2008 Edmonton Rush season

2008 Edmonton Rush
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	9,639
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

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	@ Colorado	L 14 - 11		17,520	0-1
2	January 19	Toronto	L 14 - 9		12,107	0-2
3	January 26	@ Chicago	L 17 - 11		5,107	0-3
4	February 2	Portland	L 11 - 10		7,072	0-4
5	February 17	@ Portland	L 14 - 8		6,793	0-5
6	February 23	San Jose	L 11 - 8		9,032	0-6
7	March 1	@ Portland	W 9 - 7		7,744	1-6
8	March 15	Rochester	W 10 - 9	OT	6,711	2-6
9	March 21	@ Toronto	L 14 - 9		14,312	2-7
10	March 29	San Jose	W 12 - 5		7,250	3-7
11	April 5	Calgary	W 11 - 9		9,433	4-7
12	April 12	@ Calgary	L 18 - 7		12,451	4-8
13	April 13	@ San Jose	L 14 - 6		1,437	4-9
14	April 18	@ Colorado	L 15 - 4		18,301	4-10
15	April 19	Colorado	L 13 - 8		8,142	4-11
16	April 26	Calgary	L 12 - 8		10,817	4-12

Player stats

Reference: [2]

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	To Colorado Mammoth **2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson
July 24, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Mike Accursi	To Rochester Knighthawks 1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Sid Smith
July 31, 2007	To Edmonton Rush *2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson	To Colorado Mammoth Jason Wulder
September 2, 2007	To Edmonton Rush 2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Steve Hutchins	To Boston Blazers Dan Finck *2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson
September 2, 2007	To Edmonton Rush 4th round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Steve Conrad **2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Steven Brooks	To Philadelphia Wings 2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - David Mitchell
September 29, 2007	To Edmonton Rush 5th round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Shane Lopatynski	To Boston Blazers Ryan O'Connor
November 5, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Matt Disher	To Minnesota Swarm 1st round pick in 2007 Dispersal Draft - Andy Secore
November 27, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Mike Grimes	To Minnesota Swarm 4th round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Ricky Pages
November 27, 2007	To Edmonton Rush Ian Hawksbee	To San Jose Stealth 1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Paul Rabil
January 30, 2008	To Edmonton Rush ***3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Brendan Loftus	To Calgary Roughnecks Chris Seller
February 29, 2008	To Edmonton Rush Brendan Thenhaus	To Philadelphia Wings 3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Mike Leveille
March 5, 2008	To Edmonton Rush Mike Hominuck (from Minnesota) 1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft (from Minnesota) - Jamie Floris	To Minnesota Swarm Keith Cromwell (from Philadelphia) Dan Marohl (from Philadelphia) ****2nd round pick in 2009 Entry Draft (from Edmonton) - Matt Beers	To Philadelphia Wings A.J. Shannon (from Edmonton) 4th round pick in 2008 Entry Draft (from Minnesota) - Jordan Levine
March 5, 2008	To Edmonton Rush Lindsay Plunkett	To Chicago Shamrox Conditional 3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft Conditional 3rd round pick in 2009 Entry Draft
March 25, 2008	To Edmonton Rush Matt King Ian Crashley *****1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Joel Dalgarno	To Portland LumberJax Matt Disher 4th round pick in 2009 Entry Draft
March 25, 2008	To Edmonton Rush Dan Teat ******2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Matt Bocklet 1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Corey Small	To Buffalo Bandits Mike Accursi
March 25, 2008	To Edmonton Rush *******1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Matt Danowski	To Colorado Mammoth Chris Gill ********2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Cayle Ratcliff

*Later traded to the Boston Blazers
**Later traded to the Chiacgo 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

Roster

Reference: [3]

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