Sitting in my living room on the couch, chilling....it's been a loooooong day. I'm on the couch putting the final touches to the the line up for tomorrow's scrimmage vs. the Lizards in Wilton, CT. I'm actually pretty excited for the scrimmage. It's the 1st time we've actually done this against another MLL team so it should be fun. We're evaluating our players against another group trying to do the same thing....make an MLL roster. Plus it's against a rival so to speak so I'm sure it'll be a good run for everyone, including the coaching staff. Big weekend as we're cutting down after Sunday's practice to 30-31.
Tomorrow will be another long day, Mark Kastrud (our VP) is picking me up at 6:15 for a 7:00 bus out of Harvard. Boy, can't believe bus rides are here already (ugh..) maybe I don't like this preseason scrimmaging thing after all! Once we're there it'll be ok, probably no more than 2:45-3 on a bus. It shaping up to be a good day; after our scrimmage there's an autograph signing for all of the youth kids, then Wilton plays Westville HS and after we freshen up back at the hotel we're heading to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation fund-raising event as Chris Eck and his family are being honored. That should be fun, put on the suit and enjoy an evening poking fun at Eck because he has to give speech! Just kidding Chris! Seriously, we're looking forward to it!
We're still missing a few guys in training camp because of the NLL playoffs. The one good thing is Boston plays Orlando tomorrow night so we'll either get Ryan Boyle in camp next weekend or Mitch Belisle, Jack Reid and Greg Downing. That should be a great game, best of luck fellas! With next weekend being the last before we open up against Denver on the 15th, the more veterans we can get back in camp the better.
I tell you, we have a good group in camp this year, it's been a very competitive camp thus far. Tomorrow will be good test for some of the guys on the bubble of making the 23 man active roster. The speed will be a little bit faster than last weekend, guys are going to have to step up their game tomorrow. I'm pumped to see who rises to the challenge, see if we have any "Diamonds in the Rough" as coaches like to say in this league. Everyone is always looking for that one player that catches you off guard and shows that he can play at this level even though he didn't play D1 or at a big name school. I think we're due for one, it's been awhile.....
Make sure you take a peak at our new video on facebook.com/laxschool. It's our 1st Cannon's weekly of the season and it focuses on our preseason training test with Catz last Saturday at camp. If you have any questions email me (bd@lax-school.com) or check out catzsports.com
Next weekend the final regular season games are played and then the selection show will be on Sunday.....can't wait!
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