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, 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. The Wings finished 4th in the East and made the playoffs again, but were beaten in the division semi-finals by the Buffalo Bandits.
Regular season
Conference standings
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Playoffs
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Runners (Top 10)
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose balls; PIM = Penalty minutes Player GP G A Pts LB PIM Athan Iannucci 16 71 29 100 138 35 Jake Bergey 13 29 31 60 89 8 Merrick Thomson 15 26 29 55 59 26 Geoff Snider 16 13 38 51 244 103 Jason Crosbie 16 11 40 51 80 8 Jamie Rooney 15 20 23 43 59 12 Johnny Christmas 13 5 20 25 61 10 Kyle Sweeney 16 5 20 25 127 4 AJ Shannon 9 11 7 18 35 2 Totals 324 549 440 1283 44
Goaltenders 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 Rob Blasdell 14 659:16 8 2 153 .739 13.92 Brandon Miller 7 295:28 2 4 60 .788 12.18 Jay Preece 9 6:57 0 0 3 .727 25.90 Matt Roik 0 0:00 0 0 0 .000 .00 Totals 10 6 220 .751 13.75
Awards Player Award Athan Iannucci 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 Geoff Snider Second Team All-Pro Athan Iannucci All-Stars Geoff Snider Taylor Wray
Transactions
Trades February 29, 2008 To Philadelphia Wings conditional third round pick, 2008 entry draft To Edmonton Rush Brendan Thenhaus March 5, 2008 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 Millersecond round pick, 2008 entry draft To Chicago Shamrox Matt RoikBrad Selffirst round pick, 2009 entry draftsecond round pick, 2010 entry draft
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See also 2008 NLL season
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