2012 CIS University Cup


The 2012 CIS Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament was held March 22–25, 2012. This event marked the 50th anniversary of the inception of the University Cup tournament to decide the Men's University Hockey Champion. It is the second of two consecutive CIS Championships to be held at the University of New Brunswick's Aitken University Centre before moving to Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon for two years teams.
Similar to previous years, going back to the introduction of the expanded format in 1998, the teams are split into two Pools of three teams where each team plays the other two teams. The best team in each Pool advances to the final. All pool games must be decided by a win, there are no ties. If a pool has a three-way tie for 1st than GF/GA differential among the tied teams is the first tie-breaker.

Road to the Cup

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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 CW was provided the wild-card in 2011 and AUS teams are ineligible as they are the host conference.
RankSeedTeamQualificationRecordAppearanceLast
11[UNB Reds men's ice hockey|]Atlantic: AUS Champion25–6–313th2011
22[McGill Redbirds ice hockey|]Quebec: OUA Champion24–11–16th2011
33[Saskatchewan Huskies men's ice hockey|]West: Canada West Champion26–5–214th2008
44[Western Mustangs men's ice hockey|]Ontario: OUA Runner-up24–9–010th2009
55[Moncton Aigles Bleus men's ice hockey|]Host25–9–115th2008
76[UQTR Patriotes men's ice hockey|]Wild-card: OUA Third place28–5–117th2010

Pool A – Evening

Team
Western Ontario22064+24
New Brunswick21184+42
Quebec–Trois-Rivières20239−60

Pool B – Afternoon

Team
McGill21197+22
Moncton21187+12
Saskatchewan21158−32
McGill Redmen advance to the Gold Medal final based on the first tie-breaker of having the best GF/GA Differential of +2.
Note: McGill becomes the 3rd team to advance to the Championship Final with a 1–1 record.

Championship final

Bench assignments for the championship finals is based on the each advancing team's record and stats from their 2 pool games, not their tournament seed. Western was determined to be the home team with a record of 2–0 versus McGill at 1–1.

Tournament All-Stars

Francis Verreault-Paul, from the McGill Redmen, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for CIS University Cup MVP despite receiving a 5-minute Major and Game Misconduct in the 3rd period of the Championship final, Verreault-Paul was McGill's MVP in their two pool games and was second in tournament goals and tied for 2nd in points.
Joining Verreault-Paul on the tournament all-star team were: