The 2013 CIS Men's

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Hockey Tournament (51st Annual) was held March 14–17, 2013. It was the first of two consecutive CIS Championships to be held at the

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hosted by the

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. The defending champions were the

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, but they were unable to defend their title, having been eliminated in the first round of the OUA-East playoffs by the Nipissing Lakers. The best team in each Pool advanced to the final. All pool games must be decided by a win, there were no ties. If a pool has a three-way tie for 1st (all teams have 1-1 records) than GF/GA differential among the tied teams is the first tie-breaker.

Road to the Cup

AUS playoffs

The AUS playoffs were held from February 13 to March 7, 2013.

OUA playoffs

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playoffs were held from February 13 to March 9, 2013. Note 1: The

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championship game must be held in Ontario (part of the arrangement when the RSEQ hockey league merged with the OUA). When a Quebec based OUA-East representative is the higher seed and should 'host' the game - the game shall be hosted by the OUA-West team instead, but the OUA-East team shall be the 'home' team and have last change. Note 2: Since the University Cup wild-card spot was allocated to the AUS Conference, the OUA did not hold a 3rd Place/Bronze medal game.

Canada West playoffs

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playoffs were as follows:

University Cup

The six teams to advance to the tournament are listed below. The wild-card team was selected from the AUS Conference as the OUA was provided the wild-card in 2012 and CW teams are ineligible as they are the host conference.

Pool A - Afternoon

* ''St. Mary's Huskies advance to the Gold Medal final based on the first tie-breaker of having the best GF/GA Differential of +3.'' Note: Saint Mary's becomes the 4th team to advance to the Championship Final with a 1-1 record (Alberta-2008, Western-

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and McGill- 2011).

Pool B - Evening

Championship final

Bench assignments for the championship finals were based on each advancing team's 2 pool games, not their tournament seed. UNB was determined to be the home team with a record of 2-0 versus Saint Mary's with a record of 1-1.

Fewest Goals

The 2 goal aggregate in the Championship final represented the lowest ever to date - one lower than the previous record of 3 (1990, 2-1 and 2003 3-0). The shutout was the fourth shutout in a Championship final (1972, 2003, 2011 & 2013) and the first time a team has accomplished it twice (UNB's 4th Championship title in 2011 was a 4-0 shutout of McGill).

Tournament All-Stars

Tyler Carroll, from the UNB Varsity Reds, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for CIS University Cup MVP.http://en.cis-sic.ca/championships/mice/2013/releases/final V-Reds claim 5th University Cup title Carroll led all players in goals (4) and was second in points with 4. Joining Carroll on the tournament all-star team were:
Forward: Nick MacNeil (UNB Varsity Reds)
Forward: Cory Tanaka (Saint Mary's Huskies)
Defenseman:

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(Alberta Golden Bears)
Defenseman: Marc-Antoine Desnoyers (UNB Varsity Reds)
Goalie: Dan LaCosta (UNB Varsity Reds)

References

External links

Tournament Website
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