MONTREAL -- This holiday season, an annual winter tradition continues when the 52nd annual Theresa Humes women's hockey tournament gets underway Dec. 28-30 at Concordia's Ed Meagher Arena.

A strong class of competitors joins the U SPORTS No. 1-ranked Stingers. The fifth-ranked UPEI Panthers and the No. 6 McGill Martlets are slotted in. The Bishop's Gaiters, who are playing an independent schedule this season, and the Long Island University Sharks, a Division 1 NCAA team, round out the competition.

Concordia sits atop the RSEQ conference with a 9-0-1 record. UPEI is one of the powerhouses in the Atlantic conference this season. The Panthers are in second place with a 14-3-1 record. McGill earns a lot of respect for playing in the tough RSEQ league and gets a high ranking despite a 4-3-3 record.

Bishop's competed in the American Collegiate Hockey Association in 2018-19. The Gaiters earned a national championship berth at the Division 2 level and made it through to the semifinals before being eliminated. This season they have a 2-5 record playing largely U SPORTS schools.

Long Island has moved up to Div. 1 this season and enters the tourney with a 5-12 overall record, including games against the Yale Bulldogs and Connecticut Huskies. In the six-team New England Women's Hockey Alliance, the Sharks boast a 5-3 record.

There will be two games per day in the three-day tourney, which gets underway Dec. 28 and wraps up on Dec. 30.

Here's the complete schedule: 

Saturday, Dec. 28
UPEI vs. Concordia – 3 p.m.
Long Island vs. McGill – 6 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 29
Bishop's vs. UPEI – 2 p.m.
Long Island vs. Concordia – 5 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 30
UPEI vs. McGill - noon
Bishop's vs. Concordia – 2:30 p.m. 

The Ed Meagher Arena is located at 7200 Sherbrooke St. W. on Concordia University's Loyola campus.