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2017 CBR Brave season

The 2017 CBR Brave season was the Brave's 4th season in the Australian Ice Hockey League since being founded and entering the league in 2014. The season ran from 22 April 2017 to 3 September 2017 for the Brave. CBR finished third in the regular season behind the Melbourne Ice and Perth Thunder.[1] The Brave qualified for the AIHL Finals in Melbourne and played in semi-final two. Canberra defeated the Thunder 6–2 to qualify for the Goodall Cup Final for the second time in franchise history.[2] The Brave were defeated in the final by the Ice 1–4, Canberra's second championship final loss in a row.[3]

2017 CBR Brave
League3rd AIHL
2017 record13–3–1–11
Home record6–1–1–6
Road record7–2–0–5
Goals for130
Goals against101
Team information
CoachAustralia Robert Starke
Assistant coachUnited States David Rogina
CaptainAustralia Mark Rummukainen
Alternate captainsCzech Republic Jan Safar
Australia Jordan Gavin
ArenaPhillip Ice Skating Centre
Team leaders
GoalsCanada Stephen Blunden (24)
AssistsCanada Dominic Jalbert (37)
PointsCanada Geordie Wudrick (54)
Penalty minutesCanada Matt Buskas (90)
Goals against averageAustralia Aleksi Toivonen (4.10)

News edit

Canberra appointed a new head coach, Rob Starke, in January 2017 ahead of the 2017 AIHL season. The appointment was the Starke's first coaching role since his retirement from playing in 2016.[4]

The day after the end of the season, Brave all-time leading point scorer, Stephen Blunden, announced his departure from the team and return to Canada.[5]

Roster edit

Team roster for the 2017 AIHL season[6]

2017 AIHL CBR Brave Roster
# Nat Name Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
42   Brian Bales C L 39 2017 Anchorage, Alaska, United States
  Corey Banks F L 26 2017 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
73   Stephen Blunden LW L 35 2014 Gloucester, Ontario, Canada
21   Jordan Brunt F L 24 2015 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
25   Matt Buskas D R 39–40 2017 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
17   James Byers D R 30 2014 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
9   Wehebe Darge LW/RW L 32 2017 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
38   Nickolas Eckhardt G L 34 2014 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
19   Jordan Gavin (A) F R 41 2014 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
81   Matthew Harvey D R 38 2014 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
18   Mitchell Henning F R 26 2016 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
71   Dominic Jalbert D L 34 2017 Hull, Québec, Canada
7   Bayley Kubara D R 25 2017 Wombarra, New South Wales, Australia
15   Casey Kubara RW R 28 2016 Wombarra, New South Wales, Australia
85   Toby Kubara F L 33 2017 Wombarra, New South Wales, Australia
16   Tyler Kubara F R 29 2015 Wombarra, New South Wales, Australia
77   Tom Letki F R 35 2014 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
13   Matti Luoma F R 44 2016 Helsinki, Finland
14   Christopher McPhail D/F L 32 2017 New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
64   Kai Miettinen F L 28 2014 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
13   Luke Philps F R 41 2016 Australia
12   Mark Rummukainen (C) D R 42 2014 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
24   Jan Safar (A) D R 36 2016 Praha, Czech Republic
35   Alexandre Tetreault G L 25–26 2015 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
20   Aleksi Toivonen G L 28 2015 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
88   Geordie Wudrick LW L 34 2016 Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Transfers edit

All the player transfers in and out by the CBR Brave for the 2017 AIHL season.

