2006 Rochester Knighthawks season

2006 Rochester Knighthawks
League NLL
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)

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.

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference: [1]

East Division
P Team GP W L PCT GB Home Road GF GA Diff GF/GP GA/GP

1 Buffalo Bandits xyz 16 11 5 0.688 0.0 62 53 193 167 +26 12.06 10.44
2 Rochester Knighthawks x 16 9 7 0.563 2.0 62 35 196 180 +16 12.25 11.25
3 Toronto Rock x 16 8 8 0.500 3.0 53 35 182 179 +3 11.38 11.19
4 Minnesota Swarm x 16 8 8 0.500 3.0 35 53 158 171 -13 9.88 10.69
5 Philadelphia Wings 16 8 8 0.500 3.0 53 35 184 184 0 11.50 11.50
West Division
P Team GP W L PCT GB Home Road GF GA Diff GF/GP GA/GP

1 Portland LumberJax xy 16 11 5 0.688 0.0 53 62 188 177 +11 11.75 11.06
2 Colorado Mammoth x 16 10 6 0.625 1.0 62 44 200 172 +28 12.50 10.75
3 Calgary Roughnecks x 16 9 7 0.563 2.0 44 53 183 178 +5 11.44 11.13
4 Arizona Sting x 16 8 8 0.500 3.0 44 44 198 199 -1 12.38 12.44
5 San Jose Stealth 16 5 11 0.313 6.0 35 26 151 174 -23 9.44 10.88
6 Edmonton Rush 16 1 15 0.063 10.0 08 17 150 202 -52 9.38 12.63

xClinched playoff berth;cClinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division;yClinched division;zClinched best regular season record;GPGames Played
WWins;LLossesGBGames back;PCTWin percentage;HomeRecord at Home;RoadRecord on the Road;GFGoals scored;GAGoals allowed
DifferentialDifference between goals scored and allowed;GF/GPAverage number of goals scored per game;GA/GPAverage number of goals allowed per game

Game log

Reference:[2]

Game Date Opponent Location Score OT Attendance Record
1 January 7, 2006 @ Colorado Mammoth Pepsi Center L 1112 16,850 01
2 January 14, 2006 Toronto Rock Blue Cross Arena W 149 10,156 11
3 January 21, 2006 @ Minnesota Swarm Xcel Energy Center W 126 7,124 21
4 January 28, 2006 Buffalo Bandits Blue Cross Arena W 1110 OT 11,121 31
5 January 29, 2006 @ Minnesota Swarm Xcel Energy Center W 109 7,544 41
6 February 10, 2006 @ Toronto Rock Air Canada Centre L 1011 OT 16,235 42
7 February 11, 2006 Arizona Sting Blue Cross Arena W 1614 9,386 52
8 February 18, 2006 San Jose Stealth Blue Cross Arena L 1213 9,731 53
9 March 4, 2006 @ Portland LumberJax W 1816 6,183 63
10 March 10, 2006 Philadelphia Wings Blue Cross Arena W 178 9,052 73
11 March 11, 2006 @ Philadelphia Wings Wachovia Center L 1216 10,959 74
12 March 18, 2006 Buffalo Bandits Blue Cross Arena L 1314 OT 10,209 75
13 March 25, 2006 @ Buffalo Bandits HSBC Arena L 1318 13,722 76
14 April 1, 2006 @ Philadelphia Wings Wachovia Center L 78 12,001 77
15 April 8, 2006 Minnesota Swarm Blue Cross Arena W 109 10,352 87
16 April 15, 2006 Toronto Rock Blue Cross Arena W 107 9,899 97

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:[3]

Game Date Opponent Location Score OT Attendance Record
Division Semifinal April 22, 2006 Toronto Rock Blue Cross Arena W 168 7,295 10
Division Final April 29, 2006 @ Buffalo Bandits HSBC Arena L 1015 10,897 11

Player stats

Reference:[4]

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[5]
To Rochester Knighthawks
third round pick, 2006 entry draft
To Colorado Mammoth
Andrew Burkholder

Roster

Reference:[6]

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

See also

References

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