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LONG WINTER DAYS AHEAD FOR LACROSSE CANADA AND FOR THE MEMBERS

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Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net There is very little lacrosse going on in late November and early December. The annual meetings (national and provincial) are just about done and the grassroots volunteers are gone either to other sports or home to rest from a struggling season. National championships are over and the National Teams have little on their schedule. This however is not quite the time to relax, especially in the case of Lacrosse Canada who could use ‘’those long weary winter days’’ to reflect upon its values and its management of the democratic process. The members, on their side, have just been presented with a 100% increase in membership fees for every registered player. They are in the process of swallowing all this while seeing their political influence decrease and their financial responsibilities increase provincially and nationally. LACROSSE CANADA ONLY NEEDS THE MEMBERS WHEN IT IS IN NEED OF MONEY How true! Lacrosse Canada has managed to centralize its ope...
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Coquitlam Adanacs

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  A Dynasty in the  Making ? The  2025  Canadian  Junior “A” lacrosse season saw the Coquitlam Adanacs  capture  their 5 th Minto Cup in team history. This accomplishment included winning their second consecutive Canadian championship with Minto Cup victories in 2024 and 2025.   In addition, the Adanacs broke a 48-year streak  with  Coquitlam becoming the first British Columbia based team  to  win the Minto Cup in Ontario. The last time this happened was 1977 by the  Burnaby Cablevision team who won three consecutive championships. In addition, winning back-to-back Minto Cup titles has not happened since 2014-2015  Six Nations Arrows. In winning the 2025 Minto Cup, t he Adanacs defeated the Orangeville Northmen two straight  games  in a best of three series.  The first game was a 7-5 win and the Minto Cup clinching victory was by an 11-10 score. Coquitlam Head Coach Pat Coyle (an Orangeville native) ack...
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TAKEAWAYS FROM THE 2025 LACROSSE REGISTRATION NUMBERS

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  B y Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net Every year at the annual meeting Lacrosse Canada publishes the total number of registered players who play lacrosse in Canada. Local registrars turn their numbers to their provincial association who in turn send to Lacrosse Canada the number of registered players in their respective provinces. Lacrosse Canada adds up the numbers and issues an official document with the total number of registered players. 1. In 2025 there were 52,782 registered lacrosse players in Canada. In 2024 there were 51,131 which is a gain of 1651 players and a growth of 3.2%. Is this what is called ‘’growing the game’’ ? 2. It is not possible to ascertain if this was a good year or not because neither the provinces nor Lacrosse Canada had established targets or objectives related to the increase of the number of registered players. Everyone is trying to grow the game but no one has targets for growth. 3.The document published by Lacrosse Canada is called ‘’Membe...
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John Fusco : Stellar Lacrosse Player

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John Fusco embodied the spirit of the Brooklin Redmen Born in Oshawa, John Fusco grew up playing lacrosse in the Garrard R oa d minor lacrosse system before moving to the Junior “A” level in 1980.  He played lacrosse from 1980 through 1984  for the Whitby Junior ‘A’ team, 18 seasons with the Brooklin Redmen of the Major Lacrosse series (1981, 1983, 1985-2002), and one season with the National Lacrosse League (1991). John was on two Minto Cup championship teams (Junior A) 1980 and 1984 . During his junior career, Fusco was in the OLA Junior “A” League top seven point getters every season. John went onto to be a member of and five Mann Cup championship teams (Major lacrosse), 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, and 2000.  He was Rookie-of-the-Year in 1980 and won the Bucko MacDonald Trophy as top scorer in the Major Series in 1986 as well as the Jim Murphy Trophy for the Major Series MVP in 1991. When he retired from playing, John was on the list of top 50 box lacrosse players at t...
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THERE IS SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF OSHAWA ! (from Hamlet…obviously)

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  Worry not , there is nothing rotten in Denmark but there surely seems to be something dysfunctional in Oshawa at Lacrosse Canada’s headquarters. Let’s look into it. A very discrete annual meeting Lacrosse Canada held its annual meeting on September 27 th and 28 th , a month ago. There was no preliminary information circulated on the website and there has been no report since. The annual meeting is the most important meeting in the life of an association if it is concerned with governance and proper administration. The annual meeting has four functions: Receive and adopt the annual report Receive and adopt the audited statement Appoint the nomination of external auditors Elect the Board members. That’s it . Everyone concerned should come prepared to do just that. The people who attend ed the annual meeting we re the presidents of the provincial lacrosse associations . There were 11 presidents in attendance (either physically or via ZOOM) who were representing Lacrosse Canada’s...
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