The Rochester Knighthawks announced today that they have signed forward Joel Matthews to a one-year deal. The 23-year-old, who was added to the practice squad, hit the turf with his new team Sunday morning. “It’s a great organization. Everyone knows what they’ve done the last three years,” said Matthews. “I just hope to come in here to do my job and do what Curt (Styres) and the coaching staff asks…
Chris Attwood finally played his first NLL game more than two years after his professional lacrosse journey started. The 24 year old scored a goal in Rochester’s preseason opener at Blue Cross Arena on December 6, marking his return to the team that drafted him, and then cut him, in 2012. That same team has now named him to their 2015 roster. The professional success has been a long time…
The Rochester Knighthawks announced their 20-man roster for the beginning of the 2015 National Lacrosse League season. The active roster includes 16 players from the 2014 NLL Championship team, including Team Captain Sid Smith, 2014 NLL MVP Cody Jamieson and fellow assistant captain Mike Kirk, 2014 Championship Game MVP Dan Dawson and four-time NLL Goaltender of the Year Matt Vinc. The defensive unit features the most returning players with nine….
Just one day after being cut by the Buffalo Bandits, the Rochester Knighthawks have signed Aaron Wilson. Wilson. who was having a very strong pre season in Buffalo with ten points, was one of the surprise cuts yesterday. The Bandits cut the righty shooter, but it is the Knighthawks’ gain. Their already loaded offense adds a righty to go along with Dan Dawson, Stephen Keogh, Craig Point, and Gavin Prout….
Winning culture. Those were the words that emanated through my head after spending the first 48 hours at the Rochester Knighthawks trainings camp. There was a swagger, an expectation of we are the best – and we know it. But it was never spoken of literally and certainly nobody took anything for granted. All I heard from the training coaches and staff was how much better shape the key role…
The Toronto Rock defeated the Rochester Knighthawks 15-7 in a Sunday afternoon exhibition game at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec in front of 4,820 fans. As part of the promotion of the exhibition game, organizers selected a member of the Quebec Lacrosse Federation to play in the game. Trevor Wagar, a player with Vermont in the Quebec Senior B Lacrosse League, was chosen to play for the Rock. After…
Today the Toronto Rock and Rochester Knighthawks will take over the old stomping grounds of the ill-fated Montreal Express. For the second time, the NLL heads to Montreal for a pre season game where these two teams will play at Bell Centre. The Rock lost their pre season contest last week to the Calgary Roughnecks where they scored just five goals. Meanwhile, the Knighthawks also lost when the Minnesota Swarm…
In the NFL draft the last pick is normally called Mr. Irrelevant being that he is a long shot at making the team and making an impact. Well in this past NLL draft the Rochester Knighthawks used the last pick of the draft on a player who is far from Irrelevant. Some people may know Zach Williams and most know his little brother, Zed Williams, a current sophomore on Virginia University lacrosse team. Zed…
In what has become an annual event, the three-time defending champion Rochester Knighthawks fell to the Minnesota Swarm 14-8 in front of 10,073 fans at The Blue Cross Arena. Tickets for the game were free on a first come first serve basis, just as they did in the past 3 years for the pre-season game. It’s obvious the focus was on Miles Thompson. Thompson ended the night with 4 goals…
The Minnesota Swarm kicked off their first weekend of training camp this week and will cap it off with a pair of scrimmages. They face the Rochester Knighthawks tonight at 7 CST and meet the Calgary Roughnecks on Sunday at 11 CST. They play in New York on Saturday and Ontario on Sunday. These will be the first opportunities for players to show in game action why they should have…