Photos and article: Tracey Happold-Brown The Rochester Knighthawks soared in Philadelphia and clipped the Wings with a 16-13 win on Friday night. The game had some remarkable occurrences that stood out. Mike Sowers, strong in his outdoor game, had a breakout indoor game when he scored 4 points and added 3 assists. Rochester also took a whopping 79 shots! Both teams pulled their starting goalies, with Rochester doing that early…
The Ottawa Black Bears were hunting for something with wings and they found it Saturday night, as Ottawa held off Philadelphia with a 16-12 win at Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata, ON. What is more impressive is that each team was perfect on their power plays. Ottawa was a perfect 3-3 while the Wings were a perfect 4-4. Also impressive was Brennan O’Neill’s first career sock trick (six goals) and…
The Toronto Rock celebrated superhero night at the Paramount Fine Food Centre in Mississauga Saturday night, giving their fans plenty to marvel at. Playing their first home game in a month the Rock took a 3-0 before the first media time out, outshooting the Philadelphia Wings twenty-four to six in the opening quarter, eventually winning 15-8. Without their own Captain America, Tom Schreiber, 12 different Rock players registered points offensively…
For the second time in two weekends, the Halifax Thunderbirds defeated the Philadelphia Wings, this time by a score of 13-10 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. They beat the Wings 14-10 last weekend in Philadelphia. “They’re a good team, and I think we had a good plan in place. We stuck with it, and the ball was dropping for us,” said Thomas Hoggarth, who scored three goals and added…
The relocated National Lacrosse League team that was the Philadelphia Wings are finally announcing their team name today, and it will be the New England Black Wolves. New England will stay in the eastern division, as Philadelphia was, and play out of Mohegan Sun Arena, just about an hour south of Boston. The team now has active website and social media accounts. Press Release: The Mohegan Sun has introduced the New…
Tonight the Philadelphia Wings (3-7) will face the two-time defending champion Rochester Knighthawks (6-3). The Wings have not had much success against the Hawks as they are 1-13 (including playoffs) the last 14 times they have met. The Wings are currently riding a four-game losing streak that they will look to end tonight. Recently signed defenseman Stephen Hoar is looking forward to getting back in action and helping the Wings…
The trading deadline may be 12 days away, but the Philadelphia Wings have gone out and signed Stephen Hoar to a one year deal and placed him on the active roster making him available for this weekend’s matchup against the Rochester Knighthawks. With that move the Wings have placed Michael Diehl on the practice squad. Hoar who stands at 6’2″ and weighs 215 pounds will obviously add size to the…
The defending champion Rochester Knighthawks are coming off of a strong win in Colorado against the Mammoth and this week will be hosting their rival Philadelphia Wings. In their win against Colorado, third year player Stephen Keogh led the ‘Hawks with five goals in the first half. “It was a good win for us last week especially on the road in a tough building,” Keogh told us. “We came out…
Today the Philadelphia Wings (3-6) will face the Minnesota Swarm (1-7). The Swarm are coming off a 14-12 loss last night to the Toronto Rock. After three quarters the Swarm were down 13-4 before putting eight goals in the final quarter. So the question here is did the Swarm shoot their load, or was this a start of momentum coming into this afternoon? The Swarm all season have either had…
After a disappointing Week 7 loss on the road to the Rochester Knighthawks, the Buffalo Bandits were looking for a little bit of redemption in their season series finale with the Philadelphia Wings Saturday night. The Bandits (6-2) responded in a major way by giving the Philadelphia Wings (3-6) a complete 60 minute performance and clinching their season series with a commanding 13-7 victory in front of 13,980 Banditland faithful…