# 2025 Toronto Rock season

The Toronto Rock are a professional lacrosse team based in Mississauga, Ontario playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2025 season is the 27th in franchise history, and 26th as the Rock.

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

### Standings

Reference:
| P | Team | GP | W | L | PCT | GB | Home | Road | GF | GA | Diff | GF/GP | GA/GP |
| 1 | Buffalo Bandits | 9 | 8 | 1 | .889 | 0.0 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 135 | 95 | +40 | 15.00 | 10.56 |
| 2 | Saskatchewan Rush | 11 | 9 | 2 | .818 | 0.0 | 4–1 | 5–1 | 139 | 111 | +28 | 12.64 | 10.09 |
| 3 | Halifax Thunderbirds | 10 | 6 | 4 | .600 | 2.5 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 131 | 121 | +10 | 13.10 | 12.10 |
| 4 | Georgia Swarm | 10 | 6 | 4 | .600 | 2.5 | 2–3 | 4–1 | 116 | 120 | −4 | 11.60 | 12.00 |
| 5 | Colorado Mammoth | 11 | 6 | 5 | .545 | 3.0 | 3–3 | 3–2 | 132 | 128 | +4 | 12.00 | 11.64 |
| 6 | Calgary Roughnecks | 11 | 6 | 5 | .545 | 3.0 | 2–4 | 4–1 | 143 | 140 | +3 | 13.00 | 12.73 |
| 7 | Ottawa Black Bears | 10 | 5 | 5 | .500 | 3.5 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 97 | 100 | −3 | 9.70 | 10.00 |
| 8 | Philadelphia Wings | 11 | 5 | 6 | .455 | 4.0 | 3–2 | 2–4 | 140 | 144 | −4 | 12.73 | 13.09 |
| 9 | Vancouver Warriors | 11 | 5 | 6 | .455 | 4.0 | 3–2 | 2–4 | 111 | 107 | +4 | 10.09 | 9.73 |
| 10 | San Diego Seals | 11 | 5 | 6 | .455 | 4.0 | 3–3 | 2–3 | 122 | 126 | −4 | 11.09 | 11.45 |
| 11 | Rochester Knighthawks | 12 | 5 | 7 | .417 | 4.5 | 1–4 | 4–3 | 139 | 151 | −12 | 11.58 | 12.58 |
| 12 | Toronto Rock | 11 | 3 | 8 | .273 | 6.0 | 1–5 | 2–3 | 108 | 123 | −15 | 9.82 | 11.18 |
| 13 | Las Vegas Desert Dogs | 11 | 3 | 8 | .273 | 6.0 | 1–4 | 2–4 | 117 | 155 | −38 | 10.64 | 14.09 |
| 14 | Albany FireWolves | 11 | 3 | 8 | .273 | 6.0 | 2–4 | 1–4 | 125 | 134 | −9 | 11.36 | 12.18 |

## Game log
### Regular season

| Game | Date | Opponent | Location | Score | OT | Attendance | Record |
| 1 | November 29, 2024 | @ Ottawa Black Bears | Canadian Tire Centre | L 5–11 | | 6,995 | 0–1 |
| 2 | December 7, 2024 | Albany FireWolves | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | L 4–15 | | 5,044 | 0–2 |
| 3 | December 14, 2024 | @ Georgia Swarm | Gas South Arena | L 9–10 | | 4,570 | 0–3 |
| 4 | December 28, 2024 | Ottawa Black Bears | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | L 11–12 | | 5,196 | 0–4 |
| 5 | January 10, 2025 | @ Buffalo Bandits | KeyBank Center | L 13–15 | | 17,240 | 0–5 |
| 6 | January 18, 2025 | Saskatchewan Rush | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | W 11–8 | | 5,011 | 1–5 |
| 7 | January 24, 2025 | @ Calgary Roughnecks | Scotiabank Saddledome | W 9–5 | | 11,759 | 2–5 |
| 8 | February 1, 2025 | @ Colorado Mammoth | Ball Arena | W 9–8 | OT | 10,441 | 3–5 |
| 9 | February 8, 2025 | San Diego Seals | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | L 10–11 | | 5,030 | 3–6 |
| 10 | February 14, 2025 | Buffalo Bandits | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | L 12–13 | | 5,167 | 3–7 |
| 11 | February 22, 2025 | Georgia Swarm | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | L 10–11 | OT | 5,184 | 3–8 |
| 12 | March 7, 2025 | @ Halifax Thunderbirds | Scotiabank Centre | | | | |
| 13 | March 14, 2025 | @ Vancouver Warriors | Rogers Arena | | | | |
| 14 | March 22, 2025 | Philadelphia Wings | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | | | | |
| 15 | April 6, 2025 | @ Las Vegas Desert Dogs | Lee's Family Forum | | | | |
| 16 | April 11, 2025 | Vancouver Warriors | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | | | | |
| 17 | April 18, 2025 | Halifax Thunderbirds | Paramount Fine Foods Centre | | | | |
| 18 | April 19, 2025 | @ Rochester Knighthawks | Blue Cross Arena | | | | |

## Roster

Reference:

### 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:
| Round | Overall | Player | Position | College/Club |
| 1 | 2 | Sam English | F | Oakville Rock - Syracuse University |
| 1 | 13 | Jake Darlison | T | Whitby Warriors Jr. A |
| 3 | 36 | Alex Messier | D | Halton Hills Bulldogs Jr. B |
| 4 | 47 | Landen Sinfield | O | Akwesasne Jr. B |
| 4 | 55 | Colton Armitage | O | St. Catharines Athletics Jr. A |
| 5 | 63 | Connor Shellenberger | | University of Virginia |
| 5 | 70 | Ethan Fisher | D | St. Catharines Athletics Jr. A |