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…
NLL Three Stars: Training Camp
While training camp has just begun and it is hard to keep track of who does what, we decided to take a look at some stand out players, according to some players and coaches who saw these guys play at camp. Jordan McBride- Colorado Mammoth McBride scored two goals in the exhibition against Minnesota, giving us a solid stat to base this off of. The second year player is looking…
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…
CLax Previews: Niagara Lock Monsters
Niagara, formerly the Peel Avengers, are looking to wreck havoc with the Canadian Lacrosse League. They have some new players in place and are looking to be a 2013 playoff team. Derek Collins is gone to Barrie, so the only goaltender they have from last year is Zach Bowen. Andrew Potter out of St. Catharines was the team’s top pick, so they have high expectations for him and their second…
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