Justin Ivey, Co-Editor and NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© The Buffalo Bandits are headed to the NLL Finals for the first time since 2019. Game 1 highlighted the offense, and as many expected, Game 2 was a defensive battle. Matt Vinc (42 SV) set a new Bandits record with his fifth post season victory for the franchise while Josh Byrne (2G, 6A) and Dhane Smith (2G, 4A) mustered up just…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image courtesy of Buffalo Bandits Media Team. The Toronto Rock drove down Highway 401 to meet the Buffalo Bandits in Game One of the Eastern Conference Final which placed two of the top regular season teams in the NLL against each other. It was a game of runs that went back and forth throughout and ended with the Buffalo Bandits coming…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Halifax Thunderbirds (11-8) travelled to Hamilton, Ontario to play the Toronto Rock (14-5) in the Eastern Division Quarter Finals playoff game. The game was a “must win” for both teams with the victor heading to Round Two of the 2021-22 Playoffs and the loser going home. It was a tale of two halves as the…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Micheline V. The Toronto Rock (11-5) made the trip to Rochester for a game against the Knighthawks (3-12) on a night when Dan Dawson would enter the record books for the second game in a row. The last game he played (he missed both games last weekend) Dan passed John Tavares for the most games played in the…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Ryan McCullough On Saturday April 2, 2022, the Toronto Rock (10-5) on a quick turnaround after beating the Georgia Swarm last night played the San Diego Seals (9-4) who had been waiting in Toronto for the game. The Rock started off slow as they were trying to get their legs under them and were short a couple of…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Kyle Hess On Friday April 2, 2022 the Toronto Rock (9-5) looked to avenge their loss against the Georgia Swarm (8-7) last week in the second half of their home and home series. The Rock would be without Dan Dawson and the Swarm welcomed back Lyle Thompson to help bolster their offense. After a slow start where the…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender Prior to the game the Toronto Rock (8-5) celebrated Dan Dawson, who broke the All-time games played record in the NLL as he was playing his 307th career game. He surpassed the legend John Tavares for the record and also tied Tavares’ All-time assist record at 934 during the game. Saturday’s game was the first one…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Jordan Leigh Photography Prior to the game on March 12, the Toronto Rock (8-4) announced that Dan Dawson would not be playing on Saturday night which meant that he would need to wait at least one more game to take over top spot in games played in the NLL. He is also one assist shy of taking over…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (7-4) completed their portion of the home and home games against the New York Riptide (2-8) after last week’s loss. This was the first home game in Hamilton with fans in the stands since December. The 7,920 people in the building were cheering loud right from the start of the game and it…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Spencer Kagan The Toronto Rock travelled to Uniondale, NY on Saturday February 26, 2022 to play the New York Riptide for the first time ever and each team had players who were looking to reach milestones. Toronto’s goalie Nick Rose needed five saves to move into 10th place overall and New York’s Callum Crawford needed one point to…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: K. Richelle The Toronto Rock (6-3) visited the Albany Firewolves (4-6) for their second and final meeting of the season after the Rock won the first game of the season by one goal over the FireWolves. Toronto was hoping to take advantage of a tired team as Albany played on Friday night in Buffalo and dropped a 13…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The undefeated Buffalo Bandits (6-1) visited the Toronto Rock (5-3) in Hamilton for an early evening game on Saturday February 12, 2022. This should be the last game in Toronto without fans as the restrictions should be completely lifted when their next home game happens in March. Buffalo was trying to extend their winning streak to…