2001 Philadelphia Wings season

2001 Philadelphia Wings
Champion's Cup Champions
League	NLL
Rank	2nd
2001 record	10-4
Home record	6-1
Road record	4-3
Goals for	205
Goals against	177
Coach	Tony Resch
Captain	Dave Stilley
Arena	Wachovia Center
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The 2001 Philadelphia Wings season marked the team's fifteenth season of operation.

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference:

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Toronto Rock – xyz	14	11	3	.786	0.0	6–1	5–2	168	125	+43	12.00	8.93
2	Philadelphia Wings – x	14	10	4	.714	1.0	6–1	4–3	205	177	+28	14.64	12.64
3	Rochester Knighthawks – x	14	10	4	.714	1.0	6–1	4–3	198	159	+39	14.14	11.36
4	Washington Power – x	14	9	5	.643	2.0	4–3	5–2	226	204	+22	16.14	14.57
5	Buffalo Bandits	14	8	6	.571	3.0	4–3	4–3	248	218	+30	17.71	15.57
6	New York Saints	14	6	8	.429	5.0	3–4	3–4	179	181	−2	12.79	12.93
7	Albany Attack	14	5	9	.357	6.0	3–4	2–5	152	169	−17	10.86	12.07
8	Columbus Landsharks	14	3	11	.214	8.0	1–6	2–5	134	201	−67	9.57	14.36
9	Ottawa Rebel	14	1	13	.071	10.0	0–7	1–6	144	220	−76	10.29	15.71

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	December 30, 2000	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 17–16		9,870	1–0
2	January 12, 2001	Ottawa Rebel	Wachovia Center	W 17–8		14,386	2–0
3	January 20, 2001	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	L 18–26		8,261	2–1
4	January 27, 2001	Albany Attack	Wachovia Center	W 18–9		15,392	3–1
5	February 3, 2001	Rochester Knighthawks	Wachovia Center	W 14–12		15,186	4–1
6	February 9, 2001	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	L 11–17		15,497	4–2
7	February 10, 2001	@ New York Saints	Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	W 13–12		5,791	5–2
8	February 24, 2001	Buffalo Bandits	Wachovia Center	W 17–12		16,566	6–2
9	March 10, 2001	Toronto Rock	Wachovia Center	L 7–11		13,485	6–3
10	March 17, 2001	New York Saints	Wachovia Center	W 14–10		14,421	7–3
11	March 31, 2001	Washington Power	Wachovia Center	W 14–13		16,779	8–3
12	April 1, 2001	@ Washington Power	MCI Center	L 19–20		4,146	8–4
13	April 7, 2001	@ Columbus Landsharks	Nationwide Arena	W 17–7		6,023	9–4
14	April 14, 2001	@ Albany Attack	Pepsi Arena	W 9–4		3,906	10–4

Playoffs

Tom Marechek on the 2001 Wings team, “I’d say the last world championship when the Wings won in 2001 in Toronto. We shocked the whole league winning as underdogs, but we were confident. We had a bunch of scrappy American defenders and a handful of Canadians. We went into Toronto with an attitude.

They won it the two years before that and we did not play tough against them. That year, 2001, we put it together and we gelled at the right time. That was definitely the biggest highlight in my 12-year career as a Wing.”

Game log

Reference:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Semifinals	April 20, 2001	Rochester Knighthawks	Wachovia Center	W 12–11		10,259	1–0
Championship Game	April 27, 2001	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	W 9–8		19,409	2–0

Roster

Reference:

No. Position Player 66 Fwd Bergey, Jake PS Def Brzeski, Richard 41 Fwd Busza, Michael PS Def Ceglia, Joe 13 Fwd Clark, Jason 98 Fwd D'Alonzo, Jesse 3 Goalie Dougherty, Brian 35 Goalie Eliuk, Dallas 11 Fwd Finneran, Kevin 19 Def Gagliardi, John 5 Def Hanford, Jamie 24 Def Jacobs, Peter 56 Fwd Jalbert, Jay 10 Def Kaiser, Kevin

No. Position Player 42 Fwd Marechek, Tom 9 Fwd Millon, Mark 51 Fwd Panos, Chris 4 Fwd Phair, Tom 55 Def Radebaugh, Dan 90 Fwd Ratcliffe, Jeff 17 Fwd Ryan, Tom 0 Goalie Sanderson, Chris PS Fwd Schiller, Chris 37 Def Shirk, Jeff #43 Defense Slate, Tom 77 Def Stilley, David 61 Fwd Traynor, Greg

See also

• Philadelphia Wings
• 2001 NLL season
• Toronto Rock - Philadelphia Wings Finals Highlights