Minnesota State won the tournament and received the CCHA's automatic bid for the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format, while the semifinals and final are single games held at the campus sites of the highest remaining seeds.
8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated.
[1] The teams that advance out of the quarterfinals are reseeded according to the regular season standings.
The winners of the semifinals play one another to determine the conference tournament champion.