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AUS Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The Atlantic University Sport ice hockey tournament is an annual conference championship held between member teams. The winner receives an automatic bid to the U Sports men's ice hockey championship. History The formation of the conference occurred after the maritime schools restarted their ice hockey programs after World War I. For its inaugural season, the league instituted a tournament Originally, the conference was called the "Maritime Intercollegiate Athletic Association" (MIAA) but changed its moniker to the "Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association" (AIAA) in 1968. In 1973, the conference merged with "Atlantic Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Association" (AWIAA) to become the "Atlantic Universities Athletic Association" (AUAA). The conference remained thus until rebranding as "Atlantic University Sport" (AUS) in 1998. Tournaments 1920 Note: * denotes overtime period(s) 1921 Note: * denotes overtime period(s) 1922 † Acadia withdrew from consideration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance and Shot (ice hockey), shoot a closed, vulcanized, rubber disc called a "hockey puck, puck" into the other team's goal. Each goal is worth one point. The team which scores the most Goal (ice hockey), goals is declared the winner. In a formal game, each team has six Ice skating, skaters on the ice at a time, barring any penalties, one of whom is the goaltender. Ice hockey is a contact sport#Grades, full contact sport. Ice hockey is one of the sports featured in the Winter Olympics while its premiere international amateur competition, the Ice Hockey World Championships, IIHF World Championships, are governed by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) for both men's and women's co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moncton Aigles Bleus Men's Ice Hockey
The Moncton Aigles Bleus men's ice hockey team is an ice hockey team representing the Moncton Aigles Bleus athletics program of Université de Moncton. The team is a member of the Atlantic University Sport conference and compete in U Sports. The team plays their home games at the J. Louis Levesque Arena in Moncton, New Brunswick. History Just 2 years after the founding of the Université de Moncton, the school began sponsoring men's ice hockey as a varsity sport. The Aigles Bleus (Blue Eagles) had a difficult time getting off the ground, remaining at or near the bottom of the standings for their first 8 seasons. 1973 saw not only the program's first winning season but also its first playoff appearance. The team steadily built itself into a power over the remainder of the decade and won four consecutive league championships in the early 1980s. During that stretch, the Aigles won back-to-back national championships, the second of which came in front of their home fans. For the rest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U Sports Ice Hockey
U or u, is the twenty-first and sixth-to-last letter and fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''u'' (pronounced ), plural ''ues''. History U derives from the Semitic waw, as does F, and later, Y, W, and V. Its oldest ancestor goes to Egyptian hieroglyphics, and is probably from a hieroglyph of a mace or fowl, representing the sound Voiced_labiodental_fricative.html" ;"title="nowiki/> vor the sound [Voiced labial–velar approximant">w">Voiced labiodental fricative">vor the sound [Voiced labial–velar approximant">w This was borrowed to Phoenician, where it represented the sound [w], and seldom the vowel [Close back rounded vowel, u]. In Greek language, Greek, two letters were adapted from the Phoenician waw. The letter was adapted, but split in two, with the Digamma, first one of the same name (Ϝ) being adapted to represent w">now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic University Sport Hockey
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and North and South America to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica). The Atlantic Ocean is divided in two parts, by the Equatorial Counter Current, with the North(ern) Atlantic Ocean and the South(ern) Atlantic Ocean split at about 8°N. Scientific explorations of the Atlantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused COVID-19 pandemic cases, more than cases and COVID-19 pandemic deaths, confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history, deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from Asymptomatic, undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, Nocturnal cough, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBU Capers Men's Ice Hockey
The CBU Capers men's ice hockey team (formerly the UCCB Capers) was an ice hockey team representing the CBU Capers athletics program of Cape Breton University. The Capers played from 1968 until 1996 when the university decided to terminate the program due to budget constraints. History UCCB hit the ice for the first time in 1968 as a member of the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA), a conference in the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) is the national governing body for organized sports at the collegiate level in Canada. Its name in French is l'Association canadienne du sport collégial (ACSC). National championships CCAA me ..., the second tier of college sports in Canada. By the mid-70s, the Capers became the dominant power in the conference and won every conference championship from 1974 until 1987 (except for 1979). When the CCAA began holding a national tournament in 1975, Cape Breton was a participant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memorial Sea-Hawks
The Memorial Sea-Hawks are the athletic teams that represent Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. There are varsity teams in men's and women's basketball, cross-country, soccer, swimming, and volleyball which compete in U Sports U Sports (stylized as U SPORTS) is the national sport governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree-granting universities in the country. Its equivalent body for organized sports at colleges in Canada is the Ca .... Curling, track and field and wrestling are also available as club sports. The University's teams were originally named the Beothuks, after the original inhabitants of Newfoundland, but was changed in 1990 when that name was deemed inappropriate. References External links * U Sports teams Memorial University of Newfoundland Sport in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Sports teams in Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million Military personnel, personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Air warfare of World War II, Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UPEI Panthers Men's Ice Hockey
The UPEI Panthers men's ice hockey team is an ice hockey team representing the UPEI Panthers athletics program of University of Prince Edward Island. The team is a member of the Atlantic University Sport conference and compete in U Sports. The team plays their home games at the MacLauchlan Arena in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. History The University of Prince Edward Island was formed in 1969 when Saint Dunstan's University merged with Prince of Wales College. The ice hockey team was arranged in the college's first year and assumed Saint Dunstan's spot in the MIAA. UPEI had its best run to date in the late 80s and early 90s, winning four league championships. Saint Dunstan's The Saint Dunstan's Saints played varsity ice hockey from 1935 until its amalgamation in 1969. The team won four league championships and reached the CIAU championship game in 1965. Season-by-season results Saint Dunstan's Senior and collegiate play ''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Mary's Huskies Men's Ice Hockey
The Saint Mary's Huskies men's ice hockey team is an ice hockey team representing the Saint Mary's Huskies athletics program of Saint Mary's University. The team is a member of the Atlantic University Sport conference and compete in U Sports. The team plays their home games at the Dauphinee Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. History Saint Mary's ice hockey program had a difficult start, though at first it was entirely of their own making. The team joined the Maritime Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1929 and promptly won the conference tournament that season. However, the school's administrators were not enamored by the Huskies' exploits. Three years later, when Saint Mary's had a chance for a second championship, the team was forbade from participating as the final game occurred during Lent. The following year, the Huskies withdrew from competition since the order remained in force. Due to Ash Wednesday falling later in 1935, the Huskies were able to return to play for two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newfoundland And Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of 405,212 square kilometres (156,500 sq mi). In 2021, the population of Newfoundland and Labrador was estimated to be 521,758. The island of Newfoundland (and its smaller neighbouring islands) is home to around 94 per cent of the province's population, with more than half residing in the Avalon Peninsula. Labrador borders the province of Quebec, and the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon lies about 20 km west of the Burin Peninsula. According to the 2016 census, 97.0 per cent of residents reported English as their native language, making Newfoundland and Labrador Canada's most linguistically homogeneous province. A majority of the population is descended from English and Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lent
Lent ( la, Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry. Lent is observed in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Methodist, Moravian, Oriental Orthodox, Persian, United Protestant and Roman Catholic traditions. Some Anabaptist, Baptist, Reformed (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches), and nondenominational Christian churches also observe Lent, although many churches in these traditions do not. Which days are enumerated as being part of Lent differs between denominations (see below), although in all of them Lent is described as lasting for a total duration of 40 days. In Lent-observing Western Churches, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later; depending on the Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
