The 2013 CIS Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (51st Annual) was held March 14–17, 2013. It was the first 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 McGill Redmen, but they were unable to defend their title, having been eliminated in the first round of the OUA-East playoffs by the Nipissing Lakers.
The best team in each Pool advanced to the final. All pool games must be decided by a win, there were no ties. If a pool has a three-way tie for 1st (all teams have 1–1 records) than GF/GA differential among the tied teams is the first tie-breaker.
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
The six teams to advance to the tournament are listed below. The wild-card continued its rotation and was held by AUS this season. The 5th- and 6th-place teams switches positions in the brackets to avoid intra-conference matches in pool play.
Note: Saint Mary's becomes the 4th team to advance to the Championship Final with a 1–1 record (Alberta-2008, Western-2009 and McGill-2011).
Bench assignments for the championship finals were based on each advancing team's 2 pool games, not their tournament seed. UNB was determined to be the home team with a record of 2–0 versus Saint Mary's with a record of 1–1.
The 2 goal aggregate in the Championship final represented the lowest ever to date – one lower than the previous record of 3 (1990, 2–1 and 2003 3–0). The shutout was the fourth shutout in a Championship final (1972, 2003, 2011 and 2013) and the first time a team has accomplished it twice (UNB's 4th Championship title in 2011 was a 4–0 shutout of McGill).
Tyler Carroll, from the UNB Varsity Reds, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for CIS University Cup MVP.[1] Carroll led all players in goals (4) and was second in points with 4.
Joining Carroll on the tournament all-star team were: