The Minnesota Swarm stayed a perfect 3-0 in the NLL pre season as they defeated the Colorado Mammoth 16-15 in an overtime shootout. The Swarm trailed 15-14 going into the late fourth quarter when Kiel Matisz tied it. The league decided that instead of overtime the game would go to a shootout, the first OT shootout that meant something this pre season. Shane MacDonald and Jordan MacIntosh scored hat tricks…
The Vancouver Stealth released rookie Dan Keane yesterday. Vancouver wnt 0-2 in the two pre season games he played in last week. Keane was the 23rd overall pick in the draft in the third round by the Stealth. The 5’9 righty is out of Delaware and has played Jr A in Ontario with the Brampton Excelsiors, so it wouldn’t be a stretch to see him sign with an eastern division…
Two Vermont Voyageurs Sr B players, Trever Wagar and Jean Guy Thouin, will have an opportunity to play for the Toronto Rock and Rochester Knighthawks this week in the pre season game at Bell Centre in Montreal. Wagar is a forward with Vermont and was actually a San Jose Stealth draft pick in 2009 in the fifth round. Thouin is a Montreal native and a defenseman for the Sr B…
The Calgary Roughnecks continued their cuts today when they released Jordan McBride, Pat Henry, and Casey Jackson. McBride signed as a free agent out of Vancouver this off season while Jackson was an undrafted free agent and Henry was drafted by the team. McBride has played 28 career NLL games between Colorado and Vancouver and has a career 76 points. A team that needs depth could pick him up. He…
With the first round of NLL cuts coming in, it could not be better timing for the Canadian Lacrosse League. With their training camps opening last week, they will be adding several NLL cuts to their rosters. Blizzard Jayson Crawford- New England Black Wolves rookie cut, was the 7th overall pick to Barrie. Darryl Robertson- Defenseman drafted by Toronto Rock was the 19th overall pick to Barrie. Johnnie Rae- Free…
The Buffalo Bandits have released draft pick Mike Melnychenko following their first pre season game. Melnychenko was the sixth round pick of the Bandits in the 2014 NLL draft. Melnychenko went much later in the draft than was expected, as he was ranked as a top 20 prospect. Buffalo drafted all lefties, so it was going to be hard to crack that roster on that side. There is a possibility…
The Colorado Mammoth have begun their cuts, and in doing so, have released some surprising names. Along with cutting draftee Terry Ellis and free agent signee Jake Crans, they have cut veteran Joel Dalgarno and 2012 first round pick Colton Clark. Clark was a first round pick in 2012 and has widely been a disappointment for the Mammoth. In his two seasons he has a combined nine points and only…
Paul Tutka is a multi-time winning NLL writer of the year award winner, and one of the smartest experts in lacrosse. However, after leaving NLL Insider a few years ago (pre IL Indoor era) he hasn’t been writing anywhere. Yet, his Twitter analysis of the league has taken the lacrosse world by storm, and I was lucky to speak with him about a few matters in the league in this…
Photo by Garrett James The Vancouver Stealth could only net six goals as they fell to the Edmonton Rush 13-6 on Saturday night in their first preseason game of the year. The Rush were led by goals from Robert Church, Ben McIntosh, Mark Matthews, and Tyler Melnyk. Matthews scored the hat trick to be the leading scorer in the game while Church and McIntosh had two each. It was the…
The Vancouver Stealth fell last night to the Edmonton Rush 13-8, and now they face the Colorado Mammoth in their first game of the pre season. While the Stealth lost last night, they still saw promising signs with goals from rookie Dan Keane and newcomer Dane Stevens. Colorado comes in without many changes to their offense other than the departure of Casey Powell and the addition of Alex Turner along…