2009 AIHL season

November 2019 May 2011 2009 AIHL season Australian Ice Hockey League Ice hockey black white 25 April 2009 – 30 August 2009 Regular season H Newman Reid Trophy Newcastle North Stars (2nd title) Brad Smulders (Blue Tongues) Brad Smulders (76 points) (Blue Tongues) Goodall Cup Goodall Cup Adelaide Adrenaline Newcastle North Stars Cass Delsar (Adrenaline) 2010 2008 AIHL The 2009 AIHL season was the tenth season of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). It ran from 25 April 2009 until 23 August 2009, with the AIHL finals following on 29 and 30 August 2009. The Newcastle North Stars won the H Newman Reid Trophy (backdated) after finishing the regular season first in the league standings. Adelaide Adrenaline won the Goodall Cup (backdated) for the first time by defeating the Newcastle North Stars in the final. League business The 2009 season will be reduced to seven teams after the Central Coast Rhinos dropped out due to changes made in the licensing model. http://www.theaihl.com.au/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3856&leagueID=11464&page=32049 AIHL releases 2009 schedule AIHL 22 January 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110706112452/http://www.theaihl.com.au/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3856&leagueID=11464&page=32049 6 July 2011 dead Two teams were renamed for the start of the season, Western Sydney Ice Dogs, dropped the Western part of the title to become the Sydney Ice Dogs http://www.theaihl.com.au/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3856&leagueID=11464&page=34983 Same teams new identity AIHL 27 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110706112509/http://www.theaihl.com.au/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3856&leagueID=11464&page=34983 6 July 2011 dead and the Adelaide A's have been renamed for the start of the season, playing under the new name of Adelaide Adrenaline. The Sydney Ice Dogs have also been forced to relocate to Liverpool's Catholic Club's ice rink after their former home at Baulkham Hills rink withdrew from the league. On 25–26 July there was a week's break for the Junior Men's national tournament, known as the Brown Tournament. Regular season |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |1||Sydney||6–1||Gold Coast||Liverpool||Saturday, 25 April|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |2||Canberra||5–2||Bears||Canberra||Saturday, 25 April|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |3||Newcastle||5–3||Sydney||Newcastle||Sunday, 26 April|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |4||Bears||0–7||Gold Coast||Penrith||Sunday, 26 April|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |5||Melbourne Ice||3–4||Newcastle||Melbourne||Saturday, 2 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |6||Bears||1–5||Sydney||Penrith||Saturday, 2 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |7||Adelaide||7–3||Newcastle||Adelaide||Sunday, 3 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |8||Sydney||2–3 SO||Canberra||Liverpool||Sunday, 3 May|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |9||Canberra||1–5||Melbourne||Canberra||Saturday, 9 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |11||Newcastle||5–1||Gold Coast||Newcastle||Saturday, 9 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |12||Sydney||6–1||Bears||Liverpool||Saturday, 9 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |13||Newcastle||8–5||Gold Coast||Newcastle||Sunday, 10 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |14||Bears||4–3 SO||Melbourne||Penrith||Sunday, 10 May|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |39||Gold Coast||2–3 SO||Newcastle||Gold Coast||Saturday, 16 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |16||Adelaide||8–1||Canberra||Adelaide||Saturday, 16 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |42||Gold Coast||4–5 SO||Newcastle||Gold Coast||Sunday, 17 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |18||Melbourne||5–2||Canberra||Melbourne||Sunday, 17 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |41||Bears||1–5||Sydney||Penrith||Sunday, 17 May|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |20||Gold Coast||8–4||Bears||Gold Coast||Saturday, 23 