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Fri, Dec 1
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Fri, Dec 1
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Fri, Dec 1
22:00:00
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Sat, Dec 2
19:00:00
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Sat, Dec 2
19:30:00
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2
Sat, Dec 9
19:00:00
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Sat, Dec 9
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Sat, Dec 9
19:30:00
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Sat, Dec 9
20:00:00
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Sat, Dec 9
22:00:00
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Sun, Dec 10
16:00:00
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3
Fri, Dec 15
22:00:00
Saskatchewan
Las Vegas
Sat, Dec 16
13:00:00
Albany
Philadelphia
Sat, Dec 16
19:30:00
Halifax
New York
Sat, Dec 16
19:30:00
San Diego
Buffalo
Sat, Dec 16
22:00:00
Georgia
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WK
4
Fri, Dec 22
20:00:00
Toronto
Panther City
Fri, Dec 22
21:00:00
Georgia
Colorado
Sat, Dec 23
19:00:00
Vancouver
Rochester
WK
5
Fri, Dec 29
18:30:00
Philadelphia
Halifax
Fri, Dec 29
19:30:00
Georgia
Buffalo
Fri, Dec 29
22:00:00
Rochester
San Diego
Sat, Dec 30
16:00:00
New York
Toronto
Sat, Dec 30
21:00:00
Las Vegas
Calgary
Sat, Dec 30
21:00:00
Vancouver
Colorado
Sun, Dec 31
20:00:00
Albany
Saskatchewan
WK
6
Sat, Jan 6
19:00:00
Halifax
Albany
Sat, Jan 6
19:30:00
Panther City
Georgia
Sat, Jan 6
19:30:00
Colorado
Buffalo
Sun, Jan 7
15:00:00
New York
Philadelphia
WK
7
Fri, Jan 12
18:30:00
Toronto
Halifax
Fri, Jan 12
22:00:00
San Diego
Las Vegas
Sat, Jan 13
19:00:00
Buffalo
Rochester
Sat, Jan 13
19:00:00
Saskatchewan
Philadelphia
Sat, Jan 13
19:30:00
Panther City
New York
Sat, Jan 13
19:30:00
Albany
Georgia
Sat, Jan 13
21:00:00
San Diego
Colorado
Sat, Jan 13
22:00:00
Calgary
Vancouver
WK
8
Fri, Jan 19
19:30:00
New York
Buffalo
Sat, Jan 20
19:00:00
Georgia
Toronto
Sat, Jan 20
19:00:00
San Diego
Albany
Sat, Jan 20
20:00:00
Vancouver
Saskatchewan
Sat, Jan 20
21:00:00
Calgary
Colorado
WK
9
Fri, Jan 26
22:00:00
Colorado
Vancouver
Sat, Jan 27
18:00:00
Rochester
Halifax
Sat, Jan 27
19:00:00
Buffalo
Toronto
Sat, Jan 27
19:30:00
Georgia
New York
Sat, Jan 27
19:30:00
San Diego
Philadelphia
Sat, Jan 27
22:00:00
Panther City
Las Vegas
WK
10
Fri, Feb 2
19:00:00
Halifax
Philadelphia
Fri, Feb 2
19:30:00
Vancouver
Georgia
Fri, Feb 2
21:00:00
New York
Calgary
Sat, Feb 3
19:00:00
Las Vegas
Albany
Sat, Feb 3
19:30:00
Rochester
Buffalo
Sat, Feb 3
20:00:00
Panther City
Saskatchewan
Sat, Feb 3
21:00:00
Toronto
Calgary
Sun, Feb 4
18:00:00
Colorado
San Diego
WK
11
Fri, Feb 9
18:30:00
Las Vegas
Halifax
Fri, Feb 9
20:00:00
Colorado
Panther City
Sat, Feb 10
19:00:00
Georgia
Rochester
Sat, Feb 10
19:00:00
Calgary
Toronto
Sat, Feb 10
19:30:00
San Diego
New York
Sat, Feb 10
22:00:00
Saskatchewan
Vancouver
WK
12
Fri, Feb 16
18:30:00
