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Swarm Lose in Pre-Season OpenerSunday, December 9, 2007
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Knighthawk Notes |
Here are some notes from a few very reliable sources about yesterday’s scrimmage that the Minnesota Swarm lost 14-10 to the Rochester Knighthawks in Six Nations, Ontario:
The following players (definitely not your average NLL players) did not play in yesterday’s scrimmage:
That meant the Swarm braintrust got the opportunity to look at many of their new faces against an enemy lineup for presumably the first time. If it helped in deciding the last few roster spots, your guess is as good as mine but that was the main point of the scrimmage. However, this Saturday against Toronto expect the big guns to be locked and loaded as the Swarm along with the Rock, will have already announced their 23-man roster by game time.
With Patterson not playing, Kevin Croswell played the whole game in net. After looking good in the first half, he tired at the end giving up some goals that should not have been allowed. Croswell wasn’t the only player to falter with tiredness in the second half for the Swarm even though some of that could be attributable to the Knighthawks keeping at least seven players off the floor until the second half. The fact remains that the team has to do a better job of keeping up physically throughout the whole game.
The following players stood out yesterday and throughout camp for the Swarm: