Justin Ivey, Co-Editor Lacrosse is Awesome© On Saturday night the Toronto Rock (5-3) hosted the Oshawa Firewolves (2-8) at TD Coliseum in a battle of Canadian teams. When the two teams met in Week 1 of the season, Oshawa won the matchup by a lone goal in a low scoring affair. This matchup wasn’t much different. Toronto Captain Challen Rogers (3G, 2A) led the Rock with timely goals in crunch…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Kevin Sousa The Ottawa Black Bears (4-5) travelled to face the Toronto Rock (4-3) in the battle of Ontario. Ottawa was undefeated at 3 – 0 against both of the Ontario teams since coming into the league, and both teams were .500 on the season and looking to move up in the standings to stay within reach of…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Photo Credit: Nick Iwanyshyn The Toronto Rock (3-3) hosted the Georgia Swarm (4-3) on Saturday night January 24, 2026, in front of 6,774 faithful Rock fans. Both teams were coming into the contest looking for their fourth win of the season. Georgia won their last game against Calgary 19 – 9, while the Rock upset Rochester 10 – 9. The Swarm currently…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Jonathan Tenca On Saturday January 16, 2026, the Rochester Knighthawks (4-2) came into the game with a record of 4-1 after beating their rivals, the Buffalo Bandits last week to sit second in the standings. The Toronto Rock (3-2) also defeated their opponent, the San Diego Seals and were looking to get above .500 for the first time…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Photo Credit: Alexis Goeller The Toronto Rock (2-2) travelled west on Friday night January 9, 2026, to face the San Diego Seals (1-3). Both teams came into the game with identical 1 – 2 records and were looking to get a much-needed win to help them move up the standings. Toronto was coming into this game after not playing for two weeks…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Photo Courtesy of Las Vegas Desert Dogs Las Vegas (1-1) travelled north of the border to play the Rock (1-2) on Saturday night December 27, 2025, for their first ever meeting in Toronto in front of 6,725 Rock fans. The Desert Dogs had an eventful week as they had to match an offer sheet that the Colorado Mammoth had signed star player…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (1-1) hosted the Calgary Roughnecks (0-2) on Saturday night at the newly refurbished TD Coliseum in Hamilton. The Rock fans came out to see two of the top picks from this year’s draft and they did not disappoint, as CJ Kirst (1st pick overall) had 1 goal and 3 assists, while Owen Hiltz…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Photos Credit: B. Lee The Toronto Rock (0-1) made the one-hour drive to their new and closest rival’s arena, the Tribal Communities Centre, to start the 2025-26 NLL Season. This would be the inaugural game for the Oshawa FireWolves (1-0) who were formerly known as the Albany FireWolves until early fall when it was announced that the franchise was moving to Oshawa,…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (5-12) hosted the Halifax Thunderbirds (11-7) on Friday night April 18, 2025, for their last home game at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre, their temporary home for the 2024-25 season and will be back in Hamilton next season. Halifax was coming in having already clinched a play-off spot and were hoping for the…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (5-11) hosted the Vancouver Warriors (20-7) on Friday night April 15, 2025, and were looking to play spoiler, but they couldn’t overcome the deficit, and the Warriors would go onto victory giving them their first playoff appearance since 2017. Vancouver has not lost since Christian Del Bianco (34 saves) started playing for them…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Las Vegas Desert Dogs The Toronto Rock (5-10) visited the Las Vegas Desert Dogs (4-12) for a Sunday matinee game. Heading into the contest, the Rock still had a slight chance to make the playoffs by winning all of their remaining games and getting some help along the way, while the Dogs were playing for…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (5-9) hosted the Philadelphia Wings (5-9) on Saturday night March 22, 2025, for Marvel Super Hero night while donning their Captain America uniforms. Toronto got the news on Friday that they would be without their own Captain America as Tom Schreiber was placed on the IR with a lower body injury so their…