	24	444–368–96	127–93–21
North Dakota	Brad Berry	9	180–92–31	112–62–19
Omaha	Mike Gabinet	7	94–101–12	61–74–9
St. Cloud State	Brett Larson	6	106–60–16	66–42–12
Western Michigan	Pat Ferschweiler	3	49–27–2	29–18–2

Standings

2023–24 National Collegiate Hockey Conference Standings v t e
	Conference record										Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	OTW	OTL	SW	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#8 North Dakota †	24	15	8	1	1	4	0	49	87	67	40	26	12	2	151	105
#1 Denver *	24	15	7	2	3	0	1	45	110	80	42	30	9	3	198	119
#18 St. Cloud State	24	11	9	4	1	3	2	41	77	74	38	17	16	5	121	114
#15 Colorado College	24	14	8	2	5	2	0	41	66	56	37	21	13	3	111	93
#12 Omaha	24	13	8	3	5	0	3	40	68	74	40	23	13	4	117	112
#14 Western Michigan	24	11	13	0	1	5	0	35	78	64	38	21	16	1	136	97
Minnesota Duluth	24	8	14	2	3	3	2	28	65	80	37	12	20	5	103	125
Miami	24	1	21	2	0	2	0	7	44	100	36	7	26	3	78	135
Championship: March 23, 2024 † indicates conference regular season champion (Penrose Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Frozen Faceoff Championship Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll Updated: April 1, 2024

Non-Conference record

Only one conference member (St. Cloud State) ended up with a losing record in non-conference play. While this, ordinarily, would put the NCHC in good standing, several of the teams had very weak opponents. This was typified by Western Michigan, whose strongest opponent on the season was St. Lawrence (48th in the pairwise). The result was that, despite finishing 33 games over .500, the NCHC finished behind the Big Ten and Hockey East in ranking average.

Regular season record

Team	Atlantic Hockey	Big Ten	CCHA	ECAC Hockey	Hockey East	Independent	Total
Colorado College	1–0–0	1–1–0	0–1–0	2–0–0	0–0–0	2–1–1	6–3–1
Denver	3–0–0	0–0–0	0–0–1	2–0–0	1–1–0	3–1–0	9–2–1
Miami	4–2–0	0–0–0	1–1–0	0–0–0	0–0–0	1–0–1	6–3–1
Minnesota Duluth	1–0–0	0–1–1	3–0–2	0–2–0	0–1–0	0–0–0	4–4–3
North Dakota	1–0–0	1–0–0	3–0–1	1–1–0	0–0–0	2–0–0	8–1–1
Omaha	2–0–0	0–1–1	2–0–0	0–0–0	1–0–0	2–1–0	7–2–1
St. Cloud State	0–0–0	0–1–1	3–3–0	0–0–0	0–0–0	1–1–0	4–5–1
Western Michigan	0–0–0	0–0–0	3–0–1	2–0–0	0–0–0	4–0–0	9–0–1
Overall	12–2–0	2–4–3	15–5–5	7–3–0	2–2–0	15–4–2	53–20–10

Statistics

Leading scorers

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes^[2]

Player	Class	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Jackson Blake	Sophomore	North Dakota	23	11	25	36	14
Zeev Buium	Freshman	Denver	24	6	25	31	14
Noah Laba	Sophomore	Colorado College	24	16	12	28	23
Jack Devine	Junior	Denver	24	12	16	28	8
Shai Buium	Junior	Denver	24	6	20	26	10
Cameron Berg	Junior	North Dakota	23	15	10	25	4
Sam Colangelo	Senior	Western Michigan	24	11	13	24	21
Luke Grainger	Senior	Western Michigan	24	9	15	24	13
Tristan Broz	Junior	Denver	24	8	15	23	13
Massimo Rizzo	Sophomore	Denver	16	4	19	23	8

Leading goaltenders

Minimum 1/3 of team's minutes played in conference games.
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average

Player	Class	Team	GP	Min	W	L	T	GA	SO	SV%	GAA
Kaiden Mbereko	Sophomore	Colorado College	24	1448:51	14	8	2	52	0	.927	2.15
Cameron Rowe	Senior	Western Michigan	24	1433:01	11	13	0	61	1	.903	2.55
Ludvig Persson	Senior	North Dakota	22	1362:32	15	7	1	62	3	.898	2.73
Dominic Basse	Senior	St. Cloud State	16	956:20	9	5	1	45	2	.894	2.82
Matt Davis	Junior	Denver	16	925:09	10	4	2	44	1	.907	2.85

Conference tournament

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals.

