Tournament Bracket
The quarter-finals were two-game total-goals series. The semi-finals and finals were single elimination games.
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||
| Boston College | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||
| Minnesota | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
| Minnesota | 3 | |||||||||||
| Michigan State | 5 | |||||||||||
| Michigan State | 6 | 5 | 11 | |||||||||
| Maine | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||
| Michigan State | 3 | |||||||||||
| North Dakota | 5 | |||||||||||
| North Dakota | 3 | 6 | 9 | |||||||||
| St. Lawrence | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||
| North Dakota | 5 | Third place | ||||||||||
| Harvard | 2 | |||||||||||
| Harvard | 7 | 3 | 10 | Minnesota | 6 | |||||||
| Bowling Green | 1 | 0 | 1 | Harvard | 3 | |||||||
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