2023 Toronto Rock season

2023 Toronto Rock
League	NLL
Division	East
2023 record	13-5
Home record	8-1
Road record	5-4
Goals for	234
Goals against	164
General Manager	Jamie Dawick
Coach	Matt Sawyer
Captain	Challen Rogers
Alternate captains	Rob Hellyer Bill Hostrawser Brad Kri Tom Schreiber
Arena	FirstOntario Centre
Average attendance	9,423
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The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Hamilton, Ontario playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2023 season is the 25th in franchise history, and 24th as the Rock.

Regular season

Final standings

Reference:

East Conference

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Buffalo Bandits – xyz	18	14	4	.778	0.0	7–2	7–2	215	191	+24	11.94	10.61
2	Toronto Rock – x	18	13	5	.722	1.0	8–1	5–4	234	164	+70	13.00	9.11
3	Halifax Thunderbirds – x	18	10	8	.556	4.0	5–4	5–4	238	210	+28	13.22	11.67
4	Rochester Knighthawks – x	18	10	8	.556	4.0	6–3	4–5	218	214	+4	12.11	11.89
5	Philadelphia Wings	18	9	9	.500	5.0	4–5	5–4	200	211	−11	11.11	11.72
6	Georgia Swarm	18	8	10	.444	6.0	3–6	5–4	219	207	+12	12.17	11.50
7	New York Riptide	18	5	13	.278	9.0	3–6	2–7	201	243	−42	11.17	13.50
8	Albany FireWolves	18	3	15	.167	11.0	0–9	3–6	167	233	−66	9.28	12.94

West Conference

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	San Diego Seals – xy	18	14	4	.778	0.0	7–2	7–2	240	193	+47	13.33	10.72
2	Calgary Roughnecks – x	18	13	5	.722	1.0	7–2	6–3	218	167	+51	12.11	9.28
3	Panther City Lacrosse Club – x	18	10	8	.556	4.0	6–3	4–5	204	193	+11	11.33	10.72
4	Colorado Mammoth – x	18	9	9	.500	5.0	7–2	2–7	190	208	−18	10.56	11.56
5	Saskatchewan Rush	18	8	10	.444	6.0	5–4	3–6	204	212	−8	11.33	11.78
6	Las Vegas Desert Dogs	18	5	13	.278	9.0	4–5	1–8	179	222	−43	9.94	12.33
7	Vancouver Warriors	18	4	14	.222	10.0	2–7	2–7	188	247	−59	10.44	13.72

Game log

Regular season

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	December 3, 2022	Vancouver Warriors	FirstOntario Centre	W 19–8		7,344	1–0
2	December 10, 2022	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	L 7–11		4,157	1–1
3	December 17, 2022	Buffalo Bandits	FirstOntario Centre	L 8–11		7,730	1–2
4	January 7, 2023	@ New York Riptide	Nassau Live Center	W 15–7		4,138	2–2
5	January 14, 2023	Halifax Thunderbirds	FirstOntario Centre	W 17–8		9,304	3–2
6	January 21, 2023	@ Philadelphia Wings	Wells Fargo Center	W 14–5		7,330	4–2
7	January 28, 2023	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	W 11–10	OT	9,037	5–2
8	February 4, 2023	New York Riptide	FirstOntario Centre	W 22–14		9,419	6–2
9	February 10, 2023	@ Georgia Swarm	Gas South Arena	W 11–10		8,544	7–2
10	February 18, 2023	Georgia Swarm	FirstOntario Centre	W 16–7		8,912	8–2
11	March 4, 2023	Rochester Knighthawks	FirstOntario Centre	W 9–8		10,229	9–2
12	March 6, 2023	@ Philadelphia Wings	Wells Fargo Center	L 10–11		6,180	9–3
13	March 11, 2023	Albany FireWolves	FirstOntario Centre	W 12–9		8,421	10–3
14	March 18, 2023	@ Halifax Thunderbirds	Scotiabank Centre	L 12–14		9,957	10–4
15	March 25, 2023	@ Albany FireWolves	MVP Arena	W 11–9		3,849	11–4
16	April 1, 2023	Buffalo Bandits	FirstOntario Centre	W 17–8		13,127	12–4
17	April 15, 2023	Philadelphia Wings	FirstOntario Centre	W 12–7		10,320	13–4
18	April 22, 2023	@ Buffalo Bandits	KeyBank Center	L 10–11		16,861	13–5

Playoffs

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Eastern Conference Quarterfinals	May 5, 2023	Halifax Thunderbirds	FirstOntario Centre	W 15–11		8,831	1–0
Eastern Conference finals (game 1)	May 12, 2023	@ Buffalo Bandits	KeyBank Center	L 5–14		11,510	1–1
Eastern Conference finals (game 2)	May 13, 2023	Buffalo Bandits	FirstOntario Centre	L 8–17		8,304	1–2

Roster

Toronto Rock roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders  1 Riley Hutchcraft 66 Nick Rose Defensemen 71 Sheldon Burns 21 Mitch de Snoo 42 Jamison Dilks 45 Damon Edwards 93 Latrell Harris 91 Billy Hostrawser (A)  3 T. D. Ierlan 33 Josh Jubenville 20 Bradley Kri (A) 22 Jason Noble 61 Brandon Slade (D)		Forwards 25 Dan Craig  6 Dan Dawson 10 Rob Hellyer (A)  2 Zach Manns 97 Reid Reinholdt 19 Justin Scott 26 Tom Schreiber (A) Transition 14 Phil Mazzuca 23 Challen Rogers (C)		Practice Squad 17 Aaron Forster (F) 92 Troy Holowchuk (G) Injured Reserve 47 Adam Jay (D) 55 Chris Weier (D) Holdout 51 Jordan McKenna (D)		Head Coach Matt Sawyer Assistant Coaches Bruce Codd Blaine Manning Brandon Miller Legend * Suspended list (C) Captain (A) Alternate captain Roster updated 2022-3-1 NLL Transactions

Entry Draft

The 2022 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 10, 2022. The Toronto Rock made the following selections:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
2	28	Josh Dawick	Whitby Jr A – University of Denver
2	35	Tyler Hendrycks	Peterborough Jr A – High Point University
2	36	Brian Cameron	Rutgers University
2	41	Sam Haines	Oakville Buzz Jr A
3	56	Tucker Dordevic	Syracuse
4	71	Marley Angus	Oakville Jr A – Rochester Institute of Technology
5	87	Brendan Nichtern	Army
6	102	Brett Makar	University of Maryland