2006 Rochester Knighthawks season

2006 Rochester Knighthawks
Division 2nd East
2006 record 9-7
Home record 6-2
Road record 3-5
Goals for 196
Goals against 180
General Manager Jody Gage
Coach Ed Comeau
Captain Mike Hasen
Alternate captains Shawn Williams
John Grant, Jr.
Arena Blue Cross Arena
Average attendance 10,657
Team leaders
Goals John Grant, Jr. (54)
Assists Shawn Williams (49)
Points John Grant, Jr. (97)
Penalties in minutes Shawn Evans (59)
Loose Balls Steve Toll (119)
Wins Pat O'Toole (9)
Goals against average Pat O'Toole (10.93)

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The Rochester Knighthawks are a lacrosse team based in Rochester, New York playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2006 season was the 12th in franchise history.

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 @ Colorado L 12 - 11 16,850 0-1
2 January 14 Toronto W 14 - 9 10,156 1-1
3 January 21 @ Minnesota W 12 - 6 7,124 2-1
4 January 28 Buffalo W 11 - 10 OT 11,121 3-1
5 January 29 @ Minnesota W 10 - 9 7,544 4-1
6 February 10 @ Toronto L 11 - 10 OT 16,235 4-2
7 February 11 Arizona W 16 - 14 9,386 5-2
8 February 18 San Jose L 13 - 12 9,731 5-3
9 March 4 @ Portland W 18 - 16 6,183 6-3
10 March 10 Philadelphia W 17 - 8 9,052 7-3
11 March 11 @ Philadelphia L 16 - 12 10,959 7-4
12 March 18 Buffalo L 14 - 13 OT 10,209 7-5
13 March 25 @ Buffalo L 18 - 13 13,722 7-6
14 April 1 @ Philadelphia L 8 - 7 12,001 7-7
15 April 8 Minnesota W 10 - 9 10,352 8-7
16 April 15 Toronto W 10 - 7 9,899 9-7

Playoffs

Game log

Reference: [2]

Game Date Opponent Score OT Attendance
Division Semifinal April 22 Toronto W 16 - 8 7,295
Division Final April 29 @ Buffalo L 15 - 10 10,897

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
John Grant, Jr. 16 54 43 97 86 22
Shawn Williams 16 31 49 80 68 14
Scott Evans 16 22 48 70 81 55
Mike Accursi 16 27 36 63 61 10
Shawn Evans 15 21 16 37 110 59
Steve Toll 16 14 18 32 119 6
Ken Millin 11 4 12 16 20 0
Ryan O'Connor 7 5 6 11 7 11
Pat Dutton 10 4 7 11 39 4
Totals 281 477 387 1094 49

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
Pat O'Toole 16 927:35 9 6 169 .780 10.93
Grant Crawley 16 29:03 0 1 9 .400 18.59
Totals 9 7 180 .770 11.25

Awards

Player Award
John Grant, Jr. First Team All-Pro
Shawn Evans All-Rookie Team
John Grant, Jr. Overall Player of the Month, January
John Grant, Jr. All-Stars
Steve Toll
Marshall Abrams
Shawn Williams

Transactions

Trades

March 14, 2006[1]
 To Rochester Knighthawks
third round pick, 2006 entry draft		 To Colorado Mammoth
Andrew Burkholder

Roster

Reference: [4]

No. Position Player
43 Def Abrams, Marshall
44 Fwd Accursi, Mike
Fwd Burkholder, Andrew
5 Fwd Chapman, Sandy
Def Cougevan, Pat
52 Goalie Crawley, Grant
12 Fwd Croswell, Brian
25 Def Ditzell, Scott
7 Fwd Dutton, Pat
19 Fwd Evans, Scott
15 Fwd Evans, Shawn
24 Fwd Grant, John
No. Position Player
21 Fwd Greer, Bill
10 Def Hasen, Mike
23 Def Hoar, Stephen
4 Def Livingstone, Carter
26  ? Miller, Blake
32 Fwd Millin, Ken
14 Fwd O'Connor, Ryan
39 Goalie O'Toole, Pat
20 Def Penny, Steve
2 Def Schiller, Chris
11 Def Thorpe, Regy
17 Def Toll, Steve
51 Fwd Williams, Shawn

See also

References

  1. ^ "Trade Deadline Passes". NLL.com. March 14, 2006. http://nll.com/article.php?id=540. Retrieved 2008-04-25. 
East
Buffalo • Minnesota • Philadelphia • Rochester • Toronto
West