2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2017 Frozen Four logo
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| Teams | 16 |
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| Finals Site | |
| Champions | Denver (8th title) |
| Runner-Up | Minnesota–Duluth (3rd title game) |
| Semifinalists |
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| Winning coach | Jim Montgomery (1st title) |
| MOP | Jarid Lukosevicius Denver |
| Attendance | 39,409 |
The 2017 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States in 2017. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and finals – was hosted by the University of Notre Dame and the Chicago Sports Commission at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Denver defeated Minnesota-Duluth 3–2 to win the program's 8th NCAA title.
The tournament is composed of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2017 regionals:
The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 19.Hockey East had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, NCHC had four teams receive a berth, ECAC Hockey had three teams receive a berth, Big Ten Conference had three teams receive a berth, and one team from the Atlantic Hockey, and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) received a berth.
Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.
Note: * denotes overtime period
ESPN has US television rights to all games during the tournament for the thirteenth consecutive year. ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, or ESPN3 and streamed them online via WatchESPN.
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