2008 Edmonton Rush season

2008 Edmonton Rush
League	NLL
Division	5th West
2008 record	4-12
Home record	3-5
Road record	1-7
Goals for	141
Goals against	197
General Manager	Bob Hamley
Coach	Bob Hamley
Captain	Chris McElroy
Alternate captains	Jimmy Quinlan Rory Glaves
Arena	Rexall Place
Average attendance	8,820
Team leaders
Goals	Jimmy Quinlan (22)
Assists	Dan Teat (35)
Points	Mike Hominuck (54)
Penalties in minutes	Ian Hawksbee (47)
Loose Balls	Ian Hawksbee (123)
Wins	Curtis Palidwor (4)
Goals against average	Curtis Palidwor (12.06)
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The Edmonton Rush are a lacrosse team based in Edmonton playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2008 season was the 3rd 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	10	6	0.625	0.0	7–2	3–4	203	174	+29	12.69	10.88
2	Minnesota Swarm – x	16	10	6	0.625	0.0	6–2	4–4	199	196	+3	12.44	12.25
3	New York Titans – x	16	10	6	0.625	0.0	5–1	5–5	197	186	+11	12.31	11.63
4	Philadelphia Wings – x	16	10	6	0.625	0.0	7–1	3–5	225	220	+5	14.06	13.75
5	Rochester Knighthawks	16	8	8	0.500	2.0	4–4	4–4	197	171	+26	12.31	10.69
6	Toronto Rock	16	7	9	0.438	3.0	4–5	3–4	172	174	-2	10.75	10.88
7	Chicago Shamrox	16	6	10	0.375	4.0	3–5	3–5	176	212	-36	11.00	13.25

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	San Jose Stealth – xy	16	9	7	0.563	0.0	4–4	5–3	185	172	+13	11.56	10.75
2	Colorado Mammoth – x	16	9	7	0.563	0.0	6–2	3–5	184	167	+17	11.50	10.44
3	Calgary Roughnecks – x	16	7	9	0.438	2.0	5–3	2–6	183	178	+5	11.44	11.13
4	Portland LumberJax – x	16	6	10	0.375	3.0	3–5	3–5	179	194	-15	11.19	12.13
5	Edmonton Rush	16	4	12	0.250	5.0	3–5	1–7	141	197	-56	8.81	12.31

x–Clinched playoff berth;c–Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division;y–Clinched division;z–Clinched best regular season record;GP–Games Played
W–Wins;L–LossesGB–Games back;PCT–Win percentage;Home–Record at Home;Road–Record on the Road;GF–Goals scored;GA–Goals allowed
Differential–Difference between goals scored and allowed;GF/GP–Average number of goals scored per game;GA/GP–Average number of goals allowed per game

Game log

Reference:^[2]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 12, 2008	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 11–14		17,520	0–1
2	January 19, 2008	Toronto Rock	Rexall Place	L 9–14		12,107	0–2
3	January 26, 2008	@ Chicago Shamrox	Sears Centre	L 11–17		5,107	0–3
4	February 2, 2008	Portland LumberJax	Rexall Place	L 10–11		7,072	0–4
5	February 17, 2008	@ Portland LumberJax	Rose Garden	L 8–14		6,793	0–5
6	February 23, 2008	San Jose Stealth	Rexall Place	L 8–11		9,032	0–6
7	March 1, 2008	@ Portland LumberJax	Rose Garden	W 9–7		7,744	1–6
8	March 15, 2008	Rochester Knighthawks	Rexall Place	W 10–9	OT	6,711	2–6
9	March 21, 2008	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	L 9–14		14,312	2–7
10	March 29, 2008	San Jose Stealth	Rexall Place	W 12–5		7,250	3–7
11	April 5, 2008	Calgary Roughnecks	Rexall Place	W 11–9		9,433	4–7
12	April 12, 2008	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Pengrowth Saddledome	L 7–18		12,451	4–8
13	April 13, 2008	@ San Jose Stealth	HP Pavilion at San Jose	L 6–14		1,437	4–9
14	April 18, 2008	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 4–15		18,301	4–10
15	April 19, 2008	Colorado Mammoth	Rexall Place	L 8–13		8,142	4–11
16	April 26, 2008	Calgary Roughnecks	Rexall Place	L 8–12		10,817	4–12

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
Mike Hominuck	16	21	33	54	76	4
Jimmy Quinlan	16	22	31	53	76	23
Dan Teat	19	16	35	51	61	4
Dan Stroup	16	21	21	42	63	8
Mike Accursi	9	11	22	33	37	6
AJ Shannon	7	11	11	22	20	0
Ben Prepchuk	8	5	14	19	21	2
Kyle Goundrey	12	8	10	18	31	2
Chris Gill	8	12	5	17	27	10
Totals		223	364	316	1015	27

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
Curtis Palidwor	16	602:06	4	8	123	.750	12.26
Matt Disher	9	216:15	0	3	42	.750	11.65
Matt King	5	141:50	0	1	27	.733	11.42
Kurtis Wagar	1	0:00	0	0	0	.000	.00
Totals			4	12	197	.743	12.31

