2000 Toronto Rock season

2000 Toronto Rock
Champion's Cup Winners
Division Champions
Division 1st
2000 record 9-3
Home record 5-1
Road record 4-2
Goals for 162
Goals against 130
General Manager John Mouradian
Coach Les Bartley
Captain Jim Veltman
Arena Maple Leaf Gardens
Average attendance 13,881
Team leaders
Goals Chris Gill (30)
Assists Jim Veltman (37)
Points Chris Gill (50)
Penalties in minutes Dan Ladouceur (43)
Loose Balls Jim Veltman (164)
Wins Bob Watson (9)

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The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2000 season was the 3rd in franchise history and 2nd as the Rock.

The Rock finished on top of the NLL standings, winning its division for the second straight year. The Rock beat the Philadelphia Wings in the semifinals, to advance to the championship game. Their victory over the Rochester Knighthawks in this game gave them their second consecutive championship.[1]

Contents

Regular season

Conference standings

W L GB PCT Home Road GF GA
y-Toronto Rock 9 3 - .750 5-1 4-2 162 130
x-Buffalo Bandits 8 4 1 .667 5-1 3-3 202 194
x-Rochester Knighthawks 8 4 1 .667 5-1 3-3 187 149
x-Philadelphia Wings 7 5 2 .583 4-2 3-3 172 165
e-Albany Attack 6 6 3 .500 4-2 2-4 169 160
e-Pittsburgh CrosseFire 6 6 3 .500 4-2 2-4 184 164
e-New York Saints 3 9 6 .250 2-4 1-5 152 194
e-Syracuse Smash 1 11 8 .083 1-5 0-6 135 207

x - clinched playoff spot, y - clinched division title, e - eliminated from playoff contention[2]

Game log

# Date Opponent Location Score OT Attendance Record
1 January 8 @ Buffalo Marine Midland Arena W 17 - 14 7,457 1-0
2 January 21 New York Maple Leaf Gardens W 9 - 5 14,026 2-0
3 January 28 @ Pittsburgh Mellon Arena W 11 - 9 3,217 3-0
4 February 5 @ Rochester Blue Cross Arena L 14 - 9 10,181 3-1
5 February 11 Rochester Maple Leaf Gardens W 11 - 10 13,646 4-1
6 February 26 Buffalo Maple Leaf Gardens L 18 - 12 14,075 4-2
7 March 3 Syracuse Maple Leaf Gardens W 15 - 10 12,012 5-2
8 March 11 @ Albany Pepsi Arena L 8 - 7 4,355 5-3
9 March 25 @ Philadelphia First Union Center W 15 - 13 16,544 6-3
10 March 31 Pittsburgh Maple Leaf Gardens W 14 - 10 15,050 7-3
11 April 8 Albany Maple Leaf Gardens W 17 - 8 15,078 8-3
12 April 15 @ Syracuse Onondaga County War Memorial W 25 - 11 1,987 9-3

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Playoffs

Game log

Game Date Opponent Location Score OT Attendance
Semifinals April 22 Philadelphia Maple Leaf Gardens W 14 - 10 10,561
Championship Game May 6 Rochester Maple Leaf Gardens W 14 - 13 14,211

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Player stats

Runners (Top 10)

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes[5]

Player GP G A Pts LB PIM
Chris Gill 12 30 20 50 6
Dan Stroup 12 29 17 46 6
Jim Veltman 12 7 37 44 164 10
Colin Doyle 11 16 26 42 35
Kaleb Toth 12 18 22 40 10
Kim Squire 5 14 11 25 5
Steve Toll 12 9 13 22 6
Chris Langdale 10 8 11 19 14
Ryan O'Connor 9 7 12 19 6
Glenn Clark 12 7 10 17 24
Totals 162 239 401 284

Goaltenders

Note: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average[6]

Player GP MIN W L GA Sv% GAA
Bob Watson 12 679 9 3 125 .772 11.05
Pat Campbell 0 0
Totals 9 3

Awards

Player Award
Dan Stroup Championship Game MVP[7]
Jim Veltman First All-Pro Team[7]
Bob Watson

Roster

No. Position Player
97 Def Bullen, Terry
37 Goalie Campbell, Pat
11 Def Clark, Glenn
2 Def Coyle, Pat
19 Fwd Diaron, Brad
7 Fwd Doyle, Colin
25 Fwd Gill, Chris
22 Graham, Rory
14  ?? Harrison, Dean
99 Fwd Heard, Russ
6 Def Ladouceur, Dan
No. Position Player
10 Fwd Langdale, Chris
76 Fwd Maynard, Niall
33 Fwd Millin, Ken
67 Fwd O'Connor, Ryan
93 Fwd Squire, Kim
34  ?? Squire, Rodd
8 Fwd Stroup, Dan
17 Def Toll, Steve
9 Fwd Toth, Kaleb
32 Fwd Veltman, Jim
29 Goalie Watson, Bob

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See also

References

  1. ^ Hicks, Jeff (2000-05-08). "Lacrosse muscles its way in". Toronto Star. 
  2. ^ "2000 Regular Season - League". NLL. http://stats.nll.com/stats/statdisplay.php?type=standings&subType=0&season_id=32&league_id=3&lastActive=&confId=0. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  3. ^ "Stats". NLL. http://stats.nll.com/stats/schedule.php?view=season&team_id=15&season_id=32&home_away=. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  4. ^ "Stats". NLL. http://stats.nll.com/stats/schedule.php?view=season&team_id=15&season_id=33&home_away=. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  5. ^ "Runners". NLL. http://stats.nll.com/stats/statdisplay.php?type=skaters&subType=7&season_id=32&league_id=3&lastActive=&confId=0. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  6. ^ "Goalies". NLL. http://stats.nll.com/stats/statdisplay.php?type=goalies&subType=7&season_id=32&leagueId=3&lastActive=&singleSeason=&confId=0. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  7. ^ a b "National Lacrosse League - 2010 Guide & Record Book". NLL. http://www.nllfiles.com/2010mediaguide.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  8. ^ "Toronto Rock 2000 Regular Season". NLL. http://stats.nll.com/stats/roster.php?step=&sub=&season_id=32&team_id=15. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 

External links

Toronto Rock seasons
1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011
Bold indicates Champion's Cup winner
1998 season played as the Ontario Raiders
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