The Canadian Lacrosse League Clax kicked off on Saturday with a championship rematch between the Iroquois Ironmen and the Oshweken Demons. The game began with former Ironmen Wayne Vanevery scoring a natural hat trick for his new team in order to give the demons a 3-0 lead. Oshweken would stretch their lead to 5-0. Iroquois would strike back as Chancey Johnson would score beating Jeff Powless in order to make…
The Canadian Lacrosse League opens their 2013 campaign today when the Ohsweken Demons face the Iroquois Ironmen in a rematch of last season’s championship game. Ohsweken traded their best offensive player Chris Attwood to the Ironmen this off season where he will be playing with his brother, goaltender Mike Attwood. Former NLL players such as Roger Vyse, Cory Bomberry and Tom Montour. Both theams have very strong offenses and were…
Canadian Lacrosse League (CLax) Commissioner, Paul St. John and Deputy of the League, Jim Veltman along with Charlesway Corportion Limited (CCL), are pleased to announce they have reached a new partnership beginning in the 2013 season. This new partnership will see CCL take control over management of the CLax teams located in Niagara and Barrie. Provincial outdoor ball hockey powerhouse Ball Hockey International (BHi) has signed on to be the major sponsor of each of these teams….
This weekend marks the opening of the 2013 Clax Season. One of the featured match ups of this weekend is the Durham TurfDogs facing off against the Toronto Shooting Stars. This game will be the first professional game played in Maple Leaf Gardens now known as the Mattamy Athletic Center in 12 years. With the Gardens being home to some of Toronto’s greatest sports teams the Stars will try to bring back this winning tradition. In…
With the Clax season starting this weekend here are the top 5 stories to watch for as the season goes on. 5. Can the Blizzard be competitive?: The Barrie Blizzard are new to Clax this year and are the first ever expansion team in the league. On paper Barrie looks like a team that could surprise a lot of people but can they live up to that potential. In the preseason Barrie has looked good…
All seven teams have now released rosters for the 2013 Canadian Lacrosse League (CLax) season. The deadline for rosters to be submitted to the league was Tuesday at 11pm Eastern. At that time, five team rosters were made public: Barrie Blizzard, Brampton Inferno, Durham Turfdogs, Niagara Lock Monsters and Toronto Shooting Stars. The final two teams – the Ohsweken Demons and Iroquois Ironmen – released their rosters on Wednesday night….
The Canadian Lacrosse League teams have announced their rosters for the 2013 season, all except the Ohsweken Demons and Iroquois Ironmen. Below are the rosters of the teams who submitted them. Five teams are league operated (Niagara Lock Monsters, Barrie Blizzard, Brampton Inferno, Toronto Shooting Stars and Durham Turfdogs) and the other two are privately owned (Ohsweken Demons and Iroquois Ironmen). The league operated team rosters are as follows: Toronto…
With the Clax Season beginning next weekend the Brampton Inferno took on the Toronto Shooting Stars in pre-season action at the Stephen Leacock Arena in Scarborough. Brampton’s current line-up showed early jitters in this game as they had only practiced together twice and got into some early penalty trouble. The Inferno were already down 1 0 but were able to kill off the penalties. The Inferno then swung this momentum in their favor as they scored…
In Canadian Lacrosse League pre season action yesterday afternoon, we saw wins come from the Barrie Blizzard, Ohsweken Demons and Iroquois Ironmen. The first win came when the Blizzard downed the Durham Turf Dogs by a score of 19-11. Mike Vertolli led the Blizzard with three goals while Mike Teeter had two. Scott Defrancesco had four goals for Durham in the loss. Tyler Patterson and Spencer Janes each also had…
As the Clax Season begins here are the top 5 players to watch out for that could win league MVP. Scotty Komer: Komer was the Barrie Blizzards first choice in the Clax expansion draft and with that comes high expectations. Komer though can live up to the hype as he posted the best saves percentage in Clax in 2012 posting a save percentage of .797 while on the league’s worst team. Expect Komer to keep…