Buffalo Bandits Record: 5-5, 3.5 games out of first place. What’s Happened: The Bandits have had a very up and down season to this point. At 5-5, they are certainly in a secure playoff spot, but are very behind the 8-1 Toronto Rock. Dhane Smith has become the player they hoped for and leads the team with 57 points. Ryan Benesch has also been a leader with 51 points. Free…
Tyler Richards may be having one of his worst season statistically in his National Lacrosse League career, but the goal he scored in Saturday’s win over the Minnesota Swarm may make up for any troubles he’s faced this year between the pipes. Richards has played a heavy workload during the NLL seasons and that does explain some of the deterioration of his game. However, Richards has never really been an…
For three of the nine teams in the NLL, the 2015 season is half over; the remaining teams are on;y a game or two shy of the mid-point. With that in mind, it’s time to have a look at the frontrunners for the MVP award this year. Josh Sanderson, Toronto Rock—At 37 years of age, Shooter Sanderson is on pace to have the best year of his career. That’s saying…
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We had another great weekend of college lacrosse. Let’s start with the big game on Sunday, #3 Syracuse vs. #5 Virginia. The Orange took the game 15-9, but the game was all Syracuse for the first three periods. Syracuse got off to a 7-0 start, led by Nicky Galasso. The Virginia attack had few possessions and when they did get the ball UVA’s attack and midfield took quick and poorly…
The Vancouver Stealth dropped a tough decision in Calgary on Saturday night as they fell back into some of the traps that plagued them early in the season. At times, the Stealth had no answer for many of the heavyweights in the ‘Necks offense. Curtis Dickson scored a whopping seven goals and Dane Dobbie added another seven points (three goals, four assists) to give Calgary their first win of the…
Photo Credit: Ian Neadle Playing lacrosse in the snow is not easy. It is harder to pass, clear, collect ground balls and see the ball as a goalie. Snow leads to a sloppy game and creates parody between unequal teams; that is what we saw in the Loyola-Holy Cross game. Three games had game times changed or were postponed on Saturday: UMBC-Monmouth, Penn State-Villanova, and Georgetown-Towson. I can’t tell you…
The Calgary Roughnecks winless one third of the way through the 2015 NLL season. When a team gets off to such a poor start there is usually plenty of blame to go around. But one of the main targets of scrutiny for the Roughnecks right now is the goaltending tandem of Mike Poulin and Frankie Scigliano. The Poulin Wall has been one of the keys to success for the Roughnecks…
I’ll start off with the most recent game, Cornell vs. Syracuse. After the ‘Cuse took down the Big Red 14-6, we are left with some significant questions about Cornell. Keep in mind a few things. This was Cornell’s first game of the season. Secondly, Cornell just opened practice on the first of this month, and due to the snow totals and the frigid cold in Central New York the Big…
As the NLL season approaches the one third point, it’s time to have a look at who is off to a great start and who is off to a not-so-good start. Underachievers 1. The Calgary Roughnecks—Who would have imagined that the Roughnecks, who came within minutes of winning the Champion’s Cup last year, would be in dead last after five games, with an 0-5 record. Granted, three of their losses have…