4–6 to end their season in the finals weekend early. On 24 February 2020, the CBR Brave announced head coach Rob Starke would not be returning for the 2020 AIHL season, Starke had left Canberra and moved back to Canada. Rob left the Brave having guided the team to 2 Premierships and 1 Championship titles at a win rate of 78.4%. On 27 February 2020, the Brave announced Stuart Philps as the team's new head coach and Rob's replacement. Philps was a former assistant coach with the Brave, had strong connections to the Knights and was the current Australian women's national team head coach at the time. Club identity Branding and design The name and branding for the new club, CBR Brave, was carefully crafted by advertising agency Coordinate on the appointment by the members of the consortium in an effort to break away from the Knights history and to start afresh. This was also due in part to previous Knights owner, John Raut, retaining the rights to the old club's name. The Brave branding has received praise from sections of the media with Chris Meister at Hewitt Sports praising the work behind the new club's branding describing the CBR Brave branding as ‘the jewel in the AIHL’s branding crown. The new standard in club branding for the league and something every other club should aspire to and try and emulate or risk looking subpar moving into the future. Chris pointed out how well the yellow and navy blue contrast together and how sharp and clean the logo looks. Both ingredients for a professional and noticeable look on TV and other mediums of media. Chris also paid special attention to the landmark achievement of the marketing videos put out by The Brave on Vimeo to attract membership and promote the club, stating “it is now the video that all other video’s from AIHL teams will be judged.” Name Instead of the traditional use of Canberra in the naming of the team, the consortium opted to adopt CBR based from the 2013 ACT Government project, designed to promote Canberra through the use of the CBR brand. CBR gave the team a unique identity in a crowded Canberra sports market that already has a host of teams that use "Canberra" at the beginning to form part of their names (Canberra Raiders; Canberra Capitals; Canberra Cavalry; Canberra United). "Brave" was selected as it