2023 U Sports Women's Ice Hockey Championship
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| Season | 2022–23 |
|---|---|
| Teams | Eight |
| Finals site | CEPSUM Montreal, Quebec |
| Champions | Mount Royal Cougars (1st title) |
| Runner-up | Concordia Stingers |
| Winning coach | Scott Rivett (1st title) |
| Tournament MVP | Kaitlyn Ross (Mount Royal) |
| Television | CBC Sports[1] |
The 2023 U Sports Women's Ice Hockey Championship was held March 16–19, 2023, in Montreal, Quebec, to determine a national champion for the 2022–23 U Sports women's ice hockey season.[2][3] The eighth-seeded Mount Royal Cougars defeated the defending champion Concordia Stingers by a score of 4–3 in overtime to win the program's first national title.[4]
The tournament was played at CEPSUM on the campus of at the Université de Montréal.[2] This was the first time that the Université de Montréal had hosted the tournament. The Montreal Carabins were originally supposed to host the 2021 championship, but that tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.[5][6]
Participating teams
| Seed | Team | Qualified | Record | Last | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toronto Varsity Blues | OUA Champion | 22–1–2–2 | 2001 | 1 |
| 2 | UBC Thunderbirds | Canada West Champion | 24–2–2 | None | 0 |
| 3 | Concordia Stingers | RSEQ Champion | 20–4–1 | 2022 | 3 |
| 4 | UNB Reds | AUS Champion | 23–2–3 | None | 0 |
| 5 | Montreal Carabins | RSEQ Finalist (Host) | 17–4–4 | 2016 | 2 |
| 6 | Nipissing Lakers | OUA Finalist | 14–5–3–4 | None | 0 |
| 7 | St. Francis Xavier X-Women | AUS Finalist | 20–5–3 | None | 0 |
| 8 | Mount Royal Cougars | Canada West Finalist | 19–6–3 | None | 0 |
Championship bracket
| First Round: March 16/17 | Semi-Finals: March 18 | Gold Medal Game: March 19 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Toronto Varsity Blues | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Mount Royal Cougars | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Montreal Carabins | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Mount Royal Cougars | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | UNB Reds | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Montreal Carabins | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Concordia Stingers | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Mount Royal Cougars | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | UBC Thunderbirds | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | St. Francis Xavier X-Women | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | UBC Thunderbirds | 1 | Bronze Medal Game: March 19 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Concordia Stingers | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Concordia Stingers | 5 | 2 | UBC Thunderbirds | 3 | |||||||||
| 6 | Nipissing Lakers | 1 | 5 | Montreal Carabins | 2 | |||||||||