They made it all the way to the conference finals against the powerful and eventual Stanley Cup champion Edmonton Oilers, but lost in five games.

Second, while playing Scandals Disco in Edmonton, a spurious " bomb threat " against the band made the front page of the Edmonton Journal ( June 9, 1982 ); assistant band manager Greif and Lee were interviewed.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

The rule change was made due to the dominance of the Edmonton Oilers during four-on-four play in which they thrived in the wide open style of play and would almost assuredly get a goal.

British sprinters had made little impression on the international scene, and the sight of the Scot winning two gold medals ( 200 m, 4 x 100 m ) and a silver ( 100 m ) at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was a surprise for British athletics fans.

There had been deputations made to Parliament, asking for an early extension of the line either towards Tottenham and Edmonton or towards Wood Green and Palmers Green.

For this latter role, he was made an honorary member of the Edmonton Library Association.

In 1980, the Edmonton Journal wrote that " he lasting political estate left by former Premier John Brownlee has made Alberta what it is today, one of Canada's wealthiest provinces fuelled by billions of dollars in oil and gas royalties.

However, the CRTC made the deal conditional on CTV divesting itself of Citytv, because they already have CTV O & O stations serving the very same cities ( CFTO-DT Toronto, CIVT-DT Vancouver, CFCN-DT Calgary, CFRN-DT Edmonton, and CKY-DT Winnipeg ) as it would have exceeded the CRTC's concentration of media ownership limits.

As NHL play resumed, Kariya made his debut against the Edmonton Oilers.

Canada holds the distinction of having made the first appointment in the then British Empire of a woman as a magistrate, namely Emily Murphy, who was sworn in as a police magistrate in the Women's Court of the City of Edmonton ( Alberta ) on 19 June 1916.

Kinsella's literary education in his formative years came from reading and by attending all the plays at high school and any theatrical productions that made it to Edmonton.

Following the 97 '- 98 ' season, Joseph signed as a free agent with the Toronto Maple Leafs, a move which made him unpopular in Edmonton.

This win made him the first goaltender to win a post-season game as a member of five different teams: St. Louis, Edmonton, Toronto, Detroit and Calgary.

Edmonton in the 1970s was experiencing explosive growth fuelled by an oil boom and several fortunes were made.

One of Moore's first acts as the Minister of Canadian Heritage was to confirm a $ 45 million cut to the arts made prior to the 2008 election and cancelled plans for a National Portrait Gallery, in process for several years with proposals from Ottawa, Edmonton and Calgary.

The move of the franchise from Round Rock to Corpus Christi following the 2004 season was made possible when the owners of the Express, Ryan Sanders Baseball, acquired the Triple-A franchise in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and announced their intention to move the club to Round Rock.

He made news that off-season in his hometown of Edmonton when he was arrested for driving under the influence, a charge he pled guilty to the following summer.

Peter is the father of Yan Stastny, who made his NHL debut in 2005 – 06 with the Edmonton Oilers and is currently playing in Russia, and Paul Stastny, who began his career with the Colorado Avalanche ( the same franchise as the Quebec Nordiques, Peter's first NHL team ) in 2006 – 07 and wears the same number (# 26 ).

NHL history was made at the Aud on February 24, 1982, when Wayne Gretzky of the visiting Edmonton Oilers scored a natural hat trick in the final seven minutes of the third period to help defeat the Sabres 6 – 3.

With 14: 46 remaining in the third period, and the score tied at two, he made a pass from behind his own net that ricocheted off goaltender Grant Fuhr and into the Edmonton net.

Anaheim returned to the playoffs and made it to the Western Conference Finals, where they were eliminated by the Edmonton Oilers.

Gretzky also made it clear that he would not partake in any oldtimer or Heroes of Hockey game unless it was held in Edmonton, a statement that was realized with the 2003 Heritage Classic three years later.

He made his NHL debut in October 1983 with the Pittsburgh Penguins, but rose to fame after a trade in September 1985 brought him to the Edmonton Oilers.

We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

`` He knocked down the interference and made key stops lots of times.

Throughout `` The Making Of A President '' Mr. White shows wonderfully well how the pressures pile up on candidates, how decisions have constantly to be made, how fatigue and illness and nervous strain wear candidates down, how subordinates play key roles.

One of the key clauses was that companies who made Nintendo games were not allowed to make that game on a competing system for a period of two years.

A key claim made by Lord Lambert in his report had been that the channel was slower to react to breaking news compared with its main rival Sky News.

If one key cannot be deduced from the other, the asymmetric key algorithm has the public / private key property and one of the keys may be made public without loss of confidentiality.

During his rule, members of Yakoma were granted all key positions in the administration and made up a majority of the military.

One solution made use of a grid of hexagonal keys with symbols inscribed into dimples in the keys that were either in the center of a key, across the boundary of two keys, or at the joining of three keys.

Whilst this had the advantage of being usable by untrained users via ' hunt and peck ' typing and requiring one less key switch than a conventional 12 button keypad, it had the disadvantage that some symbols required three times as much force to depress them as others which made it hard to achieve any speed with the device.

alt = A selection of cane toad merchandise, including key rings made from their legs, a coin purse made from the head, front limbs and body of a toad, and a stuffed cane toad

Cornets and trumpets made in a given key ( usually the key of B ) play at the same pitch, and the technique for playing the instruments is nearly identical.

During the first years in power, under Lenin's rule, the Central Committee was the key decision-making body in both practice and theory, and decisions were made through majority votes.

One of the key aims was to make the data independent of the logic of application programs, so that the same data could be made available to different applications.

" Modern Love " and " China Girl " made number two in the UK, accompanied by a pair of acclaimed promotional videos that, as described by biographer David Buckley, " were totally absorbing and activated key archetypes in the pop world.

Missions in the Oriente were abandoned, and many of the best schools and the most efficient haciendas and obrajes lost the key that made them outstanding institutions in colonial Ecuador.

Some years after the 1900-1901 publication of his main work, the Logische Untersuchungen ( Logical Investigations ), Husserl made some key conceptual elaborations which led him to assert that in order to study the structure of consciousness, one would have to distinguish between the act of consciousness and the phenomena at which it is directed ( the objects as intended ).

These were the key discoveries that made all non-live or non live-on-videotape narrative motion pictures and television possible — that shots ( in this case whole scenes since each shot is a complete scene ) can be photographed at widely different locations over a period of time ( hours, days or even months ) and combined into a narrative whole.

The community for a time made Safed an international center of cloth weaving and manufacturing, as well as a key site for Jewish learning.

As part of this effort, he made key contributions to the modern rigorous and systematic treatment of the method of mathematical induction.

The Afghan nation was able to build democratic structures over the years, and some progress was made in key areas such as governance, economy, health, education, transport, and agriculture.