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Rough Start for Roughnecks Season
Takeaway Moments
The Toronto Rock maintain the top East Division spot and move to 4-1… Calgary Roughnecks (0-4) remain winless dropping a 12-11 nail-biter… Toronto spent 14 minutes in the box while Calgary only spent 8.
Shawn Evans was able to put up 4 goals and 6 assists in the loss… Curtis Dickson also collected a hat trick and 3 assists… Dane Dobbie was held to 2 goals…Frankie Scigliano played the entire night allowing 12 goals on 52 shots.
For Toronto, Brandon Miller earned his 50th career win… Rob Hellyer posted his 50th career goal…Brett Hickey and Kasey Biernes both netted hat tricks…. and over 11.7k packed out the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night.
Boxscore
MD’s Take
Calgary remains winless heading into week 6 where they will be hosting Buffalo for Saturday night’s only game. The Bandits are already 3-3 and have split 2 weeks at .500 so far. Buffalo isn’t perfect on the road and the Saddledome is a hard place for visiting teams to leave happy, I would bet that Dobbie and company get it together to secure the team’s first win on Saturday.
The Rock get the week off before returning to a home and away series with the Swarm. The East division leaders need to keep relying heavily on their monstrous defense to keep the season on track and the win tallying. If they are the same Rock we are growing accustomed to, they should walk out of the weekend 6-1.
Around the League
“I’m pretty happy about it,” said Miller, who started his career ten years ago with the Stealth franchise. “This is a league I’ve been a fan of since I was a kid, I always wanted to play in it. To get 50 wins is pretty big and I’m proud of it.”
“It feels good, I had no idea [the milestone] was coming,” said Hellyer. “It’s great to be a regular in the league now and know your spot.”
From NLL.com
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• Rock solid: Toronto over Calgary, 12-11 (NLL.com)
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• Toronto Rock edges Calgary Roughrnecks in NLL action (Toronto Sun)
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NLL Report TOC
1 – Results & Pick ‘Em
2 – Bandits/Swarm
3 – Rush/Black Wolves
4 – Rock/Roughnecks
5 – Knighthawks/Bandits
6 – Stealth/Mammoth
7 – LaxAllStars of the Week
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