2005 Buffalo Bandits season

2005 Buffalo Bandits
Division	2nd East
2005 record	11-5
Home record	5-3
Road record	6-2
Goals for	217
Goals against	183
General Manager	Darris Kilgour
Coach	Darris Kilgour
Captain	Rich Kilgour
Alternate captains	John Tavares
Arena	HSBC Arena
Average attendance	11,171
Team leaders
Goals	John Tavares (43)
Assists	John Tavares (59)
Points	John Tavares (102)
Penalties in minutes	Billy Dee Smith (60)
Loose Balls	Mark Steenhuis (141)
Wins	Steve Dietrich (9)
Goals against average	Steve Dietrich (10.96)
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The Buffalo Bandits are a lacrosse team based in Buffalo playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2005 season was the 14th in franchise history.

The Bandits finished second in the east after stellar seasons from veterans John Tavares and Steve Dietrich, who was named Goaltender of the Year. They hosted the Rochester Knighthawks in the division semi-final game, but the Knighthawks defeated the Bandits 19-14, winning the right to face the eventual champion Toronto Rock in the division finals.

Regular season

Conference standings

East Division	W	L	GB	PCT	Home	Road	GF	GA
y-Toronto Rock	12	4	-	.750	6-2	6-2	227	190
x-Buffalo Bandits	11	5	1	.688	5-3	6-2	217	183
x-Rochester Knighthawks	10	6	2	.625	5-3	5-3	193	179
e-Philadelphia Wings	6	10	6	.375	3-5	3-5	213	218
e-Minnesota Swarm	5	11	7	.313	3-6	3-5	188	231
West Division
y-Calgary Roughnecks	10	6	-	.625	6-2	4-4	216	208
x-Arizona Sting	9	7	1	.563	5-3	4-4	209	209
x-Colorado Mammoth	8	8	2	.500	5-3	3-5	201	182
e-Anaheim Storm	5	11	5	.313	2-6	3-5	175	212
e-San Jose Stealth	4	12	6	.250	2-6	2-6	170	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 7	Toronto	L 15 - 13		11,067	0-1
2	January 21	@ Minnesota	W 15 - 10		13,198	1-1
3	January 22	@ Colorado	L 11 - 8		18,137	1-2
4	January 28	@ Philadelphia	W 15 - 10		8,849	2-2
5	January 29	Philadelphia	W 20 - 16		10,945	3-2
6	February 11	Anaheim	W 20 - 9		8,805	4-2
7	February 19	@ Rochester	W 11 - 7		9,961	5-2
8	February 25	Philadelphia	L 14 - 8		8,912	5-3
9	March 4	@ Toronto	W 14 - 12		17,756	6-3
10	March 11	@ Minnesota	W 23 - 16		8,254	7-3
11	March 18	Minnesota	W 13 - 11		9,116	8-3
12	March 19	@ Rochester	L 12 - 11	OT	10,102	8-4
13	March 26	Toronto	L 12 - 8		11,309	8-5
14	April 1	Rochester	W 11 - 9		10,014	9-5
15	April 9	@ Calgary	W 14 - 9		10,183	10-5
16	April 16	San Jose	W 13 - 10		12,138	11-5

Playoffs

Game log

Reference: [2]

Game	Date	Opponent	Score	OT	Attendance
Division Final	April 23	Rochester	L 19 - 14		10,014

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 Tavares	16	43	59	102	126	9
Dan Teat	16	26	39	65	84	24
Mark Steenhuis	16	34	28	62	141	23
Jason Crosbie	14	20	30	50	69	10
Delby Powless	13	20	24	44	57	4
A.J. Shannon	16	25	15	40	78	8
Aime Caines	13	13	15	28	33	10
Pat McCready	13	7	16	23	77	44
Bryan Kazarian	13	1	17	18	53	20
Totals		304	521	414	1137	40

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
Steve Dietrich	15	749:43	9	4	137	.789	10.96
Derek General	8	209:19	2	1	46	.718	13.19
Totals			11	5	183	.774	11.44

Awards

Player	Award
Steve Dietrich	Goaltender of the Year
John Tavares	First Team All-Pro
Steve Dietrich
Delby Powless	All-Rookie Team
John Tavares	Overall Player of the Month, January
John Tavares	Overall Player of the Month, March (tie with Bob Watson)
John Tavares	All-Stars
Kyle Couling
Mark Steenhuis
Dan Teat

Transactions

Trades

February 2, 2005

To Buffalo Bandits second round pick, 2005 entry draft second round pick, 2007 entry draft

To Arizona Sting Jonas Derks

Roster

Reference: [4]

No. Position Player 49 Fwd Caines, Aime 25 Def Candy, Drew 27 Def Couling, Kyle 54 Fwd Crosbie, Jason Fwd Derks, Jonas 30 Goalie Dietrich, Steve 26 Def Floris, Greg Def Francey, Tyler 85 Goalie General, Derek 7 Fwd Harasym, Jon 5 Def Hill, Clay 90 Fwd Hominuck, Mike

No. Position Player 14 Fwd Jamieson, Kyle 97 Fwd Kazarian, Bryan 16 Def Kilgour, Rich 17 Def Laverty, Kyle 23 Def McCready, Pat 63 Fwd Montour, Thomas 99 Fwd Powless, Delby 8 Fwd Shannon, A.J. 3 Def Smith, Billy Dee 9 Fwd Steenhuis, Mark 11 Fwd Tavares, John 15 Fwd Teat, Dan 6 Def White, Chris

See also

• 2005 NLL season