Casey Powell thrilled Rochester fans in 1999 and 2000, helping the team reach the NLL finals in both seasons while registering over 60 total points. With Powell returning to Rochester, some Knighthawks faithful may be anxious to dust off their old number 99 Powell jerseys. With lacrosse’s new superstar and fellow number 99 enthusiast Paul Rabil also property of the Knighthawks, it looked as though there may be a different…
NLL Training Camp Preview: Toronto Rock
As Toronto’s favourite team vacates the Air Canada Centre for the 2012/13 NHL lockout, arguably the most dominant team in the Big Smoke gets ready to begin their 15th season in the National Lacrosse League. For many teams losing in the divisional finals would be considered a success, but for the seven Champions Cup winners, nothing short than putting up a banner at the ACC is acceptable. The road to…
Rookies Barnard, Resetarits Sign In Buffalo and Calgary
According to the NLL.com transactions page, two more rookies have signed before their team’s training camps kick off this weekend. The Buffalo Bandits signed Mitch Barnard who played in the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League with the Snake Island Muskies this summer. Barnard scored three points a game in the Muskies playoff series loss to the St. Regis Braves. The leftie shooter played Division Three collegiality with Adrian and played Junior A with…
UMass, Hofstra Class of CAA
As the season approaches these teams have some very good talent. Delware, Drexel, Hofstra, UMass, Penn State, Saint Joesphs, and Towson are the toss up teams in the division. Last season both UMass and Drexel battled for the CAA Championship. As we know, UMass was undefeated, with their stifling defense and their outstanding offense. As Drexel struggled with UMass and lost the game. Questions and concerns for this organization would be more skilled players…
Galloway Preparing for 2013 Rattlers
Photo by Rich Barnes The 2012 Rochester Rattlers were certainly an improvement over the 2011 team that saw only two wins. They even contended for a playoff spot till the last day of the season, and goaltender John Galloway says to expect a strong 2013. “Our team is a bunch of blue collar guys that want to get to an MLL championship. People really don’t like believing in us and I believe that is…
Liberty Flames Season Preview
The Liberty Flames are one of the newest teams in the MCLA. The Flames hail from Lynchburg, Virginia and in only three years have become a force to be reckoned with in the SELC. The Flames last year went 7-2, only losing to SCAD and Elon. The Flames finished their season with a rematch against Elon in SELC semi- finals, Elon went on to win the SELC later in the…
Wings Announce Free Agents Signed to Training Camp
The Philadelphia Wings today announced which free agent camp players were signed to the regular Wings training camp. Ethan Farrell: Member of the Vermont Voyageurs where he helped lead the team to the QSLL finals, and has scored 97 points in his QSLL career. Also played with the Charlotte Copperheads of the PLL. Greg Rogowski: Also a member of the Copperheads and Voyageurs. He played at the University of Merrimack and played…
What Happens Now With Scott Evans?
In a move that surprised a few people this week, the Edmonton Rush released forward Scott Evans after one training camp session. Some observers were not surprised by this after a terrible playoffs with Edmonton in 2012. Now begins the speculation of where Evans will end up. A lot of people have mentioned Buffalo, but I have a source telling In Lacrosse We Trust that Buffalo is not interested. So,…
Denver Without Matthews and Demopolous, Now What?
As the improvement for last year was answered, there were a group of emerging All Americans willing to fire back at any questions or concerns of this team. Denver finished last season ranked fifth nationally in scoring offense. This team was lead by senior attack men Mark Mathews and Alex Demopoulos. Mathews lead the team with 47 goals, finishing third in the nation in goals and tenth in points per game in the country….
Turf Dogs and Stars Finish in Exhibition Tie
The Canadian Lacrosse League began their pre season on Sunday when the Durham Turf Dogs and Toronto Shooting Stars played to a 12-12 tie. Scott Defrancesco of the Turf Dogs led all players with three goals. Blake Kenny of the Shooting Stars led all scorers with two goals and four assists. Other players of note on Toronto were Jackson Gair (2 goals 2 assists) and Tory Gardner (four penalty minutes)….