Just a few weeks into the 2015 Canadian Lacrosse League season, rookies have made their impact felt early and often. Once again , CLax freshmen were impressive in week four of the CLax season. Dan Keane continued his early push for CLax Rookie of the Year, netting a hat trick and adding three helpers in the Southwest Cyclops’ 12-9 victory over the Niagara Lock Monsters. The University of Delaware grad…
The Ohsweken Demons (1-0) used a five goal fourth quarter to help secure a 11-9 win over the Niagara Lock Monsters (0-2) in their season opener. The Demons trailed 8-6 heading into the final frame, but managed to hold the Lock Monsters to just one goal in the fourth. Tom Montour led the way for Ohsweken with a pair goals, four assists for six points. Four of those points came…
Mike Teeter scored four goals and added an assist to help the Barrie Blizzards knock of the Durham Turfdogs 14-10 at the General Motors Centre on Saturday afternoon. The Orangeville,ON native joined the team this week replacing Colin Boucher after he was called up to the Vancouver Stealth. Brad Levick continued to impress his new club, netting a goal and three assists in his second game with the Blizzard. The…
In a rematch of last year’s Creators Cup Championship game, the Ohsweken Demons travel to Niagara to take on the 0-1 Lockmonsters. Niagara is coming off a 10-4 road loss at the hands of the Durham Turfdogs, while the Demons where given a first week bye, and look to open their season on a winning note. In last weekend’s 10-4 loss to the Turfodgs, the Lockmonsters fell behind 5-1 by the 7:16 mark of the…
The Durham Turfdogs look to open up their season at 2-0 for the first time in their four year franchise history. The Turfdogs kicked off their 2015 campaign with an impressive 10-4 win over the defending Creator’s Cup champion Niagara Lock Monsters. Peterborough,ON native Kyle Clancy tallied six points(1G,5G) in his CLax debut. The former Buffalo Bandit was named offensive player of the week. Fellow Turfdogs’ Cole Murrary and Mark…
The Canadian Lacrosse League (CLax) is pleased to announce its first Players of the Week for the 2015 Season. Offensive Player of the Week: Kyle Clancy – Durham Turfdogs – Clancy dominated last weekend racking up 5 assists and 1 goal leading the Turfdogs victory in the season opener. Honourable mention goes to Southwest’s Dan Keane. Keane was able to tally 4 goals his CLax debut. Defensive Player of the…
Last season the Durham Turfdogs where the last place team in the Canadian Lacrosse League, entering Saturday afternoon’s opening game, they looked to be in tough squaring off against the defending Creators Cup Champion Niagara Lockmonsters. With the additions of Brendan Thenhaus, Mike Melnychenko and Gage Board, the Lockmonsters look poised to kick off the 2015 CLAX season in the win column. However it was the Turfdogs who would shockingly put quite the beating to the…
The defending Creators Cup Champions kick off the 2015 Canadian Lacrosse League season against the Durham Turfdogs at the General Motors Centre in Oshawa,ON. The Lock Monsters welcome back ten players from last year’s championship squad. Niagara will look to Corey Fowler to help lead the offense once again. The Niagara-on-the-Lake native netted 33 points(10 G, 23A) in 8 games, good enough for sixth among CLax scorers last season. Fellow…
The Southwest Cyclops and Barrie Blizzard completed the first trade of 2015 recently. Southwest will be receiving Alex Lubczuk from Barrie in exchange for 5th round pick in the 2015 entry draft. Lubczuk, 22, spent five consecutive seasons playing Junior A with the Kitchener-Waterloo Braves. Most recently he spent a season in Major Series Lacrose (MSL) with the Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks before being drafted by the Toronto Rock in the 6th…
Todd Kozak was the top overall pick in the Canadian Lacrosse League supplemental draft to the Niagara Lock Monsters later in this week. The Burlington Chiefs product attended Rochester Knighthawks camp. The second pick of the two-round draft went to the Southwest Cyclops who drafted Dylan Webster. Webster was a draft pick of the Toronto Rock and attended their camp. He is also a member of the Brampton Excelsiors. Going third…