Viper Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Here's the latest on the NALL fiasco, including the logo of their newest team (which is already on the league's schedule but will not officially join NALL for another year), the Boston Rockhoppers.Meanwhile the NLL season began in earnest this past weekend. Now every team except Edmonton has played at least one game. Surprisingly, the defending champs are 0-2 out of the gate, while, not quite as surprisingly, Calgary is establishing itself as the team to beat.Last but definitely not least, the Knighthawks vs. Wings contest ended with a huge brawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbean24 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Here's the latest on the NALL fiasco, including the logo of their newest team (which is already on the league's schedule but will not officially join NALL for another year), the Boston Rockhoppers.Meanwhile the NLL season began in earnest this past weekend. Now every team except Edmonton has played at least one game. Surprisingly, the defending champs are 0-2 out of the gate, while, not quite as surprisingly, Calgary is establishing itself as the team to beat.Last but definitely not least, the Knighthawks vs. Wings contest ended with a huge brawl. That looked more like bar fights. It really was sad to watch that St. Paul Pioneers(GHA) Minnesota Skeeters(CL) Minnesota Lake Monsters(UFL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Well, at least we know what "Butterbean" is doing nowadays. On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbean24 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Well, at least we know what "Butterbean" is doing nowadays.Why do you always attack me? St. Paul Pioneers(GHA) Minnesota Skeeters(CL) Minnesota Lake Monsters(UFL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Apparently interleague play isn't just for MLB anymore. From MILA's Web site:The Midwest Indoor Lacrosse Association and the North American Lacrosse League will clash in an [interleague] battle, as the Chicago Outlaws will travel to Louisville to take on the Kentucky Stickhorses, on Sunday February 12th, at 2pm. The teams will take to the turf at Freedom Hall in Lousiville.The MILA is preparing for it's second season as a semi pro indoor lacrosse league, while the NALL is beginning it's inaugural season on professional indoor lacrosse.The MILA and the Chicago Outlaws saw this exhibition game as an opportunity to showcase the increasing quality of play in the league, as well as give players an opportunity to play against professional players in a professional setting.MILA President and Commissioner Chip Rossetti loves the idea of this exhibition. "We are always looking for new ways to showcase the MILA, as well as help grow the game", Rossetti said. "The NALL is also attempting to grow the game of indoor lacrosse and we felt this was a great way to work together."More information about the game will be released soon, along with ticket information.Also, I noticed that the St. Louis Pride and Nebraska Fighting Perkins logos and team listings have disappeared from the MILA site. Maybe MILA's come to its senses and realized that tripling its membership from one season to the next might be pushing it. Instead they have "only" doubled it, from four (Milwaukee, Chicago, Columbus, Grand Rapids) to eight (adding Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumbler Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Aren't some of these areas already catered for in other LAX leagues? RICHMOND TIGERS Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Aren't some of these areas already catered for in other LAX leagues?Not at present, but Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, Pittsburgh (all MILA) and Boston (NALL) all used to have NLL franchises at some point or other in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumbler Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I can't relog into the NLL Fantasy team site keeps closing me out? RICHMOND TIGERS Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 Starting with tomorrow night's Knighthawks vs. Rock tilt, several NLL games will be carried online by ESPN3.Back to the NALL, could it be the nuttiest league in America? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 It's been a crazy opening month in the NLL. As January draws to a close, the Colorado Mammoth are 4-0 and the Washington Stealth are 0-3. But the biggest bombshell of the year so far has to be this past Saturday's Buffalo Bandits vs. Minnesota Swarm tilt in St. Paul, MN. Never having beaten the Bandits at home in franchise history, and picked by many to finish dead last in the league after rebuilding their squad in the offseason, the Swarm crushed Buffalo 17-5 in the first three quarters en route to a 19-11 win, which also saw a bench-clearing brawl at halftime and an incredible full-rink-length goal by Minnesota's Andrew Suitor into an empty Buffalo net as the first quarter ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted February 10, 2012 Author Share Posted February 10, 2012 