2012 Toronto Rock season

The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2012 season was the 15th in franchise history, and 14th as the Rock.

2012 Toronto Rock
League	NLL
Division	1st East
2012 record	9–7
Home record	3–5
Road record	6–2
Goals for	198
Goals against	196
General Manager	Terry Sanderson
Coach	Troy Cordingley
Captain	Colin Doyle
Alternate captains	Sandy Chapman Blaine Manning Phil Sanderson Cam Woods
Arena	Air Canada Centre
Average attendance	11,173
Team leaders
Goals	Garrett Billings (32)
Assists	Garrett Billings (82)
Points	Garrett Billings (114)
Penalties in minutes	Patrick Merrill (48)
Loose Balls	Sandy Chapman (83)
Wins	Nick Rose (5)
Goals against average	Nick Rose (10.69)
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After the retirement of Bob Watson, the Rock needed to fill the starting goaltender spot for the first time in franchise history. In July, the Rock traded defender Kyle Ross to the Washington Stealth for Matt Roik, a 10-year NLL veteran.[1] The Rock lost their first two games of the season, but then won four of their next five. Roik was named Defensive Player of the Week in week 5[2] and was also named to the Eastern All-Star team.[3] But the team lost their next three games, including a 21–14 blowout to the Buffalo Bandits, and management felt a change needed to be made. They sent a draft pick to the Calgary Roughnecks for backup goaltender Nick Rose and released Roik.[4]

The Rock won five of their final six regular season games, finishing the season with a 9–7 record, good enough for first in the Eastern division. In the division semi-finals, they once again faced the Bandits, who had beaten the Rock in 2 of their 3 matchups in the regular season. With stellar goaltending performances by both Rose and former Rock goalie Anthony Cosmo, the Rock defeated the Bandits 7–6 to advance to their third straight Eastern final.

The Rock hosted the Rochester Knighthawks, who had a 4–18 all-time record in Toronto and hadn't beaten the Rock in Toronto since 2008.[5] But the Knighthawks scored early and often, and despite being down by only two at the half, the Rock were never able to regain the lead and Rochester advanced to the Championship game by beating the Rock 17–13.

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference: [6]

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Toronto Rock – xy	16	9	7	.562	0.0	3–5	6–2	198	196	+2	12.38	12.25
2	Rochester Knighthawks – x	16	7	9	.438	2.0	5–3	2–6	191	197	-6	11.94	12.31
3	Philadelphia Wings – x	16	7	9	.438	2.0	3–5	4–4	176	207	-31	11.00	12.94
4	Buffalo Bandits – x	16	7	9	.438	2.0	4–4	3–5	198	204	-6	12.38	12.75

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Calgary Roughnecks – xyz	16	12	4	.750	0.0	5–3	7–1	216	170	+46	13.50	10.62
2	Colorado Mammoth – x	16	11	5	.688	1.0	5–3	6–2	217	201	+16	13.56	12.56
3	Minnesota Swarm – x	16	9	7	.562	3.0	6–2	3–5	202	190	+12	12.62	11.88
4	Edmonton Rush – x	16	6	10	.375	6.0	4–4	2–6	167	175	-8	10.44	10.94
5	Washington Stealth	16	4	12	.250	8.0	2–6	2–6	179	204	-25	11.19	12.75

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:[7]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 8, 2012	Calgary Roughnecks	Air Canada Centre	L 9–12		10,341	0–1
2	January 14, 2012	@ Buffalo Bandits	First Niagara Center	L 10–14		16,356	0–2
3	January 27, 2012	Rochester Knighthawks	Air Canada Centre	W 13–11		11,862	1–2
4	January 28, 2012	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	W 14–13	OT	7,460	2–2
5	February 4, 2012	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wells Fargo Center	W 15–6		7,807	3–2
6	February 18, 2012	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Air Canada Centre	L 8–14		10,360	3–3
7	February 24, 2012	Rochester Knighthawks	Air Canada Centre	W 16–12		10,274	4–3
8	March 3, 2012	Washington Stealth	Air Canada Centre	L 9–14		10,530	4–4
9	March 9, 2012	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Air Canada Centre	L 10–12		9,804	4–5
10	March 16, 2012	Buffalo Bandits	Air Canada Centre	L 14–21		12,153	4–6
11	March 24, 2012	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 13–7		5,714	5–6
12	March 31, 2012	@ Buffalo Bandits	First Niagara Center	W 15–9		17,322	6–6
13	April 7, 2012	Edmonton Rush	Air Canada Centre	W 12–8		14,060	7–6
14	April 14, 2012	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 12–19		15,215	7–7
15	April 20, 2012	@ Washington Stealth	Comcast Arena	W 16–13		3,846	8–7
16	April 28, 2012	@ Edmonton Rush	Rexall Place	W 12–11		6,478	9–7

