The Rochester Knighthawks may be the three time defending champs, but after losing their first game of the season to the Toronto Rock by a goal and getting blown out in week two by the New England Black Wolves, there are concerns that the Knighthawks need to address to get this team back on track. Their Offense needs to get back to basics in regards to catching and passing the ball around…
Mike Mackley analyzed game films, statistics, and team/personal records. Along with personal perspective as a player, we present to you his Prospective NLL Top 20 at this point of the season: #20 – Curtis Dickson – Calgary Roughnecks / Maple Ridge Burrards (WLA) Curtis Dickson can hurt you in so many ways, he is the perfect combination of speed, strength and determination. His determination is amongst the tops in the…
On our Facebook page this week we asked who had the best goal in the NLL this week, and you voted for Miles Thompson of the Minnesota Swarm! Check out his goal below, which made the ESPN Top 10 this week.
Paul Tutka is a multi-time winning NLL writer of the year award winner, and one of the smartest experts in lacrosse. However, after leaving NLL Insider a few years ago (pre IL Indoor era) he hasn’t been writing anywhere. Yet, his Twitter analysis of the league has taken the lacrosse world by storm, and I was lucky to speak with him about a few matters in the league in this…
In the second weekend of National League Lacrosse action, the New England Black Wolves stunned the lacrosse world by moving to 2-0 in regular season play by knocking off the perennial powerhouse Rochester Knighthawks 17-7 on January 10 as well as arresting the progress of the Buffalo Bandits in the season opener 12-8, a result from January 1. Meaning the Blackwolves start a season without a loss for the first…
The Edmonton Rush are 0-2 after a 14-10 loss to the Minnesota Swarm in front of 7,415 stunned fans. The home crowd left Rexall Place bewildered after witnessing their team lose in a complete meltdown as Minnesota scored nine times in the last quarter of the game. The game started with a moment of silence for the recent passing of Wendy Keenan, the wife of Edmonton’s head coach Mike Keenan….
Saturday night fans packed the LEC to watch the Vancouver Stealth and Toronto Rock clash in what would give the victor a 2-0 start on the 2015 season. While the fans came for the game, they were part of something more; after the pre-game introductions took place Vancouver paid tribute to both Terry Sanderson and Chris Hall. Terry who started his NLL coaching career with the Albany Attack, who are…
To commence the 2015 NLL season home games, John Grant Jr., Athan Iannucci and Dillon Ward were the stars of the game. In front of a crowd of approximately 12,000 spectators, the Mammoth showed their offseason work. It paid off big time. Let’s get to it. The Colorado Mammoth came out on top of the Calgary Roughnecks following a sudden death overtime. 17-16 was the final score, the game winning…
It has always been a saying that a new location can bring on a whole new mentality. However, nobody expected that moving the former Philadelphia organization to New England would create such a massive effect. In the Black Wolves second game on the year, it was New England that claimed a whopping 17-7 victory over 3-time defending champion, Rochester Knighthawks. It was the Kevin Crowley show at Mohegan, Saturday night….
The Calgary Roughnecks (0-1) look to get into the win column today as they visit the Colorado Mammoth (1-0) in Denver at the Pepsi Center with the Mammoth looking to avenge a first round playoff loss that ended their season last year against the Roughnecks. Both teams had good showings last week with both teams having issues at some points in the game but they will have to have short…