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Having started the season 3-3, all seemed to be going well in Minnesota. They had completely revamped their roster,= by continuing the youth movement implemented by John Arlotta. They had traded away Josh Sanderson and Anthony Cosmo for youthful legs and drafts picks. Two rookie goalies, Tyler Carlson and Evan Kirk were showing they were [...]

This week we head to the city of brotherly love where that moniker is really being put to the test.  While the obvious are the brothers Dawson, Dan and Paul, who are reunited after playing together in Boston but it’s often wise to look a little deeper. Any lacrosse player will tell you, actually most [...]

The National Lacrosse League released a statement that the 5 suspended players, Tyler Burton, Jordan Hall, Travis Hill, Cody Jamieson and Sid Smith have been reinstated, effective immediately. In the statement, the NLL said the league “has lifted the respective suspensions pending the disposition of the criminal charges filed against them in Minnesota arising out [...]

Dan Dawson knows he needs to shoot more, but he also needs to shoot smarter, he says. (Photo: Larry Palumbo) R we legit? A good question posed in a thread by a Wings fan in their team forum on the Wingszone.com message board following the team’s impressive road win over Toronto Saturday. Not only did Philly [...]

Does the big crowd in Buffalo intimidate visiting teams or just get them more pumped? You hear a lot about the Home Field Advantage.  In the NFL this advantage generally translates to between 2-3 points a game with research suggesting that number may be less at the beginning of the season and greater in the last [...]

The Stealth are 39-17 since Chris Hall took over as coach 10 games into the 2009 season. (Photo: Larry Palumbo) Washington Stealth coach Chris Hall is set to return to the team’s bench for Friday’s home game against the Minnesota Swarm. The coach has been on leave since training camp as he goes through treatment for [...]

Brandon Noble (wearing Joel Weber's jersey because he was signed too late to get his own) makes a save of the year candidate, plucking the ball off the goal line. (Photo: Tim Prothero) It’s a team game. It’s not about the name on the back of the jersey, it’s about the name on the front. The [...]

Bob Watson, the goalie for all 6 of Toronto's NLL titles, will have his number retired on Friday. (Photo: Larry Palumbo) The No. 29 will hang high and hang forever, saluting the National Lacrosse League career of Bob Watson. The Toronto Rock plan to honor their retired goalie on Saturday night before they play East Division [...]

Ohio State upset the Number 5 Denver Pioneers 10-9, one of many upsets in college lacrosse last weekend. (Photo: Scott McCall) While we at IL Indoor are always on the lookout for young Americans ready to make their name in the indoor game, our colleagues at Inside Lacrosse have the opposite perspective: they tend to notice [...]

Dan Dawson had all the right moves Saturday as the Wings dumped the Rock 14-8. (Photo: Larry Palumbo) The Mammoth remained perfect, the Wings took sole possession of first place in the East, the Roughnecks rambled in the Battle of Alberta and Rochester overcame adversity by playing like a team in Week 7 action in the [...]

Philadelphia forward Kevin Crowley got his offensive game back on track vs. Toronto. (Photo: Larry Palumbo) If you were at the Xcel Energy Center on Saturday night, you saw more than a 12-7 victory for the Colorado Mammoth over the Minnesota Swarm. You saw a rookie showcase for the National Lacrosse League. Of the 34 players [...]

John Grant Jr. is a big reason the Mammoth are scoring 4.4 more goals per game this year. (Photo: Larry Palumbo) With the new rules designed to speed up play, along with smaller goalie pads and shorter defenders sticks, scoring was expected to rise in the National Lacrosse League in 2012. Through 27 games that’s exactly [...]

The National Lacrosse League has announced the team captains and assistant captains for the 2012 All-Star Game. The 2012 NLL All-Star Game takes place at First Niagara Center in Buffalo on Saturday, February 25 at 7 p.m. (EST). John Tavares of the Buffalo Bandits and John Grant Jr. of the Colorado Mammoth have been named [...]

Joe Walters was the toast of his hometown Rochester Knighthawks, posting one of the best games of his NLL career and scoring what proved to be the winning goal in Saturday’s 15-12 victory over the Washington Stealth. “You can replace the guys that we had missing in the lineup, but it was time for guys [...]

Craig Point returned to the Rochester lineup and put up some big Money Baller points in Saturday's win. (Photo: Ward Laforme Jr.) It was a busy week off the floor in the National Lacrosse League, with a few big-name players traded and an ugly incident in Minnesota that seemed to get the league as much negative [...]

I have followed the NLL closely since 1998 and I don’t I remember a more eventful week – off the floor – than this past one. What happened? Well it started last Sunday night with the “food fight” incident following the Rochester Minnesota game that resulted in injuries, arrests and suspensions of 5 Knighthawk [...]

Athan Iannucci played his first game with Washington and is excited for the potential. (Photo: Ward Laforme Jr.) Athan Iannucci admits it was a slow start on Saturday. Playing in his first National Lacrosse League game since last season, the high-scoring forward was in the lineup for the Washington Stealth since being traded to the team [...]

Kaleb Toth helped secure a facility deal that will be dedicated to lacrosse in Calgary. (Photo: Cory Shannon) Kaleb Toth of the Calgary Roughnecks was part of a group that helped secure a parcel of land in Calgary that will be the future home of a proposed lacrosse facility. With plans for at least 4 indoor [...]

Jeff Powless has been excellent since the Ohsweken Demons acquired him. (Photo: Tim Prothero: VintageLax) The Ohsweken Demons won their third straight game, downing the Oshawa Machine 13-7 in Canadian Lacrosse League action Saturday night at Oshawa’s General Motors Centre. The winning streak started when the Demons acquired Marty Hill, who led all scorers with 4 [...]

Brodie Merrill helped lead the Wings to a 14-8 win in Toronto last night. (Photo: Graig Abel) There are lots of siblings competing in the National Lacrosse League and many were front and centre Saturday night. The Dawsons and little brother Brodie beat Patrick Merrill and the Toronto Rock 14-8 as Philadelphia took sole possession of [...]