Midfielders are valuable in Major League Lacrosse, helping out the attack with the scoring and turning around and playing some defense. As teams try to strengthen the middle of their field, they will have these options in the Supplemental Draft next week. Carter Bender- Out of Hartford University and now a member of the NLL’s Buffalo Bandits, and played a game with MLL’s Rochester Rattlers last season. Scored 25 points in…
MCLA: The Podesta Proposal
With the MCLA Executive board having met this last weekend in Dallas, TX and one of the big topics was the restructuring proposal. The proposal is headed up by Gary Podesta, former head coach at UC Santa Clara and Chair of the Competition Committee. This proposal, which I have come to call the Podesta Proposal, has a nice ring to it don’t ya think, mainly deals with separating the current…
Training Camp Report: Rochester Knighthawks
The Rochester Knighthawks will return to Blue Cross Arena for the first time since capturing the 2012 NLL title this Saturday, as they host the Minnesota Swarm in pre-season action. New additions and NLL hopefuls will get their first chance to play alongside returning players to determine the Knighthawks final roster. A point of interest during the game will be Rochester’s goalie situation. While Matt Vinc is cemented as the…
Stealth Re-Sign Iannucci
The Washington Stealth have signed NLL veteran forward Athan Iannucci to a one-year agreement. Iannucci (Port Moody, B.C.) is entering his seventh NLL season after appearing in11 games for the Stealth in 2012. He was acquired in the February trade with Edmonton for Paul Rabil. “Athan has proven that he is a dominant offensive threat and will be a major factor for us this coming season,” said Stealth general manager…
Bandits Officially Trade for Hopcroft, Sign Six Others
Buffalo Bandits General Manager Steve Dietrich today announced that the team has acquired forward Derek Hopcroft from the Colorado Mammoth in exchange for a conditional sixth-round pick in the 2014 NLL Entry Draft. “Derek brings more depth to our right side,” Dietrich said. “He has a great outside shot and continues to work on the other dimensions of his game. He will come into our second weekend of training camp…
Supplemental MLL Players to Watch: Attack
The MLL Supplemental Draft is in a week, so today we take a look at Attackmen that we could see crack an MLL roster. Some of these Canadian players are interesting, because in the summer they play Canadian box. How many of them will actually play MLL? Matt Alrich: Has played with the Boston Cannons, Baltimore Bayhawks and San Francisco Dragons. Played NLL with the San Jose Stealth and New York…
Report: Bandits Acquire Derek Hopcroft
According to Steve Bermel of IL Indoor, the Buffalo Bandits have traded for forward Derek Hopcroft of the Colorado Mammoth. According to the report, they give up a conditional fifth round draft pick. As Hopcroft is a right handed shooter, this could be another sign that the Bandits will not be signing Luke Wiles. They already picked up Aaron Wilson from Edmonton, but Hopcroft could just be more proof that…
Swarm Release Guerin, Teeter, Grayson
After the first training camp session of the season for the Minnesota Swarm, they have released Jesse Guerin, Mike Teeter and Aaron Grayson. Guerin was signed as a free agent before camp began. He played in the fall with the Reading Rockets and has played CLax. Teeter was drafted this season but is also signed with the Niagara Lock Monsters of CLax, which he will likely play now that the…
NCAA: The Beasts of the East
This conference has some outstanding schools that will put fear in opponents. Here are the schools; Georgetown, Notre Dame, Providence, Rutgers, St. Johns, Syracuse, and Villanova. Notre Dame was the Big East Champions. Notre Dame has an aggressive attack style. They play fast and up tempo. If you are not aggressive bumping them out their defense strategy, they will hurt you. The way you can stop them is slowing up their attack.Score first, so you…
One on One with Johnny Mouradian
This weekend at Philadelphia Wings training camp, we got to sit down and talk to head coach and general manager Johnny Mouradian. Topics included the epic goalie battle between eight netminders, the most impressive rookies and free agents, plus the contract statuses of Dan Dawson and Kyle Hartzell. Click on the link below to hear it, and tune in to Wings Nest tonight at 6pm for more Wings talk. Johnny_Mouradian