2003 Air Canada Cup

The 2003 Air Canada Cup was Canada's 25th annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, played April 21–27, 2003 at the Sault Memorial Gardens in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The Calgary Northstars defeated the Gaulois du Collège Antoine-Girouard 5-1 in the gold medal game to win the national title. It also marked the last season that the midget championship was known as the Air Canada Cup; it would be renamed the Telus Cup.

Future National Hockey League players competing in this tournament were Kris Letang, Jay Beagle, Colin Greening, and Teddy Purcell, who was named the most valuable player of the tournament.

Teams Result Team Region City Calgary Northstars Pacific Calgary, AB Gaulois du Collège Antoine-Girouard Quebec Saint-Hyacinthe, QC St. John's Maple Leafs Atlantic St. John's, NL 4 Yorkton Harvest West Yorkton, SK 5 Waterloo Wolves Central Waterloo, ON 6 Sault Ste. Marie North Stars Host Sault Ste. Marie, ON

Round robin

Standings

Scores

Collège Antoine-Girouard 7 - Calgary 0 Yorkton 4 - St. John's 0 Waterloo 4 - Sault Ste Marie 3 Calgary 4 - Waterloo 3 Collège Antoine-Girouard 7 - Yorkton 3 St. John's 6 - Sault Ste. Marie 2 Collège Antoine-Girouard 2 - St. John's 1 Yorkton 2 - Waterloo 1 Calgary 6 - Sault Ste. Marie 2 Calgary 2 - Yorkton 1 St. John's 4 - Waterloo 3 Collège Antoine-Girouard 2 - Sault Ste. Marie 0 Collège Antoine-Girouard 5 - Waterloo 2 Yorkton 5 - Sault Ste. Marie 3 Calgary 4 - St. John's 0

Playoffs

Semi-finals Collège Antoine-Girouard 3 - St. John's 2 Calgary 2 - Yorkton 1

Bronze-medal game St. John's 5 - Yorkton 4

Gold-medal game Calgary 5 - Collège Antoine-Girouard 1

Individual awards Most Valuable Player: Ted Purcell (St. John's) Top Scorer: Mathieu Aubin (Collège Antoine-Girouard) Top Forward: Alexandre Imbeault (Collège Antoine-Girouard) Top Defenceman: Dustin Nehring (Yorkton) Top Goaltender: Justin Mzarek (Yorkton) Most Sportsmanlike Player: Justin St. Louis (Calgary)

2003 Air Canada Cup

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