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The 1987 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the culmination of the 1986–87 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 40th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 20 and 28, 1987, and concluded with North Dakota defeating Michigan State 5-3. All Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues while all succeeding games were played at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.
| Teams | 8 |
|---|---|
| Finals site | |
| Champions | North Dakota Fighting Sioux (5th title) |
| Runner-up | Michigan State Spartans (4th title game) |
| Semifinalists |
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| Winning coach | Gino Gasparini (3rd title) |
| MOP | Tony Hrkac (North Dakota) |
| Attendance | 36,251 |
The NCAA permitted 8 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 4 teams, 1 from each conference.
| East | West | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth type | Appearance | Last bid | Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth type | Appearance | Last bid |
| 1 | Boston College | Hockey East | 30–7–0 | Tournament champion | 15th | 1986 | 1 | North Dakota | WCHA | 36–8–0 | Tournament champion | 11th | 1984 |
| 2 | Harvard | ECAC Hockey | 26–4–0 | Tournament champion | 12th | 1986 | 2 | Michigan State | CCHA | 30–9–2 | Tournament champion | 9th | 1986 |
| 3 | Maine | Hockey East | 24–14–2 | At-large bid | 1st | Never | 3 | Bowling Green | CCHA | 33–8–2 | At-large bid | 6th | 1984 |
| 4 | St. Lawrence | ECAC Hockey | 24–9–0 | At-large bid | 9th | 1983 | 4 | Minnesota | WCHA | 32–12–1 | At-large bid | 14th | 1986 |
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two odd-number ranked teams from one region were placed into a bracket with the two even-number ranked teams of the other region. The teams were then seeded according to their ranking. In the Quarterfinals the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds played two-game aggregate series to determine which school advanced to the Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games were played at the Joe Louis Arena and all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game with the losers playing in a Third Place game.
| Quarterfinals March 20–21 | Semifinals March 26–27 | National championship March 28 | ||||||||||||||
| E1 | Boston College | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| W4 | Minnesota | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| W4 | Minnesota | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| W2 | Michigan State | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| W2 | Michigan State | 6 | 5 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| E3 | Maine | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| W2 | Michigan State | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| W1 | North Dakota | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| W1 | North Dakota | 3 | 6 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| E4 | St. Lawrence | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | North Dakota | 5 | Third-place game | |||||||||||||
| E2 | Harvard | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| E2 | Harvard | 7 | 3 | 10 | W4 | Minnesota | 6 | |||||||||
| W3 | Bowling Green | 1 | 0 | 1 | E2 | Harvard | 3 | |||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Quarterfinals
(E1) Boston College vs. (W4) Minnesota
| March 20 | Boston College | 1 – 4 | Minnesota | McHugh Forum | ||||
| March 21 | Boston College | 3 – 2 | Minnesota | McHugh Forum | ||||
| Minnesota won series 6–4 | |
(E2) Harvard vs. (W3) Bowling Green
| March 20 | Harvard | 7 – 1 | Bowling Green | Bright Hockey Center | Recap | |||
