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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Venue(s) | Fort William Gardens, Thunder Bay, Ontario |
| Dates | March 25–29, 2009 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | New Brunswick Varsity Reds (3rd title) |
| Runner-up | Western Ontario Mustangs |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Games played | 7 |
| Attendance | 17,880 (2,554 per game) |
| MVP | Lachlan MacIntosh (New Brunswick) |
The 2009 CIS Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (47th Annual) was held March 26–29, 2009. It was the first year of a two-year CIS Championship bid by Lakehead University[1] and was hosted at Fort William Gardens hockey rink.
Similar to previous years, going back to the introduction of the expanded format in 1998, the six invited teams were split into two pools of three in which each team played the other (two games total). The best team in each pool advanced to the final. All pool games had to be decided by a win; there were no ties. If a pool had a three-way tie for 1st (all teams had 1–1 records) than goals for/goals against differential among the tied teams was the first tie-breaker.
The UNB Varsity Reds advanced to the finals for the third straight year and won their second title in two years, having won in 2007 in Moncton.