Buffalo
Halifax
Fri, Feb 16
22:00:00
Philadelphia
Las Vegas
Sat, Feb 17
19:00:00
Colorado
Albany
Sun, Feb 18
19:00:00
Halifax
Calgary
WK
13
Fri, Feb 23
21:00:00
New York
Colorado
Fri, Feb 23
22:00:00
Georgia
San Diego
Sat, Feb 24
19:00:00
Las Vegas
Rochester
Sat, Feb 24
19:00:00
Vancouver
Toronto
Sat, Feb 24
19:30:00
Albany
Buffalo
Sat, Feb 24
20:00:00
Halifax
Saskatchewan
Sat, Feb 24
21:00:00
Philadelphia
Calgary
Sun, Feb 25
16:00:00
Georgia
Panther City
WK
14
Fri, Mar 1
19:00:00
Georgia
Halifax
Fri, Mar 1
20:00:00
San Diego
Panther City
Fri, Mar 1
22:00:00
Toronto
Las Vegas
Fri, Mar 1
22:00:00
Buffalo
Vancouver
Sat, Mar 2
13:00:00
Calgary
Philadelphia
Sat, Mar 2
19:00:00
New York
Albany
Sat, Mar 2
21:00:00
Saskatchewan
Colorado
Sat, Mar 2
22:00:00
Toronto
San Diego
Sun, Mar 3
16:00:00
Rochester
Panther City
WK
15
Fri, Mar 8
19:00:00
Vancouver
Albany
Fri, Mar 8
19:30:00
Calgary
Georgia
Fri, Mar 8
19:30:00
Saskatchewan
Buffalo
Sat, Mar 9
17:00:00
Colorado
Toronto
Sat, Mar 9
19:00:00
Albany
Rochester
Sat, Mar 9
19:30:00
Las Vegas
New York
Sat, Mar 9
22:00:00
Halifax
San Diego
Sun, Mar 10
15:00:00
Panther City
Philadelphia
WK
16
Fri, Mar 15
18:30:00
Panther City
Halifax
Fri, Mar 15
21:00:00
San Diego
Calgary
Fri, Mar 15
22:00:00
Las Vegas
Vancouver
Sat, Mar 16
19:00:00
Rochester
Albany
Sat, Mar 16
19:00:00
Toronto
Buffalo
Sat, Mar 16
19:30:00
Philadelphia
Georgia
Sat, Mar 16
20:30:00
New York
Saskatchewan
WK
17
Fri, Mar 22
20:00:00
Buffalo
Panther City
Fri, Mar 22
21:00:00
Albany
Calgary
Sat, Mar 23
19:00:00
Halifax
Toronto
Sat, Mar 23
19:00:00
Vancouver
Philadelphia
Sat, Mar 23
19:30:00
Saskatchewan
New York
Sat, Mar 23
21:00:00
Rochester
Colorado
Sat, Mar 23
22:00:00
Las Vegas
San Diego
Sun, Mar 24
17:30:00
Saskatchewan
Georgia
WK
18
Sat, Mar 30
13:00:00
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Sat, Mar 30
19:00:00
Halifax
Rochester
Sat, Mar 30
19:30:00
Toronto
New York
Sat, Mar 30
22:00:00
Vancouver
Las Vegas
WK
19
Fri, Apr 5
21:00:00
Saskatchewan
Calgary
Fri, Apr 5
21:00:00
Buffalo
Colorado
Fri, Apr 5
22:00:00
Panther City
San Diego
Fri, Apr 5
22:00:00
Halifax
Vancouver
Sat, Apr 6
19:00:00
New York
Rochester
Sat, Apr 6
19:00:00
Toronto
Albany
Sat, Apr 6
19:30:00
Las Vegas
Georgia
Sat, Apr 6
20:00:00
Calgary
Saskatchewan
Sun, Apr 7
16:00:00
Philadelphia
Panther City
WK
20
Fri, Apr 12
21:00:00
Philadelphia
Colorado
Sat, Apr 13
19:00:00
Rochester
Toronto
Sat, Apr 13
19:30:00
Calgary
Buffalo
Sat, Apr 13
20:00:00
San Diego
Saskatchewan
Sat, Apr 13
22:00:00
Colorado
Las Vegas
Sat, Apr 13
22:00:00
New York
Vancouver
Sun, Apr 14
16:00:00
Albany
Panther City
WK
21
Fri, Apr 19
19:30:00
Rochester
Georgia
Fri, Apr 19
22:00:00
Vancouver
San Diego
Sat, Apr 20
18:00:00
Colorado
Halifax
Sat, Apr 20
19:30:00
Albany
New York
Sat, Apr 20
20:00:00
Toronto
Saskatchewan
Sat, Apr 20
21:00:00
Panther City
Calgary
Sat, Apr 20
22:00:00
Buffalo
Las Vegas
Sun, Apr 21
15:00:00
Philadelphia
Rochester
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Gloves Off: Jay Thorimbert

