Adelaide Adrenaline

Adelaide Adrenaline
City:	Adelaide, South Australia
League:	AIHL
Founded:	2008 (2008)
Operated:	2008-present
Home Arena:	Ice ArenA
Colors:	Red, Blue and Gold
Head Coach:	John Botterill
General Manager:	Charlie Vaughton
Franchise history
2008:	Adelaide A's
2008-present:	Adelaide Adrenaline

The Adelaide Adrenaline are a semi-professional ice hockey team based in Adelaide, South Australia that play in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). The club was formed at the start of July, 2008 to replace the Adelaide Avalanche after they folded in June. In a deal with the AIHL the A's picked up the Avalanche's team list and fulfilled the existing game schedule for the remainder of the 2008 season. After the 2008 season the A's were renamed the Adelaide Adrenaline for the upcoming 2009 season.

Season by season results

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points

Season	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS	Finish	Playoffs
2008	28*	6	6	2	14	90	107	32	6	Did not qualify
2009	24	15	1	0	8	117	75	47	3	1st (def. Newcastle in final during Overtime) 3-2

*In a deal with the AIHL previous games played by the Adelaide Avalanche were carried over to the A's.

Current roster

Logo used for the 2008 season.

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
1		Curtis Villani	G			2009	Adelaide, Australia
2		Nick Clark	D	R	21	2008	Adelaide, Australia
3		Don Grover	D			2009	Boston, United States
4		Dean Peterson	F	R	20	2008	Adelaide, Australia
5		Andrew Stapleton	F			2009	Adelaide, Australia
6		Luke Thilthorpe	D			2009	Adelaide, Australia
9		Sami Mantere	F			2009	Helsinki, Finland
10		Greg Oddy – C	F	R	29	2008	Adelaide, Australia
11		Cass Deskar	F	R	27	2008	Adelaide, Australia
12		Andrew Zolatarev	F			2009	Adelaide, Australia
14		Jarrad McDonnell	F			2009	Adelaide, Australia
16		Neale Sendreki	F			2009	Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
17		Mike Werner	F			2009	Ontario, Canada
18		James Keane	F	R	24	2008	Adelaide, Australia
19		David Manning	F			2008	Adelaide, Australia
21		Jeremy Beirnes	F			2009	St. Albert, Canada
22		Josh Harding	F	L	23	2008	Adelaide, Australia
23		David Huxley	D	R	21	2008	Adelaide, Australia
24		Mitch Villani	F	R	21	2008	Adelaide, Australia
39		Olivier Martin	G	L	21	2008	Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
		Aaron Widger	F			2009	Adelaide, Australia
		Tristan Reese	F			2009	Adelaide, Australia

Leaders

Team captains

• Greg Oddy - 2008 - present

Head coaches

• John Botterill, 2008 - present

External links

• Adelaide Adrenaline Hockey Website
• Adelaide Adrenaline Hockey blog
• Adelaide Adrenaline Hockey Message Board
• AIHL official site
• Logo Designer Warren King Designs

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