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.
The AUS were held from February 19 to March 10, 2014.[1]
The OUA playoffs were held from February 19 to March 15, 2014.[2]
The Canada West playoffs were held from February 21 to March 8, 2014.[3]
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(2) CW teams in the same pool, Saskatchewan was swapped with Carleton.
Pool A games were played from March 20 to March 22, 2014.[4]
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.
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)
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