2013 CIS Women's Ice Hockey Championship

2013 CIS Women's Ice Hockey Championship
Season2012–13
TeamsEight
Finals siteVarsity Arena
Toronto, Ontario
ChampionsMontreal Carabins (1st title)
Runner-upCalgary Dinos
Winning coachDanièle Sauvageau (1st title)
Championship MVPKim Deschênes (Montreal Carabins)

The 2013 CIS Women's Ice Hockey Championship was held March 7–10, 2013, in Toronto, Ontario, to determine a national champion for the 2012–13 CIS women's ice hockey season.[1] The top-seeded Montréal Carabins defeated the defending champion Calgary Dinos to win the first championship in program history.[2]

Host

The tournament was played at Varsity Arena on the campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario.[1] It was the second championship to be hosted by Toronto with the first occurring in 1999.[1]

Seedings

Six CIS teams qualified for the tournament and were divided into two pools to play a round-robin tournament to determine the two teams who would play in the championship game.[3] The winner of Pool A played the winner of Pool B in the gold medal game.[4]

Pool A

Seed Team Qualified Record
1 Montréal Carabins RSEQ Champions 15–5–0
4 UBC Thunderbirds Canada West Champions 17–7–4
6 Toronto Varsity Blues OUA Quarter-Finalists (Host) 12–7–5

Pool B

Seed Team Qualified Record
2 St. Francis Xavier X-Women AUS Champions 23–1–0
3 Queen's Golden Gaels OUA Champions 20–4–2
5 Calgary Dinos Canada West Finalists 23–4–1

Game summaries

Date Time Teams Score
March 8 13:00 EST Pool B #1: No. 2 St. Francis Xavier vs. No. 5 Calgary Calgary (1–0) wins 4-0
March 8 19:30 EST Pool A #1: No. 1 Montréal vs. No. 6 Toronto Montréal (1–0) wins 1-0
March 9 16:00 EST Pool B #2: No. 2 St. Francis Xavier vs. No. 3 Queen's St. Francis Xavier (1–1) wins 2-1
March 9 19:30 EST Pool A #2: No. 4 UBC vs. No. 6 Toronto Toronto (1–0–1) wins 5-4
March 10 16:00 EST Pool B #3: No. 3 Queen's vs. No. 5 Calgary Calgary (2–0) wins 5-4
March 10 19:30 EST Pool A #3: No. 1 Montréal s. No. 4 UBC Montréal (2–0) wins 5-3

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CIS Medal round

5th-place game

March 10, 2013
12:00 EST		#3 Queen'sUBC, 2–1
(0–0, 0–2, 1–0)		#4 UBCVarsity Arena, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 220
Game reference

Bronze-medal game

March 10, 2013
15:30 EST		#2 St. Francis XavierSt. Francis Xavier, 3–2 (OT)
(0–0, 1–1, 1–1, 1–0)		#6 TorontoVarsity Arena, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 515
Game reference

Gold-medal game

March 10, 2013
19:00 EST		#1 MontréalMontréal, 3-2
(1–1, 2–1, 0–0)		#5 CalgaryVarsity Arena, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 532
Game reference

Final results

1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bronze 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place
Montréal Carabins Calgary Dinos St. Francis Xavier X-Women Toronto Varsity Blues UBC Thunderbirds Queen's Golden Gaels

References

  1. ^ a b c "History". U Sports. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
  2. ^ "Carabins win their first CIS women's hockey title". The Globe and Mail. March 10, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "2013 CIS women's hockey championship schedule". U Sports. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
  4. ^ "2012-13 women's hockey" (PDF). Canada West. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
  5. ^ "Carabins make school history, claim first CIS banner". U Sports. March 10, 2013.