Buffalo Bandits forward Mike Hominuck today announced his retirement from the National Lacrosse League. “I wish I could’ve played one more year, but it wasn’t in the cards and I’m happy going out a Bandit,” the 32-year old said. “I will always be a supporter and continue cheering for the Black and Orange!” Hominuck played a total of three seasons and 22 games with the Bandits over his career, compiling…
The Calgary Roughnecks today announced that the National Lacrosse League club has re-signed forward Curtis Dickson to a two-year contract and defenceman Scott Carnegie to a one-year deal, pending league approval. Dickson, a native of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, recorded a team-leading 42 goals while adding 20 assists and collecting 50 loose balls in his third season with the Roughnecks last year. The 25-year-old forward, selected by Calgary third overall…
On Saturday night the Toronto Rock play their second pre season game as they face off against the defending 2013 NLL Champion Rochester Knighthawks. As the regular season draws closer the Rock have begun to cut their team down as they have released 6 players so far including Scott Evans, Bradley Kri, Alex Lubczuk, Eric Pitre, Roger Vyse and Mike Hobbins. So with this matchup against the defending champions it…
Toronto Rock General Manager Terry Sanderson has announced the release of two more players from training camp. Forward Roger Vyse and defenceman Mike Hobbins have been released. “Every decision in camp is incredibly difficult,” said Rock Head Coach John Lovell. “We won a championship with Mike in 2011 here in Toronto and Roger came in last season and did a great job for us. We thank them for their contributions to our success…
For everyone involved with the Buffalo Bandits organization, the 2013 National Lacrosse League season was definitely a season to forget. The Bandits last season were tied for the most goals allowed with 211, second last in goals scored with 171 and worst of all, the Bandits at 6-10 had the worst win-loss record and the only team in the league not to qualify for the playoffs. Due to this, the…
Today the National Lacrosse League continued making moves today as the Toronto Rock signed forward Garrett Billings for one year while releasing forward Scott Evans. Toronto also released Eric Pitre, Bradley Kiri and Alex Lubczuk. Meanwhile, the Rochester Knighthawks signed goaltender Mike Thompson, creating an even more interesting goalie situation. Matt Vinc is their obvious starter but behind him they have Angus Goodleaf and now Thompson after they released Ian…
The Calgary Roughnecks have now completed two weeks of training camp and the first of three scrimmages. With one more weekend to go, including two more scrimmages, time is running out for the team to tighten up the roster. Head coach Curt Malawsky has been happy with what he’s seen so far. “The athleticism really showed through and we were hoping for that from the coaches’ perspective.” Talking about their…
The Minnesota Swarm have had an extremely productive camp thus far. With the new youthful look to the team most would expect a few stumbling points, but the Swarm have put all the pieces in the right spot and seem to have the right ideas heading down the stretch to the beginning of the season. The Swarm have been able to win both of their preseason games so far, both…
The Edmonton Rush started training camp in Edmonton two weekends ago with 31 players signed after they matched the four year offer the Buffalo Bandits made to defender Ryan Dilks. They made three cuts after the weekend, releasing local products Simon Giourmetakis, Matt McKenzie and Ben Snider, bringing the roster down to 25 runners and 3 goalies. The team’s second and final weekend of camp starts out in Six Nations,…
The Buffalo Bandits made it two NLL preseason victories in a row with a 12-10 victory over the Wings on Sunday at the First Niagara Center. Ryan Benesch led all Bandits scorers with two goals while eleven different Bandits players had a goal each. For the Wings, James Delaney led all goal scorers with a hat trick and Jordan Hall scored a pair of goals. With this loss, the Wings…