Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍

Lacrosse coach, historian and aficionado. Team Ontario Assistant Coach 2017-2025. Six time Canadian Champion.🥍Canada's National Sport🥍. Retired Family Doc

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

St. John's must be the magic. Ontario Men's Lacrosse wins the Canada Summer Games for the first time in 48 years. Ontario(Scarborough Saints Jr B) last won in Newfoundland in 1977
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[Team Ontario @GoTeamOntario]

GOLD 🥇

The much anticipated gold medal rematch went the way of #GoTeamO, who pulled away from Team BC with a strong finish to claim the @2025canadagames gold. 🥍⭕️

[CP24 @CP24]

An OPP officer struck and killed a pedestrian. Shortly after that, she was promoted. https://t.co/RyctZ343OF

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

🏒🥍 Jacques Plante also played goal in lacrosse. In 1949, he led the Quebec City Junior team to the Provincial Championship. He returned to play professional lacrosse in 1964 in Quebec while still playing in the NHL 🏒🥍

[D. S. M. @SalmingandMe]

Here are my “Jake-The-Snake” team issued photos from MLG. It was ultra rare that two different poses were put out in the same season and here they are. 🥅
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[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

James Naismith, the Canadian inventor of Basketball, played lacrosse at McGill University in Montreal

[Coach Gernatt @CoachGernatt]

Canadian university lacrosse deserves more attention in our college conversations.

Trent’s women just repeated as OUA champions. CUFLA’s men are approaching the Baggataway Cup in Ottawa, Nov. 12–14.

For families exploring opportunities, evaluate the actual program: academics, total cost, coaching, competition and a realistic path to contributing.

There are worthwhile lacrosse experiences beyond the handful of schools dominating recruiting conversations. Give them the same thoughtful research.

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

@nspector4 Thank you for your valuable insights on Canadian Politics, Norm. I really enjoy following your account and hope I am able to continue to follow your analysis and observations

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

@bubwhitlax @BMLA1943 I was really hoping you would see that, Jeff. Like you, your folks gave a lot to the game!

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

My very first Ontario Lacrosse Coaching Card. Brampton Pee Wee 2 team in the Mississauga Lacrosse League, 1979. It is so old that the OLA was called the OMLA
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[NLL @NLL]

The National Lacrosse League and TSN, Canada’s Sports Leader, will continue their partnership for a sixth consecutive season, highlighted by the return of “NLL Friday Night on TSN” on November 27. https://t.co/ng89iNaD3z

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

@MuskokaCoach18 @NLL @BuffaloSabres @RocKnighthawks @GreengaelsJRB @FlaPanthers Lol. Great story! Thanks for sharing. That may at least partly explain why he looks so young in that picture with the Cup. He is 77 years old

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

Rick Dudley from Mississauga was an incredible lacrosse player who won a Mann Cup('71 with Brantford), a Champions Cup('74 with Rochester) and almost single handedly broke the powerhouse Oshawa Green Gaels 38 game winning streak in 1968. He played in the 1975 Stanley Cup final

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

Rick Dudley talking about playing professional lacrosse in 1968 for Montreal as a 17 year old and for Rochester in 1974
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[SabresClassics @SabresClassics]

Rick Dudley on...Lacrosse (1993)

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

From my brother in law Jason's famous hockey card collection, the great Newsy Lalonde. This card is from the 1955-1956 Quaker Corn Flakes "All Time Greats Collection". Lalonde is one of only two players in both the Hockey and Lacrosse Hall of Fames 🥍🏒
@CanLaxHall

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

@GaryGardell Good for you, Gary. Very impressive!

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

Doug Favell was also a great lacrosse scorer out St Catharines, Ontario. He set a Minto Cup record in 1964 scoring a remarkable 3 goals in 11 seconds. He later played Pro lacrosse in 1968, 69 and 1974 and is a member of the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame @ONLaxHallofFame

[Vintage Hockey Showcase @hockey_vintage]

59 years ago today ON THIS DAY in hockey history (October 19, 1967):

The @NHLFlyers make their home debut at The Spectrum and defeat fellow expansion team Pittsburgh 1-0 on a goal by Bill Sutherland, with goaltender Doug Favell picking up his 1st career shutout too

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

Great article by @Bettsy41 in the Cambridge Today on local lacrosse star David Anderson and his infamous Great Grandfather and Grandfather. Ross and Gaylord Powless from Six Nations are both lacrosse legends in the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame 🥍🥍
@CmlaChiefs @CanLaxHall

[Coach Gernatt @CoachGernatt]

What a lacrosse family tree.

David Anderson was just selected 9th overall by Georgia in the NLL Draft.

His great-grandfather was Ross Powless.

His grandfather was Gaylord Powless.

Ross and Gaylord became the first and only father-son duo from the same sport inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Now another generation has gone from Culver → Yale → Six Nations summer box → the NLL.

But my favorite part of this story might be how David describes growing up with that kind of lacrosse lineage.

He doesn’t call it pressure.

He calls it an “obsessed support system.”

I love that.

We talk a lot about what great lacrosse communities pass from one generation to the next.

Maybe it isn’t just skill.

It’s knowledge. Access. Stories. Expectations. People who understand the game. People who care enough to watch, teach, drive, encourage and occasionally get out of the way.

Eventually the names change.

The game keeps moving through the family.

Really cool story. 👇

https://t.co/T6qQq4Coug

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

@RocKnighthawks Congratulations, Jake!

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

With Ryan Benesch's retirement, it is a good time to remind the Kitchener-Waterloo lacrosse folks that 3 of the top 8 NLL all time point getters played minor and Junior in KW. Colin Doyle and Dhane Smith are the other two @KWMLA @KWKodiaks

[Steve MacGregor 🥍 🇨🇦 🥍 @docmaclax]

Congratulations to Kitchener-Waterloo's Ryan Benesch on a great career in the National Lacrosse League! KW is very fortunate to have him coaching in our minor system!
@KWMLA @KWKodiaks

[NLL @NLL]

From first overall pick to one of the game’s greats. 👏

Ryan Benesch has announced his retirement after 19 years in the National Lacrosse League, scoring 633 goals across 323 regular-season and playoff games.

Thank you, @beniboi21. 👏

[CUFLA @CUFLAlacrosse]

Today, CUFLA recognizes the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We honour the Indigenous children, families, and communities impacted by the residential school system, and remember those who never returned home.

📷 @arianneprendesfotos and @sleithwood

[NLL @NLL]

The NLL joins communities across Canada in recognizing National Truth and Reconciliation Day. 🧡

[Brooklin Lacrosse Club @BrooklinLC]

Today, September 30, we pause to recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and to honour the Survivors, families, and communities affected by Canada’s residential school system.
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