2013 Colorado Mammoth season

2013 Colorado Mammoth
League	NLL
Division	4th West
2013 record	7 – 9
Home record	3 – 5
Road record	4 – 4
Goals for	185
Goals against	202
General Manager	Steve Govett
Coach	Bob Hamley
Captain	Gavin Prout
Alternate captains	John Grant, Jr. Jon Sullivan
Arena	Pepsi Center
Team leaders
Goals	John Grant, Jr. (43)
Assists	John Grant, Jr. (48)
Points	John Grant, Jr. (91)
Penalties in minutes	Chet Koneczny (54)
Loose Balls	Joey Cupido (101)
Wins	Tye Belanger (5)
Goals against average	Tye Belanger (10.77)
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The Colorado Mammoth are a lacrosse team based in Denver, Colorado playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2013 season was the 27th in franchise history and 11th as the Mammoth (previously the Washington Power, Pittsburgh Crossefire, and Baltimore Thunder).

The Mammoth survived a 2-7 start to the season, finishing strong and ending up at 7-9, good for 4th place in the West. But for the third straight year, they were ousted in the first round of the playoffs, this time by the Calgary Roughnecks, 15-10.[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 12, 2013	Washington Stealth	Pepsi Center	L 13–17		13,148	0–1
2	January 19, 2013	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	W 13–12	OT	8,221	1–1
3	January 25, 2013	Calgary Roughnecks	Pepsi Center	L 12–19		15,103	1–2
4	February 2, 2013	Minnesota Swarm	Pepsi Center	W 15–9		16,231	2–2
5	February 9, 2013	@ Washington Stealth	Comcast Arena	L 6–13		3,683	2–3
6	February 16, 2013	Edmonton Rush	Pepsi Center	L 7–14		17,059	2–4
7	February 24, 2013	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wells Fargo Center	L 12–14		8,606	2–5
8	March 2, 2013	Rochester Knighthawks	Pepsi Center	L 11–12		16,118	2–6
9	March 8, 2013	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	L 10–14		10,823	2–7
10	March 9, 2013	@ Buffalo Bandits	First Niagara Center	W 12–6		16,428	3–7
11	March 16, 2013	Buffalo Bandits	Pepsi Center	W 16–13		15,511	4–7
12	March 23, 2013	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	L 11–12	OT	9,493	4–8
13	March 30, 2013	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Pepsi Center	W 10–9		15,292	5–8
14	April 6, 2013	@ Edmonton Rush	Rexall Place	W 9–7		7,172	6–8
15	April 13, 2013	Minnesota Swarm	Pepsi Center	L 12–17		17,622	6–9
16	April 20, 2013	@ Minnesota Swarm	Xcel Energy Center	W 16–14		12,214	7–9

Playoffs

Game log

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Division Semifinal	April 27, 2013	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	L 10–15		8,726	0–1

Roster

2013 Colorado Mammoth roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders 31 Tye Belanger 35 Dan Lewis Defensemen 37 Dan Coates 11 John Gallant 12 Jarett Park 62 Creighton Reid 42 Rory Smith 23 Jon Sullivan (A)		Forwards 82 Joey Cupido 77 Colton Clark 96 Joel Dalgarno 24 John Grant, Jr. (A) 16 Adam Jones 44 Jamie Lincoln 14 Jordan McBride 17 Sean Pollock  9 Gavin Prout (C) Transition 15 Ilija Gajic  4 Jaeden Gastaldo 19 Cameron Holding 21 Chet Koneczny 13 Mat MacLeod 88 Richard Morgan		Practice Squad  3 Alex Demopoulos 25 Eric Martin Injured Reserve 55 Mac Allen Holdout 88 Ian Hawksbee Protected list -- Tom Ethington -- Ryan Hotaling Unable to play -- Ken Clausen 56 Jon Orsen		Head Coach {{{Head Coach}}} Legend * Suspended list (C) Captain (A) Alternate captain [1] updated 2011-12-21 NLL Transactions

Transactions

Trades

December 5, 2012[4]

To Colorado Mammoth Conditional 5th round pick, 2014 entry draft

To Buffalo Bandits Derek Hopcroft

Entry Draft

The 2012 NLL Entry Draft took place on October 1, 2012.[5] The Mammoth made the following selections:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
1	9	Colton Clark	Bellarmine University
5	44	Jaden Gastaldo	Burnaby, BC
6	53	Alex Demopoulos	University of Denver

See also

• 2013 NLL season

References

1. "Dome sweet some! Roughnecks top Mammoth to advance to West Final". NLL.com. April 27, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
2. "National Lacrosse League - 2013 Regular Season - Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
3. "Colorado Mammoth schedule". NLL.com. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
4. Bermel, Steve (December 4, 2012). "Breaking, Bandits acquire Hopcroft from Mammoth". ILIndoor.com. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
5. "2012 Draft Results: Rush select Mark Matthews first". NLL.com. October 1, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2012.