Ten years after playing his final game for the Rochester Knighthawks, Casey Zaph will return to Connors & Ferris Field at The Blue Cross Arena. On Saturday, February 28th, the Knighthawks will honor “Zapher” by enshrining him into the team’s Hall of Fame. “I wasn’t sure it would ever happen because it has been 10 years,” said Zaph, who will become the Hall of Fame’s 13th member. “I really appreciate…
The retirement of Lewis Ratcliff last week capped a great 14-year NLL career that included 472 goals in 212 career games. Ratcliff was going on his sixth year as part of the Stealth organization and his play with the team including time spent in both Washington and Vancouver. The 33-year-old lefty is one of the more prolific scorers the NLL has seen over the last decade (he scored 50 in…
With only two games on the schedule this week a lot happened. Both games were exciting from beginning to end and both went to overtime. The Swarm buzzed into second place with an overtime win at home over Rochester, and Calgary is still winless as they fell in overtime again, this time to Buffalo. This weekend we have seven games, some teams playing twice. A lot can change after Valentine’s…
The recent addition of “the Kitten” Corey Small may not completely correlate with the offensive explosion the Stealth have experienced upon his arrival. The trade for Small has however signalled a change in offensive philosophy after Lewis Ratcliff retired earlier this week. With a home-and-home series with the floundering 0-5 Calgary Roughnecks on the horizon and a chance to really stake a claim in the Western Division’s playoff picture, Small…
We had two games this past weekend, and not a single team had a winning record. Actually the combined record of all four teams was 7-11, but don’t let that fool you. Both games went to OT, and there was enough excitement for a whole slate of games. Three Stars: Week Six 1—Dhane Smith (Buf) 5G/5A Exploded on Saturday night and helped keep the Roughnecks winless. Smith scored five of the…
The Calgary Roughnecks were in another back and forth affair, which time and time again this season they were unfortunately on the losing end extending the team record losing streak to 0-5 to begin the season in front of 10,312 disappointed fans. With the team struggling early again the Roughnecks took a early penalty—which they did last home game as well—to which Dhane Smith took the opportunity to capitalize early…
On Native American night at the Hive, the Minnesota Swarm(3-2) needed overtime to defeat the Rochester Knighthawks(2-3) 7-6 in front of 9,645 Friday night. Callum Crawford’s only goal of the game was scored at 2:21 of overtime. This was a defensive battle with both Matt Vinc and Zach Higgins standing tall for their teams. Vinc stopped 39 of 46 shots he faced and Higgins stopped 35 of 41. The first…
The Buffalo Bandits (3-3) and the Calgary Roughnecks (0-4) will face off in their only meeting of the 2015 NLL regular season on Saturday February 7th, 2015 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary. The last time these two teams met was on April 5th, 2014 at the First Niagara Center where the Roughnecks emerged victorious with the 16-13 road victory. The last time the Bandits were victorious in Calgary was…
The Edmonton Rush enter their bye week, not set to hit the floor until February 13 and 15 with a respective away and home series against the Colorado Mammoth. Despite currently sitting at a subpar 2-2 record, the Rush have shown character throughout all of their games this season. Beginning 0-2, they were only out of those games by a small margin. In Week 3, the Rush rallied to send…
Staff Member Knighthawks @ Swarm Bandits @ Roughnecks Ian Neadle Kris Handley Ryan Conwell Daniel Pattison Pete Crowley Damon Gray Jim Flannery Alex Urquhart Chris Vale Mike Mackley Brendan Staudt Marisa Ingemi George Fourlaris Ryan Zunner Rocco Granato Owen Munro