2023 U Sports University Cup

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2023 U Sports University Cup
2023 U Sports Men's Hockey Championship.png
Tournament details
CountryCanada
Venue(s) Eastlink Centre, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
DatesMarch 16–19, 2023 (2023-03-16 – 2023-03-19)
Teams8
Final positions
Champions New Brunswick Reds (9th title)
Runner-up Alberta Golden Bears
Third place Quebec–Trois-Rivières Patriotes
Fourth place Prince Edward Island Panthers
Tournament statistics
Games played8
MVP Samuel Richard (New Brunswick)
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The 2023 U Sports Men's Hockey Championship was the 61st edition of the U Sports men's ice hockey championship, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of the 2023 U Sports men's ice hockey season. The tournament started on March 16 and ended with the bronze-medal and championship games being played on March 19 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. [1]

Contents

The third-seeded UNB Reds defeated the fifth-seeded Alberta Golden Bears by a score of 3–0 to win the program's ninth national championship. [2] In the win, UNB Reds's Coach MacDougall ties Tom Watt for the most championship game appearances, with 11, and ties Clare Drake for the most tournament games coached, with 42 [3] and extends his record for most tournament wins with 34 and tournament appearances with 16.

This is the third shutout in the past 12 years. The previous two shutouts were in 2011 (4–0 UNB over McGill) and 2013 (2–0 UNB over St. Mary's). Prior to that, in 2003, UQTR shutout St. FX 3–0 followed by a 30 year gap to 1973 when Toronto shutout St. Mary's 5–0.

Host

The tournament was held at the Eastlink Centre, on the grounds of University of Prince Edward Island. [4] UPEI was originally scheduled to host the 2021 U Sports University Cup, but that tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. [5] [6] This was the second time that UPEI hosted the tournament, having first hosted in the school's inaugural year in 1970. [7]

Qualification

AUS playoffs

Quarter-finals (Best of 3) Semi-finals (Best of 5) Finals (Best of 3)
1 UNB Reds 3
3 UPEI Panthers 1 6 Moncton Aigles Bleus 1
7 Moncton Aigles Bleus 21 UNB Reds2
2 Saint Mary's Huskies 1
2 Saint Mary's Huskies 3
4 St. Francis Xavier X-Men 0 5 Acadia Axemen 1
5 Acadia Axemen 2

With UPEI eliminated in the first round and not advancing to the AUS Finals, a third place team was not required as a replacement 'host' so there was no third-place series.

OUA playoffs

Division Quarter-finals (Best of 3)
OUA Top 12 		Division Semi-finals (Best of 3)
OUA Quarter-Finals 		Division Finals (Best of 3)
OUA Semi-Finals 		Queen's Cup (Single Game)
OUA Championship
1E UQTR Patriotes 2
4E Carleton Ravens 2 4E Carleton Ravens 0
5E Ontario Tech Ridgebacks 0 1E UQTR Patriotes 2
2E Concordia Stingers 1
2E Concordia Stingers 2
3E McGill Redbirds 2 3E McGill Redbirds 0
6E Ottawa Gee-Gees 0 1E UQTR Patriotes 3 OT3
2W Windsor Lancers 2
1W Lakehead Thunderwolves 2
4W TMU Bold 1 5W Toronto Varsity Blues 1
5W Toronto Varsity Blues 2 1W Lakehead Thunderwolves 0 Third place – Best of 1
2W Windsor Lancers 2
2W Windsor Lancers 2 2E Concordia Stingers 4
3W Brock Badgers 2 3W Brock Badgers 0 1W Lakehead Thunderwolves 0
6W Laurier Golden Hawks 1

Note 1: The Queen's Cup 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. In this case – Windsor hosted UQTR for the Queen's Cup with UQTR as the 'home' team.

Note 2: The OUA 'Host' rule mentioned in Note 1 now, as of 2019–20, also applies to the bronze medal game. In this case Lakehead was the higher seed and the 'natural' host.

Note 3: OUA Playoffs re-seed teams in each round such that the highest advancing seed plays the lowest advancing seed within their divisional bracket.

Canada West playoffs

Quarter-finals (Best of 3) Semi-finals (Best of 3) Finals (Best of 3)
1 Calgary Dinos 2
4 Mount Royal Cougars 1 5 Saskatchewan Huskies 1
5 Saskatchewan Huskies 21Calgary Dinos2
2 Alberta Golden Bears 1
2 Alberta Golden Bears 2
3 UBC Thunderbirds 24 UBC Thunderbirds 1
6 Regina Cougars 0

This was Calgary's first Canada West title since 1996.

Participating teams

SeedTeamQualifiedRecordLast AppLast WinTotal
1 Calgary Dinos CW Champion25–3–02011None0
2 UQTR Patriotes OUA Champion21–4–1202220225
3 UNB Reds AUS Champion24–4–2202220198
4 Windsor Lancers OUA Finalist18–6–32015None0
5 Alberta Golden Bears CW Finalist20–5–32022201816
6 Concordia Stingers OUA Bronze19–7–02018None0
7 Saint Mary's Huskies AUS Finalist20–9–1202020101
8 UPEI Panthers AUS Quarterfinalist (Host)17–10–31991None0

[8] [9]

Bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
         
1 Calgary Dinos 2
8UPEI Panthers4
8 UPEI Panthers 1
Thursday Mar. 16th
5Alberta Golden Bears4
4 Windsor Lancers 0
5Alberta Golden Bears7
5 Alberta Golden Bears 0
3UNB Reds3
2UQTR Patriotes4
7 Saint Mary’s Huskies 1
2 UQTR Patriotes 3 3rd place game
Friday Mar. 17th
3UNB Reds6
3UNB Reds28 UPEI Panthers 2
6 Concordia Stingers 1 2UQTR Patriotes3

Results

Championship final

March 19, 2023
7:00 (local)
CBC Gem 		UNB Reds #33–0
(0–0, 1–0, 2–0)		 Alberta Golden Bears #5 Eastlink Centre, Charlottetown, PEI
Attendance: 2712 (72.9%)
Game reference
Samuel Richard (3–0)Goalies Ethan Kruger (2–1)Referees:
Mike Langin
Jesse Gour
Linesmen:
Matt McConnell
Brian Birkhoff
Cody Morgan (1) (Camaryn Baber) – 33:171–0
Cole Mackay (1) (Isaac Nurse) – 54:302–0
Austen Keating (1) (Cody Morgan & Camaryn Baber) – 55:523–0
0 for 0 minPenalties0 for 0 min
32Shots17
Game MVPs: Cody Morgan (UNB) & Dawson Davidson (ALB)

Awards

Samuel Richard, a goaltender from the UNB Reds, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for U Sports University Cup MVP. Richard played all three games for UNB and finished the tournament with a GAA of 1.33 and Save Percentage of 0.920 as well as a shutout in the championship final.

Tournament all-star team were: [10]
Forward: Matt Fonteyne (Alberta Golden Bears)
Forward: Jason Willms (UNB Reds)
Forward: Michael Petizian (UNB Reds)
Defenceman: Ross MacDougall (UNB Reds)
Defenceman: Justin Bergeron (UQTR Patriotes )

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