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    Tuesday, May 14, 2024

    Black Wolves will play two-game series this weekend with Buffalo

    The good thing about the New England Black Wolves' two games this weekend: One scouting report.

    The Black Wolves begin a weekend series at KeyBank Center in Buffalo beginning at 7:30 Friday night before returning home to face Buffalo at 1 p.m. Sunday at Mohegan Sun Arena. For Sunday's game, the Wolves will partner will Shootout for Soldiers to celebrate Military Appreciation Day.

    "The good thing about the back-to-back is we have a little separation and it's the same team," New England coach Glenn Clark said in his weekly conference call. "That makes a real difference. Those are tough when it's back-to-back (nights) and the second team is fresh. This is as good a scenario as you can have in this situation. We'll need to make small adjustments from game one to game two, but you're seeing the same personnel for the most part."

    The Black Wolves (2-4) are coming off their most productive offensive game of the season, falling 15-13 last week to first-place Georgia. Kevin Crowley had five goals and three assists for New England, Shawn Evans four goals and eight assists and Kevin Buchanan three goals and four assists.

    The Wolves knocked the National Lacrosse League's top-rated goalie at the time, Mike Poulin, out of the game after six goals in favor of Brodie MacDonald.

    "It kind of feels like it over the last three games; it feels like they're becoming more dangerous," Clark said of the offense. "We're not going to go through those extended periods of drought. ... Probably the best they've looked, I would say."

    That gives Evans 13 goals and 25 assists for 38 points and Crowley 16 points and 13 assists for 29 points.

    Still, Clark said New England made enough untimely mistakes against Georgia to let the game slip away after leading 6-2 early on. It's something that can't happen against a team as good as Georgia, especially — "you open a window, they go flying through it," Clark said — but that the coach hopes can be corrected in time for the weekend series with Buffalo (1-4).

    New England topped Buffalo 13-12 before a sold-out crowd at Mohegan Sun on Jan. 28, with Crowley winning the game on a goal with 53 seconds remaining.

    Buffalo is led by Ryan Benesch with 12 goals and 17 assists for 29 points.

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