Their eighth shutout this season, and their 16th straight win against Brown Bears in 2015-16, gave the Ice Dogs a 49-8-3 record for 101 points in the standings — the most points by a team in the regular season of the Tier II Junior A league, which started 40 years ago.

The 49 wins also tied the Janesville (Wisconsin) Jets for the most in a NAHL regular season. Janesville, a Midwest rival of Fairbanks, set the old points record last seasons with a 49-9-2 mark for 100 points, when the Jets were members of the North Division.

Ice Dogs goaltender CJ Boothe was happy to be an integral part of the record-setting night in the Big Dipper.

“It’s an extraordinary feeling, it’s awesome,” said Boothe, who stopped all 17 shots for his second shutout of the season.

“It’s a privilege to be a part of this team, especially tonight,” added Boothe, who is 13-3-2-0 with 2.16 goals against average and .918 save percentage in 18 games this season.

Todd Burgess led the Ice Dogs with four points Saturday from two goals and two assists. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute commit from Phoenix also finished as the league’s top scorer in the regular season with 95 points from 38 goals and 57 assists while playing in every game this season for Fairbanks.

“It’s my last season,’’ Burgess said. “There’s 10 to 12 guys out there (from the Ice Dogs’ 2014-15 squad) and we put it all on the line tonight, and it’s a great season.”

Burgess’s points total also tied the league record set by the St. Louis Bandits’ Pat Maroon in 2006-07. The left wing has played in the NHL since 2011-12 and he skates this season for the Edmonton Oilers.

“Tonight, he tied the league all-time record for points in a season with a player who’s now in the NHL,’’ Stewart said of Burgess. “After this season, he’ll be on to bigger and better things but he made a decision to come back and we’re happy to have him.”

Burgess, who was selected in the United States Hockey League Draft last summer, also contributed a power-play goal among the four the Ice Dogs generated in 11 opportunities. Fairbanks was 1 for 7 with the extra skater in Friday night’s 4-1 win.

“(Friday night), we refocused and watched a little film on them,’’ Burgess said. “We saw their penalty kill and we learned how to capitalize on it.”

The Brown Bears were assessed 15 penalties for 54 minutes compared to the Ice Dogs’ five for 10 minutes. 

Kenai River head coach Jeff Worlton cited the trips to the penalty box as a factor in the Brown Bears sustaining the third straight loss

“We had a steady march to the penalty box and we can’t overcome that many penalties in a row,” Worlton said. “Fairbanks is too good of a team for (Kenai River) to take that many penalties.

The Brown Bears finished sixth in the Midwest Division and posted the worst record in the league with a 4-51-5 mark 13 points. They started the last weekend of the Ravn Alaska Cup Series with a 3-2 overtime loss to the Fairbanks after tying the score at 2 during the last two minutes of the third period.

“It’s over, that’s the best way to describe it,’’ said Worlton, who took over the head coach position in January from former Brown Bears head coach Geoff Beauparlant, a former Ice Dogs assistant coach.

“It’s a long season and you never want to be part of a losing franchise, a losing team,” Worlton said. “It’s over.”

Goaltenders Marcus Lindhe and Nicholas Nash recorded 22 and 11 saves, respectively, for Kenai River on Saturday.

The Brown Bears, who missed on four power plays Saturday, and the Ice Dogs played to a scoreless first period in the regular-season finale.

Fairbanks broke the scoreless deadlock by packing on three goals in the second period.

Right wing Ryner Gorowsky, the league’s No. 2 scorer with 28-55-83 totals in 59 games, converted a power-play opportunity at 9:13. Gorowsky scored from the low slot with linemate Logan Coomes’ backhand pass from the right side of the net, set up by a feed from Burgess.

Coomes, the NAHL’s No. 4 scorer (25-40-65 in 56 games), had left the game late in the first period after getting hit on the knee by teammate and defenseman Josef Ingman’s shot from near the right point.

Burgess, with assists from Gorowsky and Ingman,  drilled a power-play one-timer from the left circle through Lindhe’s pads at 14:16 for a 2-0 lead.

Clay Cross, with help from Tyler Tomberlin and Alex Mehnert, scored with a wrist shot from the left circle with 26.6 seconds left in the middle period. Tomberlin, with three points Saturday, finished as the league’s No. 5 scorer with 17-46-63 scoring line in 59 games.

Burgess, with help from Coomes and Ingman, sealed the win at 11:48 of the third. 

Liam Stirtzinger tacked on a power-play goal at 15:49, with help from Reggie Lutz and Tomberlin, who scored a man-advantage goal at 18:43 with assists from Gorowsky and Burgess.

The Ice Dogs open the playoffs at the Dipper on April 15 against either the Coulee Region (Wisconsin) Chill or Springfield (Illinois) Jr. Blues. Coulee Region has three games left while Springfield has wrapped up the regular season.

Contact sports editor Danny Martin at 459-7586. Follow him on Twitter:@newsminersports.