The Hamilton Nationals signed four players from the MLL player pool last night after the Supplemental Draft last week. They signed Matt Vinc, who is a goaltender with the NLL’s Rochester Knighthawks but in MLL is a defender. Vinc has played six games in his MLL career, including his last four in 2011. He has never scored a point, but he has four career penalty minutes. They also picked up…
As teams have to complete their rosters by Thursday, both the Buffalo Bandits and Washington Stealth made moves today. After both had hip injuries, Buffalo placed Scott Self and Mark Steenhius back on the active roster. Both missed the majority of training camp but it had been said that they would be back for the start of the season. Meanwhile, Washington Stealth rookie Drew Snider was placed on Injured Reserve…
The Calgary Roughnecks and Buffalo Bandits revealed new uniforms this afternoon. Calgary released third jerseys while the Bandits released their new home and away uniforms at their open practice. Click here to see the Roughnecks new uniforms revealed on their official team website earlier today. Below is the Bandits uniforms worn by John Tavares and Mark Steenhius. John Tavares and Mark Steenhuis showing off the new #Bandits jerseys at open…
Wade Leaphart of the Charlotte Hounds tweeted this afternoon after the Supplemental Draft that the team has traded for midfielder Chris Schiller. Schiller was a free agent who was drafted to the Chesapeake Bayhawks this afternoon, but less than an hour after the draft ended, the Hounds sent a seventh round college draft pick to the Bayhawks for the midfielder. Schiller played with the Rochester Rattlers last season and is…
The Mann Cup this past September was marred with stories about drug testing, with coaches suspended and reprimands flying, and yesterday we found out what the trouble was in Peterborough. Two unidentified players in the Mann Cup have tested positive for cannabis. Neither one will be suspended but if they are caught again, per rules, they will have a lifetime ban from the Canadian Lacrosse Association. First time offenders who…
After the first training camp session of the season for the Minnesota Swarm, they have released Jesse Guerin, Mike Teeter and Aaron Grayson. Guerin was signed as a free agent before camp began. He played in the fall with the Reading Rockets and has played CLax. Teeter was drafted this season but is also signed with the Niagara Lock Monsters of CLax, which he will likely play now that the…
After session one of the Buffalo Bandits training camp yesterday, lots of talk was about Luke Wiles and Bill Dee Smith, still not reported to Buffalo. Wiles and Smith are both free agents and were cornerstones of the 2012 teams. Smith bounced back from his knee injury to be a dominant defender again while Wiles had a career season scoring. The Bandits, however, are still not saying anything about these…
Two injuries came out of training camp yesterday. The first came to Colorado Mammoth goaltender Tye Belanger, who was placed on the PUP list on Friday afternoon. Belanger suffered a broken ulna bone in his arm playing volleyball and will be out for four weeks. The Mammoth now have four goalies in camp; Chris Levis, Mike Attwood, Matt Roik and Dan Lewis. Meanwhile, the Toronto Rock lost rookie defenseman Mike…
With NLL training camps now active around the league, transactions will come fast and furious in the coming weeks. A few of those moves came last night. The Rochester Knighthawks released rookie Chris Attwood and free agent signee Torey Van Every. Both participated in the rookie and free agent camp last weekend. Meanwhile, the Colorado Mammoth, who open camp today, have placed defenseman Ian Hawksbee on their hold out list….
According to the NLL.com transactions page, two more rookies have signed before their team’s training camps kick off this weekend. The Buffalo Bandits signed Mitch Barnard who played in the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League with the Snake Island Muskies this summer. Barnard scored three points a game in the Muskies playoff series loss to the St. Regis Braves. The leftie shooter played Division Three collegiality with Adrian and played Junior A with…