2000 Toronto Rock season

2000 Toronto Rock
Champion's Cup Champions
Division Champions
League	NLL
Rank	1st
2000 record	9-3
Home record	5-1
Road record	4-2
Goals for	162
Goals against	130
General Manager	John Mouradian
Coach	Les Bartley
Captain	Jim Veltman
Arena	Maple Leaf Gardens
Average attendance	13,881
Team leaders
Goals	Chris Gill (30)
Assists	Jim Veltman (37)
Points	Chris Gill (50)
Penalties in minutes	Dan Ladouceur (43)
Loose Balls	Jim Veltman (164)
Wins	Bob Watson (9)
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The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2000 season was the 3rd in franchise history and 2nd as the Rock.

The Rock finished on top of the NLL standings, winning its division for the second straight year. The Rock beat the Philadelphia Wings in the semifinals, to advance to the championship game. Their victory over the Rochester Knighthawks in this game gave them their second consecutive championship.

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	12	9	3	.750	0.0	5–1	4–2	162	130	+32	13.50	10.83
2	Buffalo Bandits – x	12	8	4	.667	1.0	5–1	3–3	202	194	+8	16.83	16.17
3	Rochester Knighthawks – x	12	8	4	.667	1.0	5–1	3–3	187	149	+38	15.58	12.42
4	Philadelphia Wings – x	12	7	5	.583	2.0	4–2	3–3	172	165	+7	14.33	13.75
5	Albany Attack	12	6	6	.500	3.0	4–2	2–4	169	160	+9	14.08	13.33
6	Pittsburgh CrosseFire	12	6	6	.500	3.0	4–2	2–4	184	164	+20	15.33	13.67
7	New York Saints	12	3	9	.250	6.0	2–4	1–5	152	194	−42	12.67	16.17
8	Syracuse Smash	12	1	11	.083	8.0	1–5	0–6	135	207	−72	11.25	17.25

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 8, 2000	@ Buffalo Bandits	Marine Midland Arena	W 17–14		7,457	1–0
2	January 21, 2000	New York Saints	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 9–5		14,026	2–0
3	January 28, 2000	@ Pittsburgh CrosseFire	Mellon Arena	W 11–9		3,217	3–0
4	February 5, 2000	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	L 9–14		10,181	3–1
5	February 11, 2000	Rochester Knighthawks	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 11–10		13,646	4–1
6	February 26, 2000	Buffalo Bandits	Maple Leaf Gardens	L 12–18		14,075	4–2
7	March 3, 2000	Syracuse Smash	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 15–10		12,012	5–2
8	March 11, 2000	@ Albany Attack	Pepsi Arena	L 7–8		4,355	5–3
9	March 25, 2000	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	First Union Center	W 15–13		16,544	6–3
10	March 31, 2000	Pittsburgh CrosseFire	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 14–10		15,050	7–3
11	April 8, 2000	Albany Attack	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 17–8		15,078	8–3
12	April 15, 2000	@ Syracuse Smash	Onondaga County War Memorial	W 25–11		1,987	9–3

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Semifinal	April 22, 2000	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 14–10		10,561	1–0
Championship Game	May 6, 2000	Rochester Knighthawks	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 14–13		14,211	2–0

Player stats

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
Chris Gill	12	30	20	50		6
Dan Stroup	12	29	17	46		6
Jim Veltman	12	7	37	44	164	10
Colin Doyle	11	16	26	42		35
Kaleb Toth	12	18	22	40		10
Kim Squire	5	14	11	25		5
Steve Toll	12	9	13	22		6
Chris Langdale	10	8	11	19		14
Ryan O'Connor	9	7	12	19		6
Glenn Clark	12	7	10	17		24
Totals		162	239	401		284

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
Bob Watson	12	679	9	3	125	.772	11.05
Pat Campbell			0	0
Totals			9	3

Awards

Player	Award
Dan Stroup	Championship Game MVP
Jim Veltman	First All-Pro Team
Bob Watson

Roster

No. Position Player 97 Def Bullen, Terry 37 Goalie Campbell, Pat 11 Def Clark, Glenn 2 Def Coyle, Pat 19 Fwd Diaron, Brad 7 Fwd Doyle, Colin 25 Fwd Gill, Chris 22 Graham, Rory 14 ?? Harrison, Dean 99 Fwd Heard, Russ 6 Def Ladouceur, Dan

No. Position Player 10 Fwd Langdale, Chris 76 Fwd Maynard, Niall 33 Fwd Millin, Ken 67 Fwd O'Connor, Ryan 93 Fwd Squire, Kim 34 ?? Squire, Rodd 8 Fwd Stroup, Dan 17 Def Toll, Steve 9 Fwd Toth, Kaleb 32 Fwd Veltman, Jim 29 Goalie Watson, Bob

See also

• 2000 NLL season

External links

• "2000 Archive". Outsider's Guide to the NLL. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2011-05-15.