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Photo: Garrett James The first wave of NLL cuts appear to be through as several teams have released players in the past two days. Starting with the Edmonton Rush, who released draft picks Mike DeGiorlamo and Mitch McAvoy along with defenseman Ben Snider. The Rochester Knighthawks released goaltender Don Alton, leaving Brandon Styres on the roster as the third goalie. He did play this weekend against Minnesota. They also released…

The National Lacrosse League has announced StringKing as the official mesh supplier of the NLL for the 2015 season. When the league opens its 29th year on January 2-3, the world’s top lacrosse players will be exclusively outfitted with StringKing mesh and stringing supplies. “We’re proud to team up with StringKing for the 2015 National Lacrosse League season,” said NLL Commissioner George Daniel. “With our sport requiring such power and…

With both teams coming off wins in their Pre-Season debuts, the Minnesota Swarm and Calgary Roughnecks took to the floor to do battle, with largely different rosters from the previous nights game. Out for the Roughnecks where Shawn Evans, Jeff Shattler, Curtis Dickson, Jon Harnett, Curtis Manning and Tor Reinholdt, while Minnesota was without, captain Andrew Suitor and Logan Schuss. The Minnesota Swarm ultimately took the game by a score…

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…