Tristan Metcalfe
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How will the regular season end?
We are now 119 games into a 150 game AIHL season, and hitting the business end of things. Our AIHL Ladder Predictor allows you to pick the results of each game and see how that impacts the final ladder. At this stage, the only teams that have mathematically clinched their Finals places are the Sydney…
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Is the best player in the AIHL making his team worse?
Melbourne Ice winger Austin Albrecht is undoubtedly one of the very best players in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). Recently he set the record for the least games to put up 100 AIHL points, and has 44 points in the 12 games since he arrived in Melbourne. While the Ice are still flying, sitting…
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Clickin’ Tenders
One of the hot topics in any AIHL season is always goaltending. In the first half of the 2024 AIHL season, we have seen some incredible goaltending – from imports and locals alike. If you feel like it has been even better than last year, you’re not wrong. The overall save percentage for AIHL goalies…
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Perth Thunder mid-season Report Card
Perth Thunder mid-season report card – Current rating: A real contender, the litmus test awaits. The Thunder have made no secret that they are chasing a cup in 2024, and chasing it hard. With key local additions to the lineup in John Kennedy Jnr and Zane Jones, as well as a strong set of imports…
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Canberra Brave Mid-Season Report Card
Canberra Brave mid-season report card – C- (Getting by, but not by much) After coming within a goal of back-to-back Cups in 2023, it is fair to say that the Brave would not have expected the first half of the 2024 AIHL season to go the way it has. Player unavailability, through national team representation,…
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Casey Kubara by the numbers
The weekend before last, in Adelaide against the Adrenaline, Casey Kubara scored his 231st Australian Ice Hockey League point and became the all-time leading scorer for the Canberra Brave. That assist on Kai Miettinen’s 3rd period goal on the Saturday took him past import Stephen Blunden’s tally of 230 points to own the record in…
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Wish or Wishart You?
On Sunday, against the Central Coast Rhinos, the Melbourne Mustangs managed something they hadn’t done in the Australian Ice Hockey League since August 25, 2019 – win without Ty Wishart in the lineup. Since that overtime win against the Ice Dogs (courtesy of a Thomas Flack OT winner), the Mustangs had played 4 times without…
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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 content I produce. Perth’s initiative is the latest in a collection of different moves clubs in the Australian Ice Hockey League have undertaken over the years…
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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 (PIM) – a far cry from an infamous weekend in 2016. That particular weekend included the two most-penalised games in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL)…
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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 Maple Leafs – someone in net who just has your number, no matter how hard you try. This looks at the period from 2013 to 2023…
