2008 Rochester Knighthawks season

2008 Rochester Knighthawks
League	NLL
Division	5th East
2008 record	8-8
Home record	4-4
Road record	4-4
Goals for	197
Goals against	171
General Manager	Jody Gage
Coach	Ed Comeau
Captain	Regy Thorpe
Alternate captains	Shawn Williams John Grant, Jr.
Arena	Blue Cross Arena
Average attendance	10,691
Team leaders
Goals	John Grant, Jr. (47)
Assists	Shawn Williams (55)
Points	John Grant, Jr. (92)
Penalties in minutes	Shawn Evans (63)
Loose Balls	Steve Toll (166)
Wins	Pat O'Toole (8)
Goals against average	Pat O'Toole (10.52)
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The Rochester Knighthawks were a lacrosse team based in Rochester, New York, that played in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2008 season was the 14th in franchise history.

After finishing the 2007 season with a 14-game winning stream winning the Champion's Cup, the Knighthawks hoped to continue their success into 2008. They continued their winning streak by beating the Buffalo Bandits in the season opener, but then lost the next three. The Knighthawks finished with an 8-8 record, good for 5th place in the Eastern division, and missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.

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	10	6	.625	0.0	7–2	3–4	203	174	+29	12.69	10.88
2	Minnesota Swarm – x	16	10	6	.625	0.0	6–2	4–4	199	196	+3	12.44	12.25
3	New York Titans – x	16	10	6	.625	0.0	5–1	5–5	197	186	+11	12.31	11.62
4	Philadelphia Wings – x	16	10	6	.625	0.0	7–1	3–5	225	220	+5	14.06	13.75
5	Rochester Knighthawks	16	8	8	.500	2.0	4–4	4–4	197	171	+26	12.31	10.69
6	Toronto Rock	16	7	9	.438	3.0	4–5	3–4	172	174	−2	10.75	10.88
7	Chicago Shamrox	16	6	10	.375	4.0	3–5	3–5	176	212	−36	11.00	13.25

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	San Jose Stealth – xy	16	9	7	.562	0.0	4–4	5–3	185	172	+13	11.56	10.75
2	Colorado Mammoth – x	16	9	7	.562	0.0	6–2	3–5	184	167	+17	11.50	10.44
3	Calgary Roughnecks – x	16	7	9	.438	2.0	5–3	2–6	183	178	+5	11.44	11.12
4	Portland LumberJax – x	16	6	10	.375	3.0	3–5	3–5	179	194	−15	11.19	12.12
5	Edmonton Rush	16	4	12	.250	5.0	3–5	1–7	141	197	−56	8.81	12.31

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 11, 2008	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	W 12–9		18,670	1–0
2	January 12, 2008	Buffalo Bandits	Blue Cross Arena	L 9–14		10,939	1–1
3	January 18, 2008	@ Philadelphia Wings	Wachovia Center	L 14–15		9,248	1–2
4	January 26, 2008	Minnesota Swarm	Blue Cross Arena	L 17–18	OT	9,686	1–3
5	February 9, 2008	Toronto Rock	Blue Cross Arena	W 11–4		9,925	2–3
6	February 16, 2008	Calgary Roughnecks	Blue Cross Arena	W 15–12		8,871	3–3
7	February 23, 2008	New York Titans	Blue Cross Arena	L 11–14		10,118	3–4
8	March 1, 2008	@ Chicago Shamrox	Sears Centre	W 18–8		5,335	4–4
9	March 15, 2008	@ Edmonton Rush	Rexall Place	L 9–10	OT	6,711	4–5
10	March 22, 2008	Chicago Shamrox	Blue Cross Arena	L 11–12		10,221	4–6
11	March 29, 2008	Philadelphia Wings	Blue Cross Arena	W 20–12		8,940	5–6
12	April 3, 2008	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 8–11		16,860	5–7
13	April 5, 2008	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	W 9–6		15,422	6–7
14	April 12, 2008	Buffalo Bandits	Blue Cross Arena	W 11–6		10,517	7–7
15	April 19, 2008	@ Minnesota Swarm	Xcel Energy Center	W 11–8		11,568	8–7
16	April 26, 2008	@ New York Titans	Madison Square Garden	L 11–12		8,026	8–8

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
John Grant, Jr.	16	47	45	92	116	16
Shawn Williams	16	25	55	80	64	2
Scott Evans	16	44	34	78	88	28
Shawn Evans	15	25	38	63	61	63
Ken Millin	15	8	25	33	49	8
Steve Toll	16	7	25	32	166	8
Stephen Hoar	16	5	17	22	76	36
Sandy Chapman	16	1	15	16	77	12
Matt Lyons	12	9	6	15	26	9
Totals		317	514	375	1167	44

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
Pat O'Toole	16	889:25	8	6	156	.776	10.52
Phil Wetherup	15	71:39	0	2	13	.759	10.89
Grant Crawley	1	4:30	0	0	0	1.000	.00
Totals			8	8	171	.773	10.69

Awards

Player	Award
John Grant, Jr.	All-Stars
Scott Evans
Steve Toll
Shawn Williams

Roster

Reference:

No. Position Player 43 Def Abrams, Marshall 26 Def Brown, David ? Bucktooth, Drew 5 Def Chapman, Sandy 42 Def Cougevan, Pat 52 Goalie Crawley, Grant 25 Def Ditzell, Scott Def Dutton, Pat 19 Fwd Evans (sc), Scott 15 Fwd Evans (sh), Shawn Def Forget, Luke 24 Fwd Grant, John 20 Def Greer, Bill 23 Trans Hoar, Stephen

No. Position Player 21 Fwd Lyons, Matt 14 Fwd McLeod, Mat 32 Fwd Millin, Ken 39 Goalie O'Toole, Pat 16 Fwd Potter, Andrew 18 Def Reid, Jack 2 Trans Schiller, Chris Fwd Spillett, Brandon 11 Def Thorpe, Regy 17 Trans Toll, Steve 22 ? Vitarelli, Cory 90 Goalie Wetherup, Phil ? Wilkins, Shawn 51 Fwd Williams, Shawn

See also

• 2008 NLL season