2013 Edmonton Rush season

The Edmonton Rush are a lacrosse team based in Edmonton playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2013 season was the 8th in franchise history.

2013 Edmonton Rush
League	NLL
Division	3rd West
2013 record	9 – 7
Home record	2 – 6
Road record	7 – 1
Goals for	203
Goals against	170
General Manager	Derek Keenan
Coach	Derek Keenan
Captain	Jimmy Quinlan
Alternate captains	Brett Mydske Chris Corbeil Ryan Ward Kyle Rubisch
Arena	Rexall Place
Team leaders
Goals	Mark Matthews (38)
Assists	Ryan Ward (54)
Points	Ryan Ward (75)
Penalties in minutes	Kyle Rubisch (38)
Loose Balls	Jeremy Thompson (131)
Wins	Aaron Bold (8)
Goals against average	Aaron Bold (10.56)
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After making the Championship game in 2012, the Rush started the 2013 season with only a single win in their first five games. They won 7 of their next 8 games to improve to 8-5, tied for first in the division. Losses to division rivals Colorado and Calgary dropped the Rush to 3rd place and they faced the second place Washington Stealth in the first round of the playoffs.

But the Stealth ended any thoughts the Rush had of returning to the Championship game, winning 12-11 in the division semi-finals.^[1]

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference: ^[2]

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Toronto Rock – xyz	16	10	6	.625	0.0	5–3	5–3	194	176	+18	12.12	11.00
2	Rochester Knighthawks – x	16	8	8	.500	2.0	3–5	5–3	179	165	+14	11.19	10.31
3	Philadelphia Wings – x	16	7	9	.438	3.0	4–4	3–5	170	207	−37	10.62	12.94
4	Buffalo Bandits	16	6	10	.375	4.0	2–6	4–4	171	211	−40	10.69	13.19

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Calgary Roughnecks – xy	16	9	7	.562	0.0	3–5	6–2	222	211	+11	13.88	13.19
2	Washington Stealth – x	16	9	7	.562	0.0	5–3	4–4	193	192	+1	12.06	12.00
3	Edmonton Rush – x	16	9	7	.562	0.0	2–6	7–1	203	170	+33	12.69	10.62
4	Colorado Mammoth – x	16	7	9	.438	2.0	3–5	4–4	185	202	−17	11.56	12.62
5	Minnesota Swarm – c	16	7	9	.438	2.0	5–3	2–6	219	202	+17	13.69	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:^[3]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 13, 2013	Toronto Rock	Rexall Place	L 9–10		6,523	0–1
2	January 20, 2013	@ Washington Stealth	Comcast Arena	W 18–10		3,766	1–1
3	January 25, 2013	Washington Stealth	Rexall Place	L 10–12		5,416	1–2
4	February 2, 2013	Calgary Roughnecks	Rexall Place	L 15–18		7,349	1–3
5	February 9, 2013	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	L 8–9		10,002	1–4
6	February 15, 2013	Washington Stealth	Rexall Place	W 15–10		5,627	2–4
7	February 16, 2013	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	W 14–7		17,059	3–4
8	February 22, 2013	Minnesota Swarm	Rexall Place	L 8–13		6,292	3–5
9	February 24, 2013	@ Minnesota Swarm	Xcel Energy Center	W 14–9		6,882	4–5
10	March 2, 2013	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	W 18–13		11,385	5–5
11	March 16, 2013	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 11–9		7,009	6–5
12	March 23, 2013	@ Buffalo Bandits	First Niagara Center	W 14–7		16,629	7–5
13	March 24, 2013	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	W 17–12		9,947	8–5
14	April 6, 2013	Colorado Mammoth	Rexall Place	L 7–9		7,172	8–6
15	April 14, 2013	Rochester Knighthawks	Rexall Place	W 14–10		6,116	9–6
16	April 20, 2013	Calgary Roughnecks	Rexall Place	L 11–12		9,213	9–7

Playoffs

Game log

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	April 27, 2013	@ Washington Stealth	Comcast Arena	L 11–12		3,022	0–1