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. 


Like most of us, Jay Thorimbert’s regular routine was upset by COVID-19.

“You learn who has children in your office pretty quickly,” the New York Riptide defenseman says of his now standard Zoom meetings. His own children can often be heard chattering away in the background. He splits childcare duties with his wife Jodi, to support her work as a nurse on the front lines in St. Catharines, Ontario.

When schools are closed, Thorimbert helps his son Owen, 6, with online classes, although his three-year-old daughter Nora has been able to continue attending her nursery school throughout the pandemic.

Working from home helped his work-life balance, saving him from a 45-minute commute each way, giving him more time with the kids at breakfast and bedtime. It was a “mad scramble” pre-pandemic, but Thorimbert has enjoyed the opportunity to slow down and savour those moments with his kids.

Sometimes it’s a struggle to get Owen to commit to sitting in front of the computer for hours a day, though.

“You have your good weeks and your bad weeks where he’s into it all day and sometimes he just won’t do it.”

The time also allows Thorimbert more time to train for the upcoming season in the home gym he built.

He is one of the NLL’s most reliable faceoff men, consistently scoring very near or over .500, even getting as high as .659 in 2014-15 with the Buffalo Bandits where he spent six years of his 12-year career.

In 2021-22, he’ll suit up for the New York Riptide after being acquired in a trade with Rochester during the 2020 Entry Draft. He hasn’t played a game with the Riptide yet, but he’s going to be one of the most popular guys in the locker room.

Thorimbert is a financial analyst for Andrew Peller Ltd., one of the biggest wine companies in Canada. It’s based out of nearby Niagara-on-the-Lake, better known as Canada’s wine country. The company sells a litany of wines and beer throughout Canada and the United States including the Wayne Gretzky Estates brand.

“Nobody on New York has asked yet, but yeah, I’ve definitely had teammates try and hit me up for discounts before,” he chuckles.

Thorimbert’s first year in the NLL was 2008-09, right out of college. He’s been with Andrew Peller for even longer.

“It was my summer job in university,” he says. “I started cutting grass at the properties here in NOTL and once I graduated I started looking for something more in line with my degree, which was finance and economics at the University of Guelph.”

Thorimbert creates pricing for new products based on costs and potential profits and gets to see those products in all their stages of development.

“Basically, asking if the pricing makes sense with what we’re spending,” he explains. “Alcohol is interesting. Everything’s a problem you’re trying to solve. I love seeing a product succeed in the marketplace.”

He pauses, and adds “Gretzky’s got ties to the lacrosse world, right? We’ve got to get him in the NLL somehow.”

Thorimbert likes his role because it’s a family-owned business.

“Even though it’s a publicly traded company it very much has a family feel. My colleagues will ask how the team is doing; they want me to do well. It’s a pleasure to be there.

“You can get pretty good deals on wine and whisky, too,” he says, the cheeky grin obvious in his voice.

NLL teams become families, and he agrees that several important skills transfer between the two roles.

“Leadership, initiative and teamwork. In both scenarios you’re working as part of a team and working towards one goal. I’m more of a workhorse at both, rather than, say, a marketer who gets the praise for a catchy campaign or a player who scores the game-winning goal.”

From his days as a rookie and a recent graduate, Thorimbert is now a family man living his dream. It’s been nice to have the extra time at home with Jodi and his kids, and to repay her for all her support when he travels for lacrosse, often depending on both of their families for assistance.

“The family support has been there from day one,” he said. “I’m lucky I can support my family and also have the opportunity to play the sport I love for as long as I can. And if I ever get bored at the office I can always go slash some people later on.”

 

 

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