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2017 CBR Brave
League	3rd AIHL
2017 record	13–3–1–11
Home record	6–1–1–6
Road record	7–2–0–5
Goals for	130
Goals against	101
Team information
Coach	Robert Starke
Assistant coach	David Rogina
Captain	Mark Rummukainen
Alternate captains	Jan Safar Jordan Gavin
Arena	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
Team leaders
Goals	Stephen Blunden (24)
Assists	Dominic Jalbert (37)
Points	Geordie Wudrick (54)
Penalty minutes	Matt Buskas (90)
Goals against average	Aleksi Toivonen (4.10)
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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. 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. The Brave were defeated in the final by the Ice 1–4, Canberra's second championship final loss in a row.

News

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.

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.

Roster

Team roster for the 2017 AIHL season

2017 AIHL CBR Brave Roster
#	Name	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
42	Brian Bales	C	L	39	2017	Anchorage, Alaska, United States
	Corey Banks	F	L	27	2017	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
73	Stephen Blunden	LW	L	35	2014	Gloucester, Ontario, Canada
21	Jordan Brunt	F	L	25	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	42	2014	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
81	Matthew Harvey	D	R	39	2014	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
18	Mitchell Henning	F	R	27	2016	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
71	Dominic Jalbert	D	L	35	2017	Hull, Québec, Canada
7	Bayley Kubara	D	R	26	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	30	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	33	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	37	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

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

In

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

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

Staff Roster for 2017 AIHL season

**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

Regular season

Summary

Season	Overall										Home								Away
Season	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

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Position	1	2	2	2	5	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3

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

Summary

Season	Finals weekend
Season	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

Regular season

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Arena	A	A	A	A	H	H	A	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	H	H	A	A	A	A
Result	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	L	L

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
23 April	16:00	CBR Brave	4–3 (SO)	Melbourne Mustangs	O'Brien Group Arena
30 April	17:00	CBR Brave	5–4 (SO)	Newcastle Northstars	Hunter Ice Skating Stadium
6 May	17:00	CBR Brave	1–3	Sydney Bears	Macquarie Ice Rink
7 May	17:00	Newcastle Northstars	6–5 (SO)	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
13 May	17:30	Newcastle Northstars	3–4	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
27 May	17:00	CBR Brave	4–1	Sydney Ice Dogs	Macquarie Ice Rink
28 May	17:00	Sydney Ice Dogs	2–4	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
10 June	17:30	Adelaide Adrenaline	3–8	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
11 June	17:00	Adelaide Adrenaline	8–5	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
17 June	17:30	Sydney Bears	3–13	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
24 June	17:30	Sydney Bears	1–7	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
1 July	17:30	Melbourne Mustangs	5–3	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
2 July	17:00	Melbourne Mustangs	5–6 (SO)	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
8 July	16:30	CBR Brave	2–4	Perth Thunder	Perth Ice Arena
9 July	16:30	CBR Brave	0–5	Perth Thunder	Perth Ice Arena
15 July	17:30	Perth Thunder	3–2	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
16 July	17:00	Perth Thunder	3–1	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
22 July	16:30	CBR Brave	10–5	Adelaide Adrenaline	Adelaide Ice Arena
23 July	16:30	CBR Brave	4–1	Adelaide Adrenaline	Adelaide Ice Arena
29 July	17:00	CBR Brave	7–4	Sydney Bears	Macquarie Ice Rink
5 August	17:30	Sydney Ice Dogs	4–2	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
12 August	17:00	Melbourne Ice	5–8	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
13 August	17:00	Melbourne Ice	6–3	CBR Brave	Phillip Ice Skating Centre
19 August	17:00	CBR Brave	8–1	Newcastle Northstars	Hunter Ice Skating Stadium
20 August	17:00	CBR Brave	6–1	Sydney Ice Dogs	Macquarie Ice Rink
26 August	17:00	CBR Brave	2–5	Melbourne Ice	O'Brien Group Arena
27 August	16:00	CBR Brave	2–5	Melbourne Ice	O'Brien Group Arena

Finals

Goodall Cup semi-final

2 September 2017
18:00

CBR Brave

6–2
(0–0, 2–1, 4–1)

Perth Thunder

O'Brien Group Arena

Game reference

Aleksi Toivonen

Goalies

Peter Di Salvo

Referees:
Kent Unwin
Jeff Scott
Linesmen:
Casper Russelhuber
Stephen De Witt

15:55 – Blunden (Bales, Wudrick)	1 – 0
	1 – 1	16:50 – Ouellet (Bernard, Kudla)
21:20 – Bales (PP) (Wudrick, Darge)	2 – 1
	2 – 2	30:26 – 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 min

Penalties

30 min

Shots

Goodall Cup final

3 September 2017
15:00

CBR Brave

1–4
(0–1, 1–1, 0–2)

Melbourne Ice

O'Brien Group Arena
Attendance: 1500

Game reference

Aleksi Toivonen

Goalies

Dayne Davis

Referees:
Jeff Scott
Kent Unwin
Linesmen:
Steve Setka
Casper Russelhuber

	0 – 1	6:49 – Wong (Baclig, Carpenter)
22:37 – Blunden (Jalbert)	1 – 1
	1 – 2	29:24 – Ottosson (Brown, Dahlberg)
	1 – 3	32:18 – Ottosson (Powell, Brown)
	1 – 4	41:00 – Armstrong (Gibbs Sjödin)

8 min

Penalties

8 min

Shots

Player statistics

Skaters

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

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

Team awards for 2017 season

**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

**2017 AIHL awards**
Award	Recipient
Rookie of the Year	Bayley Kubara

References

"2017 AIHL season: Round 18". icehockeynewsaustralia.com. August 26, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
Miles, Lucas (September 2, 2017). "Thunder's Goodall Cup hopes dashed by Brave". theaihl.com. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
Mann, Mitch (September 3, 2017). "Melbourne Ice 2017 AIHL Champions". theaihl.com. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
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.
Tiernan, Eamonn (September 3, 2017). "Heartbreak again for Canberra Brave in Australian Ice Hockey League championship game". The Canberra Times. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
"2017 CBR Brave Team Roster". Elite Prospects. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
"CBR Brave Coaching Staff". www.theaihl.com. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
"CBR Brave 2017 awards night". www.icehockeynewsaustralia.com. August 18, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
"2017 AIHL Award Winners". www.theaihl.com. September 7, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2020.

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Founded in 2014 Based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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Personnel	Owner(s) Cruachan Investments (Stephen Campbell) General manager Jordan Gavin Chief operating office Steve Moeller Head coach Stuart Philps Team captain Kai Miettinen Current roster (Former rosters)
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