{"id":840055,"date":"2026-08-02T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840055\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:35:11","slug":"2026-aihl-season-2-august-results-and-standings-ice-hockey-news-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840055\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 AIHL season: 2 August results and standings \u2013 Ice Hockey News Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thumbnail-AIHL-003.png\" alt=\"Ice Hockey News Australia Australian Ice Hockey League featured image thumbnail\" title=\"Thumbnail - AIHL-003\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Day 41 of the 2026 Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) regular season has finished with wins for Adelaide Adrenaline, Canberra Brave, Newcastle Northstars, and the Sydney Bears. With their win, the Newcastle Northstars become the first team to qualify for the 2026 Goodall Cup playoffs. The Newcastle Northstars also continue to lead the standings, three points ahead of the second-placed Melbourne Mustangs. Competition resumes on 8 August with games in Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, and Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>ResultsCentral Coast Rhinos3\u20136Canberra BraveSOG: 26(2\u20133, 0\u20132, 1\u20131)SOG: 44\u2013 Game details: 14:00, 2 August 2026, AIS Arena. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaihl.com\/leagues\/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=3856&amp;leagueID=11464&amp;gameID=2473521\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game card<\/a>.Sydney Bears6\u20132Melbourne IceSOG: 36(1\u20130, 2\u20130, 3\u20132)SOG: 54\u2013 Game details: 14:00, 2 August 2026, O\u2019Brien Icehouse. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaihl.com\/leagues\/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=3856&amp;leagueID=11464&amp;gameID=2473527\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game card<\/a>.Perth Thunder3\u20134Newcastle NorthstarsSOG: 34(1\u20130, 0\u20131, 2\u20133)SOG: 45\u2013 Game details: 16:00, 2 August 2026, Hunter Ice Skating Stadium. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaihl.com\/leagues\/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=3856&amp;leagueID=11464&amp;gameID=2473528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game card<\/a>.Sydney Ice Dogs1\u20135Adelaide AdrenalineSOG: 28(0\u20132, 0\u20131, 1\u20132)SOG: 39\u2013 Game details: 16:15, 2 August 2026, Ice Arena Adelaide. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaihl.com\/leagues\/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=3856&amp;leagueID=11464&amp;gameID=2473529\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game card<\/a>.StandingsPos+\/\u2013TeamGP\u00a0W\u00a0OTWOTL\u00a0\u00a0L\u00a0\u00a0PTS1\u2013Newcastle Northstars\u00a0\u2013 q2417106532\u2013Melbourne Mustangs2616109503+1Canberra Brave2414217474\u20131Perth Thunder2312326445\u2013Melbourne Ice26121310416\u2013Sydney Ice Dogs25121111397\u2013Sydney Bears26112211398\u2013Central Coast Rhinos2791116309\u2013Brisbane Lightning25701172210\u2013Adelaide Adrenaline242121910\u2013 q = Clinched playoff spot.Further informationPodcasts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day 41 of the 2026 Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) regular season has finished with wins for Adelaide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-840055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}