Author: Marisa Ingemi

The Calgary Roughnecks and Georgia Swarm were active yesterday before the deadline to qualify restricted free agents. The Roughnecks qualified all of their potential RFAs, while the Swarm did for the majority. Other teams qualified sparingly. The Saskatchewan Rush qualified Zack Greer and the Vancouver Stealth did it for Rhys Duch, both projected to be top restricted free agents on the market. Calgary extended qualified offers for their RFAs, which…

NLL free agency opened up last night at midnight, and with that was the deadline to place the franchise tag on unrestricted free agents. Only three teams elected to use their franchise tags, and they were the Buffalo Bandits, Calgary Roughnecks, and Saskatchewan Rush. The Rush used their tag on veteran goalie Aaron Bold who was facing his first ever unrestricted free agency. ILWT had him ranked as the #1…

After days of discussions, the Saskatchewan Rush are now official. The 2015 NLL Champions Cup winners will move east from Edmonton. For months, there has been speculation of a move, and owner Bruce Urban has mentioned more than once how he didn’t believe Edmonton wanted the team. He has visited Saskatoon on more than one occasion. “This is a day of mixed emotions as we are very excited about what…

With the Edmonton Rush almost officially in Saskatoon, it appears the City of Champions is not quite ready to give up on losing a National Lacrosse League club. The Rush are coming off of an NLL title, but nonetheless Bruce Urban is moving his team east. The Edmonton Journal talked to Northlands CEO Tim Reid, who expressed interest in bringing a club back to Edmonton. “Our goal is to maximize…

It wasn’t official, but we knew that the Edmonton Rush would be holding a press conference on Tuesday announcing their move to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Yesterday, owner Bruce Urban confirmed these reports. Urban has been rather hostile towards the city of Edmonton since reports had surfaced of the team’s potential demise, and that continued yesterday. “Tough decision to make as we all love Edmonton, however no future offered for us by…