In edit

Pos Player Transferred From Local / Import
C   Brian Bales No team Local
F   Corey Banks No team Local
D   Matt Buskas No team Import
W   Wehebe Darge   Adelaide Adrenaline Local
D   Dominic Jalbert   Pionniers De Chamonix-Morzine Import
D   Bayley Kubara   Sydney Ice Dogs Local
F   Toby Kubara No team Local
F   Christopher McPhail No team Local

Out edit

Pos Player Transferred To Local / Import
D   Art Bidlevskii No team Import
D   Zachary Boyle   Adelaide Adrenaline Local
W   Nicola Brandi   SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers Import
C   Harrison Byers No team Local
D   Timothy Cox No team Local
F   Matthew Gilpin No team Local
W   Mathieu Guertin   Trois-Rivières Blizzard Import
F   Ryan Johnson Retired Local
D   Luke Moore No team Local
C   Neal Prokop No team Import

Staff edit

Staff Roster for 2017 AIHL season[7]

2017 AIHL CBR Brave Staff
Role Staff
Head coach   Robert Starke
Assistant coach   David Rogina
Strength and conditioning coach   Stuart Philps
Physiotherapist   Sportstec
Equipment manager   Adrian Miller
Bench official   Darren Sault
Bench official   Kelly Sault

Standings edit

Regular season edit

Summary

Season Overall Home Away
P W L OW OL GF GA GD Pts Finish P W L OW OL GF GA GD P W L OW OL GF GA GD
2017 28 13 11 3 1 130 101 +29 46 3rd 14 6 6 1 1 71 57 +14 14 7 5 2 0 59 44 +15

Position by round

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Updated to match(es) played on Completed. Source: www.icehockeynewsaustralia.com

League table

Team GP W SOW SOL L GF GA GDF PTS
Melbourne Ice 28 22 2 1 3 132 75 +57 71
Perth Thunder 28 16 3 3 6 110 75 +35 57
CBR Brave 28 13 3 1 11 130 101 +29 46
Melbourne Mustangs 28 11 2 3 12 104 113 −9 40
Sydney Ice Dogs 28 12 0 0 16 73 81 −8 36
Sydney Bears 28 8 3 3 14 101 121 −20 33
Newcastle Northstars 28 7 3 3 15 97 124 −27 30
Adelaide Adrenaline 28 6 1 3 18 85 142 −57 23
Qualified for the Goodall Cup playoffs H Newman Reid Trophy winners

Source

Finals edit

Summary

Season Finals weekend
P W L GF GA Result Semi-final Goodall Cup final
2017 2 1 1 7 6 Runners-up Won 6-2 (Thunder) Lost 1-4 (Ice)

Bracket

Semi-finals Final
      
1 Melbourne Ice 4
4 Melbourne Mustangs 2
Melbourne Ice 4
CBR Brave 1
3 CBR Brave 6
2 Perth Thunder 2

Schedule & results edit

Regular season edit

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Updated to match(es) played on Completed. Source: AIHL
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; L = Loss
2017 fixtures and results
Date Time Away Score Home Location Recap
22 April 17:00 CBR Brave 4–2 Melbourne Mustangs O'Brien Group Arena [1]
23 April 16:00 CBR Brave 4–3 (SO) Melbourne Mustangs O'Brien Group Arena [2]
30 April 17:00 CBR Brave 5–4 (SO) Newcastle Northstars Hunter Ice Skating Stadium [3]
6 May 17:00 CBR Brave 1–3 Sydney Bears Macquarie Ice Rink [4]
7 May 17:00 Newcastle Northstars 6–5 (SO) CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [5]
13 May 17:30 Newcastle Northstars 3–4 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [6]
27 May 17:00 CBR Brave 4–1 Sydney Ice Dogs Macquarie Ice Rink [7]
28 May 17:00 Sydney Ice Dogs 2–4 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [8]
10 June 17:30 Adelaide Adrenaline 3–8 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [9]
11 June 17:00 Adelaide Adrenaline 8–5 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [10]
17 June 17:30 Sydney Bears 3–13 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [11]
24 June 17:30 Sydney Bears 1–7 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [12]
1 July 17:30 Melbourne Mustangs 5–3 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [13]
2 July 17:00 Melbourne Mustangs 5–6 (SO) CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [14]
8 July 16:30 CBR Brave 2–4 Perth Thunder Perth Ice Arena [15]
9 July 16:30 CBR Brave 0–5 Perth Thunder Perth Ice Arena [16]
15 July 17:30 Perth Thunder 3–2 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [17]
16 July 17:00 Perth Thunder 3–1 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [18]
22 July 16:30 CBR Brave 10–5 Adelaide Adrenaline Adelaide Ice Arena [19]
23 July 16:30 CBR Brave 4–1 Adelaide Adrenaline Adelaide Ice Arena [20]
29 July 17:00 CBR Brave 7–4 Sydney Bears Macquarie Ice Rink [21]
5 August 17:30 Sydney Ice Dogs 4–2 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [22]
12 August 17:00 Melbourne Ice 5–8 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [23]
13 August 17:00 Melbourne Ice 6–3 CBR Brave Phillip Ice Skating Centre [24]
19 August 17:00 CBR Brave 8–1 Newcastle Northstars Hunter Ice Skating Stadium [25]
20 August 17:00 CBR Brave 6–1 Sydney Ice Dogs Macquarie Ice Rink [26]
26 August 17:00 CBR Brave 2–5 Melbourne Ice O'Brien Group Arena [27]
27 August 16:00 CBR Brave 2–5 Melbourne Ice O'Brien Group Arena [28]

