As a result of the NCAA having placed both WCHA teams in the same semifinal the year before ( due to Denver and Minnesota not having played one another prior to the NCAA tournament ) the WCHA changed their playoff format where they dispensed with the pair of two-game series to declare co-champions and went with a more traditional 4-team single-elimination format where a single champion would be crowned . Additionally , rather than play the games at the home cite of the higher-seeded school , all games would be played at a host venue with the Weinberg Coliseum chosen for the 1962 tournament . The Huskies opened against Michigan State and took the game against the Spartans 5 – 1 which sent them to a fifth meeting with Michigan , the only team that had been able to defeat MTU all season . Michigan opened the scoring just before the half-way point of the first and added a second goal just over two minutes later , both power play goals . As thing were beginning to look bleak for the Huskies their own power play finally scored with less than 30 seconds left in the period and team captain Jerry Sullivan tied the score with 1 second remaining . Tech could have used the timely goals to jump on the Wolverines in the second but Dave Butts held them off the scoresheet and allowed the WCHA leading scorer and player of the year Red Berenson to give Michigan its second lead of the night with UM 's third power play marker . With little to lose Tech came out firing in the third and scored two goals in 17 seconds at the start of the period to take their first lead . Michigan tied the game at 4-all with under 9 minutes to play but Lou Angotti got the game-winner 72 seconds later and Garry Bauman held the fort to earn the Huskies the first solitary WCHA tournament championship . The six goals scored by Michigan Tech were the most allowed by Michigan all season
1962 tournament
1962 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
1961–62 Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey season