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I don’t care what the schedule says. The 2015 Calgary Roughnecks’ defence of the western conference title they won last year starts today in an exhibition game against their provincial rival Edmonton Rush at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Coming into the game both teams will look very much the same but with some differences with both teams adding depth. Calgarys roster is as follows: Offence: Curtis Dickson, Matthew Dinsdale, Dane Dobbie,…

General Manager and Head Coach Derek announced today the official 2015 Edmonton Rush Roster.   Full roster below. Assistant coaches Jeff McComb and Jimmy Quinlan will guide the Rush on the bench as they begin the season’s journey without General Manager/Head Coach Derek Keenan, who announced earlier this week that he would step away from the club to tend to family matters. Edmonton lost the services of Curtis Knight during the…

Photo by Garrett James With NLL rosters smaller, like last season, and more and more talent without teams, a lot of lacrosse media has been discussing expansion. For the sake of argument, us at ILWT have developed three viable potential NLL rosters that could compete in 2015. We came together with three markets the league is exploring- Philadelphia, Winnipeg, and Montreal. To make the rosters make sense, we placed most…

The Calgary Roughnecks today announced their 20-player active roster for the 2015 National Lacrosse League season.  The roster includes 19 names from the 2014 season with free-agent defenceman Jeff Moleski completing the active list. The returning players include Dane Dobbie, who led the league with a career-high 51 goals last season, captain Andrew McBride, the franchise leader in games played (182), and transition player Geoff Snider, who finished the 2014…