2006 Rochester Knighthawks season

2006 Rochester Knighthawks
League	NLL
Division	2nd East
2006 record	9-7
Home record	6-2
Road record	3-5
Goals for	196
Goals against	180
General Manager	Jody Gage
Coach	Ed Comeau
Captain	Mike Hasen
Alternate captains	Shawn Williams John Grant, Jr.
Arena	Blue Cross Arena
Average attendance	10,657
Team leaders
Goals	John Grant, Jr. (54)
Assists	Shawn Williams (49)
Points	John Grant, Jr. (97)
Penalties in minutes	Shawn Evans (59)
Loose Balls	Steve Toll (119)
Wins	Pat O'Toole (9)
Goals against average	Pat O'Toole (10.93)
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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 2006 season was the 12th 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	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	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 11–12		16,850	0–1
2	January 14, 2006	Toronto Rock	Blue Cross Arena	W 14–9		10,156	1–1
3	January 21, 2006	@ Minnesota Swarm	Xcel Energy Center	W 12–6		7,124	2–1
4	January 28, 2006	Buffalo Bandits	Blue Cross Arena	W 11–10	OT	11,121	3–1
5	January 29, 2006	@ Minnesota Swarm	Xcel Energy Center	W 10–9		7,544	4–1
6	February 10, 2006	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	L 10–11	OT	16,235	4–2
7	February 11, 2006	Arizona Sting	Blue Cross Arena	W 16–14		9,386	5–2
8	February 18, 2006	San Jose Stealth	Blue Cross Arena	L 12–13		9,731	5–3
9	March 4, 2006	@ Portland LumberJax	Rose Garden	W 18–16		6,183	6–3
10	March 10, 2006	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Blue Cross Arena	W 17–8		9,052	7–3
11	March 11, 2006	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wachovia Center	L 12–16		10,959	7–4
12	March 18, 2006	Buffalo Bandits	Blue Cross Arena	L 13–14	OT	10,209	7–5
13	March 25, 2006	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	L 13–18		13,722	7–6
14	April 1, 2006	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wachovia Center	L 7–8		12,001	7–7
15	April 8, 2006	Minnesota Swarm	Blue Cross Arena	W 10–9		10,352	8–7
16	April 15, 2006	Toronto Rock	Blue Cross Arena	W 10–7		9,899	9–7

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Division Semifinal	April 22, 2006	Toronto Rock	Blue Cross Arena	W 16–8		7,295	1–0
Division Final	April 29, 2006	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	L 10–15		10,897	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
John Grant, Jr.	16	54	43	97	86	22
Shawn Williams	16	31	49	80	68	14
Scott Evans	16	22	48	70	81	55
Mike Accursi	16	27	36	63	61	10
Shawn Evans	15	21	16	37	110	59
Steve Toll	16	14	18	32	119	6
Ken Millin	11	4	12	16	20	0
Ryan O'Connor	7	5	6	11	7	11
Pat Dutton	10	4	7	11	39	4
Totals		281	477	387	1094	49

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	927:35	9	6	169	.780	10.93
Grant Crawley	16	29:03	0	1	9	.400	18.59
Totals			9	7	180	.770	11.25

Awards

Player	Award
John Grant, Jr.	First Team All-Pro
Shawn Evans	All-Rookie Team
John Grant, Jr.	Overall Player of the Month, January
John Grant, Jr.	All-Stars
Steve Toll
Marshall Abrams
Shawn Williams

Transactions

Trades

March 14, 2006

To Rochester Knighthawks third round pick, 2006 entry draft

To Colorado Mammoth Andrew Burkholder

Roster

Reference:

No. Position Player 43 Def Abrams, Marshall 44 Fwd Accursi, Mike Fwd Burkholder, Andrew 5 Fwd Chapman, Sandy Def Cougevan, Pat 52 Goalie Crawley, Grant 12 Fwd Croswell, Brian 25 Def Ditzell, Scott 7 Fwd Dutton, Pat 19 Fwd Evans, Scott 15 Fwd Evans, Shawn 24 Fwd Grant, John

No. Position Player 21 Fwd Greer, Bill 10 Def Hasen, Mike 23 Def Hoar, Stephen 4 Def Livingstone, Carter 26 ? Miller, Blake 32 Fwd Millin, Ken 14 Fwd O'Connor, Ryan 39 Goalie O'Toole, Pat 20 Def Penny, Steve 2 Def Schiller, Chris 11 Def Thorpe, Regy 17 Def Toll, Steve 51 Fwd Williams, Shawn

See also

• 2006 NLL season