The 1996 season is the 10th season of the league that began on December 30, 1995, and concluded with the championship game on April 12, 1996.
Team movement
The
Charlotte Cobras
The Charlotte Cobras were a member of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL). They were based at Independence Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina and only played during the 1996 season. In October 1995, the MILL announced that Charlotte had been a ...
played their only season in 1996, in the process achieving the only
winless season
A winless season is a regular season in which a sports team fails to win any of its games. The antithesis of a perfect season, this ignominy has been suffered twelve times in professional American football, six times in arena football, three times ...
in the history of the league.
Regular season
All Star Game
No All-Star Game was played in 1996.
Playoffs
Awards
Weekly awards
Each week, a player is awarded "Player of the Week" honours.
Monthly awards
An award is also given out monthly for the best overall player.
All-Pro Teams
First Team:
*
Gary Gait, Philadelphia
*
Paul Gait, Rochester
*
Tom Marechek
Tom "Hollywood" Marechek (born August 25, 1968 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a retired professional lacrosse player.
College career
Marechek played college lacrosse at Syracuse University where he teamed with Paul and Gary Gait to form one of ...
, Philadelphia
*
John Tavares, Buffalo
*
Jim Veltman, Buffalo
*
Dallas Eliuk
Dallas Eliuk (born November 4, 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former goaltender and assistant coach in the National Lacrosse League. Upon his retirement from play, Eliuk coached one season with the Portland LumberJax and two with the ...
, Philadelphia (goalie)
Second Team:
*Chris Bates, Charlotte
*
Thomas Carmean
Thomas Carmean is the assistant coach of the Boys' NCAA lacrosse team at Keene State College in New Hampshire. Carmean is the former Guilford College Men's Lacrosse Team, a lacrosse alumnus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a former ...
, Boston
*
Chris Driscoll
Chris Driscoll (born September 12, 1971) is a Canadian retired lacrosse player.
Professional career
Born in Fergus, Ontario, Driscoll began his career with the Detroit Turbos in 1993. He played with the Turbos for two seasons before they disban ...
, Rochester
*
Kevin Finneran
Kevin Finneran is an American lacrosse coach. In 2006, he was the head coach and general manager of Major League Lacrosse's Chicago Machine. Prior to becoming the team's first head coach Finneran had played in the MLL. He played with the Long Islan ...
, Philadelphia
*Duane Jacobs, Rochester
*
Steve Dietrich
Steve "Chugger" Dietrich (born February 18, 1970 in Kitchener, Ontario) is the General Manager of the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League. Dietrich is also a NLL Hall of Fame goaltender who has played with the Calgary Roughnecks, Buf ...
, Rochester (goalie)
Statistics leaders
Bold numbers indicate new single-season records. ''Italics'' indicate tied single-season records.
See also
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1996 in sports
1996 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Alpine skiing
* Alpine Skiing World Cup
** Men's overall season champion: Lasse Kjus, Norway
** Women's overall season champion: Katja Seizinger, Germany
American football
* Super Bowl ...
References
1996 Archive at the Outsider's Guide to the NLL
MILL
Major Indoor Lacrosse League seasons
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