The New Westminster Salmonbellies finished second last in the WLA last season with 7-10-1 record. One of the biggest bright spots during New Westminster’s 2013 season was the play of rookie Logan Schuss. Schuss had 29 goals and 27 assists for 56 points. Schuss also was awarded the WLA rookie of the year award. In his first year in the NLL Schuss has been putting on a show as he…
The Nanaimo Timbermen Sr A & Jr A Lacrosse Clubs are pleased to announce that they have moved their offices into Beban House located at 2290 Bowen Rd. The new Timbermen Office will be open 11am-4pm Monday to Friday. The teams, who were invited by the Nanaimo Clippers Jr Hockey Club have set up an executive office and have begun selling Season Tickets, Merchandise, Corporate Sponsorship Packages and much more. The T-Men…
With all of the transactions in the National Lacrosse League the past few days, there has also been some in the Western Lacrosse Association. The Victoria Shamrocks have signed Rhys Duch (Vancouver Stealth), Scott Ranger (Calgary Roughnecks), Corey Small (Edmonton Rush) and Karsen Leung (Calgary Roughnecks). All four of the NLL players signed were a part of last year’s team that went to the Mann Cup. “It’s shaping up to…
Thursday night the WLA draft will take place with the Coquitlam Adanacs having first pick. The rest of the pick order is as follows: 2. New Westminster Salmonbellies 3. Maple Ridge Burrards 4. Coquitlam Adanacs 5. New Westminster Salmonbellies 6. Victoria Shamrocks 7. Nanaimo Timberman With the draft order set here is a look at some of the top players in this year’s draft. Jesse King King made his WLA…
The Langley Thunder pleased to announce an expanded role for Les Wingrove. Effective immediately, Les will be taking over as one of the team’s Governors as well as Assistant General Manager. The role of Assistant General Manager was previously occupied by Gerry Van Beek. Wingrove has been with the Thunder since July of 2012 when he came on board as the Director of Scouting and Special Projects. He previously was…
This past week the New Westminster Salmonbellies traded star goalie Tyler Richards to the Burnaby Lakers. Richards sat out last season and the Bellies still got picks out of the trade. We caught up with New West GM Dan Richardson to discuss the trade. 1. Why the trade? Tyler made it clear to the organization he wasn’t going to play for us in 2014 or beyond. 2. How do you…
The Maple Ridge Burrards have made a move, trading transition man Jaeden Gastaldo to the Coquitlam Adanacs in exchange for defenseman Travis Irving. Gastaldo was drafted by the Burrards in the 2013 draft. He scored five points in 17 games last season, his first in the Western Lacrosse Association. Gastaldo is also a member of the Colorado Mammoth in the National Lacrosse league. Irving was drafted…
The Maple Ridge Burrards are pleased to announce that Chris Gill has been appointed as the new Head Coach for the 2014 season. Chris comes with a rich family history of involvement in lacrosse. As a player in the Western Lacrosse Association, Chris accumulated 482 goals and 351 assists in 282 games. Gill’s teams made the playoffs nine times and he was a Mann Cup Finalist on two occasions. After…
The Western Lacrosse Association season may be over, but moves are still being made as teams try to better themselves for the 2014 season.
2013 was a great year in the WLA with all seven teams competing night in and night out for a chance to host the Mann Cup.