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He may not of had as “big” a season as he did in ‘07 when he was named the league’s first ever transitional player of the year, but Steve Toll’s game is one that has created major problems for teams since he first burst onto the scene in a full-time role with the Toronto Rock in 2000.

Toll actually had a pretty impressive hockey career leading up to that choice of committing full-time to pro ball, having played college hockey with RIT and for teams like the Fayetteville Force and Indianapolis Ice of the CHL.

Since then, Toll’s filled up his fist with five pro rings and garnered a rep as one of the quickest Canucks to ever play the game. Hell, one of the quickest period to ever play at this level.

The former Mann Cup winner and World Champ in both box and field, mighta seen his O numbers dip a bit in 2008, but Toll still put up his usual stellar loosie digits and was a big reason why the Knighthawks came on as hard as they did when their backs were up against the wall down the stretch. They obviously came up just short, but Toll’s play was non-the-less real nice to watch.

This year’s post-season miss by Rochester also snapped Toll’s consecutive playoff streak too. Toll had been on a playoff bound team for the past eight seasons previous to this past winter.

And speaking of streaks, Toll hasn’t missed a single regular season game over the past nine seasons (since he went FT in the NLL). That’s 139 games and counting. Not too shabby for a guy that’s probably logged more miles burnin’ the courts than anyone else in the league.

Toll can still pick off a pass with the best of em’ and few can contain his wheels. Even with all these Americans and athletic Canadian college grads entering the bigs, ‘Speedin’ Stevie’  is still one of the toughest to keep leashed up in his own yard no matter who’s trailin’ em.

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