As this is my last ever Journal article I wanted to share a few things with my loyal (or not so loyal) readers. When I started taking hockey photographs two years ago I never imagined that eventually I would become a writer for the Journal, let alone get hired back on for a second year as Sports Editor, but here we are a year and a half later and I find myself thinking about the goals I set and the triumphs and defeats that I have shared with the Huskies.

With hits to the head becoming more and more common and increasingly dangerous, NHL General Managers passed a ruling down to the league in their Annual General Meeting banning blindside hits to the head. A blindside hit is one where lateral or back-pressure is applied to the head from a position that the player being hit cannot see. The league has determined that in plays where the puck handler is being hit from the side the responsibility to make contact with the body and avoid the head lies with the hitting player; however, in hits from the front it is still the puck handler’s responsibility to keep his head up and know that he may be attacked from the front while carrying the puck and that incidental contact with the head will not result in disciplinary action.

After being spurned 4 times the Saint Mary's Huskies have captured their first ever Cavendish University Cup. After winning the AUS title over a struggling St. FX X-Men and coming into the CIS championship seeded third the Huskies defeated the top ranked University of Alberta Golden Bears to win the University Cup in their first finals appearance in 37 years.