The United States Lacrosse League (USLL) announces today that it has signed their first franchise in league history, the Maine Moose Trax. The Moose Trax and will play its home games out of the 6,733-seat Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine. “Portland has been a potential lacrosse market for many years, and we’re very fortunate to match a lacrosse-hungry community and a first-class facility with an ownership group committed…
MLL Moves Supplemental Draft to Dec 11
Major League Lacrosse, the premier professional outdoor lacrosse league, announced today that it will postpone the 2014 Supplemental Draft to Wednesday, December 11 at 2:30 p.m. The league has also announced that the Player Pool Registration deadline has been extended to Friday, December 6 at Noon. The link to the Player Pool Registration form can be found below. 2014 League Player Pool Registration Form MajorLeagueLacrosse.com will post live updates throughout…
“Nothing Going to be Handed to” Players for Bandits
When the new NLL CBA was signed this off-season, every team in the NLL would have to reduce their active rosters from 23 to 20 players and increase their practice rosters from three to four. The new active roster reduction means that the league’s best lacrosse players would be battling it out even more rigorously this year for every coveted roster spot during training camp and exhibition games. Head coach…
Camp Notes: Stealth Happy with Defensive Improvement
Training camp has been competitive and fast paced with many talented players battling for spots. The Players have all really shown the intensity and effort the coaching staff has been looking for and the players have all worked really hard. Knowing how competitive things are, guys gave it there all. Rookies, Nick Weiss, Cody Bremner and Chris Wardle had really good weekends making an impression with strong showings. Management loved what they…
Will Pannell Ever Play In The NLL?
As the start of the NLL season approaches, the question in front of some of the teams, especially the Philadelphia Wings is how many American players will not be playing for their team in the NLL this season. The reason for this, The FIL World Lacrosse Championships this summer in Denver. One big question is whether or not Rob Pannell will play in the NLL not just this year, but…
Audio: Bandits Training Camp
We were live at Buffalo Bandits training camp this weekend as they kicked off their second weekend of training camp, concluding with a scrimmage today. While there we caught up with Steve Dietrich, Troy Cordingley, Derek Suddons, Dhane Smith and Ryan Benesch.
Toronto Rock Sign Billings One Year
Toronto Rock General Manager Terry Sanderson announced the signing of four players prior to training camp beginning on Saturday afternoon. Rock forwards Garrett Billings and Roger Vyse, defender Kyle Belton and goaltender Zak Boychuk all agreed to one-year contracts. All four signings are pending league approval. “I was really impressed with the work ethic that was out there and the general conditioning of everybody,” said Rock Head Coach John Lovell. …
Calgary Roughnecks Training Camp Notes
The Calgary Roughnecks opened their training camp on Friday, with team meetings and medicals taking place in the morning and on-field sessions Friday afternoon, Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon. Camp will continue next weekend with sessions in Langley, BC and then a third weekend of camps will be held in Oakville, ON Dec. 13-15. Along the way, the Roughnecks will play three scrimmages against the Vancouver Stealth (Dec. 6), the…
The Next Big Division One Program?
When Michigan announced they would make the jump to Division I, it ushered in a momentum of new programs and changes to the sport. Soon, Furman, Boston University, High Point, Marquette, and others would declare the creation of men’s and women’s teams. The Big Ten and the creation of the Atlantic Sun conferences show that lacrosse continues to rise. Now the question falls as to where will the next domino…
Curt Malwasky Discusses Roughnecks Camp
We spoke with the Calgary Roughnecks head coach Curt Malwasky about the first days of training camp.