2016 Georgia Swarm season

The 2016 Georgia Swarm season is the first season of the Georgia Swarm, a lacrosse team based in Duluth, Georgia playing in the National Lacrosse League. The team was formerly based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and was known as the Minnesota Swarm.

2016 Georgia Swarm
League	NLL
Division	3rd East
2016 record	8-10
Home record	4-5
Road record	4-5
Goals for	238
Goals against	240
General Manager	Joe Sullivan
Coach	Joe Sullivan
Captain	Jordan MacIntosh
Alternate captains	Shayne Jackson Jason Noble
Arena	Infinite Energy Arena
Team leaders
Goals	Shayne Jackson (40)
Assists	Randy Staats (58)
Points	Randy Staats (94)
Penalties in minutes	Jason Noble (39)
Loose Balls	Jordan MacIntosh (182)
Wins	Brodie MacDonald (6)
Goals against average	Brodie MacDonald (12.82)
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Regular season

Final standings

Reference:

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Buffalo Bandits – xyz	18	13	5	.722	0.0	8–1	5–4	251	214	+37	13.94	11.89
2	New England Black Wolves – x	18	10	8	.556	3.0	6–3	4–5	229	212	+17	12.72	11.78
3	Georgia Swarm – x	18	8	10	.444	5.0	4–5	4–5	238	240	−2	13.22	13.33
4	Rochester Knighthawks	18	7	11	.389	6.0	3–6	4–5	200	215	−15	11.11	11.94
5	Toronto Rock	18	5	13	.278	8.0	4–5	1–8	190	224	−34	10.56	12.44

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Saskatchewan Rush – xy	18	13	5	.722	0.0	7–2	6–3	233	190	+43	12.94	10.56
2	Colorado Mammoth – x	18	12	6	.667	1.0	8–1	4–5	203	202	+1	11.28	11.22
3	Calgary Roughnecks – x	18	8	10	.444	5.0	5–4	3–6	216	216	−-0	12.00	12.00
4	Vancouver Stealth	18	5	13	.278	8.0	4–5	1–8	198	245	−47	11.00	13.61

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

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 1, 2016	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 15–16		15,090	0–1
2	January 9, 2016	Toronto Rock	Infinite Energy Arena	W 12–7		9,087	1–1
3	January 17, 2016	New England Black Wolves	Infinite Energy Arena	L 6–11		4,845	1–2
4	January 29, 2016	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	W 20–17		10,345	2–2
5	January 30, 2016	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 13–9		8,770	3–2
6	February 6, 2016	@ Calgary Roughnecks	Scotiabank Saddledome	L 11–12		9,531	3–3
7	February 14, 2016	Buffalo Bandits	Infinite Energy Arena	L 14–21		4,971	3–4
8	February 20, 2016	@ Buffalo Bandits	First Niagara Center	W 19–15		14,515	4–4
9	February 28, 2016	@ New England Black Wolves	Mohegan Sun Arena	L 15–16		3,744	4–5
10	March 12, 2016	@ Saskatchewan Rush	SaskTel Centre	L 8–14		13,720	4–6
11	March 18, 2016	Rochester Knighthawks	Infinite Energy Arena	L 4–11		4,523	4–7
12	March 25, 2016	Calgary Roughnecks	Infinite Energy Arena	L 12–16		3,348	4–8
13	April 2, 2016	Buffalo Bandits	Infinite Energy Arena	L 14–18		3,355	4–9
14	April 10, 2016	Colorado Mammoth	Infinite Energy Arena	W 17–10		3,577	5–9
15	April 15, 2016	New England Black Wolves	Infinite Energy Arena	W 16–9		2,957	6–9
16	April 16, 2016	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 17–11		8,570	7–9
17	April 23, 2016	@ New England Black Wolves	Mohegan Sun Arena	L 11–21		4,097	7–10
18	April 30, 2016	Vancouver Stealth	Infinite Energy Arena	W 14–6		5,347	8–10

Playoffs

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Eastern division semi-final	May 6, 2016	@ New England Black Wolves	Mohegan Sun Arena	L 13–14	OT	3,266	0–1

Roster

Georgia Swarm roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders 50 Brodie MacDonald 31 Zach Higgins Defensemen 27 Reid Acton 85 Mitch Belisle 10 Alex Crepinsek 56 Drew Petkoff		Forwards 32 Shayne Jackson (A) 19 Jesse King 46 Kiel Matisz 93 Johnny Powless 83 Randy Staats 22 Jerome Thompson  4 Lyle Thompson  2 Miles Thompson Transition 33 David Earl 24 Jordan MacIntosh (C) 45 Jason Noble (A) 37 Ethan O'Connor 44 Chad Tutton 11 Joel White		Practice Squad 61 Wenster Green (D) 47 Michael Seidel (D) 35 Adam Shute (G) 98 Sean Young (T)		Head Coach {{{Head Coach}}} Legend * Suspended list (C) Captain (A) Alternate captain [1] updated 2016-05-01 NLL Transactions

Transactions

Trades

September 28, 2015

To Georgia Swarm 29th overall selection, 2015 entry draft 2nd round selection, 2018 entry draft

To Toronto Rock Mike Grimes 34th overall selection, 2015 entry draft

Entry Draft

The 2015 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 28, 2015. The Swarm made the following selections:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
1	1	Lyle Thompson
1	3	Jesse King
1	5	Chad Tutton
1	6	Randy Staats
2	20	Thomas Hoggarth
3	29	Michael Seidel
5	43	Nick Ossello
6	50	Rick Lewis

See also

• 2016 NLL season