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2009 AIHL season

Field	Value
title	2009 AIHL season
league	Australian Ice Hockey League
sport	Ice hockey
color	black
color_text	white
duration	25 April 2009 – 30 August 2009
season	Regular season
season_champ_name	H Newman Reid Trophy
season_champs	Newcastle North Stars
(2nd title)
MVP	Brad Smulders
(Blue Tongues)
top_scorer	Brad Smulders (76 points)
(Blue Tongues)
finals	Goodall Cup
finals_link	Goodall Cup
finals_champ	Adelaide Adrenaline
finals_runner-up	Newcastle North Stars
finals_MVP	Cass Delsar (Adrenaline)
nextseason_year	[2010](2010-aihl-season)
prevseason_year	[2008](2008-aihl-season)
seasonslistnames	AIHL

(2nd title) (Blue Tongues) (Blue Tongues) | finals_runner-up = Newcastle North Stars

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. 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 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 's Catholic Club's ice rink after their former home at 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

Note: "SO" indicates that a game was won through a shootout. Games schedule sourced from the AIHL.

Standings

Team	GP	W	SOW	SOL	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
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 playoffs	H Newman Reid Trophy winners

Source

Statistics

Scoring leaders

List shows the ten top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	POS
Gold Coast Blue Tongues	22	33	43	76	8	F
Newcastle North Stars	22	27	30	57	6	F
Melbourne Ice	22	25	29	54	8	C
Newcastle North Stars	22	14	37	51	28	F
Newcastle North Stars	23	31	17	48	106	D
Melbourne Ice	22	18	28	46	79	F
Newcastle North Stars	17	18	27	45	30	F
Gold Coast Blue Tongues	20	22	18	40	93	LW
Sydney Ice Dogs	20	17	20	37	87	LW
The Bears	19	16	20	36	35	F

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage.

Team	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Newcastle North Stars	928	645	71	3.68	0.890	0
Adelaide Adrenaline	989	604	69	3.49	0.886	0
Gold Coast Blue Tongues	607	356	42	3.46	0.882	1
Melbourne Ice	965	496	65	3.37	0.869	1
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.

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. 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.

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.

All times are UTC+10:00

Semi-finals

2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 4 – 1 5 – 1 6 – 1 Beirnes (PP) (Keane, Thilthorpe) Beirnes (Delsar) Mantere (Oddy, Greer) Werner (PP) (Morgan, Mantere) Werner (Darge, Keane) 0 – 2 1 – 2 2 – 2 3 – 2 3 – 3 3 – 4 3 – 5 Selander (PP) (Smulders, Upton) Smulders (SH) (Ivarsson) Halverson (SH) (Saul, Starke) Morrisson (Murrell) Kaye (Price, Saul) Kaye (Saul, Lafrenière)

Final

1 – 1 2 – 1 2 – 2 3 – 2 Oddy (PP) (Werner) Delsar (Beirnes, Harding) Halverson (PP) (Kaye, Saul)

References

"AIHL releases 2009 schedule". [[Australian Ice Hockey League.
"Same teams new identity". [[Australian Ice Hockey League.
"2009AIHL". [[Australian Ice Hockey League.
"Scoring Leaders". [[Australian Ice Hockey League]].
"Goalie Leaders". [[Australian Ice Hockey League]].
Lambert, Peter. (31 March 2010). "AIHL Welcomes Back Goodall Cup". [[Australian Ice Hockey League]].
"Australian Ice Hockey League: VIP 2009 AIHL Finals". [[Australian Ice Hockey League]].
Lambert, Peter. (30 August 2009). "Adelaide Adrenaline are Australian Champions". [[Australian Ice Hockey League]].

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