1999 Toronto Rock season

1999 Toronto Rock
Champion's Cup Champions
Division Champions
League	NLL
Rank	1st
1999 record	9-3
Home record	6-0
Road record	3-3
Goals for	157
Goals against	139
General Manager	John Mouradian
Coach	Les Bartley
Captain	Jim Veltman
Arena	Maple Leaf Gardens
Average attendance	11,075
Team leaders
Assists	Colin Doyle (37)
Points	Colin Doyle (54)
Loose Balls	Jim Veltman (166)
Wins	Bob Watson (6)
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The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 1999 season was the 2nd in franchise history and 1st time as "the Rock" after a season in Hamilton, Ontario as the Ontario Raiders.

The Rock finished on top of the NLL standings, winning its first division in franchise history. The Rock beat the Philadelphia Wings in the semifinals, to advance to the championship game. Their victory over the Rochester Knighthawks in this game gave them their first NLL championship.

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference:

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Toronto Rock – xyz	12	9	3	.750	0.0	6–0	3–3	157	139	+18	13.08	11.58
2	Baltimore Thunder – x	12	8	4	.667	1.0	5–1	3–3	211	175	+36	17.58	14.58
3	Rochester Knighthawks – x	12	8	4	.667	1.0	4–2	4–2	169	160	+9	14.08	13.33
4	Philadelphia Wings – x	12	5	7	.417	4.0	4–2	1–5	153	153	−-0	12.75	12.75
5	New York Saints	12	5	7	.417	4.0	2–4	3–3	149	156	−7	12.42	13.00
6	Buffalo Bandits	12	4	8	.333	5.0	1–5	3–3	158	177	−19	13.17	14.75
7	Syracuse Smash	12	3	9	.250	6.0	3–3	0–6	161	198	−37	13.42	16.50

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

The 1999 Regular Season games are listed below.

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 9, 1999	@ Baltimore Thunder	Baltimore Arena	L 10–21		5,738	0–1
2	January 22, 1999	Buffalo Bandits	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 11–10		11,052	1–1
3	January 29, 1999	Rochester Knighthawks	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 16–9		9,691	2–1
4	February 6, 1999	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	L 10–11	OT	9,042	2–2
5	February 19, 1999	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 9–7		10,166	3–2
6	February 26, 1999	New York Saints	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 13–9		9,012	4–2
7	February 27, 1999	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	First Union Center	L 11–12	OT	17,057	4–3
8	March 13, 1999	@ Syracuse Smash	Onondaga County War Memorial	W 19–12		4,237	5–3
9	March 26, 1999	Syracuse Smash	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 19–12		13,300	6–3
10	March 27, 1999	@ Buffalo Bandits	Marine Midland Arena	W 13–12	OT	10,723	7–3
11	April 2, 1999	Baltimore Thunder	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 16–15		13,230	8–3
12	April 9, 1999	@ New York Saints	Nassau Coliseum	W 10–9		5,619	9–3

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Semifinals	April 16, 1999	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 13–2		12,026	1–0
Championship Game	April 23, 1999	Rochester Knighthawks	Maple Leaf Gardens	W 13–10		15,691	2–0

Player stats

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
Colin Doyle	12	17	37	54
Totals

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
Bob Watson		548	6	2	110	.758	12.04
Totals

Awards

Player	Award
Colin Doyle	Championship Game MVP
Bob Watson	Player of the Month, February
Jim Veltman	First All-Pro Team
Bob Watson	Second All-Pro Team
Bob Watson	All-Stars
Colin Doyle
Chris Gill
Jim Veltman

Roster

No. Position Player 11 Def Clark, Glenn 2 Def Coyle, Pat 7 Fwd Doyle, Colin 25 Fwd Gill, Chris

No. Position Player 6 Def Ladouceur, Dan 8 Fwd Stroup, Dan 32 Fwd Veltman, Jim 29 Goalie Watson, Bob

See also

• 1999 NLL season

External links

• "1999 Archive". Outsider's Guide to the NLL. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2011-05-15.