2020-21 CWUAA Women's Season



This is the 2020-21 Canada West Universities Athletic Association Women's ice 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.

On the October 15th 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.

New Teams

 * The MacEwan Griffins women's ice hockey team joins the conference (along with the men's team) from the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference Women's conference
 * The Trinity Western Spartans women's ice hockey team joins the conference after playing in the Sunshine Coast Women's Hockey League.

Teams
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Standings
The league uses a 3 point system awarding 3 points for a regulation win (RW), 2 points for an overtime win (OW), 1 point for an overtime loss (OL), and no points for a regulation loss (RL).

Playoffs
The top six teams qualify for the playoffs. The finalist qualify for the 2021 U-Sport Women's ice hockey championship being held at the Winter Stadium (l'aréna du CEPSUM) on the campus of the University of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec March 18-21, 2021.

All series best of 3.

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Semi-Finals

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Final

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 (as conference champions) and (as conference runner-up) advanced to the 2021 U-Sport Women's ice hockey championship being held at the  Winter Stadium (l'aréna du CEPSUM) on the campus of the University of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec March 18-21, 2021. -->