TWU Titans The Trinity Western University Titans hockey club is a competitive ice hockey team competing in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League . Today , the BCIHL included teams from Simon Fraser University , University of Victoria , University of the Fraser Valley , and Selkirk College . The league is looking to expand for the 2008 - 2009 season , and may include teams from UBC Okanagan in Kelowna , Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops , and University of Northern British Columbia , in Prince George . Early years . Before the formation of the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League ( BCIHL ) , the Titans were in a contact church hockey league ( in the 1990s ) with some big Vancouver , Surrey , and Abbotsford churches , along with Columbia Bible College . During this time , the Titans won several championships but were essentially a club team and the only Trinity Western University team . Later on , the Titans played in the Fraser Valley Contact Hockey League ( FVCHL ) with Athletes in Action , the Sabers ( a Trinity Western University Alumni team ) , a team from Whiterock , Columbia Bible College ( Abbotsford , British Columbia ) , the former hockey school in Langley , and a couple of other teams . The Titans won the regular season league championships in 2000 to 2002 . As time went on , and interest grew in intercollegiate play , the Titans began having intercollegiate tournaments with University of Northern British Columbia , The University College of the Cariboo ( now Thompson Rivers University ) , and Selkirk College while still competing in the FVCHL . In 2003 , the FVCHL folded and the Titans began playing exhibition games with a mix of American and Canadian universities . 2006 - present . As more universities in British Columbia got involved and committed , the BCIHL became formally formed in 2006 . The Titans have hosted BCIHL championships since 2003 and won titles in 2005 and 2006 . After their last championship , the Titans saw a massive exodus of veterans . In fact , at the commence of the 2006 - 2007 season , the Titans only had six returning players ( centremen Jordan Urness and Brett Simmonds , winger Joshua Schweitzer , defensemen Scott Robertson and Carl Ries , and goaltender Kevin Helps ) . As a result , the Titans have had a major youth movement in recent years , and have relied heavily on their young players over the course of the past few seasons . Slovakia Missions Trip 2008 . For the spring Reading Break in 2008 , the Titans were overseas in Slovakia playing hockey and doing mission work with Athletes in Action . On the trip , the Titans played five games against different Slovak Division II teams , most of which were stocked with junior and semi - professional players . These teams were highly skilled and boasted impressive skating and puck handling abilities . After each of their games , the Titans hosted the opposing team at a local restaurant and the Titan players shared their faith and spirituality and how Jesus Christ has worked within their lives . When the Titans were not on the ice , they were helping AIA Slovakia make connections with various groups and individuals . In the first of their hockey games , the Titans were hosted by Bratislava Sport University , and eventually lost a very close game 4 - 2 at V . Dzurilla Winter Sports Stadium in Ružinov . They followed it up one night later with a 3 - 3 tie with Žiar N . H . It was not until their third game where the purpose of their trip started to evolve . Following an embarrassing 10 - 0 loss to Brezno , a game which had the hometown Brezno crowd of 500 chanting , " Brezno , Brezno ! " , after the hometeam scored their tenth , the Titans thought long and hard about what they were going through . They did a lot of personal and team soul - searching and seemed to reclaim the purpose for the trip . The Titans began to very seriously integrate their faith with the hockey that they were playing . As a result , TWU discovered true team spirit , and won their next two games 6 - 3 at Lučenec and 7 - 4 the following evening at Levice . Overall , TWU ' s line of Brett Simmonds , Nathan Higgins from the NCAA ' s Wayne State Warriors , and Josh MacKnee led the way for the Titans offensively . Of the 18 goals scored by the team , the line scored 70 per cent of them . Higgins and MacKnee scored six each , while Simmonds added one and many assists . The action away from the rink saw the Titans help three different churches with their youth group ministries , as well as teach English in three different middle and high schools . The team also led worship at two different Slovak churches and played floor hockey and other sports with different groups . The team also toured Vienna , visited castles and historical sites , and made a brief stop at Esztergom , Hungary where the team visited the Esztergom Basilica – the third largest church in Europe . Goaltender Evan Menzies , who finished the overseas tour with a team best goals against average of 2 . 50 , reflected on the outcome of his team ' s reading break : " The trip allowed us as a group to not only understand what love is , agape love , but to live it out to our teammates , and to the Slovak people . We learned that Christ ' s love is truly cross cultural and universal . " The team also drank a lot of absynthe on the trip . Legends . Over the course of the past five seasons , forward Josh MacKnee has led the Titans offensively four times : The most legendary line in recent memory was known as the " Green Line " . Clark Moran centered Jamie Simpson and Mark Westergard .