2014 CIS University Cup

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.

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Tournament details
Venue(s)	Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Dates	March 20–23, 2014 (2014-03-20 – 2014-03-23)
Teams	6
Final positions
Champions	Alberta Golden Bears (14th title)
Runners-up	Saskatchewan Huskies
Tournament statistics
Games played	7
Attendance	41,089 (5,870 per game)
Awards
MVP	Derek Hulak (Saskatchewan)
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Road to the Cup

AUS playoffs

The AUS were held from February 19 to March 10, 2014.^[1]

	Quarter-finals (Best of 3)					Semi-finals (Best of 5)					AUS Championship (Best of 5)
						1	UNB Varsity Reds	1
	5	Saint Mary's Huskies	2			5	Saint Mary's Huskies	3
	4	UPEI Panthers	1								5	Saint Mary's Huskies	1
											2	Acadia Axemen	3
						2	Acadia Axemen	3
	6	St. Francis Xavier X-Men	0			3	Moncton Aigles Bleu	1
	3	Moncton Aigles Bleu	2

OUA playoffs

The OUA playoffs were held from February 19 to March 15, 2014.^[2]

Division Quarter-finals (Best of 3) OUA Sweet 16

Division Semi-finals (Best of 3) OUA Quarter-Finals

Division Finals (Best of 3) OUA Semi-Finals

Queen's Cup (Single Game) OUA Championship

6E

Concordia Stingers

0

3E

McGill Redmen

2

3E

McGill Redmen

2

2E

UQTR Patriots

0

7E

UOIT Ridgebacks

0

2E

UQTR Patriotes

2

3E

McGill Redmen

2

OUA East

1E

Carleton Ravens

1

5E

Ottawa Gee-Gees

0

4E

Queen's Golden Gaels

2

4E

Queen's Golden Gaels

1

1E

Carleton Ravens

2

8E

Nipissing Lakers

0

1E

Carleton Ravens

2

3E

McGill Redmen

2

4W

Windsor Lancers

3

5W

Toronto Varsity Blues

0

4W

Windsor Lancers

2

4W

Windsor Lancers

2

1W

Western Ontario Mustangs

1

8W

Guelph Gryphons

1

1W

Western Ontario Mustangs

2

4W

Windsor Lancers

2

OUA West

2W

Lakehead Thunderwolves

0

6W

Brock Badgers

1

3W

Ryerson Rams

2

3W

Ryerson Rams

0

2W

Lakehead Thunderwolves

2

7W

York Lions

0

2W

Lakehead Thunderwolves

2

	Bronze Medal
	2W	Lakehead Thunderwolves	4
	1E	Carleton Ravens	7

Canada West playoffs

The Canada West playoffs were held from February 21 to March 8, 2014.^[3]

	Quarter-finals (Best of 3)					Semi-finals (Best of 3)					Canada West Championship (Best of 3)
						1	Alberta Golden Bears	2
	3	Saskatchewan Huskies	1			6	UBC Thunderbirds	0
	6	UBC Thunderbirds	2								1	Alberta Golden Bears	2
											2	Calgary Dinos	0
						2	Calgary Dinos	2
	4	Manitoba Bisons	2			4	Manitoba Bisons	1
	5	Mount Royal Cougars	0

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.

Rank	Seed	Team	Qualification
1	1	Alberta Golden Bears	Canada West Champion
2	2	Acadia Axemen	AUS Champion
3	3	Windsor Lancers	OUA-West and Queen's Cup Champion
4	4	McGill Redmen	OUA-East and Queen's Cup Finalist
10	5	Saskatchewan Huskies	Host & Canada West Finalist
5	6	Carleton Ravens	Wild-Card – OUA Third Place

Pool A – Afternoon

Pool A games were played from March 20 to March 22, 2014.^[4]

Seed	Team	Qualified
1	Alberta Golden Bears	Canada West Champion
4	McGill Redmen	OUA-East Champion (Queen's Cup Finalist)
6	Carleton Ravens	Wild-card – OUA Third Place

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
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

March 20, 2014 1:00 PM

Alberta Golden Bears

3–2 (3–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Carleton Ravens

Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon Attendance: 6,102 (40.2%)

Game reference
	Kurtis Mucha (1–0)	Goalies	Francis Dupuis (0–1)	Referees: Nathan Wieler Todd Thomander Linesmen: Nick Bilko Sean Dufour
	J. Rowley (1) (B. Ferguson, L. Koper) – 1:29 1–0 T.J. Foster (1) (B. Ferguson) (PP) – 6:31 2–0 2–1 14:40 – J. Pleckaitis (1) (T. Billingsley, M. McNamee) (PP) T. Toomey (1) (D. Nichol, K. Reddick) – 16:49 3–1 3–2 57:21 – D. Cross (1) (J. Pleckaitis) (PP)
	10 min	Penalties	28 min
	41	Shots	17

March 21, 2014 1:00 PM

Carleton Ravens

2–3 (1–1, 0–2, 1–0)

McGill Redmen

Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon Attendance: 8,304 (54.6%)

Game reference
	Francis Dupuis (0–2)	Goalies	Jacob Gervais-Chouinard (1–0)	Referees: Pascal St. Jacques Derek Zalaski Linesmen: Nick Bilko Kelsey Mahoney
	0–1 7:49 – J.P. Mathieu (1) (N. Prokop, B. Levesque) Timothy Billingsley (2) (Unassisted) – 19:59 1–1 1–2 22:05 – P. Deslisle-Houde (1) (R. McKiernan, C. McNicholl) (PP) 1–3 27:27 – D. Rose (J.P. Mathieu, N. Prokop) J. West (1) (T. Billingsley) – 43:42 2–3
	10 min	Penalties	8 min
	36	Shots	38

