With the 2014 regular season now in the books and the playoffs just days away, we can start crunching some numbers and see if any fearless predictions can be made. One thing we can definitively state is that scoring is a good thing. The teams with the top four records in the NLL also happen to be the top four teams in goals for. The Calgary Roughnecks (12-6) were tops…
The Calgary Roughnecks are getting ready to face the Colorado Mammoth in the first round of the NLL postseason on May 3. The Roughnecks are riding high on a hot streak to wrap up the regular season, winning their last two games—including a victory over the first-place Edmonton Rush—and six of their last seven. Along the way, Dane Dobbie led the league in goals for and set a new team…
The Calgary Roughnecks (12-6) scored early and often to take a 14-8 win over the Vancouver Stealth (4-14) Saturday night at the Langley Events Centre. The Roughnecks finish the season in second place in the West Division while the Stealth wind up in last, tied for the worst record in the NLL with the Minnesota Swarm. The Roughnecks scored the first two goals of the game and never relinquished the…
Photo Credit: Calgary Roughnecks The Calgary Roughnecks (11-6) and Vancouver Stealth (4-13) conclude their respective seasons Saturday night in Langley, BC. For the Roughnecks, this will be the final tuneup before the playoffs begin; for the Stealth, it will be the end of a disappointing year. Vancouver lost on Friday night to the Edmonton Rush by a score of 10-5. The Rush outscored the Stealth 6-2 in the second quarter…
There are a few metrics out there to determine the best players. From an offensive standpoint, it’s pretty easy: most goals, most assists, most points. From a defensive standpoint, we have loose balls and forced turnovers, which can give you some valuable information, but doesn’t truly give you the full picture. And goalies are kind of in the middle of those two extremes: lots of stats, but none tell the…
The Calgary Roughnecks took a gritty 14-13 overtime win over the Rush in Edmonton last night. The win improves Calgary’s record to 11-6 while Edmonton drops to 15-2. In a game that saw several momentum shifts, the 8,756 fans left with a sour taste in their mouths as the Roughnecks’ tying goal in the dying moments of the fourth quarter was shrouded in controversy. With less than a minute remaining…
The Edmonton Rush (15-1) will host the Calgary Roughnecks (10-8) Saturday night at Rexall Place in the two teams’ final meeting of the 2014 regular season. The Rush have already won the four-game season series between these two teams, scoring 15 goals in each of their previous three meetings while holding Calgary to an average of 8.7 goals in those contests. In fact, Edmonton is single-handedly responsible for half of…
The Calgary Roughnecks broke their two-game losing streak with authority on Friday night, soundly defeating the Vancouver Stealth 13-8. The Roughnecks improve to 7-5 and are solidly in second place in the West Division while the Stealth continue to struggle, dropping to a division-worst 3-9. Calgary reeled off eight unanswered goals to open the game and Vancouver was simply unable to climb back out of that hole. Curtis Dickson contributed…
Photo Credit: Dan Brodie The Calgary Roughnecks (6-5) journey to British Columbia to face the Vancouver Stealth (3-8) tonight. Both teams are on two-game losing streaks, so victory is critical to both squads. The Roughnecks were savaged by the Edmonton Rush last weekend, suffering a 15-7 beat down. They’ll be looking to bounce back and solidify their hold on second place in the West Division. The Stealth meanwhile are off…
Coaches don’t make any difference to a team’s success or failure, right? It’s the 20 guys on the roster that win or lose games, not the coaching staff. That certainly seemed to be the prevailing attitude in Toronto last summer when the Rock decided to fire head coach Troy Cordingley only three weeks after he won his second Les Bartley Award as coach of the year. Cordingley had compiled a…