Finals edit

Goodall Cup semi-final

2 September 2017
18:00		CBR Brave6–2
(0–0, 2–1, 4–1)		Perth ThunderO'Brien Group Arena
Game reference
Aleksi ToivonenGoaliesPeter Di SalvoReferees:
Kent Unwin
Jeff Scott
Linesmen:
Casper Russelhuber
Stephen De Witt
15:55 – Blunden (Bales, Wudrick)1 – 0
1 – 116:50 – Ouellet (Bernard, Kudla)
21:20 – Bales (PP) (Wudrick, Darge)2 – 1
2 – 230:26 – Bernard (PP) (Breault, Göransson)
32:25 – Jalbert (Blunden, Darge)3 – 2
33:51 – Safar (PP) (Darge, Jalbert)4 – 2
41:55 – Blunden (PP) (Darge, Jalbert)5 – 2
48:10 – Wudrick (EN) (Jalbert, Safar)6 – 2
12 minPenalties30 min
34Shots22

Goodall Cup final

3 September 2017
15:00		CBR Brave1–4
(0–1, 1–1, 0–2)		Melbourne IceO'Brien Group Arena
Attendance: 1500
Game reference
Aleksi ToivonenGoaliesDayne DavisReferees:
Jeff Scott
Kent Unwin
Linesmen:
Steve Setka
Casper Russelhuber
0 – 16:49 – Wong (Baclig, Carpenter)
22:37 – Blunden (Jalbert)1 – 1
1 – 229:24 – Ottosson (Brown, Dahlberg)
1 – 332:18 – Ottosson (Powell, Brown)
1 – 441:00 – Armstrong (Gibbs Sjödin)
8 minPenalties8 min
21Shots28