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |21||Canberra||5–8||Newcastle||Canberra||Saturday, 23 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |22||Melbourne||2–5||Adelaide||Melbourne||Saturday, 23 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |23||Gold Coast||9–5||Bears||Gold Coast||Sunday, 24 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |24||Melbourne||2–4||Adelaide||Melbourne||Sunday, 24 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |25||Sydney||1–3||Canberra||Liverpool||Sunday, 24 May|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |26||Canberra||2–5||Newcastle||Canberra||Saturday, 30 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |27||Melbourne||4–5 SO||Sydney||Melbourne||Saturday, 30 May|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |28||Adelaide||8–3||Sydney||Adelaide||Sunday, 31 May|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |30||Gold Coast||4–2||Adelaide||Gold Coast||Saturday, 6 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |31||Newcastle||7–3||Bears||Newcastle||Saturday, 6 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |10||Canberra||2–5||Melbourne||Canberra||Saturday, 6 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |33||Gold Coast||5–2||Adelaide||Gold Coast||Sunday, 7 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |34||Bears||3–5||Melbourne||Penrith||Sunday, 7 June|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |35||Adelaide||4–2||Bears||Adelaide||Saturday, 13 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |36||Canberra||6–3||Sydney||Canberra||Saturday, 13 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |37||Melbourne||6–0||Bears||Melbourne||Sunday, 14 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |38||Sydney||4–6||Newcastle||Liverpool||Sunday, 14 June|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |15||Gold Coast||9–2||Sydney||Gold Coast||Saturday, 20 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |40||Adelaide||5–1||Canberra||Adelaide||Saturday, 20 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |19||Bears||2–6||Newcastle||Penrith||Saturday, 20 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |17||Gold Coast||8–4||Sydney||Gold Coast||Sunday, 21 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |43||Melbourne||8–3||Canberra||Melbourne||Sunday, 21 June|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |44||Adelaide||5–2||Melbourne||Adelaide||Saturday, 27 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |45||Newcastle||9–4||Canberra||Newcastle||Saturday, 27 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |46||Sydney||4–1||Gold Coast||Liverpool||Saturday, 27 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |47||Adelaide||1–4||Melbourne||Adelaide||Sunday, 28 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |48||Bears||3–2 SO||Gold Coast||Penrith||Sunday, 28 June|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |49||Newcastle||3–2||Sydney||Newcastle||Sunday, 28 June|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |50||Newcastle||3–4||Adelaide||Newcastle||Saturday, 4 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |51||Canberra||1–4||Sydney||Canberra||Saturday, 4 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |52||Melbourne||3–4 SO||Gold Coast||Melbourne||Saturday, 4 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |53||Melbourne||5–4||Gold Coast||Melbourne||Sunday, 5 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |54||Sydney||5–3||Adelaide||Liverpool||Sunday, 5 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |29||Bears||2–7||Newcastle||Penrith||Sunday, 5 July|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |55||Melbourne||2–5||Newcastle||Melbourne||Saturday, 11 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |56||Canberra||1–5||Gold Coast||Canberra||Saturday, 11 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |57||Sydney||5–3||Bears||Liverpool||Saturday, 11 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |58||Adelaide||5–7||Newcastle||Adelaide||Sunday, 12 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |59||Canberra||1–3||Gold Coast||Canberra||Sunday, 12 July|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |60||Adelaide||9–3||Gold Coast||Adelaide||Saturday, 18 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |61 & 62||Newcastle||3–7||Melbourne||Newcastle||Saturday, 