After finishing third in the ACAC, the men’s hockey team started their playoff campaign. They faced the sixth and final team to make the playoffs, Concordia University, for a chance to make it to the semi-finals. The Ooks started the series off at home on Friday night...
NAIT Athlete soars to top of ACAC
If you’ve kept up with the Ooks in the last year, you’ve likely heard the name Kaitlyn Slator a few times. Slator is the Ooks women’s hockey team goalie, and in the past year, she’s been chasing ACAC history. She started the season only four wins away from the ACAC...
NAIT Ooks to face off against Korea University Tigers in ACAC men’s hockey exhibition tour
The Ooks are facing off against a surprising opponent on January 17: the men’s hockey team from Korea University. In a “groundbreaking” announcement on January 5, the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) announced the Korea University Tigers will embark on a...
Ooks hockey 2023-23 season preview
With the new academic year in full swing, the NAIT Ooks men’s hockey team is ready to drop the puck on a new season. They open their season Friday, October 13, on the road against the SAIT Trojans. Their counterparts, the Ooks women’s hockey team started their season...
The top 5 Ooks hockey jerseys
One of the most beautiful things about hockey is the jerseys. There’s so much you can do. In other sports, the jerseys are pretty standardized; you usually have the team name, a number and the player name on the back and that’s it. But in hockey, people play for the...
Ooks losing key hockey contributors to graduation
It’s a cycle any sports team must endure. A team struggles but gets some young players who show promise. These players lead the team to success before moving on to other things leaving the team right back at the beginning of the cycle. This issue is more prevalent in...
NAIT Alumni Jordan Papirny signs contract in the AHL
s in hockey. He spent time playing in the WHL, then went back to collegiate sports when he couldn’t clinch an NHL contract. But he’s now one step closer to the NHL; Papirny made his AHL debut on March 17th. Papirny started in the WHL in 2011, and the future...
Ooks weekend recap: March 17-20
The finals in the ACAC for hockey are underway, and here's how each team fared in the first two games of the best-of-five. Men's Hockey The men's hockey team is on the brink of elimination after dropping the first two games against Red Deer Polytechnic 5-1 and 2-1. On...
Ooks weekend recap: March 10-13
Men's Hockey The men's hockey team is moving on to the finals after sweeping the University of Alberta Augustana, winning 4-2 and then 3-1. On Friday, it was Augustana opening the scoring at the 10:30 mark of the first period. Augustana carried the 1-0 lead to the...
Former Ook signs first professional contract
Former Ook men’s hockey player, Nick Leyer, has signed his first professional contract for Kalix HC of HockeyEttan. Kalix is located in Sweden–it’s the team located the closest to Finland. HockeyEttan is built into four geographically split groups and serves as the...