Much will be made in 2014 about the Edmonton Rush’s record at home, which was a disappointing 2-6 last year. There will also be a focus on the team finishing in the top two in the Western Division standings so that the they can give their fans that elusive home playoff date that the franchise has yet to realize. The team believes that much of that will be solved by…
Lacrosse fans in Edmonton have been waiting to get behind a winner for most of their seven seasons. Coach and General Manager Derek Keenan has finally brought stability to the lacrosse operations side of the franchise and the crazy Brodie Merrill/Paul Rabil/Athan Iannucci nightmare that looked like it totally unravelled on him, ended up landing Edmonton lacrosse fans Mark Matthews, their version of the Big White Hope. The challenge for…
A handful of Edmonton Rush players enter the final weekend of training camp without their spot on the 20 man active roster locked up. The rest of the team is focused on preparation so they can avoid dragging their feet out of gate and falling behind in the standings of the Western Division just as they did the past two seasons. As far as the practice roster goes, players have…
The Edmonton Rush started training camp in Edmonton two weekends ago with 31 players signed after they matched the four year offer the Buffalo Bandits made to defender Ryan Dilks. They made three cuts after the weekend, releasing local products Simon Giourmetakis, Matt McKenzie and Ben Snider, bringing the roster down to 25 runners and 3 goalies. The team’s second and final weekend of camp starts out in Six Nations,…
When camp opened for the Rush at the Leduc Recreation Centre last Thursday, the changes made behind the bench in the off season were front and centre as new coaches Jeff McComb and Jimmy Quinlan led twenty seven runners and three goalies through transition drills and system work over the course of the weekend. It goes without saying that Quinlan is very familiar to the players. His transition from team…
Chris Corbeil earned his stripes the hard way in his first season with the Edmonton Rush. In a game against the Buffalo Bandits, the team who drafted him 15th overall in the 2009 Entry Draft, Corbeil found himself in a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ type of situation and coincidentally it was Jimmy Quinlan, the guy who handed the captain ‘C’ over to him on Friday who…