The Chesapeake Bayhawks had arguably the best off-season in the league, acquiring a talented number of veterans with championship experience. Then they had one of the best regular seasons in the league, holding first place for the majority of the season, falling out just after the final game of the regular season. Then they had the best MLL Championship Weekend, winning the semi-finals and finals by an average of eight…
The Denver Outlaws and Long Island Lizards meet in the first semi-final game of MLL Championship Weekend and if you asked people in the beginning of the season, neither team should have made it this far. Both teams traded away star players (Max Seibald and Drew Westervelt for Denver, Matt Danowski, John Grant Jr. and Stephen Berger for Long Island), invested in rookie players and rookie head coaches and were…
When the Chesapeake Bayhawks brought in Drew Westervelt, John Grant Jr., Brian Spallina and Kip Turner in the off-season the moves created a championship-or-bust attitude to this team. The Bayhawks could fulfill that destiny this weekend as they head to MLL Championship Weekend as the No. 2 seed. Chesapeake, who also acquired veteran defender Nicky Polanco early in the season, has been one of the most consistent, well-rounded and successful…
During the off-season the Denver Outlaws made a number of roster changes, but they were ones that had some fans worried and media members questioned the quality of the team. They hired Jim Stagnitta as the new head coach and traded away Max Seibald and Drew Westervelt. The Outlaws had made the playoffs in each of their first six seasons in the league. With so much turnover in the offseason…
The Ohio Machine franchise has completed its first season in MLL play and that’s a victory in and of itself. It will need to be because there weren’t too many on the field victories to go by due to a league worst 2-12 record. The team allowed a league-high 204 goals against and were sixth in the league in goals for. Ohio was last in the league in ground balls…
One year removed from an appearance in the Major League Lacrosse championship game the Hamilton Nationals are sitting at home in 2012 singing a different tune. The lone Canadian franchise finished 4-10, in the penultimate position in the standings, and finished last in the league in attendance. The Nationals lost their first three games of the season while many of the players, including their top six scorers—Joe Walters, Kevin Crowley,…
The Major League Lacrosse regular season could not come to a more exciting conclusion. On the last game before the playoffs the Denver Outlaws (10-3) will travel to play the Chesapeake (10-3) Bayhawks with the No. 1 seed in the playoffs on the line. Although Championship Weekend will be at a “neutral†site (the games are being played at Harvard Stadium, home of the Boston Cannons who have a good…
One week after the Boston Cannons defeated the Ohio Machine 19-13 at Harvard Stadium the teams will do it again, in Ohio, in the regular season finale. Should the Cannons complete the sweep they will clinch a spot in the MLL playoffs. But the Machine will be playing in front of a home crowd and trying to put on a good show for the faithful fans and for one of…
In the MLL match-up with the strongest playoff implications on Saturday the Denver Outlaws will travel to Rochester to take on the Rattlers. The Outlaws (9-3) are tied for first in the league and with a win would clinch a playoff berth. The Rattlers (7-5) are tied with the Boston Cannons for fourth in the MLL standings and they can’t clinch the final playoff spot with a win, but a…
The Denver Outlaws (8-3) can clinch a playoff spot on Saturday with a win against the Hamilton Nationals (3-8) and a loss by either the Boston Cannons or Rochester Rattlers. The Nationals—eliminated from playoff contention—have lost five of their past six games while the Outlaws have won five of the past six games. Obviously two teams are going in different directions, but how do the teams match up when they…