The Minnesota Swarm and the Rochester Knighthawks are starting off the season tomorrow night in Rochester, New York at 7:30pm EST. Prior to the playoff rematch from last season, the Knighthawks will be raising their 2013 Championship banner. This should give the Swarm some added incentive to go along with the revenge factor for last year’s playoffs. The Swarm look extremely young and new faced this year, with five rookies…
The Minnesota Swarm are going into their tenth year of existence this year, this is also the year that the Swarm are going into the season with the largest amount of anticipation and notoriety. This offseason the Swarm acquired Logan Schuss, Scott Jones, Cam Flint, Jason Noble , and Jordan Houtby. All five came by way of this year’s entry draft. To go along with these five rookies the Swarm…
Well the final preseason weekend came and went with the Minnesota Swarm taking on the each other and the Calgary Roughnecks. The Swarm’s inter-squad scrimmage took place on Friday night and although being a lighter affair there were still guys looking to make the roster and needed to show what they could do. Team Yellow took home the Golden Nutcracker! On Saturday the Swarm took on the Calgary Roughnecks and…
The Minnesota Swarm have had an extremely productive camp thus far. With the new youthful look to the team most would expect a few stumbling points, but the Swarm have put all the pieces in the right spot and seem to have the right ideas heading down the stretch to the beginning of the season. The Swarm have been able to win both of their preseason games so far, both…
The preseason games have officially gotten underway for the Minnesota Swarm. The Swarm took on the Colorado Mammoth in Oakville, ON last night, Dec. 6th, and came out with the 14-10 win. The Swarm only dressed 18 runners in the game and treated the game as they would any regular season game. Jordan MacIntosh led the way for the Swarm with the hat trick. Shayne Jackson, Kiel Matisz, and rookie…
This will be the question that is asked all year long: Who would you take to build a new team off of Logan Schuss or Mark Matthews? Matthews was taken first overall by the Edmonton Rush in the 2012 Entry Draft, he went on to win the 2013 Moe’s Rookie of the Year award. He finished his first season with 38 goals and 31 assists, for a total 69 points….
The Minnesota Swarm Captain is back to work with the Swarm. Andrew Suitor was once again named the captain of the Minnesota Swarm. Suitor suffered a devastating knee injury last season, that required major surgery to repair. Suitor was at the Swarm’s opening camp this last weekend in Oakville, ON, and while there he got back on the floor for the first time with the team since he went…
The Minnesota Swarm have a plethora of rookies under contracts for the upcoming season, including number one overall pick Logan Schuss, number two overall pick Jason Noble and the fourth and seventh overall picks Cam Flint and Scott Jones. The Swarm also added many other rookies that include Zach Palmer, Dominique Alexander and Minnesota’s own Nick Jonas. The Swarm are going to have to rely on the young talent…
Alex Urquhart The Minnesota Swarm are heading to camp on Nov. 29th in Oakville, ON at the Toronto Rock Athletic Center. The Swarm are coming off an impressive late season run into the playoffs, where they made it to the Conference Finals for the second straight year. Minnesota is also coming off an outstanding draft, where they drafted the top two players and four total first rounders. Heading into…
After last season the Minnesota Swarm were looking to be on high ground going into the offseason. The Swarm were definitely one of the teams most people would expect to be in the mix for the Championship in 2014. This included myself, after much contemplation and foreshadowing. The Swarm spent most of the spring fairly quiet, but once the Draft started to roll around the Swarm started to make some…