The CBR Brave are an Australian ice hockey franchise that compete in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). The Brave are based in Australia’s capital city, Canberra, and to date have played all its home games at Phillip Ice Centre since its founding in 2014.[1] In four completed seasons, the team has yet to win a Goodall Cup championship and has qualified for the AIHL finals weekend four times. As of the end of the 2017 season, the Brave have won more than 50 regular-season games, scored more than 490 regular-season goals and accumulated more than 190 regular-season points.
CBR won their first major title in 2018 by clinching the H Newman Reid Trophy by finishing first in the 2018 AIHL regular-season standings.[2]
Table Legend edit
| A | Number of assists by a player in a season |
| Finish | Final position in league standings at conclusion of regular-season |
| G | Number of goals by a player in a season |
| GA | Goals against (goals scored by the Brave's opponents) |
| GD | Goal difference (the positive, even or negative difference between goals for and goals against) |
| GF | Goals for (goals scored by the Brave) |
| Goodall Cup final | Details of Goodall Cup final matches played |
| L | Number of losses |
| OL | Number of losses in overtime/shootout |
| OW | Number of wins in overtime/shootout |
| P | Number of games played |
| PIM | Penalties in minutes (penalty minutes served by a player) |
| Pts | Number of points |
| Result | Final position in Finals weekend |
| Semi-final | Details of semi-final matches played |
| T | Number of ties |
| W | Number of wins |
Year by Year edit
| CBR Brave All-time Record | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Regular season | Finals | Top points | Top goals | Top assists | Top penalties | Goaltender | Head coach | |||||||||||||||||||||
| P | W | T | L | OW | OL | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Finish | P | W | L | GF | GA | Result | Semi Final | Goodall Cup Final | Name | Pts | Name | G | Name | A | Name | PIM | Name | Name | |
| 2014 | 28 | 14 | 1[a] | 9 | 2 | 2 | 106 | 89 | +17 | 49 | 3rd | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 6 | Semi-finalist | Lost 1-6 (Ice) | – |  S.Blunden |
68 | S.Blunden |
36 |  A.Kokkonen |
42 |  H.Byers |
111 | P.Pitkänen |
Matti Louma
|
| 2015 | 28 | 13 | – | 10 | 3 | 2 | 125 | 104 | +21 | 47 | 4th | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | 4 | Semi-finalist | Lost 3-4 (North Stars) | – | S.Blunden |
79 | S.Blunden K.Geoffrey |
28 | S.Blunden |
51 | D.Dunwoodie |
120 |  J.Unice |
Brad Hunt Josh Unice
|
| 2016 | 28 | 15 | – | 9 | 2 | 2 | 129 | 117 | +12 | 51 | 4th | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | Runner-up | Won 4-3 (Ice) | Lost 1-2 (North Stars) | G.Wudrick |
50 | S.Blunden G.Wudrick |
20 | C.Kubara |
33 | H.Byers |
108 | A.Toivonen |
Josh Unice Art Bidlevskii
|
| 2017 | 28 | 13 | – | 11 | 3 | 1 | 130 | 101 | +29 | 46 | 3rd | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | Runner-up | Won 6-2 (Thunder) | Lost 1-4 (Ice) | G.Wudrick |
54 | S.Blunden |
24 | D.Jalbert |
37 | M.Buskas |
90 | A.Toivonen |
Rob Starke
|
| 2018 | 28 | 24 | – | 4 | – | – | 152 | 74 | +78 | 72 | 1st | 2 | 2 | – | 9 | 4 | Champion | Won 5-1 (Mustangs) | Won 4-3 (OT) (Bears) | T.Gerling |
67 | T.Gerling |
24 | T.Gerling |
43 | D.Göransson |
65 | M.Hewitt |
Rob Starke
|
| 2019 | 28 | 26 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 161 | 67 | +94 | 79 | 1st | 1 | – | 1 | 4 | 6 | Semi-finalist | Lost 4-6 (Bears) | – | J.Gaberille |
67 | J.Gabrielle |
39 | W.Darge |
34 | H.Dawes |
69 | M.Climie |
Rob Starke
|
| 2020 | 2020 and 2021 AIHL seasons were cancelled and not contested | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 18 | 15 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 141 | 56 | +85 | 49 | 1st | 2 | 2 | – | 9 | 3 | Champion | Won 6-1 (Northstars) | Won 3-2 (Northstars) | C.Kubara |
52 | C.Kubara |
25 | W.Darge |
33 | J.Hughes |
51 | A.Tetreault |
Stuart Philps
|
| 2023 | 26 | 20 | – | 4 | 1 | 1 | 170 | 77 | +93 | 63 | 1st | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | Runner-up | Won 4-1 (Thunder) | Lost 0-1 (Mustangs) | A.Albrecht |
76 | A.Albrecht |
39 | F.Plouffe |
44 | M.Giorgi |
45 | A.Tetreault A.Toivonen |
Stuart Philps
|
| 2024 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Stuart Philps
|
| Totals | 212 | 140 | 1 | 50 | 11 | 10 | 1114 | 685 | +429 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 42 | 36 | |||||||||||||||
Key:
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place |
As of 1 September 2023[update]
Notes edit
- ^ CBR Brave and Adelaide Adrenaline were each awarded one point each and officially recorded a tie on 19 July 2014 despite there being no ties in the AIHL since the introduction of the shootout in 2006 due to a bus crash involving the travelling Adelaide players and staff en route to Canberra.[3][4]
References edit
- ^ Gaskin, Lee (14 March 2014). "Canberra Knights become CBR Brave in ice hockey league". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ Tiernan, Eamonn (5 August 2018). "Canberra Brave secure AIHL minor premiership with five games to spare". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ McIlroy, Tom (19 July 2014). "Adelaide Adrenaline team bus crashes forcing Canberra ice hockey game to be cancelled". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- ^ Mooney, Harrison (1 August 2014). "Australian hockey's CBR Brave upset after game for first place canceled due to bus crash". www.yahoo.com. Retrieved 24 August 2015.