What an exciting weekend. Toronto put a little distance in the East, Edmonton and Colorado switched positions as the Rush swept this weekend, and the Knighthawks came up huge with two wins to go from last to second in the east. And in Calgary….things just get Rougher for the Roughnecks. NLL Power Rankings Week 7 (1)….1—Toronto Rock (6-1) Can’t stop the Rock!! This past weekend the Rock rolled their…
The Calgary Roughnecks winless one third of the way through the 2015 NLL season. When a team gets off to such a poor start there is usually plenty of blame to go around. But one of the main targets of scrutiny for the Roughnecks right now is the goaltending tandem of Mike Poulin and Frankie Scigliano. The Poulin Wall has been one of the keys to success for the Roughnecks…
Following a home and home series with the Colorado Mammoth, the Edmonton Rush have taken over the lead spot in the Western Division after capturing both wins. Now sitting at a 4-2 record, the Rush will head into Week 8 of NLL league play taking yet another break. With the two losses, Colorado has fallen to second place with a 3-3 record. The first clash that took place in Denver…
On Sunday evening, the Rochester Knighthawks were able to snag their second victory in two days as they defeated the New England Black Wolves 15-10 at Mohegan Sun Arena. In a game that saw a total of 85 penalty minutes, Rochester was able to frustrate New England many times while being on the penalty kill. The Black Wolves gave up two short handed goals over the course of the game…
After coming away with a huge Western Division victory over the Calgary Roughnecks in overtime last week at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the Buffalo Bandits were faced with the difficult challenge of making it two wins in a row when they faced off against their Thruway rivals the Rochester Knighthawks at the First Niagara Center Saturday night. In their second of three regular season matchups on the schedule, the Bandits would…
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…
Saturday night at the LEC was the definitely “Heartbreaker” night for the 0-6 Calgary Roughnecks, as the Vancouver Stealth (3-3) walked away with the 13-9 win front of the home crowd. Stealth fans not only got the treat of seeing WWE Super Star Bret “The Hitman” Hart drop the ball, but also got to witness a game that saw one hour and 16 minutes of penalties, eight power play goals,…
The Rochester Knighthawks and New England Black Wolves are set for a rematch, once again at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. The last game on January 10 saw the Black Wolves finish with a dominating win, 17-7. That sent Rochester to a 0-2 start while New England beat most expectations to start the season 2-0. Since then, things have changed. New England was on the wrong end of lopsided losses…
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.
After earning an 11-7 victory on Friday night in Colorado, the Edmonton Rush host the Mammoth on Sunday in the second game of their weekend series. Following Edmonton’s Friday win, they are now tied with Colorado for first place in the West Division, both at 3-2, so this game is of particular importance to both teams. On Friday the two teams had a see-saw battle in the first half with…