In what is expected to be one of the most talented drafts in NLL history, the Colorado Mammoth are looking like one team that won’t be doing much—they don’t pick until the fourth round and have just three selections overall. Perhaps because of this, the Mammoth front office has made some significant moves in the free agent market. They acquired forward Callum Crawford on Aug. 19, giving them what might be one…
Last season Mike Burke had his breakout NLL performance. After bouncing between Toronto and New England and then finally to Colorado, Burke found his role on an NLL team. Burke scored six goals and nine assists in his Mammoth campaign in 2015, which began midway through the season. Burke was drafted in 2012 to the Edmonton Rush. He played two career games with them in the 2013 season, scoring one…
When the horn sounded back on May 9, it signaled not only the end of the Mammoth season, but another playoff elimination defeat to the Calgary Roughnecks. When the month of April started the Mammoth were one game out of first place in the west. But losing four of the last six regular season games, and being outscored 72-56, while the Rush won five of six placed the Mammoth at…
The Colorado Mammoth have announced the team has signed free agent defenseman Greg Downing to a two-year contract agreement. “Greg is a very smart, skilled defender who will improve our back-end,” said Mammoth president & general manager Steve Govett. “The coaching staff and I are big fans of his, and he’s an instant upgrade for us.” The seven-year veteran has 520 career loose balls, and caused 49 turnovers in the…
What’s one team’s loss is another team’s gain, and that is certainly the case for the Colorado Mammoth. The Mammoth signed the cream of the free agent crop when they added Callum Crawford to their roster. Crawford, who has been one of the top scorers on the Swarm for years, will not make the trip to Georgia to join the newly relocated team. What is the Swarm’s loss is the…
In the last 13 months the National Lacrosse League has had a lot of paperwork moving across their desk. In July of 2014, news breaks of the Philadelphia Wings leaving Philadelphia after 28 years to relocate to the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. Then we had rumors of the Minnesota Swarm moving to Georgia, and Edmonton Rush going to Saskatchewan. Both of these came true. On May 22 the Swarm announced…
The Colorado Mammoth announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to terms with forward Callum Crawford, the most-prized unrestricted free agent on the market this offseason. The 10-year veteran signed a three-year contract with the Mammoth. Crawford, who has scored 208 goals and 368 assists in 135 career games, posted 70-plus points in five straight seasons before injuries limited him to just 12 games in 2015. “Our offense just got…
After finishing in second place in the NLL West Division the Colorado Mammoth’s season came to an end last weekend with an 11-6 loss to the Calgary Roughnecks in the first round of the playoffs. Following two years where the Mammoth finished below .500, their 9-9 record was certainly an improvement, but the early exit from the postseason has to be considered disappointing. Colorado got off to a torrid start,…
The Edmonton Rush played their final game of the season on the road against the Colorado Mammoth and 16,239 Mammoth faithful last night at the Pepsi Center in Denver. They came away with a 13-10 victory to send them into the playoffs firing on all cylinders. The Rush had first place in the West locked up weeks ago and were looking to finish off the season playing solid Lacrosse. They…
The fine-tuning continues for the Edmonton Rush and the Colorado Mammoth as they square off at The Pepsi Center in Denver on Saturday night in what may possibly be a preview of the Western Division Final. Coach Derek Keenan would like to see his team put forth the same effort as they did last week when the pounded the Minnesota Swarm 16-2 at the Xcel Energy Center. The Rush played…