Tristan Metcalfe
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AIHL Teams and Mental Health
This Saturday night in Perth is the Mental Health Awareness game hosted by the Thunder, so this article is going to take a different path to the usual stats-based…
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PIM Reapers
Over the weekend past, the Melbourne Ice and Canberra Brave played out a tightly-contested pair of games in the Brave Cave, which attracted a combined 40 penalties in minutes…
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AIHL: Nemeses between the pipes
After a weekend with some stellar goaltending performances across the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL), let’s take a look at whether your team has a David Ayers to your…
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The AIHL’s most hard-fought rivalry?
The Melbourne Mustangs joining the AIHL in 2011 (at the time as the “Mustangs IHC”) kicked off a series of some of the spiciest games in the league –…
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Joey by the numbers
Making his return to the Melbourne Ice in 2024 and promptly being named the Skaters Network Australian Player of the Week is just another of those ‘Joey Hughes things’….
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2024 AIHL Season preview – Sydney Ice Dogs
2023 in review The Ice Dogs struggled in 2023, and had the added challenge of being in the considerably stronger Hellyer Conference meant they ended the year at the…
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2024 AIHL Season Preview – Sydney Bears
2023 in review The Bears had a great regular season in 2023, with only a three-point penalty for an administrative error regarding imports costing them a share of top…
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2024 AIHL Season Preview – Perth Thunder
2023 in review The AIHL welcomed the Thunder back in 2023, and they promptly made it back to Finals weekend, courtesy of a key win over the Newcastle Northstars…
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2024 AIHL Season Preview – Newcastle Northstars
2023 in review After coming up just short in 2022, the Newcastle Northstars rebounded strongly in 2023, taking second place in the Rurak Conference and third overall, before being…
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2024 AIHL Season Preview – Melbourne Mustangs
2023 in review 2023 could hardly have gone better for the Mustangs – to state the very obvious! A strong regular season, capped by a whole-weekend clean sheet by…