Today was the last day for NLL teams to sign players to their rosters for the remainder of the season and the Philadelphia Wings made a few big splashes. After releasing Kevin Ross yesterday, Philadelphia signed Luke Wiles, Kevin Croswell and Jesse Fehr. Wiles, long considered a top scorer in the NLL, was cut by the Buffalo Bandits before the season. He scored 21 points with Buffalo last season and…
Last night’s Buffalo Bandits win over the Minnesota Swarm wasn’t the only contest of the night, as two heavyweights in Andrew Suitor and Steve Priolo battled.
Today the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League announced their schedule for the 2014 season. The season is set to open on May 10th at 8pm with the Ottawa Axemen hosting the new Sherbrooke Xtreme. The two teams face off again the next day at 2pm as well, before the next week Sherbrooke travels to Kahnawake to play the Mohawks and Ottawa has a back to back with the Vermont Voyageurs.
Cross Checks looks at game notes from around the country every week. This week we take a look at UNH’s women’s team and Hofstra’s men’s team. * Hofstra is coming off of a win over #17 Fairfield earlier this week. Brier Davis and Torin Varn each scored two goals for the Pride in their victory. * Kris Clarke has a 70% on the faceoff dot so far in two games…
The results are in, and the Lacrosse Network has named their top ten plays of NLL week eight. Which do you like? Are there any plays that should have made the cut?
Photo Credit: Dan Brodie Major Series Lacrosse saw a major trade today with Adam Jones being traded for Jordan MacIntosh. MacIntosh, who played with the Peterborough Lakers last season, is shipped to the Oakville Rock in return for Jones. This is the first trade of the Lakers new general manager Joe Sullivan, who is also the head coach of the National Lacrosse League’s Minnesota Swarm. Interestingly enough, the player that…
Casey Powell is back. Did anyone doubt he’d still be one of the best players in the game?
In Senior B lacrosse today the St. Catharines Saints and Owen Sound North Stars swapped their goaltenders. Going to Owen Sound is Scott Komer (Barrie Blizzard in CLax) and being shipped to the Saints is Ryan Masters (former Minnesota Swarm third string). The Saints, the defending champions of Sr B throughout Canada, still hold onto Jake Henhawk who started most of the Saints games last season. Meanwhile, Masters started most…
Today the Calgary Roughnecks made two transactions, releasing rookie Cody Hawkins and activating practice roster player Scott Carnegie. The Roughnecks open the season this week against the Toronto Rock. Hawkins is a rookie defenseman who had made the roster out of camp. He was projected to be last on the depth chart of their righty defensemen on their roster and it was likely that he would have been one of…
The Colorado Mammoth added an additional defenseman to their roster today when they signed Dan Ball. Ball has spent his last two seasons with the Minnesota Swarm but was cut after this year’s training camp. To make room for him on the roster, the Mammoth released defenseman Chet Koneczky and placed him on their practice roster. They also signed former Buffalo Bandit Mike McNamara to their practice roster. Ball has…