2005 Buffalo Bandits season

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2005 Buffalo Bandits
Division	2nd East
2005 record	11-5
Home record	5-3
Road record	6-2
Goals for	217
Goals against	183
General Manager	Darris Kilgour
Coach	Darris Kilgour
Captain	Rich Kilgour
Alternate captains	John Tavares
Arena	HSBC Arena
Average attendance	11,171
Team leaders
Goals	John Tavares (43)
Assists	John Tavares (59)
Points	John Tavares (102)
Penalties in minutes	Billy Dee Smith (60)
Loose Balls	Mark Steenhuis (141)
Wins	Steve Dietrich (9)
Goals against average	Steve Dietrich (10.96)

The Buffalo Bandits are a lacrosse team based in Buffalo playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2005 season was the 14th in franchise history.

The Bandits finished second in the east after stellar seasons from veterans John Tavares and Steve Dietrich, who was named Goaltender of the Year. They hosted the Rochester Knighthawks in the division semi-final game, but the Knighthawks defeated the Bandits 19-14, winning the right to face the eventual champion Toronto Rock in the division finals.

1 Regular season
- 1.1 Conference standings
- 1.2 Game log
2 Playoffs
- 2.1 Game log
3 Player stats
- 3.1 Runners (Top 10)
- 3.2 Goaltenders
4 Awards
5 Transactions
- 5.1 Trades
6 Roster
7 See also
8 References

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Conference standings

East Division	W	L	GB	PCT	Home	Road	GF	GA
y-Toronto Rock	12	4	-	.750	6-2	6-2	227	190
x-Buffalo Bandits	11	5	1	.688	5-3	6-2	217	183
x-Rochester Knighthawks	10	6	2	.625	5-3	5-3	193	179
e-Philadelphia Wings	6	10	6	.375	3-5	3-5	213	218
e-Minnesota Swarm	5	11	7	.313	3-6	3-5	188	231
West Division
y-Calgary Roughnecks	10	6	-	.625	6-2	4-4	216	208
x-Arizona Sting	9	7	1	.563	5-3	4-4	209	209
x-Colorado Mammoth	8	8	2	.500	5-3	3-5	201	182
e-Anaheim Storm	5	11	5	.313	2-6	3-5	175	212
e-San Jose Stealth	4	12	6	.250	2-6	2-6	170	197

x - clinched playoff spot, y - clinched division title, e - eliminated from playoff contention

[edit] Game log

Reference: [1]

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	OT	Decision	Attendance	Record
1	January 7	Toronto	15 - 13	Buffalo		Watson	11,067	0-1
2	January 21	Buffalo	15 - 10	Minnesota		Dietrich	13,198	1-1
3	January 22	Buffalo	8 - 11	Colorado		Nash	18,137	1-2
4	January 28	Buffalo	15 - 10	Philadelphia		Dietrich	8,849	2-2
5	January 29	Philadelphia	16 - 20	Buffalo		General	10,945	3-2
6	February 11	Anaheim	9 - 20	Buffalo		Dietrich	8,805	4-2
7	February 19	Buffalo	11 - 7	Rochester		Dietrich	9,961	5-2
8	February 25	Philadelphia	14 - 8	Buffalo		Eliuk	8,912	5-3
9	March 4	Buffalo	14 - 12	Toronto		Dietrich	17,756	6-3
10	March 11	Buffalo	23 - 16	Minnesota		Dietrich	8,254	7-3
11	March 18	Minnesota	11 - 13	Buffalo		Dietrich	9,116	8-3
12	March 19	Buffalo	11 - 12	Rochester	OT	Campbell	10,102	8-4
13	March 26	Toronto	12 - 8	Buffalo		Watson	11,309	8-5
14	April 1	Rochester	9 - 11	Buffalo		Dietrich	10,014	9-5
15	April 9	Buffalo	14 - 9	Calgary		Dietrich	10,183	10-5
16	April 16	San Jose	10 - 13	Buffalo		General	12,138	11-5

[edit] Playoffs

[edit] Game log

Reference: [2]

#	Game	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	OT	Decision	Attendance
1	Division Semifinal	April 23	Rochester	19 - 14	Buffalo		O'Toole	10,014

[edit] Player stats

Reference: [3]

[edit] 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
John Tavares	16	43	59	102	126	9
Dan Teat	16	26	39	65	84	24
Mark Steenhuis	16	34	28	62	141	23
Jason Crosbie	14	20	30	50	69	10
Delby Powless	13	20	24	44	57	4
A.J. Shannon	16	25	15	40	78	8
Aime Caines	13	13	15	28	33	10
Pat McCready	13	7	16	23	77	44
Bryan Kazarian	13	1	17	18	53	20
Totals		304	521	414	1137	40

[edit] 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
Steve Dietrich	15	749:43	9	4	137	.789	10.96
Derek General	8	209:19	2	1	46	.718	13.19
Totals			11	5	183	.774	11.44

[edit] Awards

Player	Award
Steve Dietrich	Goaltender of the Year
John Tavares	First Team All-Pro
Steve Dietrich	First Team All-Pro
Delby Powless	All-Rookie Team
John Tavares	Overall Player of the Month, January
John Tavares	Overall Player of the Month, March (tie with Bob Watson)
John Tavares	All-Stars
Kyle Couling
Mark Steenhuis
Dan Teat

[edit] Transactions

[edit] Trades

February 2, 2005^[1]

To Buffalo Bandits

second round pick, 2005 entry draft
second round pick, 2007 entry draft

To Arizona Sting

Jonas Derks

[edit] Roster

Reference: [4]

No.	Position	Player
49	Fwd	Caines, Aime
25	Def	Candy, Drew
27	Def	Couling, Kyle
54	Fwd	Crosbie, Jason
	Fwd	Derks, Jonas
30	Goalie	Dietrich, Steve
26	Def	Floris, Greg
	Def	Francey, Tyler
85	Goalie	General, Derek
7	Fwd	Harasym, Jon
5	Def	Hill, Clay
90	Fwd	Hominuck, Mike

No.	Position	Player
14	Fwd	Jamieson, Kyle
97	Fwd	Kazarian, Bryan
16	Def	Kilgour, Rich
17	Def	Laverty, Kyle
23	Def	McCready, Pat
63	Fwd	Montour, Thomas
99	Fwd	Powless, Delby
8	Fwd	Shannon, A.J.
3	Def	Smith, Billy Dee
9	Fwd	Steenhuis, Mark
11	Fwd	Tavares, John
15	Fwd	Teat, Dan
6	Def	White, Chris