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The Best of the Best: 2024 AIHL Awards
The League announced the 2024 AIHL season awards on the weekend at Finals. These announcements followed the nominations released a month ago. Six players and one coach were selected as winners in seven award categories. The award winners list consisted of personnel from five teams. This included three people from the Hellyer conference and four…
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Canberra Brave Celebrate Third Goodall Cup
The Canberra Brave defeated the Melbourne Ice 5-0 in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) Grand Final to lift the Goodall Cup for the third time in five seasons. On Friday night, Canberra Brave had a hard battle against Perth Thunder. The Thunder pressed until the last second, however Brave won 2-1. Their next stop…
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Melbourne Ice Complete Comeback and Finals Equation
The Melbourne Ice defeated the Newcastle Northstars 4-3 in a gripping second semi-final at the Hungry Jack’s Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) Finals series at O’Brien Icehouse. Melbourne’s victory sets up a Grand Final meeting with the Canberra Brave. After the end of the regular season, the Northstars finished at the top of the Rurak…
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Canberra Brave Punch Ticket to Sunday
The Canberra Brave defeated the Sydney Bears 5-2 to earn a place in the Hungry Jack’s Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) Grand Final. Canberra will face either the Melbourne Ice or Newcastle Northstars at 2 pm AEST on Sunday. The first semi-final saw the Sydney Bears play the Canberra Brave. Sydney finished the regular season…
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Canberra Brave Advance in Tense Battle
The second game of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) Finals presented by Hungry Jack’s was played on Friday night between the Canberra Brave and Perth Thunder at O’Brien Icehouse, Melbourne. In a replay of last year’s semi-final, the Brave took the win in a tight 2-1 contest. Canberra finished second in the Rurak Conference…
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Melbourne Ice Start Finals Campaign with Rock-Solid Performance
The puck dropped in the opening game of the 2024 AIHL Finals presented by Hungry Jack’s on the afternoon of Friday 23 August at O’Brien Icehouse, Melbourne. Friday’s first playoff game was between the Melbourne Ice and Brisbane Lightning. The Ice finished second in the Hellyer Conference while the Lightning finished third in the Rurak…
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Nick Christensen predicts the AIHL Awards
Canberra Brave skater Nick Christensen has submitted his selections for the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) awards. The HHA crew have made their predictions, now we are pleased to present a players’ perspective. Coach – Tyler Huberty Coaching awards I find are always difficult to judge, because coaching is somewhat of a private experience, and…
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HHA Roundtable: AIHL Awards Edition
The Hockey Hype Australia team got together to vote on who they predict will win each Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) award on offer this season. Did they get it right? Have your say in the comments. Coach of the Year Adelaide – Jeremy FriederichBrisbane – Terry KiliwnikCanberra – Stuart PhilpsCentral Coast – Ron KuprowskyMelbourne…
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Finals Preview – Sydney Bears
With the H. Newman Reid Trophy already in the cabinet, the Sydney Bears will be looking to add a fourth Goodall Cup banner to the wall at Macquarie. We take a look at how their campaign is shaping up. 2024 Record Overall record (23 W – 1 OTW – 1 OTL – 5 L) (0.800…
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Finals Preview – Melbourne Ice
With the Hungry Jack’s 2024 AIHL Finals just around the corner, Hockey Hype Australia is taking a look at how each of the teams competing got there, and what the keys to their success are. Today we have the return of the Melbourne Ice to Finals after seven years and four seasons away. 2024 Record…
