2007 Buffalo Bandits season

2007 Buffalo Bandits
Division	2nd East
2007 record	10-6
Home record	6-2
Road record	4-4
Goals for	249
Goals against	194
General Manager	Darris Kilgour
Coach	Darris Kilgour
Captain	Richie Kilgour
Alternate captains	John Tavares
Arena	HSBC Arena
Average attendance	12,760
Team leaders
Goals	John Tavares (42)
Assists	John Tavares (61)
Points	John Tavares (103)
Penalties in minutes	Kyle Laverty (66)
Loose Balls	Pat McCready (126)
Wins	Steve Dietrich (5) Mike Thompson (5)
Goals against average	Steve Dietrich (11.54)
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The Buffalo Bandits are a lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2007 season was the franchise's 16th season, and was almost a repeat of their 2006 season. After winning the East with a 11-5 record in 2006, the Bandits finished 2nd with a 10-6 record in 2007. Once again they dispatched Minnesota in the division semi-finals, and once again met Rochester in the division finals. This time however, Rochester would take the division on their way to the Championship, beating the Bandits 14-13 in overtime.

Regular season

Conference standings

East Division	W	L	GB	PCT	Home	Road	GF	GA
y-Rochester Knighthawks	14	2	-	.875	8-0	6-2	249	194
x-Buffalo Bandits	10	6	4	.625	6-2	4-4	207	188
x-Minnesota Swarm	9	7	5	.563	4-4	5-3	200	207
x-Toronto Rock	6	10	8	.375	3-5	3-5	187	183
e-Chicago Shamrox	6	10	8	.375	4-4	2-6	176	191
e-Philadelphia Wings	6	10	8	.375	4-4	2-6	178	186
e-New York Titans	4	12	10	.250	3-5	1-7	195	233
West Division
y-Colorado Mammoth	12	4	-	.750	7-1	5-3	209	179
x-Calgary Roughnecks	9	7	3	.563	4-4	5-3	219	202
x-Arizona Sting	9	7	3	.563	6-2	3-5	188	181
x-San Jose Stealth	9	7	3	.563	4-4	5-3	181	170
e-Edmonton Rush	6	10	6	.375	4-4	2-6	160	189
e-Portland LumberJax	4	12	8	.250	3-5	1-7	153	199

x - clinched playoff spot, y - clinched division title, e - eliminated from playoff contention

Game log

Reference: [1]

#	Date	Opponent	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	December 30	@ Portland	L 11 - 10	OT	8,437	0-1
2	January 12	New York	W 16 - 14		18,690	1-1
3	January 13	@ Colorado	L 11 - 10	OT	16,523	1-2
4	January 20	Minnesota	W 22 - 13		12,883	2-2
5	February 2	Toronto	L 14 - 10		13,659	2-3
6	February 3	@ Toronto	L 13 - 8		15,471	2-4
7	February 11	@ Chicago	W 12 - 11		5,010	3-4
8	February 17	@ Philadelphia	W 12 - 8		12,688	4-4
9	February 24	Philadelphia	W 13 - 12		14,882	5-4
10	March 4	@ Minnesota	W 16 - 15		7,504	6-4
11	March 17	@ New York	W 11 - 8		7,012	7-4
12	March 24	Colorado	W 19 - 15		15,156	8-4
13	March 31	Chicago	W 15 - 10		16,228	9-4
14	April 7	Arizona	W 15 - 5		13,492	10-4
15	April 13	Rochester	L 14 - 10		15,334	10-5
16	April 14	@ Rochester	L 14 - 8		11,200	10-6

Playoffs

Game log

Reference: [2]

Game	Date	Opponent	Score	OT	Attendance
Division Semifinal	April 22	Minnesota	W 14 - 8		9,003
Division Final	April 27	@ Rochester	L 14 - 13	OT	8,558

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	15	42	61	103	77	6
Kevin Dostie	16	29	33	62	96	15
Dan Teat	16	20	30	50	64	14
Mark Steenhuis	15	25	24	49	108	4
Cory Bomberry	15	16	33	49	46	13
Delby Powless	15	21	22	43	50	4
Brett Bucktooth	11	12	14	26	57	14
Jason Crosbie	12	11	14	25	53	8
Roger Vyse	12	12	12	24	46	0
Totals		310	517	381	1034	52

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
Mike Thompson	16	511:39	5	4	103	.759	12.08
Steve Dietrich	14	431:22	5	2	83	.777	11.54
Daniel Sams	2	15:00	0	0	2	.778	8.00
Totals			10	6	188	.768	11.75

Awards

Player	Award
Dave Zygaj	NLL Executive of the Year
John Tavares	First Team All-Pro
John Tavares	Overall player of the Month, March
John Tavares	All-Stars
Mark Steenhuis
Pat McCready

Transactions

Trades

March 16, 2007

To Buffalo Bandits Phil Sanderson

To Toronto Rock first round pick, 2007 entry draft

Roster

Reference: [4]

No. Position Player 72 Fwd Bomberry, Cory 2 Def Bonterre, Troy 26 Fwd Bucktooth, Brett 27 Def Couling, Kyle 54 Fwd Crosbie, Jason 30 Goalie Dietrich, Steve 51 Fwd Dostie, Kevin Fwd Henderson, Tony 5 Def Hill, Clay 16 Trans Kilgour, Rich 17 Def Laverty, Kyle 10 Trans McCready, Pat

No. Position Player 99 Fwd Powless, Delby 86 Goalie Sams, Daniel 18 Def Sanderson, Phil 21 Def Seymour, Daryl 3 Def Smith, Billy Dee Def Sorci, Tony 9 Trans Steenhuis, Mark 11 Fwd Tavares, John 15 Fwd Teat, Dan 19 Fwd Thenhaus, Brenden 66 Goalie Thompson, Mike 81 Fwd Vyse, Roger 6 Def White, Chris

See also

• 2007 NLL season