Bob Whipper Watson is heading into his retirement as the best Lacrosse Goalie ever

Bob "whipper" Watson is going to play his final regular season game @ the ACC in his 13 years with the Toronto Rock and he will be playing at least one more game @ home after this one because the Rock are guaranteed a home playoff game which will either be the divisional semi-final or divisional final and it will depend as the winner of the game Vs Buffalo Bandits on Friday will host the divisional final. Bob Watson has won over 100 games in his 15 years in the National Lacrosse League and is second all-time in most saves and has won 5 championship and was named championship's cup MVP and has been named the goalie of the year twice. So this decision was made at the beginning of the season and unlike most professional athletes his decision was made because of his new job which is being a police officer in Waterloo, Ontario as players in the National Lacrosse League make at most 25-30 thousand a season so every player needs to either have another job which they do during the week or they are students in College/University. Coming down the stretch of the regular season he is still in consideration for the regular season MVP as he has put up incredible numbers this season as he is making 8 saves of every 10 shots faced and has a 9.56 goals against a game which is a small bit behind the leader and is 10-3 on the season.

Bob is 41 years old and played a season with the Baltimore Thunder and then came to the Rock organization starting in 1998 with the Ontario Raiders who played in Hamilton, Ontario @ Copps Colosseum and then they were moved down the road to Toronto and got a name changed to the Rock and moved into Maple Leaf Gardens and then into the ACC after it opened. He has basically been the only starting goalie for the Rock over the past 14 seasons in the National Lacrosse League and did get hit in the eye with a lacrosse ball during his season with the Ontario Raiders when a ball slipped through apart of his mask and shattered my orbital bone and broke my nose and collapsed the eye down and it has had a little bite of an effect on him as has a hard time seeing certain shots.

The Guelph, Ontario Native is the greatest Lacrosse goalie ever

Tom Mehegan