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HELLYER LADDER

Team	GP	W	L	PTS
Ice	4	4	0	12
Thunder	6	4	2	12
Bears	4	3	1	9
Mustangs	2	1	1	3
Ice Dogs	5	1	4	3

RURAK LADDER

Team	GP	W	L	OTW	OTL	PTS
Northstars	4	3	0	1	0	11
Lightning	6	3	3	0	0	9
Adrenaline	3	1	1	0	1	4
Brave	6	1	5	0	0	3
Rhinos	4	0	4	0	0	0

SCORING LEADERS

Jeremiah
Addison (PER)

Player	Points
Aiden Wagner (NNS)	18
Wehebe Darge (NNS)	15
francis Drolet (NNS)	15
Zane Jones (PER)	13

GOALIE LEADERS

N Novysedlak (BRE)

1.000

Goalie	SV%
Rhys Pelliccione (PER)	.950
Tatsunoshin Ishida (MIC)	.933
Leo Bertein (PER)	.905
Charles Smart (NNS)	.903

The Breakdown: Week 5

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - Submitted by Shane Miles

Old habits die hard as the away teams stunned home teams, winning six of the seven matches over the latest weekend of the AIHL. The competitiveness of the league has been fantastic in 2014 and this weekend was no exception. Six of the seven matches were decided by two or less goals and seven of the eight teams in the league managed to accrue at least one competition point.

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Bears 4 def. Thunder 3 (shootout)
This was the Bears first win against the Thunder in six matches

The Thunder have now been defeated in four of their past six shootouts

Dane Ludolph assisted all three of the Bears regular time goals to bring his season tally to 7

This was the first time the Bears had won consecutive away games since July 15^th, 2010

Perth Thunder average just 1.5 goals per game this season, the least of any team, while goalkeeper Mathieu Dugas has the second highest save percentage (.938%) in the league

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North Stars 5 def. Ice Dogs 3
This was the first time the North Stars and Ice Dogs met since the 2013 Grand Final

More than half of the goals Newcastle have scored this season came in this game

This was the Ice Dogs first loss on home ice in six matches

The North Stars successfully killed six of six Ice Dogs power plays whilst scoring thrice with the man advantage

This was the most goals scored on home ice by the North Stars in five games

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Ice 5 def. Mustangs 3
Jason Baclig leads the league with six power play assists

Jamie Bourke scored his 50^th AIHL goal and will next weekend play his 100^th AIHL game

Of the eight goals scored in this match, none of them were by special teams despite there being nine power plays called

This was the first home loss for the Mustangs in their last four matches

The Ice have won five of the last six Melbourne Derbies

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Adrenaline 5 def. Brave 2
The Adrenaline scored a goal from every four shots in their second period to surge

The Adrenaline had taken competition points from five consecutive games

This was the most goals the Brave have conceded in a single game

The Adrenaline have scored 5+ goals in six of their last eight games on the road

Niko Suoraniemi scored two goals and an assist to double his points tally for the season

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Bears 3 def. Thunder 2
The Sydney Bears now have the best win percentage of any team in AIHL 2014

The Bears are undefeated in regular time in their last 5 games, their longest streak since 2010

Three of the Bears five games in 2014 have been decided by just one point

The Thunder lost only 5 home games last season while they have already lost 3 in 2014

Sean Hamilton Steen scored a four goals over the weekend to bring his season tally to six, the second most of any player in the league

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Ice Dogs 10 def. Adrenaline 4
The 10 goal haul lifts the Ice Dogs to 1144 AIHL goals scored, two more than cross-town rivals Bears

The Ice Dogs are the first team to score 10+ goals this season and the first since the Mustangs scored 10 against the Bears on July 28^th last year and the first time since August 21, 2010 since the Ice Dogs have scored 10 goals in a match

This was the first time the Adelaide Adrenaline had ever conceded 10 goals in a match

Simon Barg, Robert Malloy, and David Dunwoodie lead the league with 15 points each with John Clewlow in fourth at 11 with Clewlow claiming four goals, the second time an Ice Dog has scored four goals in a game this season (Barg against the Melbourne Ice)

The Adrenaline's David Chubb scored a hat trick on a losing team, the first time this has happened since last season's Grand Final when Dominic Osman scored a hat trick for the Newcastle North Stars

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Brave 4 def. North Stars 2
In their first away match, the Brave quelled last year’s runners-up to earn their first ever victory on the road

This was the first time in three home matches that the North Stars have managed to score a goal

The Brave have scored 33% more goals than the Knights had at this time last season

The Brave outshot the North Stars 13-3 in a game-defining second period, scoring 3 goals in the process

North Stars forward John Kennedy scored his third goal of the season, already equally his season tally from 2013

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