MILA: Bye-bye Nebraska Fighting Perkins, hello Indy Swagger.NLL: Stealth finally win a game, Bandits have now dropped three straight, Rock are finally back on track, and Mammoth are still unbeaten at 5-0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Big trade in the NLL West, as Edmonton sends single-season scoring record holder Athan Iannucci westward to the Stealth.Meanwhile the Buffalo Bandits are reeling with four straight losses while the Minnesota Swarm won both their games over the weekend, and now stand at 3-2. The first win, Friday night over Edmonton was the second-longest OT game in league history (over 12 extra minutes before Ryan Benesch finally notched the game-winner), and then on Sunday afternoon their first-round-drafted goalie Evan Kirk stopped an amazing 46 of 52 shots in his professional debut, as the Swarm beat the Knighthawks 9-6.After the game in St. Paul, a few Rochester players got hauled off to a different kind of penalty box after taking out their frustrations on some TGI Friday's patrons in nearby Bloomington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbean24 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Heard about that on the news, didn't know it was Rochester players until now. Wow, that's weird. St. Paul Pioneers(GHA) Minnesota Skeeters(CL) Minnesota Lake Monsters(UFL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Heard about that on the news, didn't know it was Rochester players until now. Wow, that's weird.Even weirder is that two of the players arrested (Jordan Hall and Cody Jamieson) are former #1 overall NLL draft picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jer15 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Heard about that on the news, didn't know it was Rochester players until now. Wow, that's weird.Even weirder is that two of the players arrested (Jordan Hall and Cody Jamieson) are former #1 overall NLL draft picks.Actually, knowing Cody Jamieson's reputation, it's actually not all that surprising. GTA United(USA) 2015 + 2016 USA Champions/Toronto Maroons (ULL)2014, 2015 + 2022 Gait Cup Champions/Toronto Northmen (TNFF) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 To absolutely no one's surprise, the NLL has suspended all five players indefinitely.The Hawks are 2-4 as it is; losing almost 1/4 of their roster including their biggest offensive stud for anything longer than a couple of weeks could take them perilously close to "write off the season" territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashcarson15 Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 MILA: Bye-bye Nebraska Fighting Perkins, hello Indy Swagger.Where the do they think they're gonna play...? I'd say the Pepsi Coliseum, but that's being closed and renovated following the State Fair Stage Collapse. The USHL's Ice are having trouble finding a new home, and there's no way they're gonna play at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted February 20, 2012 Author Share Posted February 20, 2012 Amazingly, despite the five suspensions, Rochester managed to pull off a come-from-behind home win over Washington, in Iannucci's Stealth debut.Buffalo has acquired holdout goalie Anthony Cosmo from the Swarm (who, on the same day and to surprisingly little notice, also released longtime starting goalie and 2011 All-Star starter Nick Patterson). The Bandits had to pay through the nose with two first-round draft picks to get Cosmo, but he should shore up their inconsistent and weak netminding after four straight losses.Colorado stays unbeaten with a win in Minnesota, and even more importantly, their players manage to stay out of trouble afterward, unlike the Knighthawks last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 MILA has added two more expansion teams for 2012, the Minnesota Jaxx (MILA's first foray into active NLL territory) and Madison Capitals. Their 2012 alignment is shaping up thusly:East: Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Southern Ohio (Cincinnati/Dayton)Central: Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, 4th team TBD (possibly Evansville, IN or a second Chicago team)West: Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, MinnesotaMeanwhile back in the NLL, Minnesota's "other" team is on a bit of a tear, coming off huge back-to-back road wins in Washington and Calgary. They are now 5-3 with half the season completed, in a tie with Calgary for 2nd in the West, two games behind Colorado.The biggest disappointments this year have been Washington and Buffalo, both with just 2 wins apiece despite having tons of talent. Buffalo did finally pull the trigger on a deal to bring goalie Anthony Cosmo in from the Swarm, but he didn't have a particularly strong debut for the Bandits in last week's home loss to the Mammoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbean24 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Where are the Jaxx going to play? St. Paul Pioneers(GHA) Minnesota Skeeters(CL) Minnesota Lake Monsters(UFL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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