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WK
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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
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Albany
11
Buffalo
10
Sat, Dec 3
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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
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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
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Buffalo
10
Halifax
9
Sat, Mar 4
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New York
12
Philadelphia
19
Sat, Mar 4
FINAL
Las Vegas
12
San Diego
15
Sat, Mar 4
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Rochester
8
Toronto
9
Sat, Mar 4
FINAL/OT
Georgia
9
Albany
8
Sat, Mar 4
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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
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Philadelphia
10
New York
13
Sat, Mar 11
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San Diego
12
Saskatchewan
11
Sat, Mar 11
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Vancouver
14
Las Vegas
5
Sun, Mar 12
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Rochester
19
Georgia
18
WK
16
Fri, Mar 17
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Saskatchewan
6
Calgary
11
Fri, Mar 17
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San Diego
16
Vancouver
9
Sat, Mar 18
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Georgia
13
Philadelphia
12
Sat, Mar 18
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Toronto
12
Halifax
14
Sat, Mar 18
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Albany
10
New York
13
Sat, Mar 18
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Colorado
13
Buffalo
8
Sat, Mar 18
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Las Vegas
8
Panther City
11
Sun, Mar 19
FINAL/OT
Philadelphia
9
Rochester
8
WK
17
Fri, Mar 24
20:30:00
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Panther City
Sat, Mar 25
19:00:00
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Albany
Sat, Mar 25
19:00:00
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Sat, Mar 25
19:30:00
Georgia
New York
Sat, Mar 25
21:30:00
Calgary
Saskatchewan
Sat, Mar 25
22:00:00
Buffalo
San Diego
Sat, Mar 25
22:00:00
Colorado
Vancouver
Sat, Mar 25
22:30:00
Rochester
Las Vegas
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
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San Diego
Sat, Apr 1
19:00:00
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Sat, Apr 1
20:00:00
Albany
Panther City
Sat, Apr 1
21:30:00
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Sun, Apr 2
13:00:00
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Halifax
Sun, Apr 2
18:00:00
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WK
19
Sat, Apr 8
19:00:00
Albany
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Sat, Apr 8
19:00:00
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Georgia
Sat, Apr 8
21:00:00
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Calgary
Sat, Apr 8
21:00:00
Vancouver
Colorado
Sat, Apr 8
22:30:00
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WK
20
Fri, Apr 14
21:00:00
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Fri, Apr 14
21:00:00
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Colorado
Sat, Apr 15
19:00:00
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Sat, Apr 15
19:00:00
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Albany
Sat, Apr 15
19:30:00
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Sat, Apr 15
21:30:00
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Saskatchewan
Sat, Apr 15
22:00:00
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WK
21
Fri, Apr 21
20:30:00
Calgary
Panther City
Sat, Apr 22
18:00:00
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Sat, Apr 22
19:00:00
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Rochester
Sat, Apr 22
20:00:00
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Buffalo
Sat, Apr 22
21:30:00
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Saskatchewan
Sat, Apr 22
22:00:00
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Sun, Apr 23
15:00:00
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22
Sat, Apr 29
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Sat, Apr 29
19:00:00
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Albany
Sat, Apr 29
19:00:00
Halifax
Georgia
Sat, Apr 29
22:00:00
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Sat, Apr 29
22:00:00
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Sat, Apr 29
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Right At Home: Stealth, Rock Ready To Roll At Lec

After both the Vancouver Stealth and Toronto Rock posted impressive opening week come-­from-­behind road victories over the 2014 Champion’s Cup finalists, the two National Lacrosse League squads know they cannot rest on their laurels.

The Canadian rivals meet at Langley Events Centre on Saturday, Jan. 10 at 10:30 p.m. ET live on TSN2 and TSN GO in Canada & WatchESPN in the U.S. Watch the NLL live on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel in 2015 starting with the Toronto at Vancouver game on Saturday. Check local listings for broadcast schedule.

“That was certainly a good start,” said Stealth head coach Dan Perreault. “(But) we certainly can’t get comfortable with one win at the beginning of the year. We know we have to (keep) playing well.”

The Stealth beat the Calgary Roughnecks 18­-14 while the Rock topped the league champion Rochester Knighthawks 13­-12. Vancouver trailed early and was down at one point 9­4 before closing the gap to a pair of goals before halftime.

“We looked slow and a little sloppy, but saying that, it is some new guys together and the first game of the year.”

The Stealth went on an 11-­0 run spanning the second and fourth quarters, including scoring the only six goals of the third quarter, to take the lead. One key was the play of Stealth goaltender Tyler Richards, who stopped 48 of the 62 shots he faced.

“We got our legs, T-­Rich played extremely well for a period of over 20 minutes,” Perreault said. “He kept up in there so we had a chance to get on that run and once we started going, the ball started dropping.”

Rhys Duch led the offense with nine points (4+5) while Ilija Gajic (3+2), Tyler Digby (3+1), Caleb Wiles (2+1), Tyler Burton (2+0), Lewis Ratcliff (1+3), Mitch McMichael (0+3) and Johnny Powless (0+3) all had multi­point games.

Perreault said he wasn’t too concerned that Powless, his team’s prized off-season pickup, was held goal­less in his Vancouver debut.

