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BUF at SD - Sat. 10pm ET on ESPNews Schedule

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WK
1
Fri, Dec 2
FINAL
Philadelphia
8
Halifax
18
Sat, Dec 3
FINAL
Vancouver
8
Toronto
19
Sat, Dec 3
FINAL
San Diego
15
New York
14
Sat, Dec 3
FINAL
Albany
11
Buffalo
10
Sat, Dec 3
FINAL
Rochester
16
Georgia
11
Sat, Dec 3
FINAL
Colorado
6
Saskatchewan
18
WK
2
Fri, Dec 9
FINAL
Las Vegas
11
Panther City
13
Fri, Dec 9
FINAL/OT
Saskatchewan
12
San Diego
13
Sat, Dec 10
FINAL
Toronto
7
Rochester
11
Sat, Dec 10
FINAL
Vancouver
9
Calgary
11
WK
3
Fri, Dec 16
FINAL
Calgary
14
Vancouver
5
Fri, Dec 16
FINAL
Panther City
9
Las Vegas
3
Sat, Dec 17
FINAL
Buffalo
11
Toronto
8
Sat, Dec 17
FINAL
Rochester
14
Albany
13
Sat, Dec 17
FINAL
Philadelphia
13
Georgia
12
Sat, Dec 17
FINAL
Halifax
20
New York
11
Sat, Dec 17
FINAL
Colorado
12
Panther City
9
WK
5
Fri, Dec 30
FINAL
Halifax
13
Buffalo
18
Fri, Dec 30
FINAL
San Diego
17
Calgary
14
Sat, Dec 31
FINAL
Panther City
9
Saskatchewan
11
WK
6
Fri, Jan 6
FINAL
Philadelphia
14
Las Vegas
9
Sat, Jan 7
FINAL
Panther City
9
Rochester
17
Sat, Jan 7
FINAL
Halifax
14
Albany
11
Sat, Jan 7
FINAL
Buffalo
18
Georgia
9
Sat, Jan 7
FINAL
Toronto
15
New York
7
Sat, Jan 7
FINAL
Calgary
8
Colorado
9
Sat, Jan 7
FINAL
Vancouver
11
San Diego
16
WK
7
Fri, Jan 13
FINAL/OT
Albany
11
Halifax
10
Fri, Jan 13
FINAL/OT
Saskatchewan
10
Colorado
11
Sat, Jan 14
FINAL
Halifax
8
Toronto
17
Sat, Jan 14
FINAL
Panther City
12
Philadelphia
10
Sat, Jan 14
FINAL
Georgia
9
Buffalo
11
Sat, Jan 14
FINAL
San Diego
10
Calgary
14
Sat, Jan 14
FINAL
Las Vegas
16
Vancouver
19
Sun, Jan 15
FINAL
Rochester
11
New York
8
WK
8
Fri, Jan 20
FINAL
Buffalo
12
Rochester
15
Fri, Jan 20
FINAL
Vancouver
14
Las Vegas
15
Sat, Jan 21
FINAL
Toronto
14
Philadelphia
5
Sat, Jan 21
FINAL
New York
16
Albany
10
WK
9
Fri, Jan 27
FINAL
Rochester
7
Halifax
17
Fri, Jan 27
FINAL
Buffalo
13
Philadelphia
9
Sat, Jan 28
FINAL
Buffalo
16
New York
10
Sat, Jan 28
FINAL
Las Vegas
10
Saskatchewan
15
Sat, Jan 28
FINAL/OT
Toronto
11
Calgary
10
Sat, Jan 28
FINAL
San Diego
13
Colorado
9
Sat, Jan 28
FINAL
Panther City
20
Vancouver
7
WK
10
Fri, Feb 3
FINAL
Georgia
10
Colorado
13
Sat, Feb 4
FINAL/OT
Calgary
12
Halifax
11
Sat, Feb 4
FINAL
New York
14
Toronto
22
Sat, Feb 4
FINAL
Albany
5
Philadelphia
13
Sat, Feb 4
FINAL
Rochester
10
Buffalo
13
Sat, Feb 4
FINAL
Panther City
10
San Diego
12
Sat, Feb 4
FINAL
Saskatchewan
14
Vancouver
8
Sat, Feb 4
FINAL
Colorado
8
Las Vegas
13
WK
11
Fri, Feb 10
FINAL
Toronto
11
Georgia
10
Fri, Feb 10
FINAL
Saskatchewan
6
Calgary
13
Sat, Feb 11
FINAL
Halifax
14
Rochester
16
Sat, Feb 11
FINAL
Albany
12
New York
14
Sat, Feb 11
FINAL
Vancouver
13
Panther City
14
Sat, Feb 11
FINAL
Colorado
9
Calgary
13
WK
12
Fri, Feb 17
FINAL
Calgary
14
Vancouver
9
Fri, Feb 17
FINAL
Saskatchewan
16
San Diego
11
Sat, Feb 18
FINAL
Georgia
7
Toronto
16
Sat, Feb 18
FINAL
Las Vegas
12
Albany
10
Sat, Feb 18
FINAL/OT
Philadelphia
12
Buffalo
13
Sat, Feb 18
FINAL
Colorado
