VANCOUVER COMES AWAY WITH OT THRILLER AGAINST THE ROUGHNECKS 2/20/16 By: Di Miller, NLL Correspondent On Saturday February 20, 2016, the Vancouver Stealth (3-4) would play host to their Western Division rivals, the Calgary Roughnecks (3-5) in front of 3,974 fans at the Langley Events Centre. The last times these two teams met was on January 30 in Calgary on their home turf, the Scotiabank Saddledome and they would come…
MAMMOTH STILL NUMBER ONE IN THE NLL AFTER DEFEATING CALGARY 2/13/16 By: Di Miller, Beat Writer Colorado Mammoth On Saturday February 13, 2016 the Colorado Mammoth (6-2) took on the Calgary Roughnecks (3-4) at the Scotiabank Saddledome in front of a crowd of 9,888 screaming Roughnecks fans. This would be the first of three meetings against the Roughnecks and the Mammoth were bound and determined to keep that Number One…
DIGBY AND HARNETT’S CLUTCH 4th QUARTER GOALS GUIDE ROUGHNECKS PAST SWARM 2/6/16 By: Tim Moony, NLL Correspondent & Editor The Georgia Swarm (3-3) and Calgary Roughnecks (3-3) looked to continue what used to be their divisional contention Saturday night in an NLL week 6 match-up at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary. Despite a second-quarter run from the Swarm, followed by a third quarter run from the Roughnecks, some late fourth…
By: Tim Moony, Editor & NLL Correspondent It was a battle of (1-2) teams Saturday night at the Scotia Bank Saddledome, in Calgary, as the Roughnecks hosted the Vancouver Stealth in a week five National Lacrosse League contest. Although Calgary would get out to a hot first quarter start, Vancouver would turn the tables with a second quarter run. After Calgary closely-won the third quarter, the Roughnecks outscored Vancouver by…
By: Justin Ivey, Beat Writer New England Black Wolves The New England Black Wolves (1-1) with their first home game at the Mohegan Sun Arena was not as they expected in front of a crowd of 5,589 fans. The game started as a sloppy affair for both teams. Quick possessions didn’t allow either group to reach any sort of rhythm. Wesley Berg (1 goal, 2 assists) put the first goal…
By: Frank Wesaw, Jr., Beat Writer Buffalo Bandits As the Buffalo bandits come rolling into the new 2016 NLL Regular Season with their first win over Calgary Roughnecks on January 9, 2016 at the First Niagara Center in front of a crowd of 14,286, the fans were not disappointed. The team had a different roster as #66 Alex “Kedoh” Hill had a two game suspension from the preseason game against…