2018 Toronto Rock season

The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2018 season is the 21st in franchise history, and 20th as the Rock.

2018 Toronto Rock
League	NLL
Division	4th East
2018 record	8-10
Home record	3-6
Road record	5-4
Goals for	237
Goals against	216
General Manager	Jamie Dawick
Coach	Matt Sawyer
Captain	Brodie Merrill
Alternate captains	Sandy Chapman Stephan Leblanc
Arena	Air Canada Centre
Average attendance	9,700
Team leaders
Goals	Adam Jones (37)
Assists	Rob Hellyer (63)
Points	Rob Hellyer (93)
Penalties in minutes	Brock Sorensen (60)
Loose Balls	Brad Kri (135)
Wins	Nick Rose (8)
Goals against average	Nick Rose (11.63)
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Regular season

Finalstandings

Reference: [1]

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Georgia Swarm – xy	18	11	7	.611	0.0	6–3	5–4	226	215	+11	12.56	11.94
2	Rochester Knighthawks – x	18	10	8	.556	1.0	5–4	5–4	236	210	+26	13.11	11.67
3	New England Black Wolves – x	18	9	9	.500	2.0	4–5	5–4	194	242	-48	10.78	13.44
4	Toronto Rock	18	8	10	.444	3.0	3–6	5–4	237	216	+21	13.17	12.00
5	Buffalo Bandits	18	8	10	.444	3.0	4–5	4–5	232	240	-8	12.89	13.33

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Saskatchewan Rush – xyz	18	14	4	.778	0.0	6–3	8–1	254	196	+58	14.11	10.89
2	Colorado Mammoth – x	18	11	7	.611	3.0	5–4	6–3	214	199	+15	11.89	11.06
3	Calgary Roughnecks – x	18	8	10	.444	6.0	5–4	3–6	227	211	+16	12.61	11.72
4	Vancouver Stealth	18	2	16	.111	12.0	0–9	2–7	186	277	-91	10.33	15.39

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

Regular season

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	December 8, 2017	@ Buffalo Bandits	KeyBank Center	L 9–13		11,516	0–1
2	December 16, 2017	Saskatchewan Rush	Air Canada Centre	L 9–17		8,624	0–2
3	December 30, 2017	Buffalo Bandits	Air Canada Centre	W 20–13		9,398	1–2
4	January 6, 2018	@ Vancouver Stealth	Langley Events Centre	W 24–7		4,206	2–2
5	January 12, 2018	Rochester Knighthawks	Air Canada Centre	W 17–9		7,101	3–2
6	January 27, 2018	New England Black Wolves	Air Canada Centre	W 21–9		9,145	4–2
7	February 3, 2018	Calgary Roughnecks	Air Canada Centre	L 8–16		10,344	4–3
8	February 10, 2018	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 12–9		5,439	5–3
9	February 17, 2018	@ Georgia Swarm	Infinite Energy Arena	L 13–14	OT	5,052	5–4
10	March 3, 2018	Georgia Swarm	Air Canada Centre	L 7–12		10,679	5–5
11	March 11, 2018	New England Black Wolves	Air Canada Centre	L 7–8		10,259	5–6
12	March 16, 2018	@ New England Black Wolves	Mohegan Sun Arena	W 14–9		5,832	6–6
13	March 24, 2018	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	W 17–14		12,097	7–6
14	March 30, 2018	Colorado Mammoth	Air Canada Centre	L 7–11		10,288	7–7
15	April 8, 2018	@ Georgia Swarm	Infinite Energy Arena	L 10–11		4,496	7–8
16	April 13, 2018	Rochester Knighthawks	Air Canada Centre	L 11–14		11,463	7–9
17	April 21, 2018	@ Buffalo Bandits	KeyBank Center	W 16–11		16,630	8–9
18	April 28, 2018	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 15–19		15,787	8–10

Roster

Toronto Rock roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders 35 Brandon Miller 66 Nick Rose Defensemen  2 Drew Belgrave 71 Sheldon Burns  5 Sandy Chapman (A) 45 Damon Edwards 93 Latrell Harris 91 Bill Hostrawser 20 Bradley Kri 82 Jordan Magnuson (D)		Forwards 22 Phil Caputo 25 Dan Craig 10 Rob Hellyer 11 Brett Hickey 16 Adam Jones 17 Stephan Leblanc (A) 41 Dan Lintner  6 Kieran McArdle 97 Reid Reinholdt Transition 23 Challen Rogers  3 Brock Sorensen		Practice Squad 1 Riley Hutchcraft (G) 47 Adam Jay (D) 27 Darryl Robertson (D) 61 Brandon Slade (D) Injured Reserve 15 Turner Evans (F) 37 Brodie Merrill (C) (D) 26 Tom Schreiber (F) Holdout  4 Jesse Gamble (T) Protected list 99 Paul Rabil (T)		Head Coach Matt Sawyer Assistant Coaches Bruce Codd Blaine Manning Legend * Suspended list (C) Captain (A) Alternate captain Roster updated 2018-3-4 NLL Transactions

Entry Draft

The 2017 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 18, 2017.[2] The Rock made the following selections:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
2	15	Drew Belgrave
2	18	Zac Mason
3	30	Riley Hutchcraft
4	35	Alec Tulett
4	40	Josh Jubenville
5	49	Christian Burgdorf
6	57	Daniel Craig

See also

• 2018 NLL season

References

1. "NLL Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
2. "2017 NLL Draft Results". NLL.com. September 18, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2016.