Tristan Metcalfe
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2024 AIHL Season Preview – Brisbane Lightning
2023 in review The Lightning’s first season in the AIHL was a successful entry to the league, with an appearance in the postseason on the back of being a high-scoring juggernaut, especially early in the season. However, their overall record masks a significant disparity between their record against the struggling Rhinos and Adrenaline, and the…
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2024 AIHL Season preview – Adelaide Adrenaline
2023 in review In their first season since 2019, the Adrenaline found the going tough again – but managed to complete a few key milestones. Probably the most significant of these was their first win since July 2018, over the Rhinos in Erina early in the season. The season did end on a high note…
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How much is a point worth?
So now that you’ve had a look at where the top scorers in the AIHL come from, and been bored by the technical details – how do different leagues compare to each other? As we saw in the piece on AIHL scoring, the “value” of a point differs across different hockey leagues. So how do…
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How to compare one hockey league to another
Warning Before we dig into this one, fair warning – this piece is technical and all about methodology, and is mostly concerned with how to get somewhere – rather than what that somewhere actually is. If you want to skip it and wait for the results, they will follow in the next piece. But, if…
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AIHL Import Hunting Grounds
Over the past decade, imports have scored almost half of AIHL goals, and we all know they are key to the performance of teams. With teams slowly starting to announce a new suite of imports for the 2024 AIHL season, this raises the question – which other leagues do the most productive players in the…
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Are import goalies worth it?
Every year in the AIHL, there is some discussion about whether import goalies are worth taking one of the four import slots in a team on game day – and about whether having an import in net takes away from local development opportunities. Given how complex and comparatively unmeasurable the second point is, we’ll ignore…
