| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Venue(s) | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Dates | March 3–5 |
| Teams | 5 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Toronto Varsity Blues (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Alberta Golden Bears |
| Third place | St. Francis Xavier X-Men |
| Fourth place | Laurentian Voyageurs |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Games played | 5 |
| Awards | |
| MVP | Tom Purser (St. Francis Xavier) |
The 1966 CIAU Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (4th annual) was held in Sudbury, Ontario. The Laurentian Voyageurs served as tournament hosts.
| Seed | School | Standings | Seed | School | Standings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Francis Xavier | 14–0–0 | 5 | St. Thomas | 5–8–1 |
| 2 | Saint Dunstan's | 10–4–0 | 6 | Acadia | 3–10–1 |
| 3 | New Brunswick | 9–4–1 | 7 | Dalhousie | 3–11–0 |
| 4 | Mount Allison | 9–5–0 | 8 | Moncton | 1–12–1 |
Note: No playoffs.
| Seed | School | Standings | Seed | School | Standings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laurentian | 9–0–1 | 4 | Osgoode Hall | 4–6–0 |
| 2 | Waterloo Lutheran | 6–2–2 | 5 | Ryerson | 3–6–0 |
| 3 | York | 5–4–1 | 6 | Windsor | 1–9–0 |
no playoffs
| Semifinals | Championship | ||||||||
| 1 | Sir George Williams | 5 | |||||||
| 4 | Royal Military College | 4 | |||||||
| 1 | Sir George Williams | 5 | |||||||
| 2 | Loyola | 4 | |||||||
| 2 | Loyola | 7 | |||||||
| 3 | Ottawa | 6 | |||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
| Seed | School | Standings | Seed | School | Standings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toronto | 13–2–1 | T–5 | Queen's | 6–10–0 |
| 2 | Western Ontario | 12–2–2 | 7 | Montreal | 5–11–0 |
| 3 | Waterloo | 11–3–2 | 8 | McGill | 4–11–1 |
| 4 | Laval | 9–6–1 | 9 | Guelph | 2–13–1 |
| T–5 | McMaster | 6–10–0 | |||
no playoff
| Seed | School | Standings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberta | 11–1–0 |
| 2 | Manitoba | 8–4–0 |
| 3 | Saskatchewan | 5–7–0 |
| 4 | Calgary | 0–12–0 |
No playoff
The CIAU invited the champions of five conferences to play for the championship. With the field increasing to five teams, the entrants now arranged by a new method; the participants would be arranged into two groupings, last year's finalists and non-finalists. The two groups would be sorted independently with the finalists being given the top two seeds and the non-finalists seeds three through five. The top three seeds would then receive byes into the semifinal round with the top overall seed awaiting the winner of the lone quarterfinal match.
| Seed | Team | Qualification | Record | Appearance | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Francis Xavier X-Men | MIAA Champion | 14–0–0 | 2nd | 1963 |
| 2 | Alberta Golden Bears | WCIAA Champion | 11–1–0 | 2nd | 1964 |
| 3 | Laurentian Voyageurs | OIAA Champion | 9–0–1 | 2nd | 1965 |
| 4 | Sir George Williams Georgians | OSLC Champion | 16–1–1 | 3rd | 1965 |
| 5 | Toronto Varsity Blues | QOAA Champion | 13–2–1 | 1st | Never |
| Quarterfinal March 3 | Semifinals March 4 | Championship March 5 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | St. Francis Xavier | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Toronto | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Sir George Williams | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Toronto | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Toronto | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Alberta | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Alberta | 10 | Third Place | |||||||||||
| 3 | Laurentian | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | St. Francis Xavier | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Laurentian | 3 | ||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s) [1]
| March 5, 1966 | #3 Alberta Golden Bears | 1–8 | #5 Toronto Varsity Blues | Sudbury, Ontario |