2020 Toronto Rock season

2020 Toronto Rock
2020 Toronto Rock
League	NLL
Division	North
2020 record	7-4
Home record	4-2
Road record	3-2
Goals for	122
Goals against	106
General Manager	Jamie Dawick
Coach	Matt Sawyer
Captain	Challen Rogers
Alternate captains	Rob Hellyer; Bill Hostrawser; Brad Kri; Tom Schreiber
Arena	Scotiabank Arena
	← 2019 season 2022 season →

The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2020 season is the 23rd in franchise history, and 22nd as the Rock. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was suspended on March 12, 2020.^[1] On April 8, the league made a further public statement announcing the cancellation of the remaining games of the 2020 season and that they would be exploring options for playoffs once it was safe to resume play.^[2]^[3] On February 3, 2021, the NLL announced that plans for an abbreviated spring season were cancelled due to travel and logistics uncertainty, and that their focus will move toward playing a full 2021–22 NLL season.^[4]

Regular season

Final standings

Reference: ^[5]

North Division
P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP

1	Halifax Thunderbirds	12	8	4	.667	0.0	6–1	2–3	139	126	+13	11.58	10.50
2	Toronto Rock	11	7	4	.636	0.5	4–2	3–2	122	106	+16	11.09	9.64
3	Buffalo Bandits	11	7	4	.636	0.5	4–2	3–2	130	118	+12	11.82	10.73
4	Rochester Knighthawks	12	2	10	.167	6.0	2–3	0–7	115	165	−50	9.58	13.75

East Division
P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP

1	New England Black Wolves	11	8	3	.727	0.0	4–3	4–0	135	101	+34	12.27	9.18
2	Georgia Swarm	12	7	5	.583	1.5	2–4	5–1	149	126	+23	12.42	10.50
3	Philadelphia Wings	14	8	6	.571	1.5	3–3	5–3	151	134	+17	10.79	9.57
4	New York Riptide	13	1	12	.077	8.0	1–5	0–7	116	177	−61	8.92	13.62

West Division
P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP

1	Saskatchewan Rush	10	7	3	.700	0.0	2–3	5–0	111	93	+18	11.10	9.30
2	Colorado Mammoth	13	7	6	.538	1.5	4–2	3–4	128	125	+3	9.85	9.62
3	San Diego Seals	12	6	6	.500	2.0	3–3	3–3	138	131	+7	11.50	10.92
4	Calgary Roughnecks	10	5	5	.500	2.0	1–4	4–1	122	111	+11	12.20	11.10
5	Vancouver Warriors	13	4	9	.308	4.5	2–4	2–5	117	160	−43	9.00	12.31

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

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	Attendance	Record
1	December 7, 2019	New England Black Wolves	Scotiabank Arena	L 8–12	7,158	0–1
2	December 14, 2019	@ San Diego Seals	Pechanga Arena	W 13–6	5,414	1–1
3	December 28, 2019	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 14–11	5,036	2–1
4	January 11, 2020	Rochester Knighthawks	Scotiabank Arena	W 13–12	8,685	3–1
5	January 18, 2020	@ Buffalo Bandits	KeyBank Center	L 8–10	12,026	3–2
6	January 31, 2020	Halifax Thunderbirds	Scotiabank Arena	W 12–9	10,946	4–2
7	February 9, 2020	Buffalo Bandits	Scotiabank Arena	W 13–9	7,021	5–2
8	February 15, 2020	Vancouver Warriors	Scotiabank Arena	W 14–7	8,401	6–2
9	February 21, 2020	@ Halifax Thunderbirds	Scotiabank Centre	L 8–9	9,337	6–3
10	February 29, 2020	@ Saskatchewan Rush	SaskTel Centre	W 9–8	12,764	7–3
11	March 8, 2020	Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Arena	L 10–13	7,826	7–4

