Alex Urquhart The Minnesota Swarm are heading to camp on Nov. 29th in Oakville, ON at the Toronto Rock Athletic Center. The Swarm are coming off an impressive late season run into the playoffs, where they made it to the Conference Finals for the second straight year. Minnesota is also coming off an outstanding draft, where they drafted the top two players and four total first rounders. Heading into…
After last season the Minnesota Swarm were looking to be on high ground going into the offseason. The Swarm were definitely one of the teams most people would expect to be in the mix for the Championship in 2014. This included myself, after much contemplation and foreshadowing. The Swarm spent most of the spring fairly quiet, but once the Draft started to roll around the Swarm started to make some…
The Rochester Rattlers have been making huge moves this off-season, most notably trading Max Striebel and Ned Crotty to the New York Lizards. The one that probably is of more importance than that trade, at least to the New York Lizards, is the trading away of Steve DeNapoli. The Lizards gave up Mark Mathews, the young Canadian and Denver grad, and a fourth round pick in the Supplemental draft….
The Minnesota Swarm are heading into training camp as one of the few teams that don’t have too many questions to answer come the season. The Swarm were able to Draft a number of young guns who will be high scorers and stalwart defenders. The only perceivable question marks are between the pipes and how well Captain Andrew Suitor can come back and lead the squad, after he destroyed his…
Alex Urquhart Tyler Carlson is the Swarm’s lone goalie, this season, that has game experience from last season. Although Carlson is the only goalie on the roster with experience in the NLL, he will have to step up from his performance last season. Carlson went 4-6 last season with a goals against average of 11.04 over those 10 games and a save percentage of 77.1 percent. These numbers landed…
The Minnesota Swarm have stayed fairly quiet since the 2013 Entry Draft, where they had the most picks of any team and the most first round draft picks ever with four. The Swarm drafted a ton of young players that will be huge parts in the upcoming season. At the moment the Swarm have only a handful of spots on the team up for grabs. This means that the Swarm…
Alex Urquhart This year’s Fall Ball has seemed to fly by, but maybe that’s because of the outstanding games that took place. Along with these amazing games the Lacrosse community had a little bit of a heartache when it was announced that Cornell would participate in any scrimmages this fall, due to a hazing incident. Fortunately for the Lacrosse community was saved by the Orangemen of Syracuse, who took…
Alex Urquhart This offseason the Minnesota Swarm traded Ryan Benesch to the Buffalo Bandits in a package deal that also saw Andrew Watt shipped to Buffalo in return for a number of first round draft picks and a third round pick. Benesch has been a team leader in Goals since joining the team in 2007. He finished the season with 34 goals and 50 assists, for a total points at…
Alex Urquhart It is free agent time in the NLL, and means in depth coverage and analysis of every team in the league. Minnesota is what today is going to be. The Swarm have gone to the Conference Finals in both of the last two years. They have been able to get into the playoffs after having fairly lack luster regular seasons. But they have been winning it matters. With…
Alex Urquhart The Boston Cannons will be going to looking at their roster over the next while to decide on which players they will need to protect and which one will end up being unprotected players for the upcoming draft cycles. Most likely the Cannons will be looking to protect more of their offensive players, while the leave a number of their defenders up for grabs. This would also…