2008 Edmonton Rush season

2008 Edmonton Rush
LeagueNLL
Division5th West
2008 record4-12
Home record3-5
Road record1-7
Goals for141
Goals against197
General ManagerBob Hamley
CoachBob Hamley
CaptainChris McElroy
Alternate captainsJimmy Quinlan
Rory Glaves
ArenaRexall Place
Average attendance8,820
Team leaders
GoalsJimmy Quinlan (22)
AssistsDan Teat (35)
PointsMike Hominuck (54)
Penalties in minutesIan Hawksbee (47)
Loose BallsIan Hawksbee (123)
WinsCurtis Palidwor (4)
Goals against averageCurtis Palidwor (12.06)

The Edmonton Rush are a lacrosse team based in Edmonton playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2008 season was the 3rd in franchise history.

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference: [1]

East Division
PTeamGPWLPCTGBHomeRoadGFGADiffGF/GPGA/GP

1Buffalo Bandits – xyz16106.6250.07–23–4203174+2912.6910.88
2Minnesota Swarm – x16106.6250.06–24–4199196+312.4412.25
3New York Titans – x16106.6250.05–15–5197186+1112.3111.62
4Philadelphia Wings – x16106.6250.07–13–5225220+514.0613.75
5Rochester Knighthawks1688.5002.04–44–4197171+2612.3110.69
6Toronto Rock1679.4383.04–53–4172174−210.7510.88
7Chicago Shamrox16610.3754.03–53–5176212−3611.0013.25
West Division
PTeamGPWLPCTGBHomeRoadGFGADiffGF/GPGA/GP

1San Jose Stealth – xy1697.5620.04–45–3185172+1311.5610.75
2Colorado Mammoth – x1697.5620.06–23–5184167+1711.5010.44
3Calgary Roughnecks – x1679.4382.05–32–6183178+511.4411.12
4Portland LumberJax – x16610.3753.03–53–5179194−1511.1912.12
5Edmonton Rush16412.2505.03–51–7141197−568.8112.31

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:[2]

Game Date Opponent Location Score OT Attendance Record
1 January 12, 2008 @ Colorado Mammoth Pepsi Center L 11–14 17,520 0–1
2 January 19, 2008 Toronto Rock Rexall Place L 9–14 12,107 0–2
3 January 26, 2008 @ Chicago Shamrox Sears Centre L 11–17 5,107 0–3
4 February 2, 2008 Portland LumberJax Rexall Place L 10–11 7,072 0–4
5 February 17, 2008 @ Portland LumberJax Rose Garden L 8–14 6,793 0–5
6 February 23, 2008 San Jose Stealth Rexall Place L 8–11 9,032 0–6
7 March 1, 2008 @ Portland LumberJax Rose Garden W 9–7 7,744 1–6
8 March 15, 2008 Rochester Knighthawks Rexall Place W 10–9 OT 6,711 2–6
9 March 21, 2008 @ Toronto Rock Air Canada Centre L 9–14 14,312 2–7
10 March 29, 2008 San Jose Stealth Rexall Place W 12–5 7,250 3–7
11 April 5, 2008 Calgary Roughnecks Rexall Place W 11–9 9,433 4–7
12 April 12, 2008 @ Calgary Roughnecks Pengrowth Saddledome L 7–18 12,451 4–8
13 April 13, 2008 @ San Jose Stealth HP Pavilion at San Jose L 6–14 1,437 4–9
14 April 18, 2008 @ Colorado Mammoth Pepsi Center L 4–15 18,301 4–10
15 April 19, 2008 Colorado Mammoth Rexall Place L 8–13 8,142 4–11
16 April 26, 2008 Calgary Roughnecks Rexall Place L 8–12 10,817 4–12

Player stats

Reference:[3]

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
Mike Hominuck 16 21 33 54 76 4
Jimmy Quinlan 16 22 31 53 76 23
Dan Teat 19 16 35 51 61 4
Dan Stroup 16 21 21 42 63 8
Mike Accursi 9 11 22 33 37 6
AJ Shannon 7 11 11 22 20 0
Ben Prepchuk 8 5 14 19 21 2
Kyle Goundrey 12 8 10 18 31 2
Chris Gill 8 12 5 17 27 10
Totals 223 364 316 1015 27

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
Curtis Palidwor 16 602:06 4 8 123 .750 12.26
Matt Disher 9 216:15 0 3 42 .750 11.65
Matt King 5 141:50 0 1 27 .733 11.42
Kurtis Wagar 1 0:00 0 0 0 .000 .00
Totals 4 12 197 .743 12.31