Awards

Player	Award
Mike Accursi	All-Stars
Jimmy Quinlan
Chris McElroy
Dan Stroup

Transactions

Trades

July 18, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Ben Prepchuk (F)	To Colorado Mammoth *2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson (F)
July 24, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Mike Accursi (F)	To Rochester Knighthawks 1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Sid Smith (D)
July 31, 2007	To Edmonton Rush *2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson (F)	To Colorado Mammoth Jason Wulder (F)
September 2, 2007	To Edmonton Rush 2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Steve Hutchins (F)	To Boston Blazers Dan Finck *2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson (F)
September 2, 2007	To Edmonton Rush 4th round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Steve Conrad (D) **2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Steven Brooks (F)	To Philadelphia Wings 2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - David Mitchell (F)
September 29, 2007	To Edmonton Rush 5th round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Shane Lopatynski (D)	To Boston Blazers Ryan O'Connor (F)
November 5, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Matt Disher (G)	To Minnesota Swarm 1st round pick in 2007 Dispersal Draft - Andy Secore (F)
November 27, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Mike Grimes (D)	To Minnesota Swarm 4th round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Ricky Pages (D)
November 27, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Ian Hawksbee (D)	To San Jose Stealth 1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Paul Rabil (T)
January 30, 2008[4]	To Edmonton Rush ***3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Brendan Loftus (F)	To Calgary Roughnecks Chris Seller (T)
February 29, 2008[5]	To Edmonton Rush Brenden Thenhaus (F)	To Philadelphia Wings 3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Mike Leveille (F)
March 5, 2008[6]	To Edmonton Rush Mike Hominuck (F) 1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Jamie Floris (F)	To Minnesota Swarm A.J. Shannon ****2nd round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Matt Beers (D)
March 5, 2008[6]	To Edmonton Rush Lindsay Plunkett (F)	To Chicago Shamrox Conditional 3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft Conditional 3rd round pick in 2009 Entry Draft
March 25, 2008[7]	To Edmonton Rush Matt King (G) Ian Crashley (D) *****1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Joel Dalgarno (F)	To Portland LumberJax Matt Disher (G) 4th round pick in 2009 Entry Draft
March 25, 2008[8]	To Edmonton Rush Dan Teat (F) ******2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Matt Bocklet (D) 1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Corey Small (F)	To Buffalo Bandits Mike Accursi (F)
March 25, 2008[9]	To Edmonton Rush *******1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Matt Danowski (F)	To Colorado Mammoth Chris Gill (F) ********2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Cayle Ratcliff (D)

*Later traded to the Boston Blazers
**Later traded to the Chicago Shamrox
***Later traded to the Rochester Knighthawks
****Later traded to the Washington Stealth
*****Later traded to the Toronto Rock
******Later traded to the Philadelphia Wings
*******Later traded back to the Colorado Mammoth
********Later traded to the Calgary Roughnecks

Entry Draft

The 2007 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 1, 2007. The Rush made the following selections:

 ^#  Denotes player who never played in the NLL regular season or playoffs

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
2	15	Steve Hutchins (F)	Whitby, Ontario
3	34	John Lintz (D)	Coquitlam, British Columbia
4	45	Steve Conrad^# (D)	Clarington, Ontario
4	48	Dan Hartzell^# (F)	St. Andrew's College
5	62	Calvin Craig^# (F)	Coquitlam, British Columbia
6	76	Jordan Coffey (F)	Brampton, Ontario

Roster

Reference:^[10]

No. Position Player Fwd Accursi, Mike 7 Def Allen, Mac 6 Trans Bergman, Cam 2 Def Bonterre, Troy Def Crashley, Ian 9 Fwd Daly, Randy Goalie Disher, Matt Fwd Gill, Chris 43 Def Glaves, Rory 10 Fwd Goundrey, Kyle 23 Def Grimes, Mike Def Gut, Peter 17 Def Hartzell, Kris 88 Def Hawksbee, Ian Trans Hillier, Darren 90 Fwd Hominuck, Mike 41 Fwd Hutchins, Steve 30 Goalie King, Matt 11 Def Martin, Andrew

No. Position Player 15 Trans McElroy, Chris 36 Fwd McKay, Chris Trans Melville, Cory Fwd Olson, Kevin 0 Goalie Palidwor, Curtis 12 Fwd Plunkett, Lindsay Trans Polny, Ryan 19 Fwd Prepchuk, Ben 81 Fwd Quinlan, Jimmy Trans Seller, Chris Fwd Shannon, AJ Def Stobart, Buck 8 Fwd Stroup, Dan 51 Fwd Teat, Dan 16 Fwd Thenhaus, Brenden Def Turner, Andrew Goalie Wagar, Kurtis Fwd Wilhelm, Shaun 33 Def Williams, Rob

See also

• 2008 NLL season

References

1. "National Lacrosse League - 2008 Regular Season - Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
2. "Edmonton Rush – National Lacrosse League". NLL.com. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
3. http://pointstreak.com/prostats/teamplayerstats.html?teamid=38725&seasonid=1995
4. "Rus Deals Seller to Roughnecks". NLL.com. January 30, 2008. Archived from the original on 3 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
5. "Rush Acquire Thenhaus From Wings". NLL.com. February 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
6. "Trade Frenzy: Eight Players Dealt". NLL.com. March 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
7. "Rush & LumberJax Swap Goaltenders". NLL.com. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
8. "Buffalo Deals Teat & Picks for Accursi". NLL.com. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
9. "Chris Gill Returns To Colorado". NLL.com. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
10. http://pointstreak.com/prostats/teamroster.html?teamid=38725&seasonid=1995