The Toronto Rock are on a roll; the team is 8-1 and comfortably in first place in the east. However, one mystery surrounds the team; where is Garrett Billings? Billings’ agent tweeted earlier in the month that the forward was cleared to play in the National Lacrosse League. He tore his ACL against the Vancouver Stealth last season and was projected to return in February. However, one problem remains. The…
Tonight the action gets started early. The east leading Toronto Rock (7-1) will travel to Alberta to face the west leading Edmonton Rush (4-2). The Rush have the number one defense, only allowing 54 goals (9 per game), but they will face the number one offense as Toronto has scored 107 goals (13.375). On the flip side, Edmonton has scored 76 goals (12.66) and the Rock have allowed 78 goals…
Week 8 of the NLL season saw a number of rookies make their NLL debuts, with Mike Burke in Colorado, Matt Bennett in Buffalo and Josh Johnson in New England all appearing in their first NLL games this season. While Burke has the most noticeable impact on paper, both Bennett and Johnson faired well in their NLL debuts, proving they deserve more playing time moving forward. With the NLL moving…
The Toronto Rock received some bad news this week with Scott Johnston being placed on the season-ending injured reserve list from the injured reserve/second level. Toronto has been playing well, leading the league with a 7-1 record. However, their defensive depth took a bit of a hit with Johnston out and they went out and signed Bill Greer, who made his return to the NLL on Friday night against New…
With the Toronto Rock set to take to the road for the next three weeks following Friday night’s game against the New England Black Wolves, picking up a win was crucial, and while the Rock needed extra time to get the job done, they did just that, dropping the Black Wolves by a score of 13-12. The first quarter was a back and forth affair, that saw both teams really…
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When New England travels up to Toronto to face the Rock, it will be matching the East Division’s best record against the worst. New England has been changing their roster around much more in the recent weeks, so it will be interesting to see how they look both offensively and defensively. For the Black Wolves on offense, adding Brett Bucktooth to the lineup produced immediate benefits. In his first game…
Heading into the 2015 NLL season the Toronto Rock were faced with two key injuries at the offensive end of the floor. 2014 leading scorer, Garrett Billings had suffered a torn ACL towards the end of last season, and would be lost to the club for at least the first half of the 2015 season. If that wasn’t bad enough, captain Colin Doyle, who racked up 72 points last season suffered a…
After dropping a devastating 16-4 loss to the Toronto Rock on Friday night at the Excel Energy Centre, the Minnesota Swarm entered Saturday night’s contest with the Toronto Rock looking for revenge. And while the Minnesota Swarm did put forth a much better effort at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night, the result was unfortunately the same for them, as the Toronto Rock would end the weekend home and home…
Last night’s Toronto Rock-Minnesota Swarm game was pretty chippy overall, and it provided this pretty good fight between Swarm rookie Shane MacDonald and Rock defenseman Bill Hostrawser.