2008 New York Titans season

2008 New York Titans
Division	3rd East
2008 record	10-6
Home record	5-1
Road record	5-5
Goals for	197
Goals against	186
General Manager	Timothy Kelly
Coach	Adam Mueller
Captain	Casey Powell
Arena	Madison Square Garden
Average attendance	9,660
Team leaders
Goals	Mike McLellan (34)
Assists	Casey Powell (54)
Points	Casey Powell (86)
Penalties in minutes	Patrick Merrill (61)
Loose Balls	Jarett Park (147)
Wins	Matt Vinc (9)
Goals against average	Matt Vinc (11.35)
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The New York Titans are a lacrosse team based in New York playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2008 season was the 2nd in franchise history.

The Titans improved on their 4-12 last place finish from 2007 by tying for the best record in the league, though tiebreakers meant that the Titans actually finished 3rd in the east. They beat the Minnesota Swarm in the team's first ever playoff game^[1] to advance to the division finals against the Buffalo Bandits. The Bandits' playoff experience proved too much for the young Titans, and the Bandits went on to the Championship game by defeating the Titans 19-12.^[2]

Contents 1 Regular season 1.1 Conference standings 1.2 Game log 2 Playoffs 2.1 Game log 3 Player stats 3.1 Runners (Top 10) 3.2 Goaltenders 4 Awards 5 Roster 6 See also 7 References

Regular season

Conference standings

East Division	W	L	GB	PCT	Home	Road	GF	GA
y-Buffalo Bandits	10	6	-	.625	7-2	3-4	203	174
x-Minnesota Swarm	10	6	-	.625	6-2	4-4	199	196
x-New York Titans	10	6	-	.625	5-1	5-5	197	186
x-Philadelphia Wings	10	6	-	.625	7-1	3-5	225	220
e-Rochester Knighthawks	8	8	2	.500	4-4	4-4	197	171
e-Toronto Rock	7	9	3	.438	4-5	3-4	172	174
e-Chicago Shamrox	6	10	4	.375	3-5	3-5	176	212
West Division
y-San Jose Stealth	9	7	-	.563	4-4	5-3	185	172
x-Colorado Mammoth	9	7	-	.563	6-2	3-5	184	167
x-Calgary Roughnecks	7	9	2	.438	5-3	2-6	183	178
x-Portland LumberJax	6	10	3	.375	3-5	3-5	179	194
e-Edmonton Rush	4	11	5	.250	3-5	1-7	141	197

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 12	@ Portland	W 14 - 11		10,893	1-0
2	January 19	@ Buffalo	L 17 - 13		11,878	1-1
3	January 26	@ Toronto	L 14 - 10		14,142	1-2
4	January 31	San Jose	L 12 - 7		7,332	1-3
5	February 8	@ Minnesota	L 16 - 9		10,204	1-4
6	February 10	Buffalo	W 10 - 9	OT	6,742	2-4
7	February 16	@ Chicago	W 14 - 9		4,427	3-4
8	February 23	@ Rochester	W 14 - 11		10,118	4-4
9	February 29	@ Philadelphia	L 16 - 12		11,419	4-5
10	March 14	@ Toronto	W 14 - 10		14,233	5-5
11	March 22	Philadelphia	W 20 - 13		5,239	6-5
12	April 5	@ Minnesota	L 12 - 9		10,854	6-6
13	April 12	Colorado	W 14 - 10		6,337	7-6
14	April 18	Chicago	W 14 - 7		5,379	8-6
15	April 19	@ Philadelphia	W 11 - 8		17,340	9-6
16	April 26	Rochester	W 12 - 11		8,026	10-6

Playoffs

Game log

Reference: [2]

Game	Date	Opponent	Score	OT	Attendance
Division Semifinal	May 3	@ Minnesota	W 11 - 8		11,088
Division Final	May 10	@ Buffalo	L 19 - 12		11,012

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
Casey Powell	16	32	54	86	79	10
Pat Maddalena	15	33	52	85	66	6
Jordan Hall	16	24	45	69	109	18
Ryan Boyle	16	17	45	62	65	4
Mike McLellan	16	34	22	56	29	0
Brendan Mundorf	13	23	23	46	39	8
Jeff Ratcliffe	16	12	13	25	51	12
Jarett Park	15	5	5	10	147	24
John Orsen	16	3	7	10	126	59
Totals		301	498	359	1052	60

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
Matt Vinc	16	888:06	9	5	168	.770	11.35
Erik Miller	16	74:23	1	1	17	.726	13.71
John McLellan	0	0:00	0	0	0	.000	.00
Totals			10	6	186	.765	11.63

Awards

Player	Award
Adam Mueller	Les Bartley Award[3]
Casey Powell	First Team All-Pro
Matt Vinc
Casey Powell	All-Stars
Jarett Park

Roster

Reference: [4]

No. Position Player 3 Def Alrich, Matt 41 Def Barrett, Bryan 36 Def Belisle, Mitch Def Bigas, Jeff 14 Fwd Boyle, Ryan 32 Def Brzeski, Rich Fwd Colsey, Roy 71 Trans Galbraith, Keevin 44 Trans Hall, Jordan 5 Def Hanford, Jamie Def Horsey, Bobby 34 Def Kelly, Anthony Fwd Lochte, Hunter 42 Fwd Maddalena, Pat Goalie McLellan, John 19 Fwd McLellan, Mike

No. Position Player 16 Def Merrill, Patrick 21 Goalie Miller, Erik 2 Fwd Mundorf, Brendan 56 Def Orsen, John 12 Def Park, Jarett  ? Passavia, Chris 20 Trans Peyser, Greg  ? Polanco, Nick 22 Fwd Powell, Casey 90 Fwd Ratcliffe, Jeff  ? Smith, Rob 24 Def Smith, Rory  ? Spallina, Brian 47 Def Spano, Jeff 10 Fwd Tower, Brian 48 Goalie Vinc, Matt Trans Zash, Matt

See also

• 2008 NLL season

References

2008 NLL season by team East Buffalo • Chicago • Minnesota • New York • Philadelphia • Rochester • Toronto West Calgary • Colorado • Edmonton • Portland • San Jose