The 2017–18 AWIHL season is the 11th season of the Australian Women's Ice Hockey League (AWIHL). It ran from 28 October 2017 until 18 March 2018. Four teams competed in 24 regular season games followed by 4 playoff games, making up the AWIHL Finals weekend. The Sydney Sirens claimed the premiership title for finishing top of the regular season standings, while the Melbourne Ice claimed the Joan McKowen Memorial Trophy championship title by winning the grand final. Melbourne finished runner-up in the season standings while Sydney lost the grand final. Adelaide Rush came last in the regular season and claimed the wooden spoon.

Teams

In 2017–18 the AWIHL had four teams from four Australian state capital cities competing, stretching across the east coast and southern Australian mainland.^[1] Perth Inferno was added as an exhibition team only for the 2017–18 season, as they looked to meet criteria set down by the AWIHL Commission to be granted a full licence for 2018–19.^[2]

2017–18 AWIHL teams

Team	City	Arena	Head Coach	Captain
Adelaide Rush	Adelaide	IceArenA	Josef Rezek	Ashley Pelkey
Brisbane Goannas	Brisbane	Boondall Iceworld	Terry Kiliwnik	Veronica Watson
Melbourne Ice	Melbourne	O'Brien Icehouse	Marcus Wong	Shona Powell
Sydney Sirens	Sydney	Macquarie Ice Rink	Troy Morgan	Amelia Matheson
Exhibition teams
Perth Inferno	Perth	Cockburn Ice Arena	Paul Graham

League Business

The official AWIHL gameday schedule was released at the start of September 2017. The season structure remained unchanged from 2016-17, each team competing in a four game series against each other team, playing two games at home and two games away.^[3] Looking to become the first AWIHL expansion team, Perth Inferno, was admitted to the league on a provisional licence to play two exhibition games against the Sydney Sirens.^[4] The first of these two exhibition games, at Canterbury Olympic Ice Rink, was to be live streamed by Thought Fox Media Group with commentary by Eric Brookes.^[5] Ahead of the season, the AWIHL announced the continuation of their sponsorship agreement with Skaters Network in November 2017. The agreement would continue the company’s status as preferred equipment supplier to the AWIHL and the naming rights holder for the player of the month award.^[6] Ice Hockey Australia also announced the establishment and go-live of the league's new website, hosted on the Ice Hockey Australia's website, it contains separate pages for each team, news, history and is linked to the eSportsdesk website that contains all information on games, players, scores and stats.^[7] Every AWIHL game of the 2017-18 season would be live streamed on the new website.^[8] In December 2017, AWIHL commissioner, Melissa Rulli, announced the league had secured a event assistance grant under the Victorian Government's Significant Sporting Events Program, to host the AWIHL Finals weekend in Melbourne at O'Brien Group Arena.^[9]

Regular season

Fixtures and results

Running between 28 October 2017 and 4 March 2018, the AWIHL regular season consisted of 24 games in total, with teams playing 12 games each, 4 games (2 home and 2 away) against each opponent.^[3] There additionally was two exhibition games scheduled for Sydney in February 2018 between the Sydney Sirens and prospective expansion side Perth Inferno.^[4] The Sirens won both games comfortably against the exhibition Perth team, scoring sixteen goals and conceding five.^[10]

October

November

December

January

Februaryedit

Marchedit

Standingsedit

Player statsedit

The season's league leader statistics for skaters and goaltenders.^[11][12]

Goals No. Name Pos G 1 Stephenie Cochrane Forward 15 2 Jessica Pinkerton Forward 14 3 Sharna Godfrey Forward 11 4 Christina Julien Forward 11 5 Natalie Ayris Forward 11

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