| (Caplan, Biotti) Steve Armstrong – 01:27 (Taylor, Bourbeau) Lane MacDonald – GW PP – 04:51 (Armstrong, Caplan) Don Sweeney – PP – 16:41 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (unassisted) C. J. Young – 03:09 (Barakett, Sweeney) C. J. Young – 08:00 (MacDonald, Barakett) Allen Bourbeau – PP – 11:37 |
Second period | 18:32 – PP – Iain Duncan (Emerson, Barber) | ||||||
| (Taylor, Bourbeau) Tim Barakett – PP – 11:07 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 29 saves / 30 shots ) Dickie McEvoy | Goalie stats | Gary Kruzich ( 34 saves / 41 shots ) | ||||||
| March 21 | Harvard | 3 – 0 | Bowling Green | Bright Hockey Center | ||||
| Harvard won series 10–1 | |
(W1) North Dakota vs. (E4) St. Lawrence
| March 20 | North Dakota | 3 – 1 | St. Lawrence | Winter Sports Center | ||||
| March 21 | North Dakota | 6 – 3 | St. Lawrence | Winter Sports Center | ||||
| North Dakota won series 9–4 | |
(W2) Michigan State vs. (E3) Maine
| March 20[3] | Michigan State | 6 – 2 | Maine | Munn Ice Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | 13:15 – Guy Perron (McHugh) | ||||||
| (Cole, Foster) Don McSween – 10:05 (unassisted) Tom Tilley – 16:41 (Kv. Miller, Hamilton) Bruce Rendall – GW – 18:07 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Luongo, Shibicky) Mitch Messier – 07:31 (Gibson, Hoff) Brian McReynolds – 15:00 (Tilley, Ki. Miller) Kevin Miller – 15:33 |
Third period | 02:38 – Guy Perron (Beers, Nonis) | ||||||
| March 21[3] | Michigan State | 5 – 3 | Maine | Munn Ice Arena | ||||
| (Kv. Miller) Mitch Messier – 19:15 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Kv. Miller, Rendall) Kip Miller – 09:55 (Rendall, Shibicky) Mitch Messier – 15:12 |
Second period | 09:32 – Steve Santini (D. Capuano, Baker) | ||||||
| (Messier, McSween) Dave Arkeilpane – GW – 15:36 (Cole, Luongo) Bobby Reynolds – 19:28 |
Third period | 01:57 – Todd Jenkins (Nonis) 12:10 – Todd Jenkins (Nonis) | ||||||
| Michigan State won series 11–5 | |
Semifinal
(W1) North Dakota vs. (E2) Harvard
| March 26 | North Dakota | 5 – 2 | Harvard | Joe Louis Arena | ||||
(W2) Michigan State vs. (W4) Minnesota
| March 27[3] | Michigan State | 5 – 3 | Minnesota | Joe Louis Arena | ||||
| (Kv. Miller, Hamilton) Mitch Messier – 01:39 (Reynolds, Luongo) Danton Cole – 04:16 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (O'Toole, Cole) Neil Wilkinson – 10:05 | Second period | 01:08 – Corey Millen (Blue) 06:27 – Jay Cates (Chorske, Millen) 17:18 – Tom Chorske (unassisted) | ||||||
| (unassisted) Dave Arkeilpane – GW – 07:31 (Luongo) Bill Shibicky – 19:04 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
Third-place game
(E2) Harvard vs. (W4) Minnesota
| March 28 | Harvard | 3 – 6 | Minnesota | Joe Louis Arena | ||||
National Championship
(W1) North Dakota vs. (W2) Michigan State
| March 28[4] | North Dakota | 5 – 3 | Michigan State | Joe Louis Arena | ||||
| Scoring summary | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Team | Goal | Assist(s) | Time | Score |
| 1st | UND | Ian Kidd – PP | Joyce | 15:07 | 1–0 UND |
| UND | Murray Baron | Bowen and Kidd | 16:44 | 2–0 UND | |
| UND | Bob Joyce | Kidd and Hrkac | 17:02 | 3–0 UND | |
| 2nd | MSU | Tom Tilly | McReynolds and Messier | 28:30 | 3–1 UND |
| UND | Malcolm Parks – GW | Koberinski | 35:05 | 4–1 UND | |
| MSU | Kevin Miller | unassisted | 36:56 | 4–2 UND | |
| 3rd | UND | Brent Bobyck | Parent | 47:54 | 5–2 UND |
| MSU | Kip Miller | Miller | 58:34 | 5–3 UND | |
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- G: Ed Belfour (North Dakota)
- D: Ian Kidd (North Dakota)
- D: Chris Luongo (Michigan State)
- D: Don McSween (Michigan State)
- F: Tony Hrkac* (North Dakota)
- F: Bob Joyce (North Dakota)
- F: Corey Millen (Minnesota)
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