2005 Philadelphia Wings season

The Philadelphia Wings are a lacrosse team based in Philadelphia playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2005 season was the 19th in franchise history.

2005 Philadelphia Wings
League	NLL
Division	4th East
2005 record	6-10
Home record	3-5
Road record	3-5
Goals for	213
Goals against	218
General Manager	Lindsay Sanderson
Coach	Lindsay Sanderson
Captain	Thomas Hajek
Arena	Wachovia Center
Average attendance	10,733
Team leaders
Goals	Tom Marechek (40)
Assists	Dan Marohl (57)
Points	Tom Marechek (80) Dan Marohl (80)
Penalties in minutes	Thomas Hajek (50)
Loose Balls	Peter Jacobs (180)
Wins	Dallas Eliuk (5)
Goals against average	Dallas Eliuk (12.76)
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Regular season

Conference standings

Reference:

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Toronto Rock – xyz	16	12	4	.750	0.0	6–2	6–2	227	190	+37	14.19	11.88
2	Buffalo Bandits – x	16	11	5	.688	1.0	5–3	6–2	217	183	+34	13.56	11.44
3	Rochester Knighthawks – x	16	10	6	.625	2.0	5–3	5–3	193	179	+14	12.06	11.19
4	Philadelphia Wings	16	6	10	.375	6.0	3–5	3–5	213	218	−5	13.31	13.62
5	Minnesota Swarm	16	5	11	.312	7.0	2–6	3–5	188	231	−43	11.75	14.44

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Calgary Roughnecks – xy	16	10	6	.625	0.0	6–2	4–4	216	208	+8	13.50	13.00
2	Arizona Sting – x	16	9	7	.562	1.0	5–3	4–4	209	209	−-0	13.06	13.06
3	Colorado Mammoth – x	16	8	8	.500	2.0	5–3	3–5	201	182	+19	12.56	11.38
4	Anaheim Storm	16	5	11	.312	5.0	2–6	3–5	175	212	−37	10.94	13.25
5	San Jose Stealth	16	4	12	.250	6.0	2–6	2–6	170	197	−27	10.62	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

Reference:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 7, 2005	@ Arizona Sting	Jobing.com Arena	W 10–9	OT	5,903	1–0
2	January 8, 2005	@ Anaheim Storm	Arrowhead Pond	L 10–13		5,732	1–1
3	January 28, 2005	Buffalo Bandits	Wachovia Center	L 10–15		8,849	1–2
4	January 29, 2005	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	L 16–20		10,945	1–3
5	February 5, 2005	San Jose Stealth	Wachovia Center	W 14–13		10,025	2–3
6	February 12, 2005	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	L 15–16		8,061	2–4
7	February 18, 2005	Rochester Knighthawks	Wachovia Center	L 13–14	OT	12,311	2–5
8	February 20, 2005	@ Minnesota Swarm	Xcel Energy Center	W 18–17		8,106	3–5
9	February 25, 2005	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	W 14–8		8,912	4–5
10	March 5, 2005	Minnesota Swarm	Wachovia Center	W 15–8		10,846	5–5
11	March 12, 2005	Rochester Knighthawks	Wachovia Center	L 12–13		12,731	5–6
12	March 18, 2005	Colorado Mammoth	Wachovia Center	W 15–12		11,742	6–6
13	April 2, 2005	Toronto Rock	Wachovia Center	L 15–17		12,584	6–7
14	April 9, 2005	Toronto Rock	Wachovia Center	L 11–15		14,480	6–8
15	April 10, 2005	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	L 13–14		16,989	6–9
16	April 15, 2005	@ Minnesota Swarm	Xcel Energy Center	L 12–14		13,524	6–10

Player stats

Reference:

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
Tom Marechek	16	40	40	80	69	12
Dan Marohl	16	23	57	80	71	0
Jeff Ratcliffe	16	39	31	70	57	18
Keith Cromwell	16	24	43	67	57	9
Marc Morley	16	20	22	42	69	23
Jake Bergey	15	16	25	41	46	8
Andrew Burkholder	11	17	14	31	83	10
Jeff Spano	13	5	13	18	88	22
Dan Finck	14	10	6	16	82	8
Totals		324	537	357	1104	55

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
Dallas Eliuk	13	662:49	5	4	141	.761	12.76
Nick Schroeder	11	294:19	1	6	76	.667	15.49
Totals			6	10	218	.734	13.63

Awards

Player	Award
Andrew Burkholder	All-Rookie Team
Dan Finck
Andrew Burkholder	Rookie of the Month, February
Dallas Eliuk	All-Stars
Thomas Hajek
Tom Marechek

Transactions

Trades

February 12, 2005

To Philadelphia Wings Shawn Nadelen

To Minnesota Swarm Ryan Ward

Roster

Reference:

No. Position Player 41 Def Barrett, Bryan 25 Fwd Bendig, Bryan 66 Fwd Bergey, Jake Def Brzeski, Rich 37 Fwd Burkholder, Andrew ? Cole, Bryan 21 Fwd Cromwell, Keith 35 Goalie Eliuk, Dallas 22 Def Finck, Dan 4 Fwd Frye, Mark 12 Def Galbraith, Keevin 14 Def Guindon, Andrew Def Guindon, Jordan

No. Position Player 28 Def Hajek, Thomas 24 Def Jacobs, Peter 42 Fwd Marechek, Tom 27 Fwd Marohl, Dan 17 Fwd Morley, Marc 34 Def Nadelen, Shawn 9 Fwd Pape, Mike 90 Fwd Ratcliffe, Jeff 30 Goalie Schroeder, Nick 47 Def Spano, Jeff 7 Def Sweeney, Kyle Fwd Van Beek, Rob Fwd Ward, Ryan 10 Fwd Wasik, Andrew

See also

• 2005 NLL season