2006 Arizona Sting season

2006 Arizona Sting
Division	4th West
2006 record	8-8
Home record	4-4
Road record	4-4
Goals for	198
Goals against	199
General Manager	Bob Hamley
Coach	Bob Hamley
Arena	Jobing.com Arena
Team leaders
Goals	Craig Conn (44)
Assists	Dan Dawson (48)
Points	Dan Dawson (82)
Penalties in minutes	Craig Conn (42)
Loose Balls	Bruce Codd (117)
Wins	Rob Blasdell (5)
Goals against average	Mike Miron (12.41)

The Arizona Sting were a lacrosse team based in Phoenix, Arizona playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2006 season was the 6th in franchise history and 3rd in Arizona.

After making it to the Championship game in 2005, the Sting had a disappointing 8-8 season in 2006. The Sting upset the division-winning Portland LumberJax 14-10 in the Western Division semifinals, but the eventual champion Colorado Mammoth defeated the Sting 13-12 in Colorado in the Division finals.

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference:

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Buffalo Bandits – xyz	16	11	5	.688	0.0	6–2	5–3	193	167	+26	12.06	10.44
2	Rochester Knighthawks – x	16	9	7	.562	2.0	6–2	3–5	196	180	+16	12.25	11.25
3	Toronto Rock – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	5–3	3–5	182	179	+3	11.38	11.19
4	Minnesota Swarm – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	3–5	5–3	158	171	−13	9.88	10.69
5	Philadelphia Wings	16	8	8	.500	3.0	5–3	3–5	184	184	−-0	11.50	11.50

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Portland LumberJax – xy	16	11	5	.688	0.0	5–3	6–2	188	177	+11	11.75	11.06
2	Colorado Mammoth – x	16	10	6	.625	1.0	6–2	4–4	200	172	+28	12.50	10.75
3	Calgary Roughnecks – x	16	9	7	.562	2.0	4–4	5–3	183	178	+5	11.44	11.12
4	Arizona Sting – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	4–4	4–4	198	199	−1	12.38	12.44
5	San Jose Stealth	16	5	11	.312	6.0	3–5	2–6	151	174	−23	9.44	10.88
6	Edmonton Rush	16	1	15	.062	10.0	0–8	1–7	150	202	−52	9.38	12.62

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: [1]

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	OT	Decision	Attendance	Record
1	January 7	Arizona	14 - 13	Toronto	OT	Miron	17,527	1-0
2	January 13	Portland	7 - 12	Arizona		Blasdell	6,127	2-0
3	January 27	Calgary	10 - 11	Arizona	OT	Blasdell	6,326	3-0
4	February 3	Colorado	18 - 17	Arizona	OT	Levis	6,373	3-1
5	February 11	Arizona	14 - 16	Rochester		OToole	9,386	3-2
6	February 18	Calgary	13 - 7	Arizona		Palidwor	6,535	3-3
7	March 4	Arizona	15 - 11	Edmonton		Blasdell	9,684	4-3
8	March 10	Edmonton	9 - 13	Arizona		Miron	6,705	5-3
9	March 11	Arizona	10 - 12	Portland		Bold	7,803	5-4
10	March 18	Colorado	15 - 11	Arizona		Nash	6,420	5-5
11	March 25	Arizona	13 - 12	Philadelphia		Blasdell	11,693	6-5
12	April 1	Buffalo	13 - 10	Arizona		Dietrich	6,759	6-6
13	April 2	Arizona	11 - 16	Colorado		Levis	16,435	6-7
14	April 8	Arizona	12 - 14	Calgary		Palidwor	12,173	6-8
15	April 14	San Jose	13 - 16	Arizona		Blasdell	6,575	7-8
16	April 15	Arizona	12 - 7	San Jose		Miron	6,188	8-8

Playoffs

Game log

Reference: [2]

#	Game	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	OT	Decision	Attendance
1	Division Semifinal	April 22	Arizona	14 - 11	Portland		Blasdell	10,843
2	Division Final	April 29	Arizona	12 - 13	Colorado		Nash	12,537

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
Dan Dawson	16	34	48	82	76	8
Craig Conn	15	44	23	67	91	42
Pat Maddalena	15	24	34	58	58	6
Jonas Derks	10	18	24	42	42	8
Jason Crosbie	9	12	29	41	30	7
Matt Brown	16	16	19	35	47	6
Lindsay Plunkett	6	8	16	24	20	4
Curt Malawsky	8	10	11	21	30	4
Peter Veltman	15	7	13	20	50	20
Totals		318	516	235	1045	36

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
Rob Blasdell	15	621:59	5	5	129	.737	12.44
Mike Miron	16	338:27	3	3	70	.742	12.41
Ken Montour	0	0:00	0	0	0	.000	.00
Totals			8	8	199	.739	12.44

Awards

Player	Award
Craig Conn	Second Team All-Pro
Dan Dawson
Craig Conn	All-Stars
Bruce Codd
Jonas Derks
Peter Lough
Scott Self

Transactions

Trades

March 23, 2006

To Arizona Sting Lindsay Plunkett fourth round pick, 2007 entry draft

To Buffalo Bandits Jason Crosbie

Roster

Reference: [4]

No. Position Player

No. Position Player

See also

• 2006 NLL season