2006 Arizona Sting season

2006 Arizona Sting
League	NLL
Division	4th West
2006 record	8-8
Home record	4-4
Road record	4-4
Goals for	198
Goals against	199
General Manager	Bob Hamley
Coach	Bob Hamley
Arena	Jobing.com Arena
Average attendance	8,919
Team leaders
Goals	Craig Conn (44)
Assists	Dan Dawson (48)
Points	Dan Dawson (82)
Penalties in minutes	Craig Conn (42)
Loose Balls	Bruce Codd (117)
Wins	Rob Blasdell (5)
Goals against average	Mike Miron (12.41)
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The Arizona Sting were a lacrosse team based in Phoenix, Arizona playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2006 season was the 6th in franchise history and 3rd in Arizona.

After making it to the Championship game in 2005, the Sting had a disappointing 8-8 season in 2006. The Sting upset the division-winning Portland LumberJax 14-10 in the Western Division semifinals, but the eventual champion Colorado Mammoth defeated the Sting 13-12 in Colorado in the Division finals.

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference:

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	.688	0.0	6–2	5–3	193	167	+26	12.06	10.44
2	Rochester Knighthawks – x	16	9	7	.562	2.0	6–2	3–5	196	180	+16	12.25	11.25
3	Toronto Rock – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	5–3	3–5	182	179	+3	11.38	11.19
4	Minnesota Swarm – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	3–5	5–3	158	171	−13	9.88	10.69
5	Philadelphia Wings	16	8	8	.500	3.0	5–3	3–5	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	.688	0.0	5–3	6–2	188	177	+11	11.75	11.06
2	Colorado Mammoth – x	16	10	6	.625	1.0	6–2	4–4	200	172	+28	12.50	10.75
3	Calgary Roughnecks – x	16	9	7	.562	2.0	4–4	5–3	183	178	+5	11.44	11.12
4	Arizona Sting – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	4–4	4–4	198	199	−1	12.38	12.44
5	San Jose Stealth	16	5	11	.312	6.0	3–5	2–6	151	174	−23	9.44	10.88
6	Edmonton Rush	16	1	15	.062	10.0	0–8	1–7	150	202	−52	9.38	12.62

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: Losses; GB: 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:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 7, 2006	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	W 14–13	OT	17,527	1–0
2	January 13, 2006	Portland LumberJax	Jobing.com Arena	W 12–7		6,127	2–0
3	January 27, 2006	Calgary Roughnecks	Jobing.com Arena	W 11–10	OT	6,326	3–0
4	February 3, 2006	Colorado Mammoth	Jobing.com Arena	L 17–18	OT	6,373	3–1
5	February 11, 2006	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	L 14–16		9,386	3–2
6	February 18, 2006	Calgary Roughnecks	Jobing.com Arena	L 7–13		6,535	3–3
7	March 4, 2006	@ Edmonton Rush	Rexall Place	W 15–11		9,684	4–3
8	March 10, 2006	Edmonton Rush	Jobing.com Arena	W 13–9		6,705	5–3
9	March 11, 2006	@ Portland LumberJax	Rose Garden	L 10–12		7,803	5–4
10	March 18, 2006	Colorado Mammoth	Jobing.com Arena	L 11–15		6,420	5–5
11	March 25, 2006	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wachovia Center	W 13–12		11,693	6–5
12	April 1, 2006	Buffalo Bandits	Jobing.com Arena	L 10–13		6,759	6–6
13	April 2, 2006	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 11–16		16,435	6–7
14	April 8, 2006	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Pengrowth Saddledome	L 12–14		12,173	6–8
15	April 14, 2006	San Jose Stealth	Jobing.com Arena	W 16–13		6,575	7–8
16	April 15, 2006	@ San Jose Stealth	HP Pavilion at San Jose	W 12–7		6,188	8–8

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Division Semifinal	April 22, 2006	@ Portland LumberJax	Rose Garden	W 14–11		10,843	1–0
Division Final	April 29, 2006	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 12–13		12,537	1–1

Player stats

Reference:

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
Dan Dawson	16	34	48	82	76	8
Craig Conn	15	44	23	67	91	42
Pat Maddalena	15	24	34	58	58	6
Jonas Derks	10	18	24	42	42	8
Jason Crosbie	9	12	29	41	30	7
Matt Brown	16	16	19	35	47	6
Lindsay Plunkett	6	8	16	24	20	4
Curt Malawsky	8	10	11	21	30	4
Peter Veltman	15	7	13	20	50	20
Totals		318	516	235	1045	36

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
Rob Blasdell	15	621:59	5	5	129	.737	12.44
Mike Miron	16	338:27	3	3	70	.742	12.41
Ken Montour	0	0:00	0	0	0	.000	.00
Totals			8	8	199	.739	12.44

Awards

Player	Award
Craig Conn	Second Team All-Pro
Dan Dawson
Craig Conn	All-Stars
Bruce Codd
Jonas Derks
Peter Lough
Scott Self

Transactions

Trades

March 23, 2006

To Arizona Sting Lindsay Plunkett fourth round pick, 2007 entry draft

To Buffalo Bandits Jason Crosbie

Roster

Reference:

No. Position Player 31 Goalie Blasdell, Rob 16 Fwd Brown, Matt Fwd Clark, Jason 5 ? Cochrane, Mark 9 Def Codd, Bruce 8 Fwd Conn, Craig Fwd Crosbie, Jason 6 Fwd Dawson, Dan 43 Fwd Derks, Jonas 14 Def Guindon, Andrew 18 Def Halls, Darren 17 Def Hinman, Greg 4 Fwd Lazore, Andrew

No. Position Player 27 Def Lough, Peter 42 Fwd Maddalena, Pat 11 Fwd Malawsky, Curt 36 Fwd McKay, Chris 19 Fwd McLellan, Mike 41 Goalie Miron, Mike Goalie Montour, Ken 10 Def Murray, Bruce 12 Fwd Plunkett, Lindsay 21 Fwd Secore, Andy 7 Def Self, Scott 24 Def Seller, Chris 33 Fwd Veltman, Peter

See also

• 2006 NLL season