The Six Nations Arrows opened up their regular season at home during the annual Bread and Cheese game, which takes place on the Canadian holiday, Victoria Day. The Arrows took on the Perterbourgh Lakers, a team that Six Nations beat in the OLA playoffs last summer. Before the first faceoff took place the 2014 championships banners were revealed, while some of the players that aged out of junior were honored….
The Six Nation Arrows might have lost the great Johnny Powless along with Quinn Powless and a few other players who aged out. As well they lost Brandon Mountur to the NHL, but it looks like it will not stop the Arrows from defending its crown as Minto Cup champs. This team is still stacked with talent much of it was on display during the Arrows exhibition meeting with the…
The 2015 OLA Junior A lacrosse league season got underway just over a week ago, as the Kitchener-Waterloo Braves welcomed the Burlington Chiefs to town. The Braves went on to win the season opener by a score of 10-5, and since then every team except the Brampton Excelsiors and defending Minto Cup Champion Six Nations Arrows have seen at least one game of action. With many players still trickling back…
The off-season officially came to an end for the Green Gaels Junior B Lacrosse Club when their 2015 Conditioning Camp got underway with its first session taking place this past Saturday night at the Civic Recreation Complex in Oshawa. Saturday night marked the first of four sessions scheduled by the Green Gaels to help players prepare for Junior A, Junior B, Junior C, and Intermediate tryouts in the Durham area. Drills were designed…
Paxton Leroux is a hockey player who played lacrosse as part of his offseason conditioning, and just so happened to have it pay off for him. He was undrafted and released by the New York Rangers after their 2014 training camp and is currently with the Minnesota Wild ECHL affiliate, the Quad City Mallards where he has played one game with 5 penalty minutes. In junior hockey, he played for…
Each year, hundreds of Canadian box lacrosse players take to the floor to compete for a spot on one of the 19 Junior A teams in British Columbia and Ontario. We are deep into the offseason now, with the NLL season just around the corner, we thought that it would be a good idea to take a look at the next up and coming players to watch in the BC…
The Wilmot Wild have been a part of the Junior C lacrosse circuit in Ontario for four years. Already, it seems like they are ready to make the jump to the next level. The Wild have filed for reclassification to become a Jr B team in the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Wilmot has the highest attendance of any Jr C team and their players and staff are very successful in the…
Day One action at the 2nd Annual Jr. NLL Tournament got underway on Friday afternoon at the Toronto Rock Athletic Centre (TRAC) in Oakville, ON. The Jr. Rock are competing in all three divisions: Peewee, Bantam and Midget. To open the day, the Jr. Rock Peewees coached by Rock goaltender Nick Rose and defenceman Damon Edwards posted an impressive 16-0 win over the Jr. Bandits. The Jr. Rock Peewee team…
After opening the series with a pair of losses, the Six Nations Arrows have clawed their way back into the series and are just one win away from winning the franchises first Minto Cup since 2007. The Arrows head into Game 6 with major momentum and a convincing 3-2 series lead against BCJALL champions, Coquitlam Adanacs. It comes as no surprise that THE Arrows’ sharpshooter Johnny Powless leads the Canadian Jr.A…
The 2014 Minto Cup, Canada’s National Junior A Lacrosse Championship, starts this Saturday (August 16) at the Langley Events Centre. The best-of-7 West versus East series will feature some of the best junior A lacrosse players in the country. Two of lacrosse’s most storied junior franchises will meet in this year’s final. The East will be represented by the Six Nations Arrows who defeated last year’s Minto Cup champion Whitby…