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Rock Slide Past the Warriors & Move Into First in the North 2/16/2020

February 16, 2020

Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Toronto Rock The Toronto Rock (6-2) hosted the Vancouver Warriors (4-6) Saturday night in an all Canadian Alterna Cup match up in front of 8,401 fans on this Family Day long weekend in Ontario. The win also bolstered Toronto’s position in the standings as well given the outcome of the other two games last night. With this win,…

Rock Shuts the Door on the Bandits 2/9/2020

February 9, 2020

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Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Toronto Rock On Sunday February 9, the Buffalo Bandits (6-2) visited the Toronto Rock (5-2) at the Scotiabank Arena on Sunday afternoon after defeating the Vancouver Warriors on Friday night in Vancouver. The Rock were looking to take down their second North Division foe in as many weeks and climb back into the conversation as the Number One…

The Rock Have Toppled the Mighty Thunderbirds 1/31/2020

February 1, 2020

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Shawn Palmer – Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Halifax Thunderbirds The Toronto Rock (4-2) hosted the once undefeated Halifax Thunderbirds (6-1) for the first time ever at the Scotiabank Arena on Friday night. The Rock was without three of their top offensive powerhouses, Tom Schreiber; Adam Jones; and Dan Craig. Over the first three quarters the Rock would dominate on both ends of the floor…

Wings Strong Second Half Propels Them Past the Riptide 1/24/2020

January 24, 2020

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Shawn Palmer, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: New York Riptide The Philadelphia Wings hosted the New York Riptide Friday January 24 for the second meeting of the teams played this year. The Wings won the first contest 15-12 and New York was hoping to even the season series and go on a win streak after their first NLL victory last week against Georgia. The Wings outscored…

Rock End Three Win Game Streak on the Road in Buffalo 1/18/2020

January 18, 2020

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Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Sara Schmidle The Toronto Rock (3-2) drove down the QEW highway to visit the Buffalo Bandits (3-1) at the KeyBank Center in front of 12, 026 Bandits fans. Unfortunately, they had to do it without two of their top offensive players as Tom Schreiber and Adam Jones were both out with upper body injuries. They started fast and…

Toronto Wins Nail-biter at Home Over Rochester 1/11/2020

January 11, 2020

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Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Ryan McCullough The Rochester Knighthawks (0-4) visited the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto for game two of a back-to-back contest after dropping the first game to the Rock two weeks ago in Rochester. The 8,865 Rock fans were on the edge of their seats, but in the end saw their team win their third in a row. The Toronto…

Seals End 2019 & Decade With a Bang in OT Over the Warriors 12/29/19

December 29, 2019

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Shawn Palmer, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: National League Lacrosse The San Diego Seals (1-3) visited the Vancouver Warriors (1-2) at Rogers Arena on Sunday December 29, 2019 for the final game of the decade and of 2019 hoping to come away with their first win of the season after dropping a game on Friday night to the Calgary Roughnecks. Vancouver was trying to continue their…

Rose Shuts the Door on San Diego 12/14/19

December 15, 2019

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Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome © Featured Image Photo Credit: Toronto Rock The Toronto Rock (1-1) travelled to San Diego to play the Seals (0-2) for the first time ever at the Pechanga Arena on Saturday night December 14. It was also the first time that Dan Dawson played against the Seals after playing with them in 2018. Both teams came into the game with one loss:…

Rock Drop Their Home Opener to the Black Wolves 12/8/19

December 8, 2019

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Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Courtesy of Toronto Rock The much anticipated opening game of the 2019/20 season for the Toronto Rock (0-1) and New England Black Wolves (1-0) took place on Saturday night December 7 at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto in front of 7,158 fans. There were a lot of connections between players and coaches on these two teams which made the game…

Toronto Takes Aaron Forster from NJIT 15th Overall in 2019 Entry Draft 9/21/19

September 20, 2019

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Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© On September 17, the Toronto Rock made their first selection in the 2019 NLL draft near the end of the first round at number 15 overall. They used this pick to select transition player Aaron Forster from NJIT. Aaron is known to be able to play both ends of the floor as he led his Jr. A Toronto Beaches team with 29…

Justin and Friends Playoff Picks – NLL Finals, 5/18/2019

May 18, 2019

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A lot of the team here thought Toronto was coming out of the East. Buffalo proved them wrong! In the West, most of us expected Calgary to move on and they did! This should be an excellent NLL Finals. Calgary and Buffalo are both very physical on defense and have players that can create with little space on offense. Let’s see what we think for Game 1! Shawn Palmer :…

Rock Falls to the Bandits in Eastern Division Finals 5/11/19

May 11, 2019

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Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Sara Schmidle The Toronto Rock (1-1) visited the Buffalo Bandits (2-0) in the Eastern Division Finals on Saturday night and in a game of runs the Bandits would come out victorious by the score of 12 – 8 in front of 11,635 happy Bandit fans and will head to the NLL Finals to face the Western Division Champions…

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