“Johnny is the type of player who makes everyone on the floor better,” Perreault said, adding that there were a couple of opportunities he was open, but the team failed to get him the ball. “We have to find him; it is going to take time and all of us working together.”

Like his Vancouver counterpart, Rock coach John Lovell echoed those thoughts, saying while it was great to open with a victory, the team has a lot of work to do still.

“I think the key for us (against Rochester) was that we were able to hang in there,” Lovell said about the fact his team always kept within striking.

Toronto trailed 3-­0 5:01 into the game and never lead until Kasey Beirnes potted the eventual winner with under five minutes to play. Rob Hellyer (3+3), Stephen Leblanc (3+1) and Kasey Beirnes (3+0) led the offense while Josh Sanderson set up seven goals.

One of the keys in the game was loose balls as Toronto had a decisive 94­-59 advantage in that category.

“When you get that many more loose balls than another team, you should win the game,” Lovell said.

The challenge this week will be to slow down a Stealth attack which scored on 18 of their 48 shots, an average of one of every three shots.

The Rock know they need to keep the pressure on Stealth goaltender Tyler Richards, who stopped 48 of the 62 shots he faced.

“That will be the challenge for us,” said Rock transition player Brock Sorensen.

Another key will be stopping the Stealth power play, which connected on all four of their opportunities against Calgary. Perreault knows his team will be in tough.

“We had our hands full with Toronto last year,” he said. “We certainly can’t get comfortable with one win at the beginning of the year. We know we have to play well.”

Overcoming the much talked about challenge of a depleted lineup, the Rock earned a 13-12 come-from-behind victory over the favored Rochester Knighthawks on enemy ground. Choosing not to get too worked up over an encouraging victory, Toronto is keenly focused on its next opponent – the Vancouver Stealth, a team fresh off a 18-goal performance in their season opener just days ago.

“We have to put that win behind us, we have a lot of work to do before going out to Vancouver,” said Sorensen, who is less than a week removed from his first game in a Toronto Rock sweater.

As Toronto’s season-opening win was in come-from-behind fashion, Vancouver shared the same fate. The Stealth, down 9-4 in the first half to the Calgary Roughnecks, scored an astonishing 11-straight goals to garner a 15-9 lead in the final quarter. The hunker down effort led to the eventual 18-14 final.

“They’re a great team, they came off a great win playing a very talented Calgary team,” Sorensen said. “The 11-goal streak is a representation of how talented a team they are, it will be a great challenge for us heading out west.”

With six new faces in the lineup this season (Brock Sorensen, Brodie Merrill, Jeff Gilbert, Mark White, Glen Bryan, Brett Hickey), Toronto felt the inevitable hiccups of a team reset in Week 1. The Rock fell to an 8-5 deficit late in the second quarter against Rochester, allowing many breaks and odd-man rushes in the process.

“I didn’t like our [defensive] game in the first half, like I said I think we are work in progress here and I think that was evident by the number of mistakes in the beginning of the game,” said Rock head coach John Lovell.

Toronto, particularly in the second half, tightened the screws on defence and outscored the defending champs 8-4 the rest of the way en route to what proved to be an encouraging display of perseverance. The Rock outshot Rochester 48-39 and gobbled 35 more loose balls in the effort.

“We made a couple of adjustments, got some better match ups and I thought we did a better job,” said Lovell said. “Certainly one of the big differences in the game was our loose balls, and it wasn’t just from the back-end, we got a lot resets from our offense. When you get that many more loose balls than the other team, you should win the game.”

While Toronto did get large loose ball totals from a few usual suspects – Merrill (15), Scott Johnston (11), Sandy Chapman (7), Josh Sanderson and Rob Hellyer also put up big numbers, complementing their stellar scoring efforts. The two combined for 21 loose balls and 14 points in the Week 1 conclusion.

Sanderson’s spirited seven-point effort (0+7) earned him the league’s Pinty’s Wingman of the Week honours now making him eligible for the Pinty’s Wingman of the Year award.

“It was emotional game for him,” said Lovell in regard to Sanderson playing his first NLL game after the recent passing of his father and league legend Terry Sanderson. “But it was one of the better games I’ve seen him play, he was determined with what he had to do, he was a leader on and off the floor and I think a lot of guys just fed off of his determination to play the game the right way.”

“It was special to watch him play that game and he was certainly the catalyst for us in the win,” he said.

League veteran Brandon Miller got the start in goal in Week 1 and proved just adequate for the win. Despite looking exceptionally sharp in the second half, Miller finished the game with a .692 save percentage. No clear starter has been named for Saturday night’s matchup.

“I’m not sure exactly what we’re going to do at this point. Brandon [Miller] doesn’t think he played a very good game, but he made some key saves when we needed it and that was another difference in the game,” said Lovell.

“I kind of have a plan for our goaltenders this year, I have to be aware that Nick Rose is also a proven number one goalie in the league and he’s got to get some work. We’re going to play it game by game and just go from there,” he said.

Story by Gary Ahuja (@VanStealthBeat) and Justin Millerson (@RockBeatToronto) for NLL.com. Photo credit: Dan Brodie.

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