As Toronto’s favourite team vacates the Air Canada Centre for the 2012/13 NHL lockout, arguably the most dominant team in the Big Smoke gets ready to begin their 15th season in the National Lacrosse League. For many teams losing in the divisional finals would be considered a success, but for the seven Champions Cup winners, nothing short than putting up a banner at the ACC is acceptable. The road to…
According to the NLL.com transactions page, two more rookies have signed before their team’s training camps kick off this weekend. The Buffalo Bandits signed Mitch Barnard who played in the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League with the Snake Island Muskies this summer. Barnard scored three points a game in the Muskies playoff series loss to the St. Regis Braves. The leftie shooter played Division Three collegiality with Adrian and played Junior A with…
The Philadelphia Wings today announced which free agent camp players were signed to the regular Wings training camp. Ethan Farrell: Member of the Vermont Voyageurs where he helped lead the team to the QSLL finals, and has scored 97 points in his QSLL career. Also played with the Charlotte Copperheads of the PLL. Greg Rogowski: Also a member of the Copperheads and Voyageurs. He played at the University of Merrimack and played…
In a move that surprised a few people this week, the Edmonton Rush released forward Scott Evans after one training camp session. Some observers were not surprised by this after a terrible playoffs with Edmonton in 2012. Now begins the speculation of where Evans will end up. A lot of people have mentioned Buffalo, but I have a source telling In Lacrosse We Trust that Buffalo is not interested. So,…
After one weekend of training camp, the Rochester Knighthawks are already making moves, releasing Jordan Van Damme and also placing Ryan Cousins on the Physically Unable to Perform List. The Knighthawks are deep on the right side of defense even without Cousins with Mike Kirk, Tyler Burton and Rory Glaves. The Buffalo Bandits meanwhile also placed two players on the PUP list. Transition man Mark Steenhius and defender Scott Self…
The Edmonton Rush made several transactions today including releasing Scott Evans. They also signed Kyle Rubsich, Ryan Dilks, Aaron Bold, Zack Greer, Cory Conway and Jeremy Thompson to one year deals. Press Release: Edmonton Rush General Manager/Head Coach Derek Keenan announced today following the first training camp session the team has released forward Scott Evans. “Releasing Scott was not an easy decision but I need to do what I think is best…
Curtis Knight was not the top draft pick in Edmonton this fall. However, he was still a first round pick, and the team is expecting a lot of him after the team’s training camp session. “It was similar to what I expected.” Knight says. “I expected it to be intense and fast and that exactly what it was.” Knight was the 8th overall pick in the NLL draft out of…
With training camp set to begin December 1st, Darris Kilgour and the Buffalo Bandits are ready to get the new season underway. Numerous newly acquired Bandits picked up by first year GM Steve Dietrich will join draftees and free agent invites to decide the Bandits 2013 roster. The Bandits previously held a free agent tryout camp November 10th. The camp consisted off 40 players taking place in a morning practice…
Rochester Knighthawks have had their first training camp session wrapped up, and many events took place. After talking to several sources at Hawks camp, we can provide some details. As we reported over the weekend, Paul Rabil did not attend. Neither did defenseman Pat McCready with rumors of retirement. However, he has also skipped the past two Hawks camps. After skipping last season, Joel McCready did attend camp. The transition…
The Calgary Roughnecks open their training camp this weekend, and the team will be coming in with a new coach after underachieving the past two seasons. Jon Harnett is coming into his third training camp with the Roughnecks, and he says it is time for the team to step up. “There is no excuse for coming up short the past two seasons.” Harnett says. “I think we just need to have more…