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___MASK61___ Allen " ___MASK5___ " Pattison , OC , OBC ( born October 1 , 1928 ) is a Canadian business magnate , investor and philanthropist . He is based in Vancouver where he holds the position of Chief Executive Officer , Chairman and sole owner of the ___MASK5___ Pattison Group , the second largest privately held company in Canada . He has been labelled Canada ' s fourth richest person . ___MASK84___ ___MASK61___ Cardiff ( born August 29 , 1944 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 200 games in the World Hockey Association for the Philadelphia Blazers and Vancouver Blazers . Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of ___MASK16___ . It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province , in ___MASK72___ area of foothills and prairie , about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies . In the 2011 census , the City of Calgary had a population of 1 , 096 , 833 and a metropolitan population of 1 , 214 , 839 , making it the largest city in ___MASK16___ , and the third - largest municipality and fifth - largest census metropolitan area ( CMA ) in Canada . The National Hockey League ( NHL ) is a professional ice hockey league currently composed of 31 member clubs . Of the 30 clubs currently playing , 23 ___MASK36___ in the United States and 7 in Canada . Headquartered in New York City , the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world , and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada . The ___MASK62___ Cup , the oldest professional sports trophy in North ___MASK82___ , is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season . In ice hockey , the goaltender is the player responsible for preventing the hockey ___MASK12___ from entering their team ' s net , thus preventing the opposing team from scoring . The goaltender usually plays in or near the area in front of the net called the " goal crease " ( often referred to simply as " the crease " or " the net "). Goaltenders tend to stay at or beyond the top of the crease to cut down on the angle of shots . In today ' s ___MASK85___ of goaltending there are two common styles , butterfly and hybrid ( hybrid is a mix of the traditional stand - up style and butterfly technique ). Because of the power of shots , the goaltender wears special equipment designed to protect the body from direct impact . The goalie is one of the most valuable players on the ice , as their performance can greatly change the outcome or score of the game . One - on - one situations , such as breakaways and shootouts , have the tendency to highlight a goaltender ' s pure skill , or lack thereof . Only one goaltender is allowed to be on the ice for each team at any given time . The Western Hockey League was a minor pro ice hockey league that operated from 1952 to 1974 . Managed for most of its history by ___MASK74___ Leader , it was created out of the merger of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Canada Senior Hockey League . During the 1960s , the WHL moved into a number of large west coast markets including Los Angeles and San ___MASK15___ . There was speculation that Western Hockey League could grow into a major league capable of rivaling even the long - entrenched National Hockey League . The Vancouver Canucks ___MASK36___ a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver , : British Columbia . They ___MASK36___ members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ). The Canucks play their ___MASK17___ games at Rogers Arena , formerly known as General Motors Place , which has an official capacity of 18 , 860 . Henrik Sedin is currently the captain of the team , Willie Desjardins is the head coach and ___MASK5___ Benning is the general manager . Pennsylvania ( Pennsylvania ___MASK42___ : " Pennsylvaani "), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , is a state located in the northeastern and Mid - Atlantic regions of the United States . The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle . The commonwealth borders Delaware to the southeast , Maryland to the south , West ___MASK51___ to the southwest , Ohio to the west , Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to the northwest , New York to the north , and New Jersey to the east . Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth - most populous city in the United States , with ___MASK72___ estimated population of 1 , 567 , 442 and more than 6 million in the seventh - largest metropolitan statistical area , . Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers with 7 . 2 million people residing in the eighth - largest combined statistical area in the United States . The World Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey major league that operated in North ___MASK82___ from 1972 to 1979 . It was the first major league to compete with the National Hockey League ( NHL ) since the collapse of the Western Hockey League ( 1952  74 ). Although the WHA was not the first league since that time to attempt to challenge the NHL ' s supremacy , it was by far the most successful in the modern ___MASK46___ . Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice , usually in a rink , in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber ___MASK12___ into their opponent ' s net to score points . Ice hockey teams usually consist of six players each : one goaltender , and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the ___MASK12___ and score a goal against the opposing team . The Vancouver Blazers were a professional ice hockey team that played in the World Hockey Association from 1973  75 . The Blazers played at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver , British Columbia , sharing the facility with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . The Blazers were owned by local businessman ___MASK5___ Pattison . The franchise moved to Vancouver after a single season in Philadelphia . Unable to establish a strong fan base in Vancouver , the team was moved again in 1975 to become the Calgary Cowboys . The 1972  73 WHA season was the first season of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ). Twelve teams played 78 games each . The league was officially incorporated in ___MASK90___ of 1971 by Garry L . Davidson and Dennis A . Murphy and promised to ice twelve teams in various markets around Canada and the United States . The league championship trophy , the Avco World Trophy , was donated by AVCO Financial Services Corporation along with $ 500 , 000 . The New England Whalers won the first Avco World Trophy . British Columbia ( BC ) is the westernmost province of Canada , with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the ___MASK86___ Mountains . British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia bioregion , along with the U . S . states of Idaho , Oregon , ___MASK25___ and Alaska . The Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center , more commonly known as the Philadelphia Civic Center and the Philadelphia Convention Center , formerly known as Municipal Auditorium and the Philadelphia Convention Hall , located in Philadelphia , in the ___MASK93___ ___MASK28___ state of Pennsylvania , was a complex of five or more buildings developed out of a series of buildings dedicated to expanding trade which began with the National Export Exhibition in 1899 . There were two important buildings on the site . The Commercial Museum , built in 1899 , was one of the original exposition buildings . The Municipal Auditorium ( Convention Hall ), built in 1931 , Philip ___MASK69___ Johnson , architect . The site was host to national political conventions in 1900 , 1936 , 1940 and 1948 . The Pacific Coliseum , known to locals as " The Coliseum " or the " Rink on Renfrew ," is ___MASK72___ indoor arena located at Hastings Park in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada . Its main use has been for ice hockey and the arena has been the ___MASK17___ for several ice hockey teams . The arena is the former ___MASK17___ of the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League ( WHL ). Other hockey tenants of the Pacific Coliseum have been the Vancouver Canucks ( WHL ), from 1968 to 1970 , Vancouver Canucks ( National Hockey League ), from 1970 to 1995 , the Vancouver Nats ( WHL ) from 1972 to 1973 the Vancouver Blazers ( World Hockey Association ), from 1973 to 1975 and the Vancouver Voodoo ( Roller Hockey International ), from 1994 to 1995 . Defence ( defense in the USA ) in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring . They ___MASK36___ often referred to as defencemen , D , D - men or blueliners ( the latter a reference to the blue ___MASK14___ in ice hockey which represents the boundary of the offensive zone ; defencemen generally position themselves along the ___MASK14___ to keep the ___MASK12___ in the zone ). They were once called cover - point . A good defenceman is both strong in defensive and offensive play and for defenceman pairing also need to be good at defending and attacking . A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective . A team sport is ___MASK72___ activity in which individuals are organized into opposing teams which compete to win . Examples are basketball , volleyball , water polo , handball , lacrosse , cricket , baseball , and the various forms of football and hockey . The Philadelphia Blazers were ___MASK72___ ice hockey franchise in the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) for the 1972  73 WHA season that was based in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States . The team ' s ___MASK17___ ice was the Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center . The Calgary Cowboys were ___MASK72___ ice hockey team that played two seasons in the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) from 1975  1977 . The Cowboys played at the Stampede Corral in Calgary . The franchise was founded in 1972 as the Miami Screaming Eagles , though it never played a game in Miami . The team was based in Philadelphia and Vancouver , known in both markets as the " Blazers ", before relocating to Calgary . The franchise folded in 1977 . Ice is ___MASK94___ frozen into a solid state . Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air , it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish - white color .