2003 Air Canada Cup

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. 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
 	Calgary Northstars 	Pacific 	Calgary, AB
 	Gaulois du Collège Antoine-Girouard	Quebec 	Saint-Hyacinthe, QC
 	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)
==See also==
*Telus Cup
==References==
==External links==
*2003 Air Canada Cup Home Page
*Hockey Canada-Telus Cup Guide and Record Book
Category:Telus Cup
Category:2003 in hockey