2013 CIS Women's Ice Hockey Championship

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's

UBC, 2–1
(0–0, 0–2, 1–0)

#4 UBC

Varsity Arena, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 220

Game reference

Bronze-medal game

March 10, 2013
15:30 EST

#2 St. Francis Xavier

St. Francis Xavier, 3–2 (OT)
(0–0, 1–1, 1–1, 1–0)

#6 Toronto

Varsity Arena, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 515

Game reference

Gold-medal game

March 10, 2013
19:00 EST

#1 Montréal

Montréal, 3-2
(1–1, 2–1, 0–0)

#5 Calgary

Varsity Arena, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 532

Game reference

Final results

Gold	Silver	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

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