Player statistics edit

Skaters edit

Regular season
Nat Player Pos M G A P PIM
  Brian Bales F 21 10 30 40 8
  Corey Banks F 1 0 0 0 2
  Stephen Blunden F 16 24 22 46 16
  Jordan Brunt F 23 0 1 1 0
  Matt Buskas D 22 1 3 4 90
  James Byers D 27 0 4 4 24
  Wehebe Darge F 18 12 15 27 28
  Jordan Gavin F 16 0 2 2 10
  Matthew Harvey D 27 9 9 18 51
  Mitchell Henning F 16 1 0 1 2
  Dominic Jalbert D 28 16 37 53 72
  Bayley Kubara D 25 0 1 1 16
  Casey Kubara F 26 8 16 24 12
  Toby Kubara F 17 0 0 0 4
  Tyler Kubara F 20 8 2 10 14
  Tom Letki F 1 0 0 0 0
  Matti Luoma F 3 1 1 2 0
  Christopher McPhail D 25 4 3 7 0
  Kai Miettinen F 28 2 9 11 38
  Luke Philps F 3 1 0 1 2
  Mark Rummukainen D 24 2 4 6 10
  Jan Safar D 27 8 34 42 63
  Geordie Wudrick F 25 20 34 54 28
Finals
Nat Player Pos M G A P PIM
  Brian Bales F 2 1 1 2 2
  Corey Banks F 0 0 0 0 0
  Stephen Blunden F 2 3 1 4 4
  Jordan Brunt F 0 0 0 0 0
  Matt Buskas D 1 0 0 0 0
  James Byers D 2 0 0 0 0
  Wehebe Darge F 2 0 4 4 0
  Jordan Gavin F 1 0 0 0 2
  Matthew Harvey D 2 0 0 0 0
  Mitchell Henning F 0 0 0 0 0
  Dominic Jalbert D 2 1 4 5 0
  Bayley Kubara D 2 0 0 0 0
  Casey Kubara F 0 0 0 0 0
  Toby Kubara F 1 0 0 0 0
  Tyler Kubara F 0 0 0 0 0
  Tom Letki F 0 0 0 0 0
  Matti Luoma F 0 0 0 0 0
  Christopher McPhail D 2 0 0 0 0
  Kai Miettinen F 2 0 0 0 0
  Luke Philps F 0 0 0 0 0
  Mark Rummukainen D 0 0 0 0 0
  Jan Safar D 2 1 1 2 6
  Geordie Wudrick F 2 1 2 3 6

Goaltenders edit

Regular season
Nat Player Pos M G A PIM SO MP GA GAA SA SV SV%
  Nickolas Eckhardt G –
  Alexandre Tetreault G 6 0 0 2 0 235 19 4.85 125 106 0.848
  Aleksi Toivonen G 24 0 1 0 0 1128 77 4.10 611 534 0.874
Finals
Nat Player Pos M G A PIM SO MP GA GAA SA SV SV%
  Nickolas Eckhardt G –
  Alexandre Tetreault G –
  Aleksi Toivonen G 2 0 0 0 0 100 6 3.60 50 44 0.880

Awards edit

Team awards for 2017 season[8]

2017 Brave awards
Award Recipient
Bravest of the Brave   Stephen Blunden
Best Forward   Stephen Blunden
Best Defenceman   Dominic Jalbert
Fans Choice   Jan Safar
Player’s Choice   Dominic Jalbert
Coach’s Award   Matt Harvey
Emerging Brave   Bayley Kubara
John Lewis Memorial Award   Krisy Maricic
  Bede Riley

AIHL awards for 2017 season[9]

2017 AIHL awards
Award Recipient
Rookie of the Year   Bayley Kubara

References edit

  1. ^ "2017 AIHL season: Round 18". icehockeynewsaustralia.com. August 26, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Miles, Lucas (September 2, 2017). "Thunder's Goodall Cup hopes dashed by Brave". theaihl.com. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  3. ^ Mann, Mitch (September 3, 2017). "Melbourne Ice 2017 AIHL Champions". theaihl.com. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  4. ^ Koop, Geoff (January 23, 2017). "Starke reality – new CBR Brave coach to inspire a 'brave style' of hockey". brave.theaihl.com. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  5. ^ Tiernan, Eamonn (September 3, 2017). "Heartbreak again for Canberra Brave in Australian Ice Hockey League championship game". The Canberra Times. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  6. ^ "2017 CBR Brave Team Roster". Elite Prospects. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  7. ^ "CBR Brave Coaching Staff". www.theaihl.com. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  8. ^ "CBR Brave 2017 awards night". www.icehockeynewsaustralia.com. August 18, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  9. ^ "2017 AIHL Award Winners". www.theaihl.com. September 7, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
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