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The New England Black Wolves have signed their own free agent goalie Evan Kirk to a three-year deal to stay with the team. Kirk, whom the Philadelphia Wings had acquired from the Minnesota Swarm before last season, had been an RFA. Philadelphia moved to Connecticut this offseason where they will be known as the New England Black Wolves and that will be Kirk’s new team. Last season Kirk finished on…
A four year cycle of players is a unique thing amongst the collegiate level. For the Fairfield Stags, a team that went 12-4 last year, they are fortunate to have a handful of talented returners. The Stags find themselves looking back on a disappointing 2014 campaign. Fairfield was taken down by Air Force in the ECAC championship with a final score of 9-8. For the Stags it was a harsh…
It’s not too often a freshmen comes out of High School tallying up 278 goals and 585 points in their four years played. However, the Yale incoming freshman, Ben Reeves has surely made a name for himself. And he hasn’t even played an NCAA game yet. With Reeves possibly pairing up with, senior, Conrad Oberbeck we can see the field of play open up tremendously. This is a Bulldogs squad…
Quinn Powless is a name that lacrosse fans became familiar with this past summer when he led the Six Nations Arrows to a Minto Cup. Powless’ stock rose heading into the draft, and he ended up being a first round pick to the New England Black Wolves. “It felt unbelievable to be first round draft pick I wasn’t expecting to go that high in the draft I was really surprised”…
Photo Credit: 24/7 Lacrosse This week’s Lax Live Radio podcast is packed from interviews covering nearly every corner of the sport. We speak with New England Black Wolves head coach Blane Harrison about the move to Mohegan Sun arena and go over the projected roster heading into training camp. We also go one on one with Baltimore Indoor Lacrosse League goaltenders Jack Runkel, Adam Miller, and Patrick Crosby about the…
Mike McNamara was traded during the NLL draft from Colorado Mammoth to the New England Black Wolves for the 17 overall pick. With this trade New England got great value picking up a veteran defender who is coming off his second straight summer winning a Mann Cup with the Six Nation Chiefs. Growing up in Hamilton Ontario, which has a good number of players in the NLL, Mike has been…
For the 2015 spring the Sacred Heart Pioneers look to get back to the NEC semifinals and hopefully qualify for a bid in the NCAA tournament. Jon Basti, the coach of the Pioneers, looks for a better improvement for this spring season as last year wasn’t the most impressing with a 5 and 9 record and losing in the semi finals to Bryant. One thing the Pioneers lose is a lot…
The New England Black Wolves have extended an offer sheet to restricted free agent Stephen Keogh, according to a tweet from the National Lacrosse League. Keogh has been a member of the Rochester Knighthawks since he was drafted. The Knighthawks have 72 hours to match the offer of the Black Wolves, the terms of which were not and will not be made public. This would be a huge blow for…
We are seven days removd from the draft and the New England Black Wolves made a huge splash by trading Jordan Hall back to the Knighthawks to get back into the first round as well as trading their captain Brodie Merrill to Toronto as they started to build their draft picks. But 10 days prior to the draft the Black Wolves traded (T) Kyle Belton to Vancouver Stealth for (F)…
The Boston Cannons lost two lacrosse legends to retirement this offseason in Ryan Boyle and Stephen Berger. They also left another long time MLL player Matt Stribel off the protected roster after he was a late addition to the team this past season. Veteran defender Kyle Sweeney is still on the roster after putting together another great summer in the league. Sweeney will bring leadership back to the Cannons this 2015…