2006 Arizona Sting season

2006 Arizona Sting
Division 4th West
2006 record 8-8
Home record 4-4
Road record 4-4
Goals for 198
Goals against 199
General Manager Bob Hamley
Coach Bob Hamley
Arena Jobing.com Arena
Average attendance 8,919
Team leaders
Goals Craig Conn (44)
Assists Dan Dawson (48)
Points Dan Dawson (82)
Penalties in minutes Craig Conn (42)
Loose Balls Bruce Codd (117)
Wins Rob Blasdell (5)
Goals against average Mike Miron (12.41)

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The Arizona Sting were a lacrosse team based in Phoenix, Arizona playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2006 season was the 6th in franchise history and 3rd in Arizona.

After making it to the Championship game in 2005, the Sting had a disappointing 8-8 season in 2006. The Sting upset the division-winning Portland LumberJax 14-10 in the Western Division semifinals, but the eventual champion Colorado Mammoth defeated the Sting 13-12 in Colorado in the Division finals.

Contents

Regular season

Conference standings

East Division W L GB PCT Home Road GF GA
y-Buffalo Bandits 11 5 - .688 6-2 5-3 193 167
x-Rochester Knighthawks 9 7 2 .563 6-2 3-5 196 180
x-Toronto Rock 8 8 3 .500 5-3 3-5 182 179
x-Minnesota Swarm 8 8 3 .500 3-5 5-3 158 171
e-Philadelphia Wings 8 8 3 .500 5-3 3-5 184 184
West Division                
y-Portland LumberJax 11 5 - .688 5-3 6-2 188 177
x-Colorado Mammoth 10 6 1 .625 6-2 4-4 200 172
x-Calgary Roughnecks 9 7 2 .563 4-4 5-3 183 178
x-Arizona Sting 8 8 3 .500 4-4 4-4 198 199
e-San Jose Stealth 5 11 6 .313 3-5 2-6 151 174
e-Edmonton Rush 1 15 10 .063 0-8 1-7 150 202

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

Game log

Reference: [1]

# Date Opponent Score OT Attendance Record
1 January 7 @ Toronto W 14 - 13 OT 17,527 1-0
2 January 13 Portland W 12 - 7 6,127 2-0
3 January 27 Calgary W 11 - 10 OT 6,326 3-0
4 February 3 Colorado L 18 - 17 OT 6,373 3-1
5 February 11 @ Rochester L 16 - 14 9,386 3-2
6 February 18 Calgary L 13 - 7 6,535 3-3
7 March 4 @ Edmonton W 15 - 11 9,684 4-3
8 March 10 Edmonton W 13 - 9 6,705 5-3
9 March 11 @ Portland L 12 - 10 7,803 5-4
10 March 18 Colorado L 15 - 11 6,420 5-5
11 March 25 @ Philadelphia W 13 - 12 11,693 6-5
12 April 1 Buffalo L 13 - 10 6,759 6-6
13 April 2 @ Colorado L 16 - 11 16,435 6-7
14 April 8 @ Calgary L 14 - 12 12,173 6-8
15 April 14 San Jose W 16 - 13 6,575 7-8
16 April 15 @ San Jose W 12 - 7 6,188 8-8

Playoffs

Game log

Reference: [2]

Game Date Opponent Score OT Attendance
Division Semifinal April 22 @ Portland W 14 - 11 10,843
Division Final April 29 @ Colorado L 13 - 12 12,537

Player stats

Reference: [3]

Runners (Top 10)

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

Player GP G A Pts LB PIM
Dan Dawson 16 34 48 82 76 8
Craig Conn 15 44 23 67 91 42
Pat Maddalena 15 24 34 58 58 6
Jonas Derks 10 18 24 42 42 8
Jason Crosbie 9 12 29 41 30 7
Matt Brown 16 16 19 35 47 6
Lindsay Plunkett 6 8 16 24 20 4
Curt Malawsky 8 10 11 21 30 4
Peter Veltman 15 7 13 20 50 20
Totals 318 516 235 1045 36

Goaltenders

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

Player GP MIN W L GA Sv% GAA
Rob Blasdell 15 621:59 5 5 129 .737 12.44
Mike Miron 16 338:27 3 3 70 .742 12.41
Ken Montour 0 0:00 0 0 0 .000 .00
Totals 8 8 199 .739 12.44

Awards

Player Award
Craig Conn Second Team All-Pro
Dan Dawson
Craig Conn All-Stars
Bruce Codd
Jonas Derks
Peter Lough
Scott Self

Transactions

Trades

March 23, 2006[1]
 To Arizona Sting
Lindsay Plunkett
fourth round pick, 2007 entry draft		 To Buffalo Bandits
Jason Crosbie

Roster

Reference: [4]

No. Position Player
31 Goalie Blasdell, Rob
16 Fwd Brown, Matt
Fwd Clark, Jason
5  ? Cochrane, Mark
9 Def Codd, Bruce
8 Fwd Conn, Craig
Fwd Crosbie, Jason
6 Fwd Dawson, Dan
43 Fwd Derks, Jonas
14 Def Guindon, Andrew
18 Def Halls, Darren
17 Def Hinman, Greg
4 Fwd Lazore, Andrew
No. Position Player
27 Def Lough, Peter
42 Fwd Maddalena, Pat
11 Fwd Malawsky, Curt
36 Fwd McKay, Chris
19 Fwd McLellan, Mike
41 Goalie Miron, Mike
Goalie Montour, Ken
10 Def Murray, Bruce
12 Fwd Plunkett, Lindsay
21 Fwd Secore, Andy
7 Def Self, Scott
24 Def Seller, Chris
33 Fwd Veltman, Peter

See also

References

  1. ^ "Trade Deadline Passes". NLL.com. March 14, 2006. http://nll.com/article.php?id=540. Retrieved 2008-04-21. 
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