The Vancouver Warriors’ offence is a work in progress. Vancouver went 4-for-8 on the power play in their National Lacrosse League season opener Saturday night against the Colorado Mammoth, but they only managed three goals at even strength en route to a 10-7 loss before an announced crowd of 9,219 at Rogers Arena. Vancouver has…
The Vancouver Canucks brought Curt Malawsky in to run their lacrosse team. This is when he might be his most valuable to them. Malawksy has key to the turnaround of the Vancouver Warriors. That’s true. They made a three-win jump in his second year with the National Lacrosse League club last season, finishing 11-7. They…
It’ll be interesting to see what tricks head coach Curt Malawsky has up his sleeve to re-ignite the Vancouver Warriors’ offence and extend their best-of-three National Lacrosse League semifinal playoff set against the Buffalo Bandits. The Warriors host the Bandits Sunday (6 p.m.) at Rogers Arena, needing a win to keep their season going after…
Vancouver Warriors head coach and general manager Curt Malawsky and Buffalo Bandits general manager Steve Dietrich are old buddies who speak every day. That’s not changing even though the Warriors are meeting the Bandits in the best-of-three National Lacrosse League semifinals starting Friday in Buffalo. Game 2 is slated for Sunday at Rogers Arena. The…
The Vancouver Warriors play their first-ever National Lacrosse League playoff game in six years as a Vancouver Canucks’ property on Saturday night at Rogers Arena, and they come into that on a raucous roll, with a six-game winning streak that has seen them trailing on the scoreboard for all of three minutes, 22 seconds during…
The Vancouver Warriors won their sixth straight game, assured the franchise its first home playoff date since 2017 and along the way Saturday night looked like this is every bit business as usual for them. The 11-5 triumph over the Philadelphia Wings before an announced crowd of 10,876 at Rogers Arena means that Vancouver finishes…
It’s easy to suggest the Christian Del Bianco trade is working out just fine for the Vancouver Warriors. The Warriors’ 12-10 triumph over the host Toronto Rock Friday night marked their fifth straight win since landing the Del Bianco from the Calgary Roughnecks in a trade deadline blockbuster and clinched the Vancouver franchise just its…
The Vancouver Warriors are playing playoff style lacrosse and trending to toward just their second postseason appearance in 11 years, but don’t expect Curt Malawsky to get caught up in any future surfing. Malawsky is Vancouver’s general manager and head coach and he has stressed focussing on the moment all season, with one of his…
The events you’re about to read really happened, no matter how illogical it may all seem. The Spokane Chiefs beat the Vancouver Giants 7-5 Sunday night to take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven WHL Western Conference quarterfinal. And this is where things get messy. Vancouver allowed 33 shots in the second period alone. Spokane…
The Vancouver Warriors gave their chances of making the National Lacrosse League playoffs for a second time in 11 seasons a significant boost Saturday. The Warriors (8-7) downed the first-place Buffalo Bandits (11-4) by a 13-12 count before a crowd of over 19,000 at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo. Recent trade pick-up Christian Del Bianco…