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By Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net Yeah, why am I so negative? And as some say why is it that your partner (Rad Joseph) is so positive and you so negative! Good cop, bad cop !! maybe! Hey let’s have a look at all this. THINK LACROSSE’s mission statement indicates that we will promote our best actors (players, coaches, volunteers) and produce critical analyses concerning the challenges to the game. Rad Joseph is tasked with the first mandate and in fact his posts or articles are very positive because he deals, always, with the game’s great est ones. We all relive their successes and somehow make their greatness ours, because the great ones all emerge from our family and we are all ‘’family.’’ Because it’s our game. I am tasked with the production of critical analyses on the challenges to the game. As mentioned often I am not very interested with the scores of different game s ; I am rather interested with the state of the game, its present and future. Those who know me know ...

Outstanding All A round Player Highly Skilled on Offence and Defence Winner of Four Mann Cup championships Standing five foot eight and weighing 175 pounds, Ken Winzoski had an illustrious career playing for the New Westminster Salmonbellie s. A t age 17 in 1965, Winzoski played mostly for the junior Salmonbellies and even joined the Senior club for a game. T he next season while capturing the junior league scoring title with 97 points, the junior Bellies took on the legendary Oshawa Green Gaels for the Minto Cup championship. Although Oshawa won the series, Ken Win z oski was named the series Most Valuable Player . During the years 1 966 to 1977 . He played 355 games of senior level lacrosse appearing in f ive Mann Cup championships wi n ning the Mike Kelley Medal for the Most Valuable player in 1974 . Although known for being an outstanding penalty killer , Winzoski scored 257 goals and added 472 assists for a total of 729 points in 355 games of senior lacrosse. Ken was chos...

  On September 29 at age 92, lacrosse legend Bob Hanna passed away. Bob accomplished so much in lacrosse and touched the lives of hundreds of players, parents and lacrosse administrators. With the exception of winning a Mann Cup (he played in three), there was no feat in lacrosse, Bob Hanna had not been successful at. Think Lacrosse has previously article on Mr. Hanna and provides the content below. Suffice to say Bob was an exceptionally intelligent and gifted lacrosse person. He was intense, yet always composed when coaching and more than willing to share his knowledge of the game and the many individuals he knew. He possessed a dry sense of humour and his commitment to lacrosse over decades is unparalleled. Please read below to learn about the Life in Lacrosse of Bob Hanna. Sanontonnionha'k Tewa'a:raton Tehontsihkwa:ek's Part 1 -  A Life in Lacrosse - Bob Hanna The Player  Bob Hanna – The Player  Bob Hanna Detroit Olympics – 1968 National Lacrosse Association Robe...

b y Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net Ah, annual meetings have always amazed me; and I loved then. I have attended 43 Canadian Lacrosse annual meetings in my time with the Québec Lacrosse Fédération. Some were outstandingly interesting and obviously some lacked life and were simply boring. And I have always wondered why delegates come from all over the country to , so often, sit, listen, vote as they are told to vote and rubber stamp whatever is presented to them by an organized Board of Directors. After positive annual meetings the delegate leave totally gung-ho and have a vivid feeling of being part of a developing national association; they take this feeling home, speak positively about the national association and get their provinces to support national projects or decisions. And here we go because WE are the CLA. On the other hand after a lackluster meeting the delegates leave with a feeling that nothing good will ever happen, that the Board of Director s knows it all and i...

  by Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net The question begs to be answered. Obviously. When Lacrosse Canada’s Board of Directors meets the meeting starts with some sort of official declaration and a recognition of the origin of the game. “At this time. I would like to give thanks to the creator for giving this medicine to the lroquois / Haudenousnee (people of the longhouse) for sharing this medicine with the world. Would also like to give thanks to all First Nations. Metis. and Inuit as we all sit in their territories we say thank you. We say thank you Creator for giving us Mother Earth. She then gave us the tree in which our sticks are made from. This is the true roots of the medicine we call Lacrosse today." Nay:weh / thank you. ( From Lacrosse Canada ’ s Board of Directors’ meeting of July 15 th 2026 ) Lacrosse Canada thus recognizes two things here: The creator gave a medicine game to the Iroquois The Creator gave us Mother Earth Sadly, Lacrosse Canada , in this officia...