2013 Major League Lacrosse season

The 2013 Major League Lacrosse season was the 13th season of the league. The season began on April 27, 2013 and concluded with the championship game on August 25, 2013.

2013 MLL season
LeagueMajor League Lacrosse
SportField lacrosse
DurationApril 2013 – August 25, 2013
Number of teams8
2013
Season MVPKevin Crowley
Top scorerChris Bocklet
Steinfeld Cup
ChampionsChesapeake Bayhawks
  Runners-upCharlotte Hounds

Milestones & events

Coaching Changes

On June 10, 2013, the Boston Cannons fired head coach Steve Duffy after a 1-5 start and replaced him with John Tucker.[1]

On June 24, 2013, the Ohio Machine fired head coach Ted Garber after a 1-7 start to the season and replaced him with Bear Davis.[2]

Name Changes

On December 14, 2012, the Long Island Lizards changed their name to the New York Lizards.

Neutral Location Games

The league will host three games in neutral locations.[3]

Date Road Team Home Team City Stadium Attendance
April 27 Chesapeake Bayhawks 17 Rochester Rattlers 14 St. Petersburg, Florida Al Lang Stadium 3,940
June 7 Boston Cannons 14 Rochester Rattlers 16 Kennesaw, Georgia Fifth Third Bank Stadium 4,417
June 22 Rochester Rattlers 11 Hamilton Nationals 17 Boca Raton, Florida FAU Stadium 4,464

In addition, the New York Lizards will play two of its seven home games at Icahn Stadium.

Other

On April 22, 2013, MLL and YouTube agreed to an exclusive fifteen-game schedule.[4]

On July 4, 2013, the Denver Outlaws broke the MLL attendance record for the eighth year in a row as 31,019 fans poured into Sports Authority Field at Mile High to watch the Outlaws defeat the New York Lizards, 16-7. Denver also became the first MLL team ever to start a season 10-0 with the win,[5] and they carried this on the finish with the first perfect regular season in the thirteen years of the competition. Previously, in fact, no team had gone through an MLL regular season with only one loss, yet alone without losing. The most recent teams to lose two regular season games were the Outlaws and the Philadelphia Barrage in 2006.

The 2013 season marked the last season for the Hamilton Nationals. The dissolved Nationals team will form the basis of the Florida Launch for the 2014 season.[6]

Standings
Playoff Seed
Major League Lacrosse
W L PCT GB GF 2ptGF GA 2ptGA
Denver Outlaws 14 0 1.000 - 226 10 136 3
Chesapeake Bayhawks 9 5 .643 5 181 12 149 7
Hamilton Nationals 9 5 .643 5 170 10 168 10
Charlotte Hounds 7 7 .500 7 178 10 179 10
Rochester Rattlers 6 8 .400 8 152 9 171 12
Boston Cannons 5 9 .357 9 178 5 202 15
New York Lizards 4 10 .286 10 144 6 173 7
Ohio Machine 2 12 .143 12 130 3 181 6

Chesapeake and Hamilton split their two regular-season games. Chesapeake outscored Hamilton 28-22 in those two games to finish second.

All Star Game

Team Supernova defeated Team Eclipse 24-15 in the 2013 MLL All-Star Game, presented by Moe's Southwest Grill from American Legion Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, N.C on Saturday July 13, 2013. Hamilton's Kevin Crowley was named the Most Valuable Player.

Playoffs

August 24 and 25 PPL Park, in Chester, PA.

Semifinals Steinfeld Cup Final
      
Denver Outlaws 14
Charlotte Hounds 17
Chesapeake Bayhawks 10
Charlotte Hounds 9
Chesapeake Bayhawks 13
Hamilton Nationals 12

Annual awards
Award Winner Team
MVP AwardKevin CrowleyHamilton
Rookie of the Year AwardRob PannellNew York
Coach of the Year AwardJim StagnittaDenver
Defensive player of the Year AwardLee ZinkDenver
Offensive player of the Year AwardKevin CrowleyHamilton
Goaltender of the Year AwardJesse SchwartzmanDenver
Most Improved Player of the Year AwardDrew SniderDenver
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References
  1. "Slumping Cannons fire head coach Steve Duffy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-19. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  2. "Ohio Machine Makes a Coaching Change". Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
  3. MLL Begins 13th Season Tomorrow
  4. "MLL and YouTube Announce exclusive fifteen-game schedule". majorleaguelacrosse.com. Major League Lacrosse. Archived from the original on May 1, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  5. "Outlaws Set Records with 16-7 Win over Lizards". Archived from the original on 2013-07-06. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
  6. "Lacrosse: Nationals Moving South". The Hamilton Spectator. November 21, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
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