A Toronto Rock come the member of the National Lacrosse League (NLL), a North American professional sports league. It play at a Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.

A franchise was originally founded as a NLL expansion team for Hamilton, Ontario to begin play in the 1998 season. It were referred to as a Ontario Raiders, & played their house games at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton during their number one month. Yet, at a guide of the year it were sold to a class action of investors led by Bill Watters, world health organization was so the Supporter Gram of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL, and relocated to Toronto in time for the beginning of the 1999 season. It were later renamed a "Toronto Rock". When you took their 1st both seasons inside Toronto, it played at Maple Leaf Gardens, the historic previous personal of the Toronto Maple Leafs, prior to moving to the Air Canada Centre for the 2001 season, which they presently part by having two a Maple Leafs & a Toronto Raptors of the NBA. A Rock hwhen systematically ranked touching a top of the NLL two within lacrosse performance too as fiscal profits.

Championships

A Toronto Rock won a Champion's Cup in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2005.

A 2002 final was against a Albany Attack, & a 1999, 2000, and 2003 finals were against a Rochester Knighthawks. Inside 2001, a Toronto Rock went to a league title game however come higher 1 goal short against the Philadelphia Wings. Inside 2004, a Rock earned a foremost spherical bye when clinching the East Section regular year crown. A Buffalo Bandits came to town and upset a Rock 19-10. So, a Toronto Rock, since their installation inside Toronto, use never missed a playoffs & keep around today no more to the championship game six days it used to be that sevener years.

Inside 2005, a Rock defeated the Rochester Knighthawks in a East Division Final by the score of 12-10 ahead of some 17,200 fans at the Air Canada Centre. A Rock went in to kill a Arizona Sting with a 19-13 winside before of an NLL record crowd of 19,432, becoming NLL champions for the fifth period in vii years & solidifying their distinction as an NLL dynasty.

Les Bartley

Less so Eighteen hours when a Toronto Rock won their Fifth NLL Championship, previous coach & General Manager Les Bartley died on May 15, 2005 of cancer at the age of 51. Bartley is remembered as an exceptional coach, getting led a Toronto Rock to waround a championships in 1999, 2000, 2002, & 2003.

Roster

Players

|- ! # ! Name ! Height ! Weight ! Shoots ! Birthplace ! Birthdate ! Summerteam ! Experience ! Position |- | 6|| Ladouceur, Dan||6'Six"||245||L||Thunder Bay, ON||11/26/1973||Ajax-Pickering Rock (Sr. B)||5||F |- |-6|| Ladouceur, Dan||6'6"||245||L||Thunder Bay, ON||11/26/1973||Ajax-Pickering Rock (Sr. B)||5||F |- | 7|| Doyle, Colin||6'Ternary"||215||L||Kitchener, ON||09/08/1977||Coquitlam Adanacs (WLA)||6||F |- | 9|| Merrill, Patrick||6'0"||180||R||Montreal, QC||02/22/1979||Brampton Excelsiors||2||T |- | 10|| Wilson, Aaron||5'Niner"||175||R||Kitchener, ON||12/20/1980||Brampton Excelsiors||2||F |- | 13|| Rosa, John||6'2"||210||L||Deerborn, MI||03/20/1970||Akwesasne Thunder||12||D |- | 16|| Manning, Blaine||6'Single"||210||R||Calgary, AB||09/10/1979||None||3||F |- | 17|| Beisel, Brian||6'4"||210||R||Brampton, ON||09/20/1975||Brampton Excelsiors||8||D |- | 18|| Sanderson, Phil||5'Ix"||175||L||Orangeville, ON||01/23/1977||Brampton Excelsiors||6||D |- | 19|| Sanderson, Josh||5'7"||150||L||Orangeville, ON||04/23/1977||Brampton Excelsiors||8||F |- | 20|| Kruger, Rusty||5'Eighter from decatur"||175||L||Guelph, ON||03/26/1975||Orangeville Jr. A (Head Coach)||8||F |- | 24|| Shearer, Matt||6'0"||185||R||Whitby, ON||10/19/1973||None||7||F |- | 27|| Suddons, Derek||6'Two"||210||L||Oshawa, ON||06/10/1978||Brooklin Redmen||3||D |- | 32|| Veltman, Jim||6'2"||185||L||Brampton, ON||03/08/1966||Ajax-Pickering Rock||11||T |- | 38|| Trudeau, Nick||6'Single"||195||L||Windsor, ON||09/09/1976||Akwesasne Thunder||5||F |- | 40|| Rubel, Ian||6'0"||200||L||St. Catharines, ON||02/28/1978||St. Catharines Athletics||4||D |- | 77|| O'Brien, Tim||6'One"||200||L||Edmonton, AB||05/28/1977||Brampton Excelsiors||4||D |- | 93|| Driscoll, Chris||6'0"||190||R||Fergus, ON||09/12/1971||Brampton Excelsiors||13||T |- | 0|| Dickie, J.J.|| || || || || ||Brampton Wood shavings|| ||  |}

Goaltenders

|- ! # ! Name ! Height ! Weight ! Shoots ! Birthplace ! Birthdate ! Summerteam ! Experience ! Position |- | 29|| Watson, Bob||6'Zero"||195||L||Guelph, ON||04/06/1970||None||6||G |- | 90|| Wetherup, Phil||6'1"||200||R||Waterloo, ON||07/19/1977||Owen Healthy Woodsmen (Sr. B)||6||G |}

Practice roster

|- ! # ! Name ! Height ! Weight ! Shoots ! Birthplace ! Birthdate ! Summerteam ! Experience ! Position |- | 42|| Summerfield, Jeff||6'Deuce"||215||R||Scarborough, ON||10/22/1983||Brampton Excelsiors||1||D |- | 30|| Preece, John||6'2"||210||L||Toronto, ON||05/21/1981||Ajax-Pickering Rock (Sr. B)||1||G |- | 55|| Turner, Sean||5'Eleven"||175||R||Fergus, ON||12/11/1981||Brampton Excelsiors||1||D |}