2003 AIHL season

2003 AIHL season
League Australian Ice Hockey League
Sport Ice hockey
Regular season
Champions Newcastle North Stars
Top scorer Pavel Shtefan
Goodall Cup
Champions Newcastle North Stars
  Runners-up West Sydney Ice Dogs

The 2002 AIHL season is the fourth season of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL).

Regular season

Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
Newcastle Northstars 6 6 0 0 47 17 30 12
Adelaide Avalanche1 7 7 0 0 43 16 27 14
West Sydney Ice Dogs1 7 4 0 2 38 24 8 8
Melbourne Ice 6 2 0 4 20 32 –12 4
Sydney Bears 6 1 0 5 23 34 –11 2
Canberra Knights 8 0 0 8 16 64 –48 0
1 Both teams played a double points game, won by Adelaide, which resulted their games played being recorded as seven.

Playoffs

The playoffs were held at Sydney's Glaciarium. Newcastle defeated the West Sydney 4–1 in the final to win their first championship and the Goodall Cup.

Statistics

Scoring leaders

List shows the ten top skaters sorted by points, then goals.[1]

Player Team GP G A Pts PIM POS
Pavel Shtefan Newcastle North Stars 6 8 11 19 2
Daryl Bat Newcastle North Stars 6 10 7 17 8
Greg Oddy Adelaide Avalanche 6 10 7 17 10 F
Jake Ludvig Newcastle North Stars 6 8 7 15 2
Vladimir Rubes Sydney Bears 4 5 9 14 0 F
Chris Sekura West Sydney Ice Dogs 6 2 10 12 31 F
Dylan Martini Adelaide Avalanche 6 1 11 12 12 D
Phillipe Roussell West Sydney Ice Dogs 6 8 3 11 22 F
Murray Wand Sydney Bears 6 5 5 10 8 F
Trevor Walsh Adelaide Avalanche 5 4 6 10 31 F

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage.[1]

Player Team MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Bill Benedictson Adelaide Avalanche 135:00 70 6 2.00 91.43 0
Eric Lein Adelaide Avalanche 135:00 70 7 2.33 90.00 0
Trevor Battaglia Newcastle North Stars 270:00 166 17 2.83 89.76 0
Alan Becken West Sydney Ice Dogs 224:10 132 16 3.21 87.88 1
Stuart Denman Melbourne Ice 135:00 89 15 5.00 83.15 0

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "2003 AIHL Statistics". Ice Hockey Australia. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2010-04-09.

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