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:[8]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Division Semifinal	May 5, 2012	Buffalo Bandits	Air Canada Centre	W 7–6		9,472	1–0
Division Final	May 12, 2012	Rochester Knighthawks	Air Canada Centre	L 13–17		9,384	1–1

Transactions

Trades

July 13, 2011[9]	To Toronto Rock Dan Carey 3rd round pick, 2011 entry draft 1st round pick, 2013 entry draft	To Colorado Mammoth Mat MacLeod Creighton Reid 1st round pick, 2011 entry draft 2nd round pick, 2011 entry draft
July 25, 2011[1]	To Toronto Rock Matt Roik	To Washington Stealth Kyle Ross
September 9, 2011[10]	To Toronto Rock Josh Sanderson Nick Inch	To Minnesota Swarm Jeff Gilbert 9th pick, Boston Blazers dispersal draft 12th pick, 2011 entry draft Conditional 1st round pick, 2012 entry draft
November 4, 2011[11]	To Toronto Rock Bill Greer	To Edmonton Rush 2nd round pick in 2012 Entry Draft 2nd round pick in 2012 Entry Draft
March 19, 2012[4]	To Toronto Rock Nick Rose Conditional 2nd round pick in 2014 Entry Draft	To Calgary Roughnecks 1st round pick in 2014 Entry Draft

Dispersal Draft

The Rock chose the following player in the Boston Blazers dispersal draft:

Round	Overall	Player
2	18	Jon Durno

Entry draft

The 2011 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 21, 2011.[12] The Rock selected the following players:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
2	17	Jesse Gamble	Cornell University
3	26	Pete Rennie	Peterborough, ON
4	35	Eric Bissell	Peterborough, ON
5	44	Kyle Davis	Brampton, ON
6	50	Phil Rawn	Kitchener, ON
6	53	Mark Burnett	Mars Hill College

Roster

2012 Toronto Rock roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders 37 Pat Campbell 66 Nick Rose Defensemen 27 Glen Bryan  5 Sandy Chapman (A) 20 Bruce Codd 45 Damon Edwards 21 Bill Greer 44 Stephen Hoar 11 Mike Hobbins 88 Scott Johnston 14 Rob Marshall  9 Patrick Merrill 18 Phil Sanderson (A) 22 Cam Woods (A)		Forwards 33 Kasey Beirnes 13 Garrett Billings  6 Dan Carey  7 Colin Doyle (C) 17 Stephan Leblanc 16 Blaine Manning (A) 19 Josh Sanderson 24 Brenden Thenhaus Transition  4 Jesse Gamble		Practice Squad 35 Zak Boychuk 12 Adam McGourty 23 Peter Rennie Injured Reserve 10 Rob Hellyer 56 Drew Petkoff 26 Ryan Sharp Holdout 34 Nick Inch 93 Aaron Pascas Unable to play 90 Jamie Rooney		Head Coach Troy Cordingley Assistant Coaches Terry Sanderson John Lovell Legend * Suspended list (C) Captain (A) Alternate captain Roster updated 2012-03-19 NLL Transactions

See also

• 2012 NLL season

References

1. "Toronto trades for goaltender". NLL.com. July 25, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
2. "Players of the Week: Duch, Roik, Rabil, & Powless". NLL.com. February 8, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
3. Chavez, Bob (February 8, 2012). "NLL announces rosters for All-Star Game". ILIndoor.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
4. "Rock acquire goalie Nick Rose from Calgary". TorontoRock.com. March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
5. Perrow, Graeme (May 14, 2012). "Money Ballers, NLL Playoffs: Rochester's Walters shines in the postseason party". ILIndoor.com. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
6. "National Lacrosse League - 2012 Regular Season - Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
7. "Toronto Rock - 2012 Regular Season - Game Schedule". NLL.com. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
8. "Toronto Rock - 2012 Playoffs - Game Schedule". NLL.com. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
9. "Colorado trades Carey to Toronto". NLL.com. July 13, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
10. ""Shooter" comes back to Toronto". NLL.com. September 9, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
11. "Bill Greer Acquired for Picks from Edmonton". TorontoRock.com. November 4, 2011. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
12. "2011 Entry Draft results". NLL.com. September 21, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-10.