Transactions

Trades

July 27, 2012[4]	To Edmonton Rush 2nd round pick in 2013 Entry Draft - Riley Loewen (F) 2nd round pick in 2013 Entry Draft - Adrian Sorichetti (T)	To Minnesota Swarm Shawn Williams (F)
July 27, 2012[4]	To Edmonton Rush Jarrett Davis (F)	To Rochester Knighthawks Paul Rabil (F)
October 1, 2012	To Edmonton Rush 4th round pick in 2012 Entry Draft - Simon Giourmetakis (F) 4th round pick in 2012 Entry Draft - Mitchell Bannister (T)	To Minnesota Swarm 4th round pick in 2012 Entry Draft - Tyler Tanguay (T) 5th round pick in 2012 Entry Draft - Matt Gibson (F) 3rd round pick in 2013 Entry Draft - Zach Palmer (F)
November 14, 2012[5]	To Edmonton Rush Jeremy Thompson (T)	To Buffalo Bandits Aaron Wilson (F) 2nd round pick in 2013 Entry Draft - Nick Diachenko (D)
November 15, 2012	To Edmonton Rush Cory Conway (F) *6th round pick in 2013 Entry Draft - Nicholas Jonas (D)	To Calgary Roughnecks **3rd round pick in 2014 Entry Draft - Ty Thompson (F)

*Later traded to the Minnesota Swarm
**Later traded to the New England Black Wolves

Entry Draft

The 2012 NLL Entry Draft took place on October 1, 2012.^[6] The Rush made the following selections:

 ^x  Denotes player who won at least one NLL Award
 ^#  Denotes player who never played in the NLL regular season or playoffs

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
1	1	Mark Matthewsx (F)	University of Denver
1	8	Curtis Knight (F)	Whitby, Ontario
2	15	Michael Cudmore (D)	University of Hartford
3	28	Michael Burke (F)	Brampton, Ontario
4	33	Simon Giourmetakis# (F)	Canisius College
4	35	Mitchell Banister (T)	Okotoks, Alberta
6	55	Kyle Goodchild# (D)	University of Hartford

Roster

2013 Edmonton Rush roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders 77 Aaron Bold 50 Brodie MacDonald Defensemen 16 Chris Corbeil (A) 13 Jeff Cornwall 89 Mike Cudmore 24 Ryan Dilks  6 John Lintz  2 Brett Mydske (A)  4 Kyle Rubisch (A)  3 Jarrett Toll		Forwards 20 Mitch Bannister 61 Mike Burke 91 Cory Conway 23 Jarrett Davis 88 Zack Greer  9 Curtis Knight 42 Mark Matthews 15 Corey Small 87 Alex Turner 44 Ryan Ward (A) Transition 33 John LaFontaine 81 Jimmy Quinlan (C) 74 Jeremy Thompson		Practice Squad 18 Jesse Fehr 27 Simon Giourmetakis 31 David Marrese Holdout 71 Tyler Codron -- Eric Lewthwaite Protected list -- Dane Stevens -- Andrew Turner Unable to play -- Buck Stobart		Head Coach {{{Head Coach}}} Legend * Suspended list (C) Captain (A) Alternate captain Roster updated 2012-01-08 NLL Transactions

See also

• 2013 NLL season

References

1. "Call it a comeback: Stealth brush by Rush in West Semifinal". NLL.com. April 27, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
2. "National Lacrosse League - 2013 Regular Season - Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
3. "Edmonton Rush schedule". NLL.com. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
4. "WILLIAMS IS TRADED, RUSH ACQUIRE JARRETT DAVIS". edmontonrush.com. July 28, 2012. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
5. Chavez, Bob (November 14, 2012). "Breaking: Bandits trade Jeremy Thompson to Rush for Aaron Wilson, draft pick". ILIndoor.com. Archived from the original on November 24, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
6. "2012 Draft Results: Rush select Mark Matthews first". NLL.com. October 1, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2012.