The regular season is over and boy was it exciting. No one expecting Toronto to play as well as they did with Colin Doyle and Garrett Billings out for most of the year, then they trade Billings and get a bit stronger with Kevin Crowley. Rochester another 13 win season, and the Bandits coming into the playoffs red hot. Edmonton and Colorado fought it out til about a month to…
The Minnesota Swarm are continuing their tendency of blowing up somewhat settled, and fan favored, items of the organization. Over the last few years things have gone downhill for the Swarm, they have not made it to the playoffs since the 2013 season where they lost in the Division Finals to the eventual Champion Rochester Knighthawks. Due to this lack of making the playoffs and the overall dismal record over…
Following a catastrophic 0-6 start to the 2015 season, the Calgary Roughnecks have clawed their way back into the playoffs. It took a 14-13 win over the Vancouver Stealth in the last game of the season to complete the comeback, but they did it. During the 0-6 start—a record for the Riggers—there were a lot of things going wrong. The Roughnecks were on the wrong end of three one-goal games….
For the 2015 NLL season, the Swarm failed to make the playoffs for the second year in a row, posting a 6-12 record. Only Vancouver and New England had worse records. The team could not piece together more than two consecutive wins. The bulk of February and March was spent on a seven game losing streak. In March, Kiel Matisz was lost to injury for three weeks; Callum Crawford missed…
The Minnesota Swarm have announced that the team will not renew the contracts of head coach and associate general manager Joe Sullivan, and assistant coaches Aime Caines and Rory McDade for the 2016 NLL season. “I want to thank Joe, Aime, and Rory as well as Bobby Keast for their efforts over the past few years,” said Swarm owner and general manager John Arlotta. “Despite their hard work, we just haven’t been able to get back to the performance of…
The Minnesota Swarm can finally say this rough season is over. Unfortunately for them it is over. The Swarm have finished the season with a 6-12 record and five games back of the Buffalo Bandits. The Swarm did finish the season on a high note toppling the three- time NLL Champion Rochester Knighthawks, in overtime, and taking two out of the three games they played. The Swarm started the…
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 Buffalo Bandits (10-7) and the New England Black Wolves (4-12) will face off in their final of four 2015 NLL regular season matchups on Saturday May 2nd at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo. In their first two meetings of the regular season, the Black Wolves defeated the Bandits by scores of 12-8 and 12-11. In their third meeting between these two teams, the Black Wolves were looking to…
In their last meeting in Toronto on April 17, the Toronto Rock beat the New England Black Wolves 15-12. Friday evening will be the team’s third meeting of the season and Toronto’s first trip to Mohegan Sun. Playing for the first time in an unfamiliar arena may provide a slight advantage to the Black Wolves over the Rock, but Toronto is having an unstoppable season. With a win, the Toronto…
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…