2004 Toronto Rock season

2004 Toronto Rock
East Division Champions
League	NLL
Division	1st East
2004 record	10-6
Home record	5-3
Road record	5-3
Goals for	202
Goals against	176
General Manager	Derek Keenan (interim) Terry Sanderson
Coach	Ed Comeau (interim) Terry Sanderson
Captain	Jim Veltman
Arena	Air Canada Centre
Average attendance	16,907
Team leaders
Goals	Blaine Manning (36)
Assists	Colin Doyle (55)
Points	Blaine Manning (90)
Penalties in minutes	Patrick Merrill (19)
Loose Balls	Jim Veltman (193)
Wins	Bob Watson & Anthony Cosmo (5)
Goals against average	Anthony Cosmo (10.39)
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The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2004 season was the 7th in franchise history and 6th as the Rock.

The Rock continued its dynasty on top of the NLL standings, finishing first in its division for the sixth straight year. The Rock lost to the Buffalo Bandits in the division final,^[1] failing in their attempt at three consecutive championships.

Regular season[]

Conference standings[]

Reference: ^[2]

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Toronto Rock – xy	16	10	6	.625	0.0	5–3	5–3	202	176	+26	12.62	11.00
2	Rochester Knighthawks – x	16	8	8	.500	2.0	6–2	2–6	173	186	-13	10.81	11.62
3	Buffalo Bandits – x	16	8	8	.500	2.0	4–4	4–4	205	198	+7	12.81	12.38
4	Philadelphia Wings	16	7	9	.438	3.0	3–5	4–4	192	198	-6	12.00	12.38

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Colorado Mammoth – xyz	16	13	3	.812	0.0	7–1	6–2	223	173	+50	13.94	10.81
2	San Jose Stealth – x	16	11	5	.688	2.0	7–1	4–4	204	201	+3	12.75	12.56
3	Calgary Roughnecks – x	16	10	6	.625	3.0	4–4	6–2	214	187	+27	13.38	11.69
4	Arizona Sting	16	7	9	.438	6.0	6–2	1–7	200	208	-8	12.50	13.00
5	Vancouver Ravens	16	5	11	.312	8.0	3–5	2–6	188	213	-25	11.75	13.31
6	Anaheim Storm	16	1	15	.062	12.0	1–7	0–8	171	227	-56	10.69	14.19

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:^[3]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 10, 2004	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	L 8–13		8,214	0–1
2	January 16, 2004	Calgary Roughnecks	Air Canada Centre	W 18–12		16,124	1–1
3	January 23, 2004	Vancouver Ravens	Air Canada Centre	W 17–12		15,400	2–1
4	January 31, 2004	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	L 10–11		8,786	2–2
5	February 7, 2004	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Air Canada Centre	L 8–10		17,550	2–3
6	February 13, 2004	Buffalo Bandits	Air Canada Centre	L 9–13		15,107	2–4
7	February 20, 2004	@ Vancouver Ravens	GM Place	W 15–6		8,824	3–4
8	February 27, 2004	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Air Canada Centre	W 18–15		15,820	4–4
9	February 28, 2004	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wachovia Center	W 11–10		13,606	5–4
10	March 5, 2004	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	W 13–11		9,299	6–4
11	March 12, 2004	Rochester Knighthawks	Air Canada Centre	W 13–9		17,625	7–4
12	March 13, 2004	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wachovia Center	W 12–10		14,184	8–4
13	March 26, 2004	Buffalo Bandits	Air Canada Centre	W 14–11		18,809	9–4
14	March 27, 2004	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	W 15–9		10,599	10–4
15	April 2, 2004	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Pengrowth Saddledome	L 10–11	2OT	12,454	10–5
16	April 9, 2004	Rochester Knighthawks	Air Canada Centre	L 11–13		18,821	10–6

Playoffs[]

Game log[]

Reference:^[4]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Division Final	April 25, 2004	Buffalo Bandits	Air Canada Centre	L 10–19		14,618	0–1

Player stats[]

Runners (Top 10)[]

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes^[5]

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	LB	PIM
Blaine Manning	16	36	54	90	81	7
Colin Doyle	16	33	55	88	64	11
Jim Veltman	16	12	53	65	179	9
Matt Shearer	12	26	18	44	32	3
Aaron Wilson	13	24	18	42	58	3
Steve Toll	16	15	19	34	141	1
Chris Driscoll	16	15	19	34	64	9
Ken Millin	14	12	15	27	48	5
	8	8	11	19	25	3
Darryl Gibson	16	6	8	14	62	11
Totals		202	311	513	1110	147

Goaltenders[]

Note: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average^[6]

Player	GP	MIN	W	L	GA	Sv%	GAA
Bob Watson	11	571:07	5	5	106	.755	11.14
Anthony Cosmo	9	392:44	5	1	68	.766	10.39
Totals			10	6	176	.757	10.92

Awards[]

Player	Award
Jim Veltman	NLL Most Valuable Player[7]
Jim Veltman	Player of the Month, March[7]
Jim Veltman	First All-Pro Team[7]
Blaine Manning	Second All-Pro Team[7]
Colin Doyle
Colin Doyle	All-Stars[8]
Blaine Manning
Pat Coyle
Glenn Clark
Jim Veltman

Roster[]

No. Position Player 5 Fwd Sandy Chapman 11 Def Glenn Clark 2 Def Pat Coyle 44 Goalie Anthony Cosmo 91 ?? Brian Croswell 7 Fwd Colin Doyle 73 Fwd Chris Driscoll 19 Def Darryl Gibson 12 ?? Pat Jones 6 Def Dan Ladouceur 21 ?? Marc Landriault 4 ?? Carter Livingstone

No. Position Player 16 Fwd Blaine Manning 9 Def Patrick Merrill 33 Fwd Ken Millin 42 ?? Eric Pacey 14 ?? Ryan Painter 40 Def Ian Rubel 24 Fwd Matt Shearer 27 Def Derek Suddons 17 Def Steve Toll 32 Fwd Jim Veltman 29 Goalie Bob Watson 10 Fwd Aaron Wilson

^[9]

See also[]

• 2004 NLL season

References[]

External links[]

• "2004 Archive". Outsider's Guide to the NLL. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2011-05-15.