The National Lacrosse League has announced a total of 21 NLL games will air live on ESPN platforms during the 2015 season. Coverage begins with the Buffalo Bandits at New England Black Wolves live exclusively on ESPN3 via WatchESPN on Friday, Jan. 2 from Mohegan Sun Arena as the league opens its 29th year. “We’re very excited to offer even more National Lacrosse League action on the ESPN networks this…
The National Lacrosse League announced today that Universal Sports Network will showcase an “NLL Game of the Week” during the upcoming 2015 NLL regular season. The new agreement, which marks the league’s first full season on Universal Sports Network, makes 18 games available LIVE on UniversalSports.com to all fans in the United States, including non-subscribers of Universal Sports Network. An encore presentation of the “NLL Game of the Week” will…
TSN today announced a new multiplatform broadcast agreement with the National Lacrosse League for the 2015 season that allows Canadians to watch the league’s entire 81-game regular season plus the Champion’s Cup playoffs and Final. As part of the deal, TSN will broadcast 12 regular season games and select post-season games, including the Champion’s Cup Final (see broadcast schedule below). The remaining 69 regular season games will be available exclusively…
Relax, Roughnecks fans… It’s only preseason. This is why teams play preseason games. After an 11-3 exhibition loss yesterday, it seems that from many of the fans’ reactions the true fans are well aware this is very minor. Especially with the energy from the 11,187 lacrosse starved fans who were treated to a different sort of game. The Roughnecks seemed to struggle with any long standing momentum or pressure to…
Last night the Toronto Rock and New England Black Wolves closed out their preseasons with Toronto blowing past the ‘Wolves by a score of 18-10. Leading the way for Toronto was first year Rock player Brett Hickey with five goals and eight points overall. Josh Sanderson added eight points of his own. New England tied the game early at one thanks to a diving goal from rookie Quinn Powless, but…
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,…
It’s time to start another season of NLL action. History was made last year as the Rochester Knighthawks won their third consecutive NLL Champions Cup, the first time a team has ever done this in league history. We also had a team relocate. The Philadelphia Wings, the last of the original four teams packed their bags and moved north as the Mohegan Sun bought into the team. They will now…
Chris Attwood finally played his first NLL game more than two years after his professional lacrosse journey started. The 24 year old scored a goal in Rochester’s preseason opener at Blue Cross Arena on December 6, marking his return to the team that drafted him, and then cut him, in 2012. That same team has now named him to their 2015 roster. The professional success has been a long time…
Last week in the Toronto Rock’s preseason victory over the Rochester Knighthawks, an unlikely hero emerged. As the Rock topped Rochester in Montreal, Trevor Wagar scored twice in his first NLL contest. “It was an amazing experience and an experience that I have been wanting to have since I was a young kid growing up and watching the Toronto Rock play,” said Wagar. “I was drafted in 2008 by the…
The New England Black Wolves have solidified their roster going into this 2015 season. At the forward position, the Black Wolves have three players from last year’s Wings team. Kevin Crowley, who is the team’s franchise player, scored 75 points last year and is the leader of the club. Also two breakout players from last year return in Pat Saunders and Kyle Buchanan. Saunders scored 39 points last year and all time has…