The last time there was a National Lacrosse League game in Alberta’s capital city, Mark Matthews, Chris Corbiel, Riley Loewen and the rest of the Rush were celebrating Edmonton’s first ever NLL title. Sadly, the team would leave for Saskatoon and go on to win two more championships with a stacked roster that had been largely forged in Edmonton. Fast forward 10+ years and the NLL was back in…
It was a night to celebrate one of the very best Roughnecks to ever suit up in the red, black and white, (and yes, grey too). It was “Forever a Roughneck Night” and Dane Dobbie’s #44 was raised to the rafters joining his former teammates Kaleb Toth and Tracey Kelusky. Dobbie walked onto the turf hand-in-hand with his wife and two daughters to that old familiar Saddledome roar. In…
Since losing the 2019 NLL Finals to Calgary in that unforgettable overtime game, the Buffalo Bandits have dominated their western rivals going 4-1 in the regular season and outscoring Calgary 65 to 46. Included in those totals was another resounding win on Sunday night at Westjet Field as the Bandits took care of business defeating the Roughnecks 13-7. The Bandits stuck to a familiar recipe with their two superstars…
After the punishing grind of a twenty-one week NLL season, the playoff hopes for the Calgary Roughnecks all came down to a final double-header. The 8-8 Roughnecks had earned the right to control their own destiny and their first chance to clinch came with a match-up against the Las Vegas Desert Dogs. Calgary jumped out to a 7-1 lead and then survived a furious Las Vegas comeback to win…
As famously stated by former US President George W. Bush, “Fool me once, shame on you… [really long pause]… fool me… you can’t get fooled again.” All kidding aside, after getting upset by the Roughnecks a week ago on home turf, the Buffalo Bandits were hungry to get to the rematch and show just why they are the class of the NLL. And they didn’t disappoint. Playing typical “Bandit Ball,”…
The Rochester Knighthawks were on a mission. The whistle blew and a minute and seven seconds later the K-Hawks were in the lead. The visitors never looked back and when the dust settled on “Roughneck Rodeo Night,” Rochester rode out of Cowtown with a 15-10 victory. Rochester was coming off a 17-9 shellacking at the hands of Saskatchewan and definitely looked like the hungrier team on Saturday night. Ten first-half…
Calgary played their first of two scheduled doubleheaders this season with games against the Saskatchewan Rush and Las Vegas Desert Dogs. The Roughie’s dropped Friday’s game 16-13 to a very good Rush team, but bounced back in a huge way with a 21-8 trouncing of the Desert Dogs. The split keeps them in third position in a tight midfield battle for playoff positioning. Friday’s game against the Rush was a…
A dominating defensive performance and Tom Schreiber being Tom Schreiber were exactly what the Toronto faithful had been waiting for as the Rock continued their turn-around with a 14-9 victory over the Calgary Roughnecks on Friday night at Scotiabank Saddledome. The return of 2023 Defensive Player of the Year Latrell Harris from a devastating ACL injury provided a huge boost to the Toronto back end. The Rock seemed energized as…
Week 8 in the NLL was a busy one. A full eight games over the course of four days had every team in action including the Georgia Swarm and Calgary Roughnecks. It’d been close to five years since Georgia’s last trip to Calgary which ended in a narrow defeat. In fact, the last three meetings between these clubs had been decided by a single goal and that trend continued on…
Ten first-half goals by the visiting Vancouver Warriors was just about all the firepower they needed as they battled their way to a 14-10 victory against the Calgary Roughnecks. Kevin Crowley netted five goals and assisted on three others earning the game’s second Star. “I shot the ball well tonight. A lot of guys were sealing for me to get me open and I was feeling good going into the…