Photo Credit: Dan Brodie The Minnesota Swarm has struggled with offense and scoring this season, and as a result has only garnered one win. While very few players on the team are lighting up the scoreboard so far this season, they drafted several highly touted rookies with high draft picks. There was a lot of focus on these picks going into the season, and while not many players are scoring…
The National Lacrosse League has announced a summary of discipline stemming from incidents occurring during Week 8 of the 2014 NLL regular season for games played on Friday, Feb. 14 and Saturday, Feb. 15. Rochester Knighthawks defenseman Mac Allen has been assessed a Match Penalty and suspended one game stemming from a boarding incident on Toronto Rock player Garrett Billings at approximately the 13:06 mark of the third quarter of their game on February 15. No penalty was called on the…
The Rochester Knighthawks (5-2) travel across the continent on Saturday to take on the Calgary Roughnecks (4-3) in a battle between second-place teams hoping to strengthen their positions. Photo Credit: Dan Brodie The Knighthawks are on a two-game winning streak and are coming off a decisive 17-9 defeat of the Toronto Rock, so they have momentum working for them. Their smothering defense and superb goaltending have kept opposing teams under…
Only five teams are in action this week with three games, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of interesting stories to look at this week in the NLL. Number Five- Chris White Returns The Toronto Rock made a few defensive moves this week as Chris White will be activated off of the injured reserve to play in his first NLL game of 2014. The Rock demoted Dustin Dunn and…
Week 9 Staff @ @ @ Daniel Pattison Brendan Staudt Jim Flannery Ian Neadle Steve Nicholls Jordan Hern. Di Miller Nicole Sulinski Alex Urquhart Rocco Granato Marisa Ingemi
The indoor lacrosse landscape is dotted with leagues right now, each with its plusses and minuses, each competing to retain as much of the available talent as possible, and each fighting to survive in a sports world that barely knows lacrosse exists. The granddaddy of them all is still the National Lacrosse League, which is now more than a quarter century old and seems to be enjoying some much-deserved stability….
When the new NLL Collective Bargaining Agreement was signed over the fall, roster sizes were reduced, shrinking to 20 players from 23, with practice rosters expanding from three to four. Now that we are more than a third of the way through the schedule, it’s time to have a look back and see if the reduced rosters have affected the game. There are a couple metrics we can look at…
The results are in, and the Lacrosse Network has named their top ten plays of NLL week eight. Which do you like? Are there any plays that should have made the cut?
The Minnesota Swarm are going into this weekend as the worst team in the East and the worst team in the NLL at 1-6. The Swarm have dropped four straight, three of which were at home in St. Paul Minnesota. The Last time the Swarm won a game was in Philadelphia on January 18th in an 11-10 win over the Wings, this also was the first game of a double-header…
Rush rookies remaining unbeaten, Digby’s scoring prominence, and a Wilde debut highlight Week 8 of NLL rookie action. The Edmonton Rush maintained their perfect record with a 14-9 win over the Minnesota Swarm thanks to help from their rookie tandem of Riley Loewen and Robert Church. Loewen had two goals, including a third quarter tally that proved to be the game winner for Edmonton. Robert Church continued his steady production…