The Road to the Final Five - WCHA Statistics in March

I threw some stats together once again for y'all just to get an idea of all the top WCHA teams in different categories over the month of March, which comes out to four games for each teams.

This will give one a good idea at how his/her team has been playing lately, and to some extent, what they can expect in their series this weekend.  Now keep in mind difficulty of opponents do play a factor, but this is just a statistical overview.

Photo: Dave Harwig

Enjoy.

Scoring Leaders:

Name	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	Pts/G	Plus/Minus	PPG
Austin Farley ('93)	Minnesota Duluth	4	3	7	10	2.5	4	2
Michael Mersh (LOS)	Wisconsin	4	5	3	8	2.0	2	0
Tony Cameranesi (TOR)	Minnesota Duluth	4	2	6	8	2.0	3	0
Ty Loney	Denver	4	1	7	8	2.0	6	0
Erik Haula (MIN)	Minnesota	4	1	6	7	1.8	2	0
Mike Seidel	Minnesota Duluth	4	4	2	6	1.5	0	3
Andrew Prochno	St. Cloud State	4	2	4	6	1.5	2	0
Mark Zengerle	Wisconsin	4	2	4	6	1.5	4	1
Caleb Herbert (WSH)	Minnesota Duluth	4	0	6	6	1.5	0	0

Goaltending Leaders:

Name	Team	GP	Saves	GAA	Save %	SO
Aaron Crandall	Minnesota Duluth	2	55	0.00	100.0%	2
Jamie Phillips (WPG)	Michigan Tech	2	58	0.50	98.3%	1
Juho Olkinuora	Denver	2	49	0.50	98.0%	1
Adam Wilcox	Minnesota	4	112	1.51	94.9%	0
Joe Howe	Colorado College	4	137	2.73	93.2%	0

Teams Overall:

Win Percentage	Win%
Minnesota Duluth	100%
Denver	75%
Minnesota	75%
Wisconsin	75%
Scoring Offense	G/GP
Minnesota Duluth	4.75
Denver	4.00
Wisconsin	3.75
Scoring Defense	G/GP
Minnesota Duluth	1.50
Denver	1.75
Minnesota	1.75
Power Play	PP%
Minnesota Duluth	47.8%
Wisconsin	25.0%
Minnesota	23.1%
Nebraska Omaha	23.1%
Penalty Kill	PK%
Minnesota Duluth	92.9%
Denver	92.9%
North Dakota	90.0%
Pen. Mins./Game	PIM/G
St. Cloud State	2.5
Bemidji State	5.0
Minnesota	5.0
Shots/Game	SOG/G
Denver	38.5
Michigan Tech	38.5
Minnesota State	38.5
Shots Against/Gm	SOGA/G
Wisconsin	25.3
Minnesota State	26.5
Minnesota Duluth	27.5

WARNING: DECIPHER THE REMAINING BITS OF THIS ARTICLE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Now, not that this matters at all, but I'm going to give the top teams, in order, a number 1, 2 or 3 based on how they placed on that given category (3 being the best).  The same thing goes for players too, but just the top 3.  The chart below is the team's that tallied in, the amount of categories they were recognized under, followed by the amount of points they scored.

Team	Categories	Points
Minnesota Duluth	9	23
Denver	6	12
Wisconsin	5	9
Minnesota	4	5
Michigan Tech	2	5
Minnesota State	2	5
St. Cloud State	1	3
Bemidji State	1	2
Nebraska Omaha	1	1
North Dakota	1	1

So based on the way teams have been playing over the last four games, again take into consideration opponent difficulty, one can cautiously infer to expect similar results this weekend in the WCHA playoffs.

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