7
Panther City
13
Sun, Feb 19
FINAL
New York
12
Halifax
13
WK
13
Fri, Feb 24
FINAL
Panther City
12
Colorado
14
Fri, Feb 24
FINAL
Calgary
9
Las Vegas
11
Sat, Feb 25
FINAL/OT
New York
10
Rochester
11
Sat, Feb 25
FINAL
Albany
4
Georgia
20
Sat, Feb 25
FINAL
Vancouver
16
Saskatchewan
12
WK
14
Fri, Mar 3
FINAL
Buffalo
10
Halifax
9
Sat, Mar 4
FINAL
New York
12
Philadelphia
19
Sat, Mar 4
FINAL
Las Vegas
12
San Diego
15
Sat, Mar 4
FINAL
Rochester
8
Toronto
9
Sat, Mar 4
FINAL/OT
Georgia
9
Albany
8
Sat, Mar 4
FINAL
Saskatchewan
10
Panther City
16
Mon, Mar 6
FINAL
Toronto
10
Philadelphia
11
WK
15
Fri, Mar 10
FINAL/OT
Halifax
9
Buffalo
10
Fri, Mar 10
FINAL
Calgary
16
Colorado
10
Sat, Mar 11
FINAL
Albany
6
Toronto
12
Sat, Mar 11
FINAL
Philadelphia
10
New York
13
Sat, Mar 11
FINAL
San Diego
12
Saskatchewan
11
Sat, Mar 11
FINAL
Vancouver
14
Las Vegas
5
Sun, Mar 12
FINAL
Rochester
19
Georgia
18
WK
16
Fri, Mar 17
FINAL
Saskatchewan
6
Calgary
11
Fri, Mar 17
FINAL
San Diego
16
Vancouver
9
Sat, Mar 18
FINAL
Georgia
13
Philadelphia
12
Sat, Mar 18
FINAL
Toronto
12
Halifax
14
Sat, Mar 18
FINAL
Albany
10
New York
13
Sat, Mar 18
FINAL
Colorado
13
Buffalo
8
Sat, Mar 18
FINAL
Las Vegas
8
Panther City
11
Sun, Mar 19
FINAL/OT
Philadelphia
9
Rochester
8
WK
17
Fri, Mar 24
FINAL
San Diego
17
Panther City
9
Sat, Mar 25
FINAL
Toronto
11
Albany
9
Sat, Mar 25
FINAL
Halifax
14
Philadelphia
10
Sat, Mar 25
FINAL
Georgia
13
New York
8
Sat, Mar 25
FINAL
Calgary
14
Saskatchewan
6
Sat, Mar 25
FINAL/OT
Buffalo
7
San Diego
6
Sat, Mar 25
FINAL
Colorado
12
Vancouver
14
Sat, Mar 25
FINAL
Rochester
7
Las Vegas
12
WK
18
Fri, Mar 31
19:00:00
New York
Georgia
Fri, Mar 31
21:00:00
Las Vegas
Colorado
Fri, Mar 31
22:00:00
Calgary
San Diego
Sat, Apr 1
19:00:00
Buffalo
Toronto
Sat, Apr 1
20:00:00
Albany
Panther City
Sat, Apr 1
21:30:00
Vancouver
Saskatchewan
Sun, Apr 2
13:00:00
Georgia
Halifax
Sun, Apr 2
18:00:00
Rochester
Philadelphia
WK
19
Sat, Apr 8
19:00:00
Albany
Rochester
Sat, Apr 8
19:00:00
Saskatchewan
Georgia
Sat, Apr 8
21:00:00
Panther City
Calgary
Sat, Apr 8
21:00:00
Vancouver
Colorado
Sat, Apr 8
22:30:00
San Diego
Las Vegas
WK
20
Fri, Apr 14
21:00:00
Las Vegas
Calgary
Fri, Apr 14
21:00:00
San Diego
Colorado
Sat, Apr 15
19:00:00
Philadelphia
Toronto
Sat, Apr 15
19:00:00
Georgia
Albany
Sat, Apr 15
19:30:00
New York
Buffalo
Sat, Apr 15
21:30:00
Halifax
Saskatchewan
Sat, Apr 15
22:00:00
Panther City
Vancouver
WK
21
Fri, Apr 21
20:30:00
Calgary
Panther City
Sat, Apr 22
18:00:00
New York
Halifax
Sat, Apr 22
19:00:00
Georgia
Rochester
Sat, Apr 22
20:00:00
Toronto
Buffalo
Sat, Apr 22
21:30:00
Colorado
Saskatchewan
Sat, Apr 22
22:00:00
Las Vegas
San Diego
Sun, Apr 23
15:00:00
Philadelphia
Albany
WK
22
Sat, Apr 29
19:00:00
Philadelphia
Rochester
Sat, Apr 29
19:00:00
Buffalo
Albany
Sat, Apr 29
19:00:00
Halifax
Georgia
Sat, Apr 29
22:00:00
Colorado
San Diego
Sat, Apr 29
22:00:00
New York
Vancouver
Sat, Apr 29
22:30:00
Saskatchewan
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Gloves Off: Cam Holding

