After a huge come from behind effort in game three, the Victoria Shamrocks look to hold a 3-1 series strangle tonight when they face the Six Nations Chiefs in game four of the Mann Cup at the Iroquois Lacrosse Park tonight. Just like game one and two the Chiefs opened the scoring in game three, but to credit the Shamrocks they didn’t let it discourage them at all by fighting…
For the second year in a row the Victoria Shamrocks have earned the WLA crown and I don’t think it’s far off to say they did it with domination. After losing in the Mann cup last year to the Six Nations Chiefs in 6 games on their home floor, the Shamrocks wanted to come back bigger and stronger then last year and, well, mission accomplished. After finishing the season an…
With the Victoria Shamrocks disposing of the New Westminster Salmonbellies in a series sweep 4-0 and the Maple Ridge Burrards beating out the Burnaby Lakers 4-2 we have our WLA finals set. Coming into this series the Shamrocks took two of three games in the season series (7-4/8-7) and tied the last game 9-9 with Curtis Dickson scoring 7 points for the Burrards in the last affair and what I…
With both series’ getting under way for the 2014 WLA playoffs and the road to the Mann cup tonight, we take a look at the second series being Maple Ridge Burrards versus the Burnaby Lakers. Both teams are coming into the post season on a high note finishing one and two in WLA standing respectively but it’s the big name players on Maple Ridge that I think will really make…
With the regular season over it’s time to look at the road to the Mann cup, with defending WLA champion Langley Thunder not making the post season dance we know we will have a new champion, but, who will it be? Starting with New Westminister Salmonbellies facing off against the first overall Victoria Shamorocks series starting tonight (August 6) at The Q center on the island. The ‘Rocks swept the…
After finishing second in the Western conference for only the second time in five years, the Roughnecks proved it’s no fluke with players like Andrew McBride and Scott Ranger. Since joining the team in 2002 as the fourth overall pick by the Calgary Roughnecks, Andrew McBride has shown how solid and consistent a stay-at-home defenseman (if there’s such a thing in the NLL these days), can be. He has missed…
Lakers (9-6) vs Shamrocks (13-1-2) Coming into the last full week of play, the WLA is treating us to a great race in the standing’s and the playoff push that comes with it. Starting Friday when the Lakers (9-6) visit the powerhouse Shamrocks (13-1-2). With the season series already won by the ‘Rocks, (13-10/8-6) this game means alot more to the Lakers then it does Victoria. Nothing is set in stone in the sense of the…
1st star Rhys Duch showed last week just how dominant he can be and how he can take over a game. Early in the week the Shamrocks (13-1-2) took on the Langley thunder (6-9) and won 6-3 with Rhys having a 1G,2A game in Langley then on friday the Rocks hosted the Salmonbellies and Rhys was all over the floor getting himself 5G and 2A in a 13-5 victory for Victoria and also earning himself the third…
New Westminister @ Nanimo With the playoffs still a possibility (a very small possibility) the Timbermen (4-9-1) have the chance to play spoiler and make life tough for a ‘Bellies’ squad who played the night before. If anyone can keep the T-mens spirits and chances high it will be Cayle Ratcliff (17G,14A) who exploded last week for 10 points in two games. On the other side of the floor this game could…
1st star Coming into this week the struggling Timbermen were 2-1 in their last three games and looking to find some positives on a weak season for them (4-9-1), and last week Cayle Ratcliff did exactly that. Although only potting 1 point (1G) early in the week, he exploded for a 9 point (4G, 5A) effort in Coquitlam and carried the team on his back against a Adanac’s team fighting to stay…