1991 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament

The NCAA permitted 12 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 8 teams. The NCAA permitted one Independent team to participate in the tournament and because the previous year the independent qualifier was placed in the East pool the two western conferences (CCHA and WCHA) would split only three open spots as opposed to the East's four open spots. The top four remaining eastern teams and the top three remaining western teams received invitations and were seeded with the automatic qualifiers according to their ranking.

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The tournament featured four rounds of play. The three odd-number ranked teams from one region were placed into a bracket with the three even-number ranked teams of the other region. The teams were then seeded according to their ranking with the top two teams in each bracket receiving byes into the quarterfinals. In the first round the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds played best-of-three series to determine which school advanced to the Quarterfinals with the winners of the 4 vs. 5 series playing the first seed and the winner of the 3 vs. 6 series playing the second seed. In the Quarterfinals the matches were best-of-three series once more with the victors advancing to the National Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games were played at the Saint Paul Civic Center and all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game.

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| RD1=First Round
March 15–17

| RD2=Quarterfinals
March 22–24

| RD3=Frozen Four
March 28

| RD4=National Championship
March 30

| RD1-seed01=W4

| RD1-team01=Minnesota

| RD1-score01-1=3

| RD1-score01-2=8

| RD1-score01-3=8

| RD1-seed02=E5

| RD1-team02=Providence

| RD1-score02-1=4

| RD1-score02-2=4

| RD1-score02-3=3

| RD1-seed03=E3

| RD1-team03=Boston College

| RD1-score03-1=2

| RD1-score03-2=1

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| RD1-seed04=W6

| RD1-team04=Alaska-Anchorage

| RD1-score04-1=3

| RD1-score04-2=3

| RD1-score04-3=–

| RD1-seed05=E4

| RD1-team05=Clarkson

| RD1-score05-1=8

| RD1-score05-2=5

| RD1-score05-3=–

| RD1-seed06=W5

| RD1-team06=Wisconsin

| RD1-score06-1=3

| RD1-score06-2=4

| RD1-score06-3=–

| RD1-seed07=W3

| RD1-team07=Michigan

| RD1-score07-1=4

| RD1-score07-2=6

| RD1-score07-3=9

| RD1-seed08=E6

| RD1-team08=Cornell

| RD1-score08-1=5*

| RD1-score08-2=4

| RD1-score08-3=3

| RD2-seed01=E1

| RD2-team01=Maine

| RD2-score01-1=4

| RD2-score01-2=5

| RD2-score01-3=–

| RD2-seed02=W4

| RD2-team02=Minnesota

| RD2-score02-1=0

| RD2-score02-2=3

| RD2-score02-3=–

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| RD2-score03-2=5

| RD2-score03-3=–

| RD2-seed04=W6

| RD2-team04=Alaska Anchorage

| RD2-score04-1=5

| RD2-score04-2=3

| RD2-score04-3=–

| RD2-seed05=W1

| RD2-team05=Lake Superior State

| RD2-score05-1=3

| RD2-score05-2=6

| RD2-score05-3=3

| RD2-seed06=E4

| RD2-team06=Clarkson

| RD2-score06-1=7

| RD2-score06-2=2

| RD2-score06-3=4

| RD2-seed07=E2

| RD2-team07=Boston University

| RD2-score07-1=4

| RD2-score07-2=8

| RD2-score07-3=–

| RD2-seed08=W3

| RD2-team08=Michigan

| RD2-score08-1=1

| RD2-score08-2=1

| RD2-score08-3=–

| RD3-seed01=E1

| RD3-team01=Maine

| RD3-score01=3

| RD3-seed02=W2

| RD3-team02=Northern Michigan

| RD3-score02=5

| RD3-seed03=E4

| RD3-team03=Clarkson

| RD3-score03=3

| RD3-seed04=E2

| RD3-team04=Boston University

| RD3-score04=7

| RD4-seed01=W2

| RD4-team01=Northern Michigan

| RD4-score01=8***

| RD4-seed02=E2

| RD4-team02=Boston University

| RD4-score02=7

}}

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

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• G: Bill Pye (Northern Michigan)
• D: Lou Melone (Northern Michigan)
• D: Brad Werenka (Northern Michigan)
• F: Tony Amonte (Boston University)
• F: Scott Beattie* (Northern Michigan)
• F: Jean-Yves Roy (Maine)

* Most Outstanding Player(s){{cite news|title=NCAA Division I Awards |url=http://www.augenblick.org/chha/ncaa_awd.html|publisher=College Hockey Historical Archives|access-date=2013-07-17}}

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