March 22, 2014 2:00 PM Sportsnet 360

Alberta Golden Bears

3–2 (2 OT) (0–0, 1–1, 1–1, 0–0, 1–0)

McGill Redmen

Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon Attendance: 3,041 (20.0%)

Game reference
	Luke Siemens (1–0)	Goalies	Jacob Gervais-Chouinard (1–1)	Referees: Derek Zalaski Scott Ferguson Linesmen: Nick Bilko Mike Roberts
	K. Reddick (1) (J. Hickmont, B. Ferguson) – 7:52 1–0 1–1 35:35 – G. Langelier-Parent (1) (Unassisted) 1–2 41:00 – J.P. Mathieu (2) (C. McNicholl) (PP) B. Ferguson (1) (J. Crooks, K. Reddick) – 47:13 2–2 J. Lazo (1) (K. Reddick) – 96:22 3–2
	20 min	Penalties	22 min
	55	Shots	20

Pool B – Evening

Seed	Team	Qualified
2	Acadia Axemen	AUS Champion
3	Windsor Lancers	OUA-West and Queen's Cup Champion
5	Saskatchewan Huskies	Host

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
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

March 20, 2014 7:00 PM

Acadia Axemen

2–4 (1–1, 1–1, 0–2)

Windsor Lancers

Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon Attendance: 2,008 (13.2%)

Game reference
	Evan Mosher (0–1)	Goalies	Parker Van Buskirk (1–0)	Referees: Scott Ferguson Derek Zalaski Linesmen: Mike Roberts Ryan Lundquist
	M. Cazzola (1) (L. Heelis) – 1:19 1–0 1–1 16:52 – R. Cameron (1) (M. Doan, I. Quackenbush) L. Heelis (1) (M. Cazzola, B. Thompson) – 21:43 2–1 2–2 32:43 – D. Palmer (1) (S. Pommells, S. Posa) (PP) 2–3 41:07 – K. Bradford (1) (S. Pommells, S. Posa) (PP) 2–4 44:14 – M. Christou (1) (R. Cameron, B. Blondeel)
	14 min	Penalties	12 min
	27	Shots	28

March 21, 2014 7:00 PM

Acadia Axemen

2–3 (1–2, 1–0, 0–1)

Saskatchewan Huskies

Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon Attendance: 8,104 (53.3%)

Game reference
	Evan Mosher (0–2)	Goalies	Ryan Holfeld (1–0)	Referees: Nathan Wieler Scott Ferguson Linesmen: Mike Roberts Sean Dufour
	L. Heelis (2) (B. Thompson, C. Owens) (PP) – 3:40 1–0 1–1 5:29 – C. Smuk (1) (A. Bailey) 1–2 9:50 – B. Bosch (1) (D. Hulak) (PP) L. Jenner (1) (L. Heelis, B. Thompson) – 35:58 2–2 2–3 57:58 – D. Hulak (1) (B. Bosch)
	28 min	Penalties	10 min
	28	Shots	30

March 22, 2014 7:00 PM Sportsnet 360

Windsor Lancers

0–9 (0–2, 0–4, 0–3)

Saskatchewan Huskies

Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon Attendance: 7,241 (47.7%)

Game reference
	Parker Van Buskirk (1–1)	Goalies	Ryan Holfeld (2–0)	Referees: Pascal St. Jacques Todd Thomander Linesmen: Ryan Lundquist Kelsey Mahoney
	0–1 8:42 – K. McFaull (1)(J. Ross, D. Hulak) 0–2 10:49 – D. Hulak (2) (C. McCallum, C. Cox) (PP) 0–3 24:41 – D. Hulak (3) (J. Ross, B. Bosch) 0–4 26:07 – A. Bailey (1) (C. McCallum) 0–5 32:21 – C. McCallum (1) (J. Ross, M. Delahey) 0–6 37:58 – J. Lawrence (1) (J. Ross) 0–7 49:26 – R. McDonald (1) (Unassisted) 0–8 53:03 – – J. Roach (1) (C. Smuk) 0–9 58:20 – C. Smuk (2) (Z. Stebner, J. Roach) (PP)
	18 min	Penalties	26 min
	19	Shots	34

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.

March 23, 2014 1:30 PM Rogers Sportsnet

#1 Alberta Golden Bears

3–1 (0–0, 2–1, 1–0)

#5 Saskatchewan Huskies

Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon Attendance: 6,289 (41.4%)

Game reference
	Kurtis Mucha (2–0)	Goalies	Ryan Holfeld (2–1)	Referees: Nathan Wieler Pascal St. Jacques Linesmen: Nick Bilko Ryan Lundquist
	J. Hickmont (1) (B. Ferguson, J. Crooks) – 24:02 1–0 L. Koper (1) (J. Dobrowolski) (SH) – 45:19 2–0 2–1 36:38 – D. Hulak (4) (J. Roach, B. Bosch) L. Koper (2) (T. Toomey) – 54:12 3–1
	19 min	Penalties	22 min
	36	Shots	21

Tournament All-Stars

Derek Hulak, from the Saskatchewan Huskies, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for CIS University Cup MVP.^[5] 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)