2008 Colorado Mammoth season

2008 Colorado Mammoth
League	NLL
Division	2nd West
2008 record	9-7
Home record	6-2
Road record	3-5
Goals for	184
Goals against	167
General Manager	Steve Govett
Coach	Bob McMahon
Captain	Gavin Prout
Arena	Pepsi Center
Average attendance	12,991
Team leaders
Goals	Brian Langtry (30)
Assists	Gavin Prout (67)
Points	Gavin Prout (92)
Penalties in minutes	Rich Catton (55)
Loose Balls	Nenad Gajic (121)
Wins	Gee Nash (7)
Goals against average	Chris Levis (10.04)
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The Colorado Mammoth are a lacrosse team based in Denver, Colorado playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2008 season was the 22nd in franchise history and 6th as the Mammoth (previously the Washington Power, Pittsburgh Crossefire, and Baltimore Thunder).

Regular season

Conference standings

Reference: ^[1]

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Buffalo Bandits –xyz	16	10	6	.625	0.0	7–2	3–4	203	174	+29	12.69	10.88
2	Minnesota Swarm –x	16	10	6	.625	0.0	6–2	4–4	199	196	+3	12.44	12.25
3	New York Titans –x	16	10	6	.625	0.0	5–1	5–5	197	186	+11	12.31	11.62
4	Philadelphia Wings –x	16	10	6	.625	0.0	7–1	3–5	225	220	+5	14.06	13.75
5	Rochester Knighthawks	16	8	8	.500	2.0	4–4	4–4	197	171	+26	12.31	10.69
6	Toronto Rock	16	7	9	.438	3.0	4–5	3–4	172	174	-2	10.75	10.88
7	Chicago Shamrox	16	6	10	.375	4.0	3–5	3–5	176	212	-36	11.00	13.25

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	San Jose Stealth –xy	16	9	7	.562	0.0	4–4	5–3	185	172	+13	11.56	10.75
2	Colorado Mammoth –x	16	9	7	.562	0.0	6–2	3–5	184	167	+17	11.50	10.44
3	Calgary Roughnecks –x	16	7	9	.438	2.0	5–3	2–6	183	178	+5	11.44	11.12
4	Portland LumberJax –x	16	6	10	.375	3.0	3–5	3–5	179	194	-15	11.19	12.12
5	Edmonton Rush	16	4	12	.250	5.0	3–5	1–7	141	197	-56	8.81	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: ^[2]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	December 29, 2007	Calgary Roughnecks	Pepsi Center	W 10–9		17,811	1–0
2	January 12, 2008	Edmonton Rush	Pepsi Center	W 14–11		17,520	2–0
3	January 24, 2008	@ Portland LumberJax	Rose Garden	W 12–11	OT	6,322	3–0
4	January 26, 2008	San Jose Stealth	Pepsi Center	W 11–6		18,007	4–0
5	February 7, 2008	Portland LumberJax	Pepsi Center	W 15–12		15,910	5–0
6	February 15, 2008	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Pepsi Center	L 13–15		17,109	5–1
7	February 24, 2008	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Pengrowth Saddledome	L 9–12		10,203	5–2
8	March 8, 2008	San Jose Stealth	Pepsi Center	L 8–12		18,201	5–3
9	March 14, 2008	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Pengrowth Saddledome	W 11–6		11,134	6–3
10	March 20, 2008	@ Portland LumberJax	Rose Garden	L 15–16		6,182	6–4
11	April 3, 2008	Rochester Knighthawks	Pepsi Center	W 11–8		16,860	7–4
12	April 5, 2008	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	L 11–12		16,905	7–5
13	April 12, 2008	@ New York Titans	Madison Square Garden	L 10–14		6,337	7–6
14	April 18, 2008	Edmonton Rush	Pepsi Center	W 15–4		18,301	8–6
15	April 19, 2008	@ Edmonton Rush	Rexall Place	W 13–8		8,142	9–6
16	April 26, 2008	@ San Jose Stealth	HP Pavilion at San Jose	L 6–11		2,916	9–7

Playoffs

Game log

Reference: ^[3]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Division Semifinal	May 3, 2008	Calgary Roughnecks	Pepsi Center	L 13–15		15,554	0–1

Player stats

Reference: ^[4]

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
Gavin Prout	16	25	67	92	85	14
Jamie Shewchuk	15	26	38	64	69	24
Brian Langtry	14	30	33	63	58	21
Dan Carey	11	22	27	49	68	0
Jason Wulder	16	21	26	47	48	4
Jed Prossner	11	14	10	24	32	2
Nenad Gajic	16	6	18	24	121	8
Jordan Cornfield	7	7	11	18	27	2
Nick Carlson	16	8	7	15	58	23
Totals		298	482	329	1078	53

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
Gee Nash	16	640:24	7	4	112	.766	10.49
Chris Levis	16	322:49	2	3	54	.789	10.04
Pete Jokisch	0	0:00	0	0	0	.000	.00
Totals			9	7	167	.773	10.44

Awards

Player	Award
Gavin Prout	Second Team All-Pro
Dan Carey	All-Stars
Gavin Prout
Gee Nash
Josh Sims
Bruce Murray
Nick Carlson

Transactions

Trades

March 25, 2008 [5]

To Colorado Mammoth Chris Gill second round pick, 2008 entry draft

To Edmonton Rush first round pick, 2008 entry draft

Roster

Reference: ^[6]

No. Position Player 47 Trans Bloom, Jason Fwd Brown, Matt 44 Fwd Carey, Dan 8 Trans Carlson, Nick 48 Def Catton, Rich 72 Fwd Cornfield, Jordan 2 Def Coyle, Pat 28 Def Ethington, Tom  ? Forsythe, Steve 10 Trans Gajic, Nenad 11 Def Gallant, John 23 Trans Gill, Chris 25 Fwd Gill, Chris 24 Fwd Janson, Pat Goalie Jokisch, Pete

No. Position Player 6 Fwd Langtry, Brian Fwd Law, Mike 66 Def Leveque, Matt 30 Goalie Levis, Chris 43 Fwd Llord, Dylan Fwd McEwen, Kyle 55 Trans Moss, Jim 20 Def Murray, Bruce 38 Goalie Nash, Gee 1 Fwd Prossner, Jed 9 Fwd Prout, Gavin 85 Fwd Shewchuk, Jamie 4 Trans Sims, Josh 95 Fwd Wulder, Jason  ? Zordani, Ryan

See also

• 2008 NLL season

References

1. "National Lacrosse League - 2008 Regular Season - Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
2. "Colorado Mammoth – National Lacrosse League". NLL.com. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
3. "Colorado Mammoth – National Lacrosse League". NLL.com. Archived from the original on September 6, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
4. "Colorado Mammoth". www.pointstreak.com. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
5. "Chris Gill Returns To Colorado". NLL.com. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
6. "Colorado Mammoth". www.pointstreak.com. Retrieved 22 May 2015.