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National Lacrosse League Player Poll: Calgary or New York?

Will Matt King be doing this again after tonight's clash with the Titans? (Photo: Graig Abel)

This week the question we posed to the players in NLL Insider’s National Lacrosse League Player Poll was simple.

Who is taking the gold in tonight’s Champion’s Cup finale between the Calgary Roughnecks and New York Titans?

Will Calgary’s offense blow things up the way they did against the Stealth? Will New York’s under hyped D put things on lock down like they did to the usually high power Buffalo offense? Which show stopping keeper will come out on top? Will Josh Sanderson and Casey Powell continue being the major impact players they’ve been all year, or will someone come outta left field to be the difference maker?

After the jump, find out what the players think will happen tonight. READ MORE »

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National Lacrosse League Player Poll: The Playoff Edition

Matt King and Pat Campbell, two great options for the Roughnecks. (Photo: Matt J. Wiater)

The National Lacrosse League is about to pop the lid off their post-season, so this week, we checked in with the players on, surprise, surprise… this year’s playoffs.

Instead of simply asking them who they think will win this weekend (they woulda all obviously voted for their own team or homies), we asked about clutch scorers, playoff goaltending depth, the sentimental pick and who this year’s biggest non-playoff bust was between Toronto, Philly, Edmonton and Minnesota.

Check it out, after the jump, and then hit the boards with your answers too. READ MORE »

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Jordan Hall makes it big in the blog world

There’s no question that New York Titans head coach Ed Comeau has his boys clicking on the floor, but now that the all-important playoffs are approaching, what about off? In his first ever blog about the first ever lacrosse playoff game to be played in Madison Square Garden, Jordan Hall provides a little insight on the unease brewing over the team’s controversial decision to go with playoff mustaches instead of beards. Oh well. It’s not like that many people will ever know that his soup-strainer is “juvenile at best.” It’s only on the Madison Square Garden website.

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National Lacrosse League Player Poll: Hits, Snot Bubbles and Rhubarb

Is Tyler Codron the NLL's hardest hitter? (Photo: Matt J. Wiater)

The ‘09 National Lacrosse League season has had some of the biggest hits the league has ever seen.

The two biggest? Mitch Belisle’s viral vid highlight smash on Jarett Park and then Jeff Zywicki blasting Colin Achenbach at the HP Pavilion last weekend.

This week, we asked the players about those two instant classics along with other hit related topics, including who they feel is the league’s best current hitter, concussions and what goes through their mind when they get rocked on the court.

After the jump, find out the answers to those questions, plus some wicked vid evidence that’ll keep ya occupied all Easter weekend. READ MORE »

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The Danger Zone: Just Dance

For those that shed a tear or two when the NLL/MILL scrapped the lacrosse players in spandex idea, buck up son, cuz The Danger Zone took a detour this week, crossing some boundaries that may have the Dawson brothers and Mitch Belisle reexamining some pretty substantial areas of their daily lives.

This weekend TDZ vlog is full of pirouettes, torn belly tees, sweat soaked headbands (among other things), pigtails, Paul Dawson doing is best Shrek impersonation, and an array of other things that have absolutely nothing to do with lacrosse.

Hit up The Zone and enjoy (or dry heave depending on what you’re into).

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National Lacrosse League Player Poll: The MVP Race

Will Dan Dawson win his first MVP Award this year?

We’re only three weeks away from the National Lacrosse League shutting its regular season doors closed and letting their post-season ones fly open wilder than a Chris Brown sucker punch, so who ya got for the MVP title?

We’ve been tracking most major hardware this season through our Trophy Case Chase and Rookie Report breakdowns, but this week, we asked the guys who matter most in this league who they feel has been this year’s best ball player.

After the jump, check out the player’s faves for the MVP nod, along with some other MVP related jibba jabba in this week’s NLL Player Poll. READ MORE »

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The Danger Zone: All Access All-Star Game

Dan Dawson and the boys over at The Danger Zone are back this week with a pretty slick behind-the-scense vid blog (aka vlog for all the nerds out there, yeah you)from the All-Star Game in Denver.

Check out The Danger Zone to see some pretty cool footage from one helluva classy weekend put on by the Colorado Mammoth, including Gary Gait hilariously blowing off Dawson at the end of the vid, sorry, vlog. Gotta think that’s not the first time Daws has been given that “get outta my face” look before (ask him about running into Stacy Keibler at the airport). READ MORE »

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Tavares- the NLL’s Energizer Easter Bunny

If I knew how to work photo shop and how to properly insert images in to this thing Jiloty calls Word press, then I would have put an Energizer bunny outfit on John Tavares’ body and called him the Energizer Bandit- cause well, you know, he just keeps going and going and going and going. READ MORE »

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National Lacrosse League Player Poll: The Hall of Fame

John Tavares and Mike Accursi. Are both Hall of Fame bound?

This week we checked in with the guys on their opinion of the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame, again like last week, past present and future addressed.

Five or six years ago, it seemed like everyone was split on their opinion of the greatest ever player in this league. Today, based on our Player Poll results, there is a definite clear-cut favorite.

Has Gary Gait’s return to the game hurt his NLL legacy? Does Pat Coyle belong in the Hall? What current players are favorites for future Hall consideration (sorry we left you off Brodie, our bad)? Find out after the jump. READ MORE »

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National Lacrosse League Player Poll: Past, present and future cities

Vancouver, British Columbia

This week in the National Lacrosse League Player Poll we checked in with the guys and asked them about the cities that the NLL has set-up shop in (and left) and any potential new cities that they think could hang around for the long run.

So, after the jump, check out which city players think would support an expansion or relocated franchise, which city they’d like to see back in the loop and which current team should act as a blueprint for any future endeavors. READ MORE »