Today the Peterborough Lakers learned that Andrew Watt got injured playing in the NLL as the Minnesota Swarm defeated the Toronto Rock in the first round. He will be out for the season, which meant that general manager Jamie Batley had to go out and make a move. So the Lakers acquired Brock Boyle via free agency. Boyle led the Canadian Lacrosse League with 70 penalty minutes despite playing in…
In some surprising news, all three Brampton Excelsiors coaches have said that they are leaving for the 2013 season. This includes Rochester Knighthawks coach Mike Hasen, former NLLer Dan Teat and Pat O’Toole. All three say they are stepping down to be with their children more. Hasen is a Brampton native who played for the Excelsiors as well. He says he will still be at every Excelsiors home game, but…
The Langley Thunder have the western rights to Mark Matthews after they made him the fifth overall pick last season. However, his overall rights currently belong to Major Series Lacrosse’s Brooklin Redmen. The Thunder have won the Western Lacrosse Association for two years in a row, and Matthews says he wants to play for them. However, Brooklin is refusing to release him. Matthews has scored 37 goals with the Edmonton…
The CLax playoffs are here and there are just two weeks left in the NLL season. Here are the top ten stories we learned about this week. Demons and Ironmen in Rematch Ohsweken’s regular season was book ended with two wins over Iroquois but they also suffered a loss against them mid-season. The Demons have had an up and down season and have probably been the most inconsistent team in…
According to the team, the Oakville Rock have made their first trade with Terry Sanderson as their general manager. They picked up forward Brendan Thenhaus and a fourth round 2014 draft pick from the Kithcener-Waterloo Kodiaks in exchange for Craig England. The Rock, located in Ajax the past few years, will move to Oakville for the 2013 Major Series Lacrosse Season. They named Toronto Rock GM Terry Sanderson their general…
Wings Road Woes The Philadelphia Wings lost this week in Rochester after suffering losses to Minnesota and Colorado on the road last week. They finally get a chance back at home today where they face the Swarm again, who by the way scored 21 goals against Buffalo last night. Ironmen Clinch The final Canadian Lacrosse League playoff spot was going to go to either the Iroquois Ironmen or the Barrie…
Washington Stealth head coach Chris Hall on goaltender Tyler Richards’ five minute major penalty. “I really don’t have a comment on it until I see the tape but obviously it was a game-changing play. We could have still tied it up. We made some mistakes in the last 10 minutes by some veteran guys that were costly.” Stealth rookie defender Mitch Jones on his first career NLL goal. “I felt…
Effective as of Monday, April 1st, 2013 the Ontario Lacrosse Association (OLA) Board of Directors has approved the move of the Ajax-Pickering Rock to become the Oakville Rock in the OLA Major Series Lacrosse League (MSL). The OLA has received letters of support and approval from the Oakville Titans Senior B Lacrosse Club, the Burlington Chiefs Junior A Lacrosse Club, the Oakville Buzz Junior B Lacrosse Club and the Oakville…
In Lacrosse We Trust has obtained detailed reports surrounding the Mann Cup drama that took place last fall in Peterborough Ontario. The reports reveal that the Canadian Lacrosse Association (CLA) Discipline Committee charged several members of each organization with violating the CLA Code of Conduct during the 2012 Canadian senior men’s lacrosse championships. As a result, the Peterborough Lakers have been fined $5000 while the Langley Thunder were assessed a…
Major Series Lacrosse will open on May 23rd when the Brampton Excelsiors travel to Peterborough to take on the defending Mann Cup Champion Peterborough Lakers. We have several interesting games on the schedule, with two days later the Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks playing at Six Nations with Jeremy and Jason Noble, the top two draft picks. On May 25th the Six Nations Chiefs and Ajax Rock play in Oakville, the new home…