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Tomahawks Hire Paul Suggate
The Mississauga Tomahawks (OLA JR A) have hired Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Famer Paul Suggate as the club’s new Head Coach, a role he held previously in the mid 90’s.Suggate is best known as being one of the best two-way players to ever have played the game, setting ridiculous scoring records during two seasons in the old NLL back in the mid-seventies with the Maryland Arrows. In 40 games with the Arrows during the 1974 season, Suggate scored 115 goals, had 124 assists and easily led the league in scoring with 239 points, all this while being named onto the league’s First All-Star Team as a defender. Unheard of stats and honours in today’s game and a style of ball few have come close to matching over the past 30 plus years.
Suggate was also a Minto Cup winner while playing for the Toronto Lakeshores (1970) and then a year later won his only Mann Cup with the Brantford Warriors (1971).
Paul recently coached Team Scotland at last summer’s World Indoor Lacrosse Championship and also worked as the now defunct St. Catharines Athletics Senior’s Head Coach in 2005 and 2006, winning the OLA's Coach of the Year Award.
The Tomahawks finished 10th out of the OLA’s 13 team Junior A loop during the 2007 season and recently drafted Mimico Midget stud Riley Smith during last month’s OLA Junior Draft.
Suggate will be taking over a relatively young roster who have made some decent strides in recent years and will be no doubt be fighting tooth and nail for one of the last playoff spots during the upcoming 2008 season.
The buzz around the Tommies seems to be a little more elevated versus recent past seasons and the appointment of Suggate only seems to have taken it up yet another notch.
From: NLL Insider