Cancelled games

Game	Date	Opponent	Location
12	March 13, 2020	Buffalo Bandits	Scotiabank Arena
13	March 27, 2020	Colorado Mammoth	Scotiabank Arena
14	April 4, 2020	@ Philadelphia Wings	Wells Fargo Center
15	April 5, 2020	@ New York Riptide	Nassau Coliseum
16	April 11, 2020	@ Georgia Swarm	Infinite Energy Arena
17	April 17, 2020	Rochester Knighthawks	Scotiabank Arena
18	April 25, 2020	@ Halifax Thunderbirds	Scotiabank Centre

Roster

Active (21-man) roster

Inactive roster

Coaches

Goaltenders

1 Riley Hutchcraft
66 Nick Rose

Defensemen

71 Sheldon Burns
21 Mitch de Snoo
13 Scott Dominey
45 Damon Edwards
91 Bill Hostrawser (A)
47 Adam Jay
33 Josh Jubenville
20 Bradley Kri (A)
22 Jason Noble
23 Challen Rogers (C)
11 Taylor Stuart

Forwards

25 Dan Craig
6 Dan Dawson
17 Aaron Forster
10 Rob Hellyer (A)
2 Zach Manns
18 Johnny Powless
97 Reid Reinholdt
26 Tom Schreiber (A)

Practice Squad

42 Jamison Dilks (D)
9 Mitchell Gustavsen (D)
92 Troy Holowchuk (G)
77 Alec Simons (F)

Injured Reserve

93 Latrell Harris (D)
16 Adam Jones (F)
61 Brandon Slade (D)

Holdout

2 AJ Kluck (D)

Protected list

99 Paul Rabil (T)

Head Coach

Matt Sawyer

Assistant Coaches

Bruce Codd
Blaine Manning
Brandon Miller

Legend

* Suspended list
(C) Captain
(A) Alternate captain

Roster updated 2020-07-16
NLL Transactions

Entry Draft

The 2019 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 17, 2019.^[6] The Toronto Rock made the following selections:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
1	15	Aaron Forster	NJIT
2	27	Zach Manns	Drexel University
3	43	Jamison Dilks	Six Nations Jr. A
4	54	Troy Holowchuk	Six Nations Jr. A
5	69	Ryan Conrad	Virginia University
6	82	Jordan Caskenette	Orangeville Jr. A

References

^ "NLL Statement on game play (March 12, 2020)". NLL.com. March 12, 2020. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
^ "National Lacrosse League cancels remainder of season due to COVID-19". Sportsnet. Sportsnet.
^ "National Lacrosse League announces cancellation of remaining regular season games". NLL.com. April 8, 2020. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
^ "NLL WILL FOCUS ON NEXT SEASON". NLL.com. February 3, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
^ "2020 National Lacrosse League Standings". Pointstreak Stats.
^ "2019 NLL Draft Results". NLL.com. September 17, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2019.

[1] "NLL Statement on game play (March 12, 2020)". NLL.com. March 12, 2020. Retrieved July 5, 2020.

[2] "National Lacrosse League cancels remainder of season due to COVID-19". Sportsnet. Sportsnet.

[3] "National Lacrosse League announces cancellation of remaining regular season games". NLL.com. April 8, 2020. Retrieved July 5, 2020.

[4] "NLL WILL FOCUS ON NEXT SEASON". NLL.com. February 3, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2021.

[5] "2020 National Lacrosse League Standings". Pointstreak Stats.

[6] "2019 NLL Draft Results". NLL.com. September 17, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2019.

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v t e Toronto Rock
Founded in 1998 Based in Hamilton, Ontario
Franchise	History Awards and honours Coaches
Arenas	FirstOntario Centre (1998; 2022–2024) Maple Leaf Gardens (1999–2000) Scotiabank Arena (2001–2020) Paramount Fine Foods Centre (from 2025)
Seasons	1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024
Bold indicates Champion's Cup winner

v t e 2020 NLL season by team
North	Buffalo Bandits Halifax Thunderbirds Rochester Knighthawks Toronto Rock
East	Georgia Swarm New England Black Wolves New York Riptide Philadelphia Wings
West	Calgary Roughnecks Colorado Mammoth San Diego Seals Saskatchewan Rush Vancouver Warriors