The National Lacrosse League is home to the best box lacrosse players in the world. They are at the top of their game, put on stellar athletic performances and have diehard, competitive attitudes. 

With lacrosse action suspended until the pandemic has subsided, NLL players have been missing the game fiercely. Thankfully, they have stayed busy in their day-to-day lives. They’ve spent more time with friends and family, honed different types of skills, and remained grounded during this tumultuous moment in history. 

Gloves Off is a 13-installment series that peels back the layers of our athletes to uncover more about their lifestyle and personal lives, learning about their hobbies, passions and more, with the goal of making them inherently more relatable to their fans. 


Cam Holding is still a pretty young guy, just 31, so it was definitely unsettling when he contemplated retirement four years ago. The defenseman, playing for the Colorado Mammoth at the time, suffered a devastating ACL tear while trying out for Team Canada.

ACL tears can take up to a year to heal properly.

“At the time I was coaching at Michigan State, and I kind of decided I was done playing lacrosse,” Holding says. “I was going to focus on my coaching career. It was my first serious injury and it was hard to contemplate retirement so early.”

He told Colorado not to bother protecting him in the upcoming expansion draft, because he truly believed he was finished as a player.

But then Patrick Merrill called.

“He explained what Seals’ owner Joe Tsai was building in San Diego, and how passionate he is about lacrosse and all about the San Diego Seals brand. I eat, sleep and breathe lacrosse and that was something I was incredibly excited about, to be part of a franchise launch and build box lacrosse in a market where it’s not well known. All those things enticed me to ‘dive in’ with this organization.”

The Seals took him with their fourth pick in the expansion draft.

Holding flew back and forth to San Diego the first season until the Seals asked to bring him into the front office staff in a business development role. He had recently gotten married to his wife Paige, and built a house with her in her home state of Michigan. Holding says Paige has been very patient with him, and adapted well to the move and now loves San Diego, where she works as a sonographer.