18 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |63||Adelaide||2–4||Gold Coast||Adelaide||Sunday, 19 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |64||Bears||5–4 SO||Canberra||Penrith||Sunday, 19 July|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |65 & 32||Sydney||3–5||Melbourne||Liverpool||Sunday, 19 July|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |66||Gold Coast||3–6||Canberra||Gold Coast||Saturday, 1 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |67||Adelaide||7–3||Bears||Adelaide||Saturday, 1 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |68||Gold Coast||5–1||Canberra||Gold Coast||Sunday, 2 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |69||Melbourne||10–3||Bears||Melbourne||Sunday, 2 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |70||Sydney||3–2||Newcastle||Liverpool||Sunday, 2 August|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |71||Newcastle||5–3||Adelaide||Newcastle||Saturday, 8 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |72||Canberra||6–4||Bears||Canberra||Saturday, 8 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |73 & 74||Bears||3–7||Adelaide||Penrith||Sunday, 9 August|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |75||Gold Coast||5–2||Melbourne||Gold Coast||Saturday, 15 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |76 & 77||Canberra||1–6||Adelaide||Canberra||Saturday, 15 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |84||Newcastle||5–3||Bears||Newcastle||Sunday, 23 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |78||Gold Coast||4–9||Melbourne||Gold Coast||Sunday, 16 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |79||Sydney||5–6 OT||Adelaide||Liverpool||Sunday, 16 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |80||Newcastle||5–2||Canberra||Newcastle||Sunday, 16 August|| |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" |Game No.||Home team||Score||Away team||Location||Date||Report |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |81||Adelaide||1–3||Sydney||Adelaide||Saturday, 22 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |82||Bears||6–4||Canberra||Penrith||Saturday, 22 August|| |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |83||Melbourne||4–1||Sydney||Melbourne||Sunday, 23 August|| Note: "SO" indicates that a game was won through a shootout. Games schedule sourced from the AIHL. http://www.theaihl.com.au/leagues/3856/graphics/2009AIHL.pdf 2009AIHL AIHL 22 January 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091009100234/http://www.theaihl.com.au/leagues/3856/graphics/2009AIHL%2Epdf 9 October 2009 dead Standings TeamGP Games playedW WinsSOW Shootout winsSOL Shootout lossesL LossesGF Goals forGA Goals againstGDF Goal differencePTS Points Newcastle North Stars 24 17 2 0 5 122 85 +37 55 Melbourne Ice 24 15 0 3 6 113 77 +36 48 Adelaide Adrenaline 24 15 1 0 8 117 75 +42 47 Gold Coast Blue Tongues 24 13 1 3 7 108 86 +22 44 Sydney Ice Dogs 24 10 1 2 11 87 90 −3 34 Canberra Knights 24 4 1 1 18 60 120 −60 15 The Bears 24 1 3 0 20 66 140 −74 9 Qualified for the AIHL playoffsH Newman Reid Trophy winners Source Statistics Scoring leaders List shows the ten top skaters sorted by points, then goals. https://theaihl.com/leagues/stats_hockey.cfm?leagueID=11464&clientID=3856 Scoring Leaders Australian Ice Hockey League 23 September 2018 Player Team GP Games played G Goals A Assists Pts Points PIM Penalties in minutes POS Position Smulders Brad Smulders Gold Coast Blue Tongues 22 33 43 76 8 F Lafrenière Éric Lafrenière Newcastle North Stars 22 27 30 57 6 F Watkins Matthew Watkins Melbourne Ice 22 25 29 54 8 C Saul Adrian Saul Newcastle North Stars 22 14 37 51 28 F Halverson John Halverson Newcastle North Stars 23 31 17 48 106 D Webster Lliam Webster Melbourne Ice 22 18 28 46 79 F Kaye Steven Kaye Newcastle North Stars 17 18 27 45 30 F Selander André Selander Gold Coast Blue Tongues 20 22 18 40 93 LW Sangha Jassi Sangha Sydney Ice Dogs 20 17 20 37 87 LW Rubes Vladimir Rubes The Bears 19 16 20 36 35 F Leading goaltenders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage. https://theaihl.com/leagues/stats_hockey.cfm?leagueID=11464&clientID=3856 Goalie Leaders Australian Ice Hockey League 23 September 2018 Player Team MIP Minutes and seconds played SOG Shots on goal GA Goals against GAA