Changes: 2014 UHU Championship

Revision as of 21:19, 19 April 2014

The 2014 United Hockey Union Championship will take place April 16 to 20, 2014 at the Las Vegas Ice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament consist of two events. The actual national championship for the Amateur Athletic Union will consist of the regular season and the playoff champions from the 3 member AAU junior leagues, the Midwest Junior Hockey League, Northern States Junior Hockey League, and the Western States Hockey League. There will also be a "Best of the Rest" tournament involving two teams from the WSHL and one each from the MJHL and the NSJHL.

Teams

El Paso Rhinos (2014 WSHL playoff champions)
Jersey Shore Wildcats (2014 NSJHL playoff champions)
Waterville Valley Fighting Spirit (2014 NSJHL regular season champions)
Idaho Jr. Steelheads (2014 WSHL playoff and regular runner-up)
Soo Firehawks (2014 MJHL playoff and regular season runner-up)
Traverse City Hounds (2014 MJHL playoff and regular season champions)

Format

There will be two pools of three that will played in a modified round robin format. The teams in one pool will play all the teams in the other pool. The standings are done as a single table The top four teams advance to the semifinals on April 19. The semifinal winners will meet for the championship on April 20.

Standings

Team                               GP W L OTL GF GA P
x-Idaho Jr. Steelheads              3 2 0  1  11  8 5
x-Waterville Valley Fighting Spirit 3 2 0  1  16 12 5
x-El Paso Rhinos                    3 2 0  1  13  7 5
x-Soo Firehawks                     3 2 1  0  15 15 4
Travers City Hounds                 3 1 2  0   8 12 2 
Jersey Shore Wildcats               3 0 3  0   5 14 0

x-advanced to semifinals

Results

Firehawks defeated Fighting Spirit 6 to 5 in overtime
Rhinos defeated Wildcats 3 to 1
Steelheads defeated Hounds 3 to 0
Firehawks defeated Hounds 6 to 2
Steelheads defeated Rhinos 3 to 2 in a shootout
Fighting Spirit defeated Wildcats 5 to 1
Fighting Spirit defeated Steelheads 6 to 5 in overtime
Hounds defeated Wildcats 6 to 3
Rhinos defeated Firehawks 8 to 3

Semifinals

Rhinos vs Firehawks
Fighting Spirit vs Steelheads

Final

semifinal winners

Best of the Rest tournament

The Northern States Junior Hockey League and Midwest Junior Hockey League sent an all-star team composed of member teams that did not qualify for the National championship while the Western States Hockey League sent two teams one (listed as WSHL1) of "overage" players of players that will no longer have eligibility after this season and an "underage" team (listed as WSHL2) of players who are young enough to return for the 2014-15 season. The four teams played off in a round robin with the top two teams advancing to a championship game.

Best of the Rest Standings

Team    GP W L OTL GF GA P
x-WSHL2  3 3 0  0  28  4 6
x-WSHL1  3 2 1  0  21 13 4
NSHL     3 1 2  0  13 13 2
MWJHL    3 0 3  0   5 37 0

x-advance to finals

Round Robin Results

WSHL1 defeated NSHL 4 to 3
WSHL2 defeated MWJHL 13 to 1
NSHL defeated MWJHL 9 to 2
WSHL2 defeated WSHL1 8 to 2
WSHL2 defeated NSHL 7 to 1
WSHL1 defeated MWJHL 15 to 2

Championship Game

WSHL1 defeated WSHL2 10 to 9 in overtime

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 ==Format==
-There will be two pools of three that will played in a modified round robin format.  The teams in one pool will play all the teams in the other pool.  The top two teams in each bracket advance to the semifinals on April 19.  The semifinal winners will meet for the championship on April 20.
+There will be two pools of three that will played in a modified round robin format.  The teams in one pool will play all the teams in the other pool.  The standings are done as a single table  The top four teams advance to the semifinals on April 19.  The semifinal winners will meet for the championship on April 20.
- Pool A
+==Standings==
- <u>Team                   GP W L OTL GF GA P</u>
+ <u>Team                               GP W L OTL GF GA P</u>
- x-[[Idaho Jr. Steelheads]]  3 2 0  1  11  8 5
- x-[[Soo Firehawks]]         3 2 1  0  15 15 4
+ x-[[Idaho Jr. Steelheads]]              3 2 0  1  11  8 5
- [[Jersey Shore Wildcats]]   3 0 3  0   5 14 0
- Pool B
- <u>Team                               GP W L OTL GF GA P
- </u>x-[[El Paso Rhinos]]                    3 2 0  1  13  7 5
  x-[[Waterville Valley Fighting Spirit]] 3 2 0  1  16 12 5
- [[Travers City Hounds]]                 3 1 2  0   8 12 2
+ x-[[El Paso Rhinos]]                    3 2 0  1  13  7 5
+ x-[[Soo Firehawks]]                     3 2 1  0  15 15 4
+ [[Travers City Hounds]]                 3 1 2  0   8 12 2
+ [[Jersey Shore Wildcats]]               3 0 3  0   5 14 0
+ x-advanced to semifinals
 ===Results===
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 *Hounds defeated Wildcats 6 to 3
 *Rhinos defeated Firehawks 8 to 3
+==Semifinals==
+*Rhinos vs Firehawks
+*Fighting Spirit vs Steelheads
+==Final==
+*semifinal winners
 ==Best of the Rest tournament==
 The [[Northern States Junior Hockey League]] and [[Midwest Junior Hockey League]] sent an all-star team composed of member teams that did not qualify for the National championship while the [[Western States Hockey League]] sent two teams one (listed as WSHL1) of "overage" players of players that will no longer have eligibility after this season and an "underage" team (listed as WSHL2) of players who are young enough to return for the 2014-15 season.  The four teams played off in a round robin with the top two teams advancing to a championship game.
-===Standings===
+===Best of the Rest Standings===
  <u>Team    GP W L OTL GF GA P</u>
  x-WSHL2  3 3 0  0  28  4 6
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 *WSHL1 defeated MWJHL 15 to 2
 ===Championship Game===
+*WSHL1 defeated WSHL2 10 to 9 in overtime
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