The 1978 CIAU Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (16th annual) was held at the Jean-Louis Lévesque Arena in Moncton, New Brunswick. The Moncton Aigles Bleus served as tournament host.
Road to the Cup AUAA playoffs
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Canada West playoffs
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GPAC playoffs
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OUAA playoffs
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QUAA playoffs
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University Cup The tournament continued the policy of inviting two teams from the conference that served as host. However, as a change from previous seasons, rather than give the hosting conference byes into the semifinal round, all entrants into the tournament were placed into two round-robin groups. The six teams were sorted by a committee prior to the tournament and arranged so that the two AUAA teams would be in opposite brackets.
In the round-robin groups, the teams that finished with the best record would advance to the championship game. If there was a tie for the best record, the first tie-breaker was goal differential. If there was a tie in goal differential, the teams would play sudden death overtime for the advantage.
TeamQualificationRecordAppearanceLastWest: Canada West Champion22–5–011th1977 Quebec: QUAA Champion17–6–03rd1977Atlantic: Host11–11–02nd1976Plains: GPAC Champion19–7–01stNeverAtlantic: AUAA Champion18–6–36th1976Ontario: OUAA Champion22–1–112th1977
Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime period(s) Note: round-robin games were played on consecutive days March 16–18
Championship final
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