The 2014 CIS Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (52nd Annual) was held March 20–23, 2014. It was the second of two consecutive CIS Championships to be held at the Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon hosted by the University of Saskatchewan. The defending champions were the UNB Varsity Reds, but they would not be able to defend their title, having been eliminated in the second round of the AUS playoffs by the Saint Mary's Huskies.
Road to the Cup
AUS playoffs The AUS were held from February 19 to March 10, 2014."2014 Subway AUS Men's Hockey Championship Schedule". Atlantic University Sport.
OUA playoffs The OUA playoffs were held from February 19 to March 15, 2014."2013-14 M Playoff Bracket". leaguesta.com.
Canada West playoffs The Canada West playoffs were held from February 21 to March 8, 2014.Canada West Composite Schedule. .
University Cup The six teams to advance to the tournament are listed below. The wild-card team was selected from the OUA Conference as the AUS was provided the wild-card in 2013 and CW teams are ineligible as they are the host conference. To avoid having two CW teams in the same pool, Saskatchewan was swapped with Carleton.
RankSeedTeamQualification11Alberta Golden BearsCanada West Champion22Acadia AxemenAUS Champion33Windsor LancersOUA-West and Queen's Cup Champion44McGill RedmenOUA-East and Queen's Cup Finalist105Saskatchewan HuskiesHost & Canada West Finalist56Carleton RavensWild-Card – OUA Third Place
Pool A – Afternoon Pool A games were played from March 20 to March 22, 2014."2014 PotashCorp University Cup presented by Co-op: Alberta seeded No. 1 for CIS men's hockey championship". Canadian Interuniversity Sport. SeedTeamQualified1Alberta Golden BearsCanada West Champion4McGill RedmenOUA-East Champion (Queen's Cup Finalist)6Carleton RavensWild-card – OUA Third Place
Team Alberta Golden Bears 2 2 0 6 4 2 4 McGill Redmen 2 1 1 5 5 0 2 Carleton Ravens 2 0 2 4 6 −2 0
Pool B – Evening SeedTeamQualified2Acadia AxemenAUS Champion3Windsor LancersOUA-West and Queen's Cup Champion5Saskatchewan HuskiesHost
Team Saskatchewan Huskies 2 2 0 12 2 10 4 Windsor Lancers 2 1 1 4 11 −7 2 Acadia Axemen 2 0 2 4 7 −3 0
Championship final
Bench assignments for the championship final (home/visitor) is based on each advancing team's record and stats from their 2-game pool games, not their tournament seed. Saskatchewan is the home team with a 2–0 record (4pts) and a GF/GA ratio of 12/2 = 6.0 versus Alberta with a 2–0 record (4pts) and a GF/GA ratio of 6/4 = 1.5.
Tournament All-Stars Derek Hulak, from the Saskatchewan Huskies, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for CIS University Cup MVP."No. 14 in 2014: Alberta wins". prestosports.com. Hulak led all players in goals (4) and points (6) in the tournament. He is the first MVP selection from the Championship losing team since Yvan Busque (Moncton) was selected in 2007.
Joining Hulak on the tournament all-star team were: Forward: Kruise Reddick (Alberta Golden Bears) Forward: Brett Ferguson (Alberta Golden Bears) Defenseman: Jesse Craig (Alberta Golden Bears) Defenseman: Kendall McFaull (Saskatchewan Huskies) Goalie: Jacob Gervais-Chouinard (McGill Redmen)
References
External links Tournament website