The National Lacrosse League held their 2014 draft at the Toronto Rock Athletic Centre on Monday, Sept. 22. This year’s draft had 55 hopefuls get to hear their names called. With the first three overall picks in the draft, the Edmonton Rush selected Ben McIntosh from Drexel University, the Knighthawks selected Jeremy Noble from University of Denver and the Minnesota Swarm selected Miles Thompson from the University of Albany. While…
Moleski Brings Much Needed Defense to Calgary
I wrote an article last week speculating potential draft picks in yesterday’s 2014 NLL Draft on what the Calgary Roughnecks may need to look for in said draft and how the club needed to move forward to the eventual goal of winning the last game that matters being the Champions Cup Final. Going into the draft the Roughnecks held two first round picks (sixth and eighth overall) as well as…
Black Wolves Acquire Jay Card
New England just keeps making moves. After having a terrific draft picking up players like Quinn Powless and Ty Thompson, the Black Wolves have added forward Jay Card from the Minnesota Swarm for the 40th overall pick which turned into Paxton Leroux. The Black Wolves have made a lot of little moves like adding forwards Jamie Lincoln and Mike Burke as well, and Card falls in the same category. After…
Stealth Acquire Rory Smith and Eric Penney
The Buffalo Bandits traded their 12th overall pick, goaltender Eric Penney and defender Rory Smith to the Vancouver Stealth for Nick Weiss and the ninth overall pick, which became Brandon Goodwin. The move makes all sorts of sense for both teams. Buffalo had signed Dave DiRuscio to contend with Kurtis Wagar for the backup role while all Vancouver has as the backup is Matt Roik, so Penney will contend to…
Knighthawks Acquire Jordan Hall from New England
Thew New England Black Wolves have traded transition player Jordan Hall to the Rochester Knighthawks in exchange for Rochester’s #11 and #28 overall picks along with a first round pick in 2015. The Black Wolves have traded away many players this offseason after relocating from Philadelphia, including Brodie Merrill. The 11th pick being gone from Rochester makes it less of a chance they get both Miles and Ty Thompson, if…
2014 NLL Draft Live Blog
Hello InLacrosseWeTrust readers, Dan Pattison here at the Toronto Athletic Center in Oakville, Ontario this evening for the 2014 NLL Draft. 2014 NLL Draft First Round: 1) Edmonton Rush: F Ben McIntosh- Drexel, Maple Ridge WLA . 2) Rochester Knighthawks: F Jeremy Noble- Denver, Denver MLL, Oakville MSL 3) Minnesota Swarm: F Miles Thompson- Albany, Rochester MLL, Onondaga Sr B 4) Colorado Mammoth: F Eli McLaughlin- Coquitlam Jr A 5) Minnesota Swarm: T…
Wolves Take first ELL Tournament of 2014
The European Lacrosse League kicked off their 2014 season this weekend with the Radotin Wolves taking a victory in the first tournament. The defending champions have a much different roster this season, adding former Custodes star Radek Skala. In the first game Skala led the Wolves against his old team as they won 13-9. Skala scored five times while Tomas Jeck scored three. Jakub Mares and Philip Hladky combined for…
NLL Announces Three Game Series in Champions Cup
The National Lacrosse League has announced the NLL Champion’s Cup Finals will expand to a best-of-three game series effective for the upcoming 2015 season. The change was unanimously approved today by the NLL Board of Governors. “Based on the success of the 2014 playoffs, this was the obvious next step for us,” said NLL Commissioner George Daniel. “The 2015 playoffs promise to be our best ever.” The first two rounds…
Podcast: NLL Draft Preview Show with Terry Sanderson
Tonight is the National Lacrosse League draft, and to get you ready we have our NLL Draft Preview podcast. Marisa Ingemi discusses who to watch, discusses the latest MLL news and the US National Indoor team and interviews the Toronto Rock general manager Terry Sanderson. Sanderson discusses with us about the status of injured forward Garrett Billings, the status of free agent Chris White, the recent trades and signings of…
2014 NLL Mock Draft: First Round
Luckily, this wasn’t posted until after Rochester acquired the second overall pick today, so these picks do reflect that trade. Due to late editions, we were not able to Josh Johnson or Haodais Maracle, but both would have been early second rounders. FIRST ROUND 1. Edmonton: Ben McIntosh– Ranked #1 overall, Derek Keenan, now the NLL general manager and head coach of the year, has basically said he wants to…