Quarterfinals March 15–17					Semifinals March 22			Championship March 23

1	North Dakota	5	7	-

8	Miami	1	1	-
					1	North Dakota	3

					5	Omaha	6
2	Denver	4	5	-

7	Minnesota Duluth	0	2	-
								5	Omaha	1

								2	Denver	4
3	St. Cloud State	5	1	5

6	Western Michigan	2	6	1
					2	Denver	5*

					3	St. Cloud State	4
4	Colorado College	4*	1	1

5	Omaha	3	3	2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

NCAA tournament

Ranking

USCHO

Team	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Final
Colorado College	NR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Denver	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Miami	NR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minnesota Duluth	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
North Dakota	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Omaha	NR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
St. Cloud State	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Western Michigan	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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USA Today

Team	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Final
Colorado College	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Denver	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Miami	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minnesota Duluth	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
North Dakota	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Omaha	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
St. Cloud State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Western Michigan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

^[4]

Pairwise

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	Final
Colorado College	32	18	7	18	20	16	26	25	29	24	23	16	18	18	18	17	17	11	15	11	11	14	15
Denver	1	14	21	11	2	4	7	4	7	8	8	6	8	6	6	8	7	5	6	3	3	3	3
Miami	11	13	4	4	31	36	43	43	41	43	45	41	40	44	43	44	47	47	45	46	47	49	49
Minnesota Duluth	23	30	22	35	28	41	41	47	39	33	33	32	31	25	26	26	25	26	27	28	26	30	30
North Dakota	32	2	6	15	8	7	4	6	1	5	6	6	7	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	6
Omaha	32	45	44	33	43	38	21	19	21	23	23	23	18	20	19	19	17	18	17	16	11	11	10
St. Cloud State	15	37	41	52	23	14	12	13	14	14	13	12	12	11	13	14	13	11	11	14	15	14	15
Western Michigan	32	16	2	16	12	30	15	13	12	11	10	10	10	10	14	11	11	10	12	15	13	13	13

Note: teams ranked in the top-10 automatically qualify for the NCAA tournament. Teams ranked 11-16 can qualify based upon conference tournament results.^[5]

Awards

NCAA

Award	Recipient
Tournament Most Outstanding Player	Matt Davis, Denver
AHCA All-American Teams^[6]
West First Team	Position
Kaidan Mbereko, Colorado College	G
Zeev Buium, Denver	D
Jackson Blake, North Dakota	F
Jack Devine, Denver	F
West Second Team	Position
Dylan Anhorn, St. Cloud State	D
Noah Laba, Colorado College	F
Massimo Rizzo, Denver	F
NCAA All-Tournament team
Matt Davis, Denver	G
Sean Behrens, Denver	D
Zeev Buium, Denver	D
Tristan Broz, Denver	F
Rieger Lorenz, Denver	F

NCHC

Award^[7]		Recipient
Player of the Year		Jackson Blake, North Dakota
Rookie of the Year		Zeev Buium, Denver
Goaltender of the Year		Kaidan Mbereko, Colorado College
Forward of the Year		Jackson Blake, North Dakota
Defensive Defenseman of the Year		Sean Behrens, Denver
Offensive Defenseman of the Year		Zeev Buium, Denver
Defensive Forward of the Year		Noah Laba, Colorado College
Scholar-Athlete of the Year		Luke Grainger, Western Michigan
Three Stars Award		Noah Laba, Colorado College
Sportsmanship Award		Darian Gotz, Minnesota Duluth
Herb Brooks Coach of the Year		Kris Mayotte, Colorado College
Frozen Faceoff MVP		McKade Webster, Denver
All-NCHC Teams^[8]
First Team	Position	Second Team
Kaidan Mbereko, Colorado College	G	Ludvig Persson, North Dakota
Zeev Buium, Denver	D	Shai Buium, Denver
Dylan Anhorn, St. Cloud State	D	Jack Peart, St. Cloud State
Jackson Blake, North Dakota	F	Luke Grainger, Western Michigan
Jack Devine, Denver	F	Massimo Rizzo, Denver
Noah Laba, Colorado College	F	Ben Steeves, Minnesota Duluth
Honorable Mention	Position	Rookie Team^[9]
Šimon Latkoczy, Omaha	G	Isak Posch, St. Cloud State
Sean Behrens, Denver	D	Zeev Buium, Denver
Jake Livanavage, North Dakota	D	Jake Livanavage, North Dakota
Garrett Pyke, North Dakota	D
Cameron Berg, North Dakota	F	Miko Matikka, Denver
Sam Colangelo, Western Michigan	F	Alex Bump, Western Michigan
Riese Gaber, North Dakota	F	Tanner Ludtke, Omaha
Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team
Šimon Latkoczy, Omaha	G
Zeev Buium, Denver	D
Griffin Ludtke, Omaha	D
McKade Webster, Denver	F
Zach Urdahl, Omaha	F
Miko Matikka, Denver	F