Awards

Player Award
Mike Accursi All-Stars
Jimmy Quinlan
Chris McElroy
Dan Stroup

Transactions

Trades

July 18, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
Ben Prepchuk (F) 		To Colorado Mammoth
*2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson (F)
July 24, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
Mike Accursi (F) 		To Rochester Knighthawks
1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Sid Smith (D)
July 31, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
*2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson (F) 		To Colorado Mammoth
Jason Wulder (F)
September 2, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Steve Hutchins (F) 		To Boston Blazers
Dan Finck
*2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Keegan Davidson (F)
September 2, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
4th round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - Steve Conrad (D)
**2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Steven Brooks (F) 		To Philadelphia Wings
2nd round pick in 2007 Entry Draft - David Mitchell (F)
September 29, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
5th round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Shane Lopatynski (D) 		To Boston Blazers
Ryan O'Connor (F)
November 5, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
Matt Disher (G) 		To Minnesota Swarm
1st round pick in 2007 Dispersal Draft - Andy Secore (F)
November 27, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
Mike Grimes (D) 		To Minnesota Swarm
4th round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Ricky Pages (D)
November 27, 2007 To Edmonton Rush
Ian Hawksbee (D) 		To San Jose Stealth
1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Paul Rabil (T)
January 30, 2008[4]
 To Edmonton Rush
***3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Brendan Loftus (F) 		To Calgary Roughnecks
Chris Seller (T)
February 29, 2008[5]
 To Edmonton Rush
Brenden Thenhaus (F) 		To Philadelphia Wings
3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Mike Leveille (F)
March 5, 2008[6]
 To Edmonton Rush
Mike Hominuck (F)
1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Jamie Floris (F) 		To Minnesota Swarm
A.J. Shannon
****2nd round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Matt Beers (D)
March 5, 2008[6]
 To Edmonton Rush
Lindsay Plunkett (F) 		To Chicago Shamrox
Conditional 3rd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft
Conditional 3rd round pick in 2009 Entry Draft
March 25, 2008[7]
 To Edmonton Rush
Matt King (G)
Ian Crashley (D)
*****1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Joel Dalgarno (F) 		To Portland LumberJax
Matt Disher (G)
4th round pick in 2009 Entry Draft
March 25, 2008[8]
 To Edmonton Rush
Dan Teat (F)
******2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Matt Bocklet (D)
1st round pick in 2009 Entry Draft - Corey Small (F) 		To Buffalo Bandits
Mike Accursi (F)
March 25, 2008[9]
 To Edmonton Rush
*******1st round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Matt Danowski (F) 		To Colorado Mammoth
Chris Gill (F)
********2nd round pick in 2008 Entry Draft - Cayle Ratcliff (D)

*Later traded to the Boston Blazers
**Later traded to the Chicago Shamrox
***Later traded to the Rochester Knighthawks
****Later traded to the Washington Stealth
*****Later traded to the Toronto Rock
******Later traded to the Philadelphia Wings
*******Later traded back to the Colorado Mammoth
********Later traded to the Calgary Roughnecks

Entry Draft

The 2007 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 1, 2007. The Rush made the following selections:

 #  Denotes player who never played in the NLL regular season or playoffs

Round Overall Player College/Club
2 15 Steve Hutchins (F) Whitby, Ontario
3 34 John Lintz (D) Coquitlam, British Columbia
4 45 Steve Conrad# (D) Clarington, Ontario
4 48 Dan Hartzell# (F) St. Andrew's College
5 62 Calvin Craig# (F) Coquitlam, British Columbia
6 76 Jordan Coffey (F) Brampton, Ontario

Roster

Reference:[10]

No. Position Player
Canada Fwd Accursi, Mike
7 Canada Def Allen, Mac
6 Canada Trans Bergman, Cam
2 Canada Def Bonterre, Troy
Canada Def Crashley, Ian
9 Canada Fwd Daly, Randy
Canada Goalie Disher, Matt
Canada Fwd Gill, Chris
43 Canada Def Glaves, Rory
10 Canada Fwd Goundrey, Kyle
23 Canada Def Grimes, Mike
Canada Def Gut, Peter
17 Canada Def Hartzell, Kris
88 United States Def Hawksbee, Ian
Canada Trans Hillier, Darren
90 Canada Fwd Hominuck, Mike
41 United States Fwd Hutchins, Steve
30 Canada Goalie King, Matt
11 Canada Def Martin, Andrew
No. Position Player
15 Canada Trans McElroy, Chris
36 Canada Fwd McKay, Chris
Canada Trans Melville, Cory
Canada Fwd Olson, Kevin
0 Canada Goalie Palidwor, Curtis
12 Canada Fwd Plunkett, Lindsay
Canada Trans Polny, Ryan
19 United States Fwd Prepchuk, Ben
81 Canada Fwd Quinlan, Jimmy
Canada Trans Seller, Chris
Canada Fwd Shannon, AJ
Canada Def Stobart, Buck
8 Canada Fwd Stroup, Dan
51 Canada Fwd Teat, Dan
16 Canada Fwd Thenhaus, Brenden
Canada Def Turner, Andrew
Canada Goalie Wagar, Kurtis
Canada Fwd Wilhelm, Shaun
33 Canada Def Williams, Rob

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Lacrosse League - 2008 Regular Season - Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
  2. ^ "Edmonton Rush". pointstreak.com. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  3. ^ "Edmonton Rush - National Lacrosse League - team stats | Pointstreak Sports Technologies".
  4. ^ "Rus Deals Seller to Roughnecks". NLL.com. January 30, 2008. Archived from the original on 3 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
  5. ^ "Rush Acquire Thenhaus From Wings". NLL.com. February 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
  6. ^ a b "Trade Frenzy: Eight Players Dealt". NLL.com. March 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
  7. ^ "Rush & LumberJax Swap Goaltenders". NLL.com. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
  8. ^ "Buffalo Deals Teat & Picks for Accursi". NLL.com. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
  9. ^ "Chris Gill Returns To Colorado". NLL.com. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
  10. ^ "Edmonton Rush - National Lacrosse League - team roster | Pointstreak Sports Technologies".