November 10th, 2008 by Paul Tutka

Not sure how many newer fans and followers of the game realize how many of the NLL’s current head coaches have actually played in the league in years past.
Nine of the league’s 13 teams in 2009 have coaches that had played in the league previous. The other four have pretty extensive playing careers up here in Canada too.
Current coaches Troy Cordingley (Calgary), Darris Kilgour (Buffalo), Bob Hamley (Edmonton), Derek Keenan (Portland), and Jamie Batley (Chicago) all played pretty important gigs with the Buffalo Bandits during the 90’s, while Dewey Jacobs (Minnesota) was a long time Rochester Knighthawk, Glenn Clark (Toronto) obviously won a bunch of Cups with the Toronto Rock, Tom Ryan (Boston) is starting his pro coaching career in the same city he broke into the MILL in, and even new Rochester head honcho, Paul Suggate, played way back in the mid 70’s for Maryland in the old school NLL. READ MORE »