2020-21 Canadian University Season



This is the 2020-21 Canadian University hockey season.

Delay and Possible Cancellation of 2020-21 season
On June 8, 2020 U Sports along with Atlantic University Sport, Canada West Universities Athletic Association , and Ontario University Athletics all announced that the fall semester athletic competitions were cancelled indicating that ice hockey and other winter sports will not start until January of 2021 and that the situation will be reviewed in a timely manner. Canada West's release set a deadline of October 8th for a decision whether to begin play in January.

Cancellation becomes a reality
On October 12th U Sports announced the cancellation of all winter sports championships for the 2020-21 playing season including men's and women's ice hockey. As part of the announcement decisions were left to the conferences. Ontario University Athletics announced on October 15th that they were cancelling all OUA-sanctioned sport programming and championships up to March 31, 2021. On the same day Canada West announced that no conference regular season, playoff, or championship events will be staged during the 2020-21 season in men's and women's hockey. Also on October 15th the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) announced the suspension of all activities of RSEQ university sport programming takes effect immediately and is maintained at least until January 15, 2021. The Ligue de Hockey Universitaire Féminin is part of the RSEQ. Atlantic University Sport was still considering its options including the possible restart of activities within the Atlantic region in January. A decision is likely by mid-November.

On October 16th the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference announced the cancellation of men's and women's hockey for the 2020-21 season.

The last announcement that the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League had announced was on June 11th stating that the season would be delayed until January 15th at the earliest.

On November 25th Atlantic University Sport announced the cancellation of its winter playing season for all sports, but would allow teams to pursue their own schedules as circumstances warrant.

On November 26th the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League announced the cancellation of the season. On December 2nd the province banned all adult indoor team sports due to a large spike in the number of cases in the province. The order came after a men's old timers team from the interior region had gone to Alberta, which was already in defiance of the provincial health order. The order also pushed youth sports to a more restrictive level including no spectators and other restrictions on game play an practices.

U Sports Members

 * 2020-21 AUS Season (season cancelled November 25th)
 * 2020-21 CWUAA Season (season cancelled October 15th)
 * 2020-21 OUA Season (season cancelled October 15th)

Championship

 * 2021 University Cup (cancelled October 12th)

Non-Member Leagues

 * 2020-21 ACAC Season (season cancelled October 16th)
 * 2020-21 BCIHL Season (season cancelled November 26th)

Conferences

 * 2020-21 AUS Women's Season (season cancelled November 25th)
 * 2020-21 CWUAA Women's Season (season cancelled October 15th)
 * 2020-21 LHUF Season (No schedule or official cancellation posted on website as of February 14h)
 * 2020-21 OUA Women's Season (season cancelled October 15th)
 * 2020-21 ACAC Women's Season (season cancelled October 16th)

Championship

 * 2021 U-Sport Women's ice hockey championship (Cancelled October 12th)