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Bandits Sign First Pick Brandon Goodwin

October 20, 2014

Buffalo Bandits General Manager Steve Dietrich today announced the team has agreed to terms on one-year contracts with Brandon Goodwin, Cody McMahon and Rance Vigneux. With Goodwin’s signing, the Bandits have now agreed to terms with all five of their 2014 draft picks. Selected with the ninth overall pick in the NLL Draft last month, Goodwin played for Adelphi University last season and notched 26 points (19+7) in 17 games….

Bandits Match New England Offer for Petkoff

October 20, 2014

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The Buffalo Bandits have matched the New England Black Wolves’ offer sheet to restricted free agent defenseman Drew Petkoff for a one-year contract for the 2015 National Lacrosse League season. Buffalo had 72 hours to match New England’s offer for the defender who possesses a scoring touch. Petkoff spent his first four seasons with the Toronto Rock before joining the Bandits where he was inactive for the 2013 season and…

Alex Kedoh Hill Has a Shot with Bandits

October 10, 2014

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After their offense began struggling midway through the 2013 NLL season, the Buffalo Bandits organization came to the conclusion that injecting some fresh offensive blood was needed to help bring the franchise back from the brink. Bandits General Manager Steve Dietrich and then-current head coach Darris Kilgour believed that the best place to start this new resurgence would be the upcoming 2013 NLL trade deadline. During the trade deadline, the…

Bandits Extend Benesch and Smith Long Term

October 10, 2014

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Buffalo Bandits General Manager Steve Dietrich today announced the team has agreed to terms on three-year contracts with Ryan Benesch and Dhane Smith, and signed Jordan Dance, Jamie Rooney and Jerome Thompson to one-year deals. Benesch and Smith were first and third, respectively, in scoring last season for the Bandits. Their contracts are still pending league approval. In his first season with the Bandits, Benesch paced the team with 78…

Bandits Sign Rooney and Thompson

October 8, 2014

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The Buffalo Bandits have signed three players to one year contracts today, signing restricted free agents Jamie Rooney and Jerome Thompson along with draft pick Jordan Dance. Rooney joined Buffalo after a brief stint in Toronto following his time with the Boston Blazers; Toronto selected him in the Boston dispersal draft. Before that, he spent his first three seasons in the league with Philadelphia, Rochester, and New York. Rooney has…

Weiss Bringing Extra Grit and Physicality to Bandits

October 3, 2014

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When the Buffalo Bandits acquired 2014 NLL goaltender of the year nominee Anthony Cosmo in 2012 and their current team scoring leader Ryan Benesch in 2013, General Manager Steve Dietrich knew immediately that there would be a heavy price to pay to immediately turn the once struggling franchise back into a serious contender. The price that the Bandits ultimately paid for their current success came at the loss of first…

Bandits Draft For Deep Left Side

October 2, 2014

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After the Buffalo Bandits 2014 season had ended at the hands of the defending NLL Champion Rochester Knighthawks in the Eastern Conference Finals, it was time for General Manager Steve Dietrich and head coach Troy Cordingley to perform their post-mortem examination of the 2014 squad. During the offseason, Dietrich and Cordingley came to the conclusion that while they had excelled last season in the defensive aspect of their play (Bandits…

Tavares Returns to Buffalo for 2015

September 30, 2014

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He’s back. The Buffalo Bandits have announced legendary forward John Tavares, the National Lacrosse League’s all-time leading scorer, will return to the team for a league-record 24th season after reaching a contract agreement earlier this month. “John wanted to make sure we wanted to have him back,” said Bandits director of lacrosse operations Scott Loffler. “Of course, we couldn’t say no.” The 46-year-old helped the Bandits return to the playoffs last year by posting 51…

2014 NLL Draft Analysis: Buffalo Bandits

September 27, 2014

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After riding a roller coaster of a regular season and being one post away from reaching the 2014 NLL Finals last year, Buffalo Bandits General Manager Steve Dietrich and head coach Troy Cordingley headed into the 2014 NLL Draft searching for that certain missing ingredient to their success. After the draft was over, it was pretty clear that the messing ingredient that Dietrich and Cordingley believed to be missing were…

Audio: Troy Cordingley Discusses Draft

September 23, 2014

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Last night after the draft we caught up with Buffalo Bandits head coach Troy Cordingley to discuss all the moves by the Bandits, including their picks, trading away Rory Smith and Eric Penney, and receiving Nick Weiss.

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