8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated.
As a result of their being the regular season champion, Minnesota-Duluth's home venue, Duluth Arena Auditorium, served as the site for the Championship game regardless of which teams qualified for the penultimate match.
Each series were two-game matchups with the team that scored the most goals advancing to the succeeding round.
4 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top remaining seed matched against lowest remaining seed in one semifinal game while the two other semifinalists meeting with the winners advancing to the championship round.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against [3] [4] Teams are reseeded after the first round Note: * denotes overtime period(s)