Tyler Burton is one of the better stories you will see in the National Lacrosse League. He made the Rochester Knighthawks roster on an open tryout and went on to win two titles as a defenseman with the club. Now a member of the Vancouver Stealth, Burton is playing with some of those Rochester teammates thanks to big draft day trades. “Joel [McCready] has been a really good friend of…
The Chicago Outlaws have finally done it. In their third appearance in the Continental Indoor Lacrosse League finals, the Outlaws took home their first CILL Cup with a 20-13 win over the Grand Rapids Dragonfish. The Dragonfish had beaten the Pittsburgh Octane 20-7 earlier in the day to get to the championship game and it became a rematch of the 2011 finals in which Grand Rapids won. Chicago went up…
Minnesota Swarm: Logan Schuss, Jason Noble, Cam Flint, Scott Jones, Reid Acton, Zach Palmer, Jordan Houtby, Dominique Alexander, JJ Laforet, Nick Jonas 2013 Draft Grade: A Reality: A- Justin adding a minus to the A for no reason other than the face Acton, Palmer, Jonas and Alexander never played. Scott Jones wasn’t everything they hoped for but he was still a good player. Logan Schuss was the rookie of the year…
Tonight the CILL Cup will go to either the Chicago Outlaws or the winner of the day’s Pittsburgh Octane vs Grand Rapids Dragonfish game. Pittsburgh and Grand Rapids will meet at 4:30pm and the winner will face Chicago at 8pm. Grand Rapids is the only team who has defeated Chicago this season. One of the stronger teams in the league, they have 2013 NLL draft pick Zach Palmer leading their…
This week’s episode of the Lax Live podcast went one on one with United States Lacrosse League founder Nick Desrosiers. Marisa Ingemi also talks the NLL draft, New England Black Wolves, CILL Cup and the Baltimore Indoor Lacrosse League.
On Tuesday night both Parrot and Rebel improved to 2-0 on the season in the Baltimore Indoor Lacrosse League. Both clubs had repeat showings from week one but the competition increased as other teams gain experience. In the first game Parrot defeated the on-the-rise Ensure Productivity, 10-5. Will Harrington (Ohio Machine, MLL) led the way with four goals followed by two from Matt Hickman. Tyler Midwinter was the leading scorer…
New England: A The Black Wolves debut draft was a doozy (say that three times fast). The ‘Wolves added star potential players with Ty Thompson, Quinn Powless and Mark Cockerton, and they also made trades to grab Jay Card and Mike McNamara. The Black Wolves were able to get Sheldon Burns late, the #8 ranked prospect and the second ranked defenseman. New England also found a way to stockpile draft…
New England just keeps making moves. After having a terrific draft picking up players like Quinn Powless and Ty Thompson, the Black Wolves have added forward Jay Card from the Minnesota Swarm for the 40th overall pick which turned into Paxton Leroux. The Black Wolves have made a lot of little moves like adding forwards Jamie Lincoln and Mike Burke as well, and Card falls in the same category. After…
The Buffalo Bandits traded their 12th overall pick, goaltender Eric Penney and defender Rory Smith to the Vancouver Stealth for Nick Weiss and the ninth overall pick, which became Brandon Goodwin. The move makes all sorts of sense for both teams. Buffalo had signed Dave DiRuscio to contend with Kurtis Wagar for the backup role while all Vancouver has as the backup is Matt Roik, so Penney will contend to…
Thew New England Black Wolves have traded transition player Jordan Hall to the Rochester Knighthawks in exchange for Rochester’s #11 and #28 overall picks along with a first round pick in 2015. The Black Wolves have traded away many players this offseason after relocating from Philadelphia, including Brodie Merrill. The 11th pick being gone from Rochester makes it less of a chance they get both Miles and Ty Thompson, if…