The 1976 CIAU Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (14th annual) was held at the Varsity Arena in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto Varsity Blues served as tournament host.
Road to the Cup AUAA playoffs
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Canada West playoffs
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GPAC season Seed School Standings 1 Manitoba 11–7–0 2 Brandon 10–8–0 3 Lakehead 8–10–0 4 Winnipeg 7–11–0 No playoff
OUAA playoffs
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QUAA playoffs
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University Cup The tournament was expanded and heavily reconfigured. The field was divided into three groups: East, West and byes. The OUAA champion, Guelph, and the tournament host, Toronto, received byes into championship round. The Eastern bracket contained the teams that reached the championship games of the AUAA and QUAA while the Western bracket contained the teams that reached the championship game of Canada West and the top two teams in the GPAC standings. The regional brackets were organized so that the conference champion would play the runner up of the opposite conference in the semifinal and the winners would play to determine which teams would advance to the championship round.
In the championship round, the teams played one first round game to determine seeding. The winners of the first round game would then play a different losing team in the semifinals. The winner of the semifinal games would then play for the championship.
All rounds, with the exception of the first round in the championship series, were single elimination.
West regional games were played at the Father David Bauer Olympic Arena in Calgary, Alberta. East regional games were played at the Loyola Arena in Montreal, Quebec.
East teams TeamQualificationRecordAppearanceLast Quebec: QUAA Champion23–0–11stNever * Quebec: QUAA Runner-Up10–14–11stNeverAtlantic: AUAA Runner-Up12–5–11stNeverAtlantic: AUAA Champion14–4–05th1968 * Concordia was formed out of a merger between Loyola and Sir George Williams, who had made the University Cup five and seven times respectively.
Ontario teams TeamQualificationRecordAppearanceLastOntario: OUAA Champion17–6–01stNeverHost14–4–010th1975
West teams TeamQualificationRecordAppearanceLastWest: Canada West Runner-Up16–10–09th1975Plains: GPAC Runner-Up10–8–03rd1975West: Canada West Champion19–7–02nd1974Plains: GPAC Champion11–7–02nd1965
Bracket
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Championship final
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