Canadian Tire Centre was the place to be in Canada’s capital on Friday night. The hometown Ottawa Black Bears took their home turf and welcomed the Vancouver Warriors for a Week 9 clash for Canadian supremacy. Time for some honesty; Vancouver won this game 12-8, and while the final score is indicative of a relatively close game, Vancouver controlled this one for most of it. This contest was a track…
The last time there was a National Lacrosse League game in Alberta’s capital city, Mark Matthews, Chris Corbiel, Riley Loewen and the rest of the Rush were celebrating Edmonton’s first ever NLL title. Sadly, the team would leave for Saskatoon and go on to win two more championships with a stacked roster that had been largely forged in Edmonton. Fast forward 10+ years and the NLL was back in…
It was a night to celebrate one of the very best Roughnecks to ever suit up in the red, black and white, (and yes, grey too). It was “Forever a Roughneck Night” and Dane Dobbie’s #44 was raised to the rafters joining his former teammates Kaleb Toth and Tracey Kelusky. Dobbie walked onto the turf hand-in-hand with his wife and two daughters to that old familiar Saddledome roar. In…
Since losing the 2019 NLL Finals to Calgary in that unforgettable overtime game, the Buffalo Bandits have dominated their western rivals going 4-1 in the regular season and outscoring Calgary 65 to 46. Included in those totals was another resounding win on Sunday night at Westjet Field as the Bandits took care of business defeating the Roughnecks 13-7. The Bandits stuck to a familiar recipe with their two superstars…
The 2025-26 National Lacrosse League season is underway. Everyone take a moment and get that sigh of relief out. Getting to this exciting point in the offseason didn’t come without some fireworks, however, as a new CBA had to be worked out and that took some time. Fast forward, here we are, already into Week 2. The signing period this offseason may have been the most bananas in recent history,…
Former Halifax Thunderbird, Austin Shanks, scored six goals in the Saskatchewan Rush’s 16-7 win over the Thunderbirds during game one of the NLL semi-final match-up at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, N.S. Shanks scored a hat trick in the first quarter, and another hat trick in the third quarter to propel the Rush to victory. Shanks was a Thunderbird for the past four seasons but signed with the Rush in…
For the first time in the Halifax Thunderbirds’ history, they have won a single elimination quarter-final game. Defeating the Calgary Roughnecks 16-12 on Saturday night at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax to move on to the semi-finals against the Saskatchewan Rush. “It’s an awesome feeling, it is the first playoff win in my career as well, so I’m still getting used to it and getting prepared for the next week,”…
Halifax Thunderbirds’ goaltender, Drew Hutchison, entered the game with four-and-a-half minutes left in the first quarter, down 5-2. He stopped 39 out of 44 shots the rest of the way to backstop Halifax’s 13-10 comeback victory over the San Diego Seals in front of 10,783 fans at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. With Colorado’s loss to Buffalo, the win secured the Thunderbirds’ ticket to the playoffs. “I just feel like…
The Halifax Thunderbirds narrowly beat the Ottawa Black Bears 17-16 on Friday night in front of 9,547 fans at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. “It obviously wasn’t pretty. We just trusted our guys and made plays when we did. We had a bunch of players step up and make some great individual efforts,” said Thunderbirds defender Graeme Hossack. “(Drew) Hutchison stepping in was awesome today, and that’s all we can…
Halifax Thunderbirds used a nine-goal first quarter to propel themselves to victory, defeating the Saskatchewan Rush 17-9 on Friday night in front of a sold-out crowd of 10,595 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. “I think we came out with a lot of energy coming off a loss. Also, avenging a loss to these guys earlier in the year, we had a lot of juice coming into this game,” said…