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The Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) is Australia's top-level ice hockey league. It is sanctioned and governed by Ice Hockey Australia (a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation). Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...
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AIHL players are semi-professional. Steve McKenna, former NHL player with the Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Minnesota Wild, spent the northern hemisphere summer of 2005 playing for the Adelaide Avalanche. He has since elected to return to Australia to coach the Mighty Roos in 2007. A semi-professional athlete is one who is paid money to play and thus is not an amateur, but for whom sport is not a full-time occupation, generally because the level of pay is too low to make a reasonable living based solely upon that source, thus making the...
Steve McKenna (born August 21, 1973 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenseman and a veteran of eight seasons in the NHL. Playing career After three seasons at Merrimack College, McKenna made his professional debut with the Phoenix Roadrunners of the International Hockey League in 1996. ...
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The 2006 AIHL season was the 7th season of the Australian Ice Hockey League, the 5th in which the Goodall Cup was awarded to the league champions. ...
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Teams
The Adelaide Avalanche are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League. ...
The Brisbane Blue Tongues are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League. ...
The Canberra Knights are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League. ...
The Central Coast Rhinos are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League. ...
The Melbourne Ice are the only Victorian team in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). ...
The Newcastle North Stars are a semi-professional Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) ice hockey team based in the greater Newcastle, New South Wales area in Australia. ...
The Sydney Bears are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League. ...
The Western Sydney Ice Dogs (sometimes the Western is said simply as West) are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League. ...
Trophies and awards
Goodall Cup -
The champions of the AIHL are awarded the Goodall Cup, a perpetual trophy second in age only to the Stanley Cup amongst world ice hockey trophies, however, the trophy has only been connected with the AIHL since 2002. The Goodall Cup is awarded to the best ice hockey team in Australia. ...
Stanley Cup on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame The Stanley Cup, originally called the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, is awarded each year by the National Hockey League to the champion of its playoff tournament. ...
VIP Cup The VIP Cup is awarded to the minor premiers of each season; that is, the team that finishes first overall in the standings at the end of the regular season. In several sports, a minor premiership is the (often unofficial) award given to a team which finishes first overall in the standings after the regular season prior to commencement of the playoffs. ...
Season Structure
Regular season The AIHL season commences at the beginning of April and runs for five months. Games are almost always played on Saturday or Sunday, usually in the afternoon although evening games occur at some arenas. For other uses, see April (disambiguation). ...
Teams play each of their seven opponents in the league four times for a total of 28 regular season games.
Overtime and points system The AIHL's points system, introduced in its present form in 2006, is very different to that of other ice hockey leagues around the world. 3 points are awarded for a win, and 0 points for a loss. Games that end in a tie go to a shootout, with the standings table displaying both shootout wins (SOW) and shootout losses (SOL). Shootout wins are worth 2 points, while shootout losses are worth 1 point. The shootout replaced an NHL-style five-minute overtime period which was used up to 2005. Overtime, in ice hockey, is a method of determining the winner and loser of ice hockey matches should a game be tied after regulation. ...
Playoffs For the 2000 and 2001 seasons, the AIHL champions were the team who finished first in the standings at the end of the regular season. The AIHL introduced a championship game in 2002, the first year the Goodall Cup was awarded to the league champions. In 2003, the playoffs expanded to four teams (1 v 4, 2 v 3). The semi-finals and final remain single-game series. The AIHL has not announced any plans to expand the playoffs to multiple-game series as of 2006.
League champions - 2000: Adelaide (first in standings)
- 2001: Adelaide (first in standings)
- 2002: Sydney (def. Adelaide in final)
- 2003: Newcastle (def. Western Sydney in final)
- 2004: Western Sydney (def. Newcastle in final)
- 2005: Newcastle (def. Adelaide in final) 3-1
- 2006: Newcastle (def. Adelaide in final) 4-0
The 2005 AIHL season was the 6th season of the Australian Ice Hockey League, the 4th in which the Goodall Cup was awarded to the league champions. ...
The 2006 AIHL season was the 7th season of the Australian Ice Hockey League, the 5th in which the Goodall Cup was awarded to the league champions. ...
External links - AIHL official site
- Ice Hockey Australia
- NHL.com article on Australian hockey
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