After five years in the Major Lacrosse League as the first Canadian team, the Hamilton Nationals are moving to Florida. Florida has been a hot bed of lacrosse as of late and has been testing area for the MLL in the last several season with success. The Florida Launch will take part in the 2014 MLL Season with a majority of the Nationals current roster. The Toronto Nationals began operation…
The Edmonton Rush are getting ready to begin their training camp in anticipation of the 2014 NLL season. The team will be challenged to replace the Corey Small on offense. Small suffered a knee injury in the summer leagues and won’t be available, leaving the Rush without their top point-getter from last year. On transition, the retirement of team captain Jimmy Quinlan also leaves an empty roster spot, meaning there…
It was announced yesterday that the Hamilton Nationals will be moving down to the Sunshine State for the 2014 season. The team will thus be called the Florida Launch. This is the franchises fourth stop in the last number of years. First being the original Rochester Rattlers, then moving to Toronto as the Nationals, after moving north of the border the Nationals moved to Hamilton and keeping the Nationals name,…
The Rochester Knighthawks signed free agent Wenster Green to a one-year deal today. The defenseman/transition man will join the back-to-back National Lacrosse League Champions this weekend for the opening of Training Camp. “It feels awesome. I have been waiting for this opportunity,” said Green. “I am willing do anything I can to make the team. The biggest things I want to do are work hard and play smart.” Green comes…
The 2014 training camp for the Edmonton Rush gets under way Thursday, November 28, and GM/Head Coach Derek Keenan expects it to be a challenging one for both the players and the coaching staff. Two major changes will be front and centre when the Rush camp opens at the Leduc Recreation Centre and then moves to the Rush’s home turf at Rexall Place. The first is that instead of a…
The Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League (NLL) have agreed to terms with goalie Evan Kirk, forwards Kevin Ross, Michael McLellan, Bill McGlone, Kyle Buchanan, Tracey Kelusky and Ethan Farrell, defenders AJ Masson and Pat Heim, and transition players Jordan Hall and Ryan Hotaling for the 2014 season. Kirk enters his first season with the Philadelphia Wings after being acquired this off-season in a trade with the Minnesota Swarm….
Major League Lacrosse, the premier outdoor lacrosse league, announced today that it will place a team in South Florida for the 2014 season. The team will be named the Florida Launch and will be coached by former Denver Outlaws assistant Stan Ross. It will play in Palm Beach County, a location where MLL has enjoyed recent success. “South Florida has always been a target market for us,” said MLL Commissioner…
After last season the Minnesota Swarm were looking to be on high ground going into the offseason. The Swarm were definitely one of the teams most people would expect to be in the mix for the Championship in 2014. This included myself, after much contemplation and foreshadowing. The Swarm spent most of the spring fairly quiet, but once the Draft started to roll around the Swarm started to make some…
Professional lacrosse has been dead in Montreal for over a decade but Jamie Batley has been working hard to change that. Batley has been a driving force behind the push to bring a pro team back to Montreal for the first time since 2002 and in the last year he has been heavily involved in promoting two exhibition games at the Bell Centre. The first game took place last December when the…
With training camp fast approaching, it’s time to see what the Calgary Roughnecks were up to over the off season. In September transition Nolan Heavenor called it quits after eight years in the NLL, seven with Calgary. His decision to retire leaves an opening in the transition game for the Roughnecks. The team made a couple of moves on the day of the annual draft. Jackson Decker was traded to…