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Canadian lacrosse biography stubs (155 P) Pages in category "Canadian lacrosse players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 313 total.
The team is governed by the Canadian Lacrosse Association, which is a member of World Lacrosse, the international governing body for lacrosse. Traditionally Canada has been one of the leading nations in international play, placing among the top three at the World Lacrosse Championship every year since the tournament's inaugural year in 1967.
Starting in 2016, the box player and field player categories were merged into the Player category with no distinction made between box and field versions of the sport. [1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic cancelling the induction dinner that year, the 2020 inductees were inducted into the hall in 2021 along with the 2021 inductees.
Lacrosse was played by First Nations in Canada before the arrival of European colonists. The first documented description of the game was in 1637. The game was called baggataway and tewaarathon, which was played by two teams with 100 to 1,000 men each on a field that stretched from about 500 m (1,600 ft) to 3 km (1.9 mi) long.
Pages in category "Lacrosse players from Toronto" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Joe "The Quiet Man" Comeau [1] (born June 24, 1940) is a Canadian retired amateur and professional [2] box lacrosse goaltender.A member of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame, [3] Comeau was the winner of four Mann Cup national championships, [1] [4] WLA playoff and regular season most valuable player trophies, seven all-star team inductions and four Nicholson Trophies as the WLA's top goaltender.
Stephan Leblanc (born January 20, 1986) is a former Canadian professional lacrosse player having played for the Toronto Rock, New England Black Wolves, Halifax Thunderbirds and Georgia Swarm in the National Lacrosse League. [1] [2] In November 2022, he announced is retirement as a player. [2]
John Tavares (born September 4, 1968, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian former professional box lacrosse player and current head coach of the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League (NLL) and Six Nations Chiefs of the Major Series Lacrosse League.