2003 Air Canada Cup

2003 Air Canada Cup
Tournament details
Dates	April 21–27, 2003
Teams	6
Venue(s)	Sault Memorial Gardens in Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Final positions
Champions	Calgary Northstars
Runner-up	Collège Antoine-Girouard
Third place	St. John's Maple Leafs
Scoring leader(s)	Mathieu Aubin
MVP	Ted Purcell
← 2002 2004 →

The 2003 Air Canada Cup was Canada's 25th annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, played April 21–27, 2003 at the Sault Memorial Gardens in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.^[1] The Calgary Northstars defeated the Gaulois du Collège Antoine-Girouard 5-1 in the gold medal game to win the national title. It also marked the last season that the midget championship was known as the Air Canada Cup; it would be renamed the Telus Cup.

Future National Hockey League players competing in this tournament were Kris Letang, Jay Beagle, Colin Greening, and Teddy Purcell, who was named the most valuable player of the tournament.

Teams

Result	Team	Region	City
01 !	Calgary Northstars	Pacific	Calgary, AB
02 !	Gaulois du Collège Antoine-Girouard	Quebec	Saint-Hyacinthe, QC
03 !	St. John's Maple Leafs	Atlantic	St. John's, NL
4	Yorkton Harvest	West	Yorkton, SK
5	Waterloo Wolves	Central	Waterloo, ON
6	Sault Ste. Marie North Stars	Host	Sault Ste. Marie, ON

Round Robin

Standings

Rank	Team	W-L-T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Gaulois du Collège Antoine-Girouard	5-0-0	23	6	10
2	Calgary Northstars	4-1-0	15	12	8
3	Yorkton Harvest	3-2-0	14	13	6
4	St. John's Maple Leafs	2-3-0	12	15	4
5	Waterloo Wolves	1-4-0	13	18	2
6	Sault Ste. Marie North Stars	0-5-0	10	23	0

Scores

Collège Antoine-Girouard 7 - Calgary 0
Yorkton 4 - St. John's 0
Waterloo 4 - Sault Ste Marie 3
Calgary 4 - Waterloo 3
Collège Antoine-Girouard 7 - Yorkton 3
St. John's 6 - Sault Ste. Marie 2
Collège Antoine-Girouard 2 - St. John's 1
Yorkton 2 - Waterloo 1

Calgary 6 - Sault Ste. Marie 2
Calgary 2 - Yorkton 1
St. John's 4 - Waterloo 3
Collège Antoine-Girouard 2 - Sault Ste. Marie 0
Collège Antoine-Girouard 5 - Waterloo 2
Yorkton 5 - Sault Ste. Marie 3
Calgary 4 - St. John's 0

Playoffs

Semi-Finals

Collège Antoine-Girouard 3 - St. John's 2
Calgary 2 - Yorkton 1

Bronze Medal Game

St. John's 5 - Yorkton 4

Gold Medal Game

Calgary 5 - Collège Antoine-Girouard 1

Individual Awards

Most Valuable Player: Ted Purcell (St. John's)
Top Scorer: Mathieu Aubin (Collège Antoine-Girouard)
Top Forward: Alexandre Imbeault (Collège Antoine-Girouard)
Top Defenceman: Dustin Nehring (Yorkton)
Top Goaltender: Justin Mzarek (Yorkton)
Most Sportsmanlike Player: Justin St. Louis (Calgary)

References

↑ "News Release #NR.032". Hockey Canada. April 17, 2003. Retrieved January 16, 2012.

External links

Midget AAA Hockey in Canada

National
Championships

Telus Cup	1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Esso Cup	2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

See also	Esso Cup Award Winners Telus Cup Award Winners NHL Alumni

Leagues

Pacific	Men's Alberta British Columbia Women's Alberta British Columbia

West	Men's Manitoba Saskatchewan Women's Manitoba Saskatchewan

Central	Men's Alliance Eastern Greater Toronto Great North Ontario East South Central Women's Ontario Women's Hockey Association

Quebec	Men's LHMAAAQ Women's LHFDQ

Atlantic	Men's New Brunswick-Prince Edward Island Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia Women's New Brunswick Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island

Invitational
Tournaments

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