Season: | 2008 |
Seasonlink: | 2008 NLL season |
Team: | Philadelphia Wings |
Teamlink: | Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014) |
League: | NLL |
Division: | East |
Divisionrank: | 4th |
Record: | 10-6 |
Homerecord: | 7-1 |
Roadrecord: | 3-5 |
Goalsfor: | 225 |
Goalsagainst: | 220 |
Generalmanager: | Lindsay Sanderson |
Coach: | Dave Huntley |
Captain: | Thomas Hajek |
Altcaptain: | Peter Jacobs Jake Bergey |
Arena: | Wachovia Center |
Attendance: | 11,289 |
Goalsleader: | Athan Iannucci (71) |
Assistsleader: | Jason Crosbie (40) |
Pointsleader: | Athan Iannucci (100) |
Pimleader: | Geoff Snider (103) |
Looseballsleader: | Geoff Snider (244) |
Winsleader: | Rob Blasdell (8) |
Gaaleader: | Brandon Miller (12.18) |
Prevseason Year: | 2007 season |
Prevseason Link: | 2007 Philadelphia Wings season |
Nextseason Year: | 2009 season |
Nextseason Link: | 2009 Philadelphia Wings season |
The Philadelphia Wings are a lacrosse team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2008 season was the 22nd in franchise history.
The Wings had not made the playoffs in five years, the longest playoff drought in the history of the franchise. But the Wings began the season 6-0, and second-year players Athan Iannucci and Geoff Snider were rewriting the record books. Iannucci broke Gary Gait's single-season scoring record in the Wings' 14th game,[1] and ended up with 71 goals. Snider set new records for loose balls (242), penalty minutes (103), and faceoffs won (318), and won 73.8% of his faceoffs, just short of his own record of 75% set in 2007.[2] The Wings finished 4th in the East and made the playoffs again, but were beaten in the division semi-finals by the Buffalo Bandits.
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Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose balls; PIM = Penalty minutes
Player | GP | G | A | Pts | LB | PIM | |
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16 | 71 | 29 | 100 | 138 | 35 | ||
13 | 29 | 31 | 60 | 89 | 8 | ||
15 | 26 | 29 | 55 | 59 | 26 | ||
16 | 13 | 38 | 51 | 244 | 103 | ||
16 | 11 | 40 | 51 | 80 | 8 | ||
15 | 20 | 23 | 43 | 59 | 12 | ||
13 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 61 | 10 | ||
16 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 127 | 4 | ||
9 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 35 | 2 | ||
Totals | 324 | 549 | 440 | 1283 | 44 |
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 | |
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14 | 659:16 | 8 | 2 | 153 | .739 | 13.92 | ||
7 | 295:28 | 2 | 4 | 60 | .788 | 12.18 | ||
9 | 6:57 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .727 | 25.90 | ||
0 | 0:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .00 | ||
Totals | 10 | 6 | 220 | .751 | 13.75 |
Player | Award |
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NLL Most Valuable Player | |
Athan Iannucci | Overall Player of the Month, January |
Overall Player of the Month, February | |
Overall Player of the Month, April | |
Athan Iannucci | First Team All-Pro |
Second Team All-Pro | |
Athan Iannucci | All-Stars |
Geoff Snider | |
Taylor Wray |
February 29, 2008[6] | To Philadelphia Wings conditional third round pick, 2008 entry draft | To Edmonton Rush Brendan Thenhaus | |
March 5, 2008[7] | To Philadelphia Wings AJ Shannon (from Edmonton) fourth round pick, 2008 entry draft (from Minnesota) | To Minnesota Swarm Keith Cromwell (from Philadelphia) Dan Marohl (from Philadelphia) second round pick, 2009 entry draft (from Edmonton) | To Edmonton Rush Mike Hominuck (from Minnesota) first round pick, 2008 entry draft (from Minnesota) |
March 5, 2008 | To Philadelphia Wings Brandon Miller second round pick, 2008 entry draft | To Chicago Shamrox Matt Roik Brad Self first round pick, 2009 entry draft second round pick, 2010 entry draft |
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