2008 Edmonton Rush season

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.

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)

Regular season

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Conference standings

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Reference: [1]

East Division
PTeamGPWLPCTGBHomeRoadGFGADiffGF/GPGA/GP

1Buffalo Banditsxyz16106.6250.07–23–4203174+2912.6910.88
2Minnesota Swarmx16106.6250.06–24–4199196+312.4412.25
3New York Titansx16106.6250.05–15–5197186+1112.3111.62
4Philadelphia Wingsx16106.6250.07–13–5225220+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 Stealthxy1697.5620.04–45–3185172+1311.5610.75
2Colorado Mammothx1697.5620.06–23–5184167+1711.5010.44
3Calgary Roughnecksx1679.4382.05–32–6183178+511.4411.12
4Portland LumberJaxx16610.3753.03–53–5179194−1511.1912.12
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; GBGames 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

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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

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Reference:[3]

Runners (Top 10)

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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

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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

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

Transactions

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Trades

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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

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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

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Reference:[10]

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

See also

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References

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  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".