2025 Toronto Rock season

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2025 Toronto Rock
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2025 recordTBD
Home recordTBD
Road recordTBD
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General ManagerJamie Dawick
CoachMatt Sawyer
CaptainChallen Rogers
Arena FirstOntario Centre
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The Toronto Rock are a professional lacrosse team based in Hamilton, Ontario playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2025 season is the 27th in franchise history, and 26th as the Rock.

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Regular season

The Rock temporarily relocated their home games to the Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga, Ontario for the 2024-25 season, as Hamilton's FirstOntario Centre was closed for renovations. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

The Rock had a strong 2024 season, finishing with a franchise best 15-3 regular season record and first place in the league. However, the team lost to the eventual champion Buffalo Bandits in the semi-finals of the playoffs. [7]

Latrell Harris, the National Lacrosse League Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2023 who missed all of the 2023 season due to an injury to his ACL sustained in the offseason, will return to the team. [7]

The team struggled at the start of the regular season, loosing its first 5 games before defeating the Saskatchewan Rush 18 January. [8]

Standings

Reference: [9]

PTeamGPWLPCTGBHomeRoadGFGADiffGF/GPGA/GP

1 Buffalo Bandits 5501.0000.03–02–08047+3316.009.40
2 Philadelphia Wings 752.7141.03–02–210291+1114.5713.00
3 Ottawa Black Bears 642.6671.52–12–15858−-09.679.67
4 Saskatchewan Rush 642.6671.52–12–16761+611.1710.17
5 Calgary Roughnecks 532.6002.01–12–16467−312.8013.40
6 Georgia Swarm 743.5712.02–22–17783−611.0011.86
7 Colorado Mammoth 743.5712.03–11–29383+1013.2911.86
8 Vancouver Warriors 633.5002.52–01–36360+310.5010.00
9 San Diego Seals 734.4293.03–10–37778−111.0011.14
10 Rochester Knighthawks 835.3753.51–32–290101−1111.2512.62
11 Halifax Thunderbirds 624.3333.51–21–28083−313.3313.83
12 Las Vegas Desert Dogs 725.2864.01–21–37399−2610.4314.14
13 Albany FireWolves 725.2864.01–31–28277+511.7111.00
14 Toronto Rock 615.1674.51–20–35371−188.8311.83

Game log

Regular season

GameDateOpponentLocationScoreOTAttendanceRecord
1November 29, 2024@ Ottawa Black Bears Canadian Tire Centre L 5–116,9950–1
2December 7, 2024 Albany FireWolves Paramount Fine Foods Centre L 4–155,0440–2
3December 14, 2024@ Georgia Swarm Gas South Arena L 9–104,5700–3
4December 28, 2024 Ottawa Black Bears Paramount Fine Foods Centre L 11–125,1960–4
5January 10, 2025@ Buffalo Bandits KeyBank Center L 13–1517,2400–5
6January 18, 2025 Saskatchewan Rush Paramount Fine Foods Centre W 11–85,0111–5
7January 24, 2025@ Calgary Roughnecks Scotiabank Saddledome
8February 1, 2025@ Colorado Mammoth Ball Arena
9February 8, 2025 San Diego Seals Paramount Fine Foods Centre
10February 14, 2025 Buffalo Bandits Paramount Fine Foods Centre
11February 22, 2025 Georgia Swarm Paramount Fine Foods Centre
12March 7, 2025@ Halifax Thunderbirds Scotiabank Centre
13March 14, 2025@ Vancouver Warriors Rogers Arena
14March 22, 2025 Philadelphia Wings Paramount Fine Foods Centre
15April 6, 2025@ Las Vegas Desert Dogs Lee's Family Forum
16April 11, 2025 Vancouver Warriors Paramount Fine Foods Centre
17April 18, 2025 Halifax Thunderbirds Paramount Fine Foods Centre
18April 19, 2025@ Rochester Knighthawks Blue Cross Arena

Roster

Reference: [10]

Toronto Rock roster
Active (21-man) rosterInactive rosterCoaches
Goaltenders
Defensemen
  • 22 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Jake Darlison
  • 21 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mitch de Snoo
  • 81 Flag of the United States.svg Elijah Gash
  • 93 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Latrell Harris
  • 91 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Billy Hostrawser(A)
  •  3 Flag of the United States.svg T. D. Ierlan
  • 33 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Josh Jubenville
  • 20 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Bradley Kri(A)
  • 24 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Justin J. Martin
  • 55 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Chris Weier
Forwards
  •  9 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Marley Angus
  • 21 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Chris Boushy
  • 44 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Brian Cameron
  • 25 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Dan Craig
  •  8 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Josh Dawick
  •  5 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Zack Kearney
  •  2 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Zach Manns
  • 42 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mark Matthews
  • 34 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Luke Robinson
  • 26 Flag of the United States.svg Tom Schreiber
  • 15 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Corey Small
  • 95 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Aaron Woods
Transition
  • 16 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Chris Corbeil
  • 11 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Tyler Hendrycks
  • 14 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Phil Mazzuca
  • 23 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Challen Rogers(C)
Head Coach
  • Matt Sawyer
Assistant Coaches
Legend
  • * Suspended list
  • (C) Captain
  • (A) Alternate captain

Roster updated 2025-1-21
NLL Transactions

Entry Draft

The 2024 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 15th, 2024 at the Toronto Rock Athletic Centre in Toronto. The Toronto Rock made the following selections: [11]

RoundOverallPlayerPositionCollege/Club
12Sam EnglishF Oakville Rock - Syracuse University
113Jake DarlisonTWhitby Warriors Jr. A
336Alex MessierDHalton Hills Bulldogs Jr. B
447Landen SinfieldOAkwesasne Jr. B
455Colton ArmitageOSt. Catharines Athletics Jr. A
563Connor ShellenbergerUniversity of Virginia
570Ethan FisherDSt. Catharines Athletics Jr. A

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