Goals against average per 60 minutes SVS% Save percentage SO Shutouts Ezzy Matthew Ezzy Newcastle North Stars 928 645 71 3.68 0.890 0 Martin Olivier Martin Adelaide Adrenaline 989 604 69 3.49 0.886 0 Fiveash Luke Fiveash Gold Coast Blue Tongues 607 356 42 3.46 0.882 1 Denman Stuart Denman Melbourne Ice 965 496 65 3.37 0.869 1 Herbert James Herbert Sydney Ice Dogs 871 430 63 3.62 0.853 0 Playoffs In 2009, the Goodall Cup, celebrating 100 years of existence, had been taken back from Ice Hockey Australia (IHA) for an amateur interstate tournament and was replaced by the AIHL with the newly commissioned AIHL Champions Trophy. https://theaihl.com/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3856&leagueID=11464&page=43763 AIHL Welcomes Back Goodall Cup Australian Ice Hockey League Peter Lambert 31 March 2010 23 September 2018 The 2009 playoffs was scheduled for 29 August 2009 with Championship final held on 30 August 2009. Following the end of the regular season the top four teams advanced to the playoff series which was held at Hunter Ice Skating Stadium in Warners Bay, Newcastle, New South Wales. http://www.theaihl.com.au/leagues/custom_page.cfm?leagueID=11464&clientID=3856&pageID=3570 Australian Ice Hockey League: VIP 2009 AIHL Finals Australian Ice Hockey League 17 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091002193148/http://www.theaihl.com.au/leagues/custom_page.cfm?leagueID=11464&clientID=3856&pageID=3570 2 October 2009 dead The series was a single game elimination with the two winning semi-finalists advancing to the Championship final. The inaugural AIHL Champions Trophy was won by the Adelaide Adrenaline who defeated the Newcastle North Stars 3–2 in overtime after the two sides finished regulation time locked at 2–2. Adelaide's Cass Delsar, was named the finals most valuable player (MVP) after scoring the overtime winner. https://theaihl.com/leagues/newsletterarchive.cfm?leagueID=11464&clientID=3856 Adelaide Adrenaline are Australian Champions Australian Ice Hockey League Peter Lambert 30 August 2009 23 September 2018 In March 2010, the AIHL and IHA agreed to reinstate the Goodall Cup as the ultimate prize of the AIHL and backdated Adelaide Adrenaline's 2009 championship to the Goodall Cup (first title), etching the South Australian team's name on the cup and officially calling them the 2009 Goodall Cup champions. Semifinals Final Melbourne Ice 1 Adelaide Adrenaline 6 Newcastle North Stars 5 Gold Coast Blue Tongues 3 Adelaide Adrenaline 3 Newcastle North Stars 2 All times are UTC+10:00 Semi-finals 29 August 2009 16:30 Adelaide Adrenaline Melbourne Ice 6–1 (2–0, 3–1, 1–0) https://theaihl.com/leagues/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=3856&leagueID=11464&gameID=728515 Olivier Martin Stuart Denman 1 – 02 – 03 – 04 – 04 – 15 – 16 – 1 Mantere (Oddy) Beirnes (PP) (Keane, Thilthorpe) Beirnes (Delsar) Mantere (Oddy, Greer) Werner (PP) (Morgan, Mantere) Werner (Darge, Keane) Webster (PP) (Watkins, Seckington) Gordon Young Jason Forbes Jim McIntosh Hunter Ice Skating Stadium, Newcastle 14 26 34 25 29 August 2009 20:00 #eeffff Gold Coast Blue Tongues Newcastle North Stars 3–5 (2–2, 1–1, 0–2) https://theaihl.com/leagues/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=3856&leagueID=11464&gameID=728516 Milan Novysedlak Matthew Ezzy 0 – 10 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 23 – 33 – 43 – 5 Ivarsson (PP) (Smulders, Selander) Selander (PP) (Smulders, Upton) Smulders (SH) (Ivarsson) Kaye (PP) (Lafrenière, Saul) Halverson (SH) (Saul, Starke) Morrisson (Murrell) Kaye (Price, Saul) Kaye (Saul, Lafrenière) Jeff Scott Darren Hardy-Hawken Rick West Hunter Ice Skating Stadium, Newcastle 1000 18 14 29 39 Final 30 August 2009 16:00 Adelaide Adrenaline Newcastle North Stars 3 – 2 (OT) (2–1, 0–1, 0–0, 1–0) https://theaihl.com/leagues/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=3856&leagueID=11464&gameID=728517 Olivier Martin Matthew Ezzy 0 – 11 – 12 – 12 – 23 – 2 Morgan (PP) (Harding, Werner) Oddy (PP) (Werner) Delsar (Beirnes, Harding) Halverson (Sheffield) Halverson (PP) (Kaye, Saul) Jeff Scott Rick West Jason Forbes Hunter Ice Skating Stadium, Newcastle 950 16 18 34 17 References External links Official website of the AIHL 2009 Category:2009 in Australian men's sport Category:2009 in ice hockey