“I couldn’t pass up the opportunity,” he says. “It really helped reignite my love for lacrosse.”

Part of Holding’s business role is assisting with innovative ideas to market the team, a process made easy because of Tsai’s enthusiasm for both the city and the sport.

“Joe is all about the cool factor. He’s so good for the sport of lacrosse,” Holding praises.

One of Holding’s main projects was the unfortunately cancelled game on the runway of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The base was used for quarantining passengers coming in from China at the start of the pandemic.

“We were constantly adjusting to the safety protocols so we could still play the game because we had put so much into it, so it was a real let down having to cancel. It would have been the coolest game ever.”

San Diego has a large military presence and paying tribute to that service is always in the back of Holding’s mind, so he’s hopeful the idea for the game can be resurrected at some point.

In February 2020, the Seals played a game in Las Vegas, the next destination for NLL expansion. Holding’s sure the new Las Vegas team will become fast rivals of the Seals. He and teammate Wes Berg headed to Vegas a week before the game to help coach local youth programs and introduce box lacrosse.

The pair are also coaching together in the San Diego community with the Seals’ junior program.

“Lacrosse is the only thing I can think about,” Holding says, having played the sport since he was three-years-old. “As much as I love coaching the kids, they’re also helping to keep our coaching staff sane because it gives us box lacrosse.”

They’re running four boys travel teams, two girls teams, and a collegiate team, in addition to a development league for kids who are new to the game. They’re hosting what Holding believes is the city’s first-ever box lacrosse tournament this summer.

The talent they coach is incredible, he says. No matter what age group he coaches, he’s impressed by the athleticism.

“It’s top notch, high-end lacrosse. This little pocket of field players have been getting pulled to DI schools the last few years. We want to develop those field players and give them the opportunity to play box lacrosse as well. Hopefully they’ll have an avenue to play PLL and NLL if that’s what they want to do. We have kids right now that could play in the NLL.”

There are lacrosse hotbeds in schools in the area, like Torrey Pines, Cathedral Catholic and The Bishop’s School, and it doesn’t hurt that with the mild climate kids can practice year-round.

“They’re hooked on box lacrosse out here,” he says.

Holding and Berg not only work together, but relax together, exploring everything that San Diego has to offer.

They recently became certified to scuba dive up to 120 feet. They’ve seen shipwrecks, leopard sharks, and large fish species, including black sea bass that can weigh up to 400 lbs. Berg has even seen a broadnose sevengill shark. Nearby Catalina Island has some of the best scuba diving in the US.

“It is so fun; it’s addicting,” he describes. “You’re in the water by six a.m.; you see some really cool stuff, then pop up around eight for brunch and talk about all the cool stuff you saw. It’s a fun way to start your day.

“We also went skydiving recently,” he chuckles. “It was a trip! We made the most of Covid and did a bunch of random outdoor activities.”

He and Paige have done skiing trips, at her request – Holding admits he usually tries to avoid skiing to avoid injuring himself – and hikes up Mammoth Mountain.

“This year I didn’t have an excuse. She does so much sitting and waiting for me with lacrosse that I wanted to do that for her.

“This city is one of the greatest places on earth,” Holding says. “It’s like a big city with a small city vibe. Everyone here is friendly and relaxed; the sun is always out. It’s a calmer, more relaxed L.A. You can ski, scuba dive, hike or you can go to the desert. You can do whatever you want on any given day.”

And what about surfing, one of the most popular activities in California?

“I tried it, I was terrible at it, I stopped.”

Right now some of the Seals, including Holding, Berg, Austin Staats, Tre Leclaire and Skylar Whinery are practicing together twice a week, to try and bring back a sense of normalcy before the next season begins.

“I miss the comradery and the ability to share the love of the game with your teammates,” Holding says. “I’m looking forward to being back in the team atmosphere and getting the sense of normalcy back. Even waking up for an early Friday morning flight, and then being pissed to have to wake up for an early Sunday morning flight home.”

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