AUS Playoffs Begin Tomorrow

The Atlantic University Sport playoffs are set to begin on Wednesday night and it will include several former Halifax Mooseheads players. Locally, the Saint Mary's Huskies are the only team to make it. Other Nova Scotia universities that will be in the playoffs are the St. Francis X-Men and the Acadia Axemen. They will be joined by the Moncton Aigles Bleus, the UNB Varsity Reds and UPEI Panthers.

Here are the final standings
#   Team                                                   W      L    OTL   Pts
1. University of New Brunswick             26      4       0      52
2. Acadia University                                19      9       2      40
3. Saint Mary's University                       17     12      1      35
4. Moncton University                             13     11      6      32
5. St. Francis Xavier University.             12     13      5      29
6. University of Prince Edward Island    10     15      5      25
7. Dalhousie University                            8      19      3     19 


The Varsity Reds and the Axemen receive a quarter-final bye. The Aigles Bleus will take on the X-Men while the Huskies will take on the Panthers with both series starting tomorrow night.

Here is the quarter-finals schedule
Wed. February 12  St. FX at Moncton
                                 UPEI at Saint Mary's
Fri. February 14  Saint Mary's at UPEI
                              Moncton at St. FX
Sun. February 16  St. FX at Moncton   *if necessary 
                                UPEI at Saint Mary's   *if necessary

Former Halifax Mooseheads players on playoff team rosters include; Keith Getson (Saint Mary's), Morgan Nauss (Acadia), Joel Bishop (Saint Mary's), Blade Mann-Dixon (St. FX), Austyn Hardie (Saint Mary's), Matt Murphy (UNB), Eric Brassard (Saint Mary's) and Jordan Maher (UPEI)

Good luck to all the teams and to our former players during the playoffs on the road to the University Cup that will be held in Halifax.