{"id":24420,"date":"2021-05-12T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/the-toronto-rock-lacrosse-team-is-moving-back-to-hamilton\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:23:49","slug":"the-toronto-rock-lacrosse-team-is-moving-back-to-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/the-toronto-rock-lacrosse-team-is-moving-back-to-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toronto Rock lacrosse team is moving back to Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toronto\u2019s professional lacrosse team will start playing their home games in Hamilton, but will keep their name as is for now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The announcement was made in a virtual news conference on Tuesday morning and stated that the Toronto Rock, who plays in the National Lacrosse League, will be moving part of the franchise to the Hammer.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First found out about and fell in love with pro lacrosse by attending Ontario Raiders games at Copps Colliseum in Hamilton.  Hope to do the same for kids attending <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TorontoRockLax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TorontoRockLax<\/a> games in the same building. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q2zjbDpOQz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q2zjbDpOQz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Rose (@NickRose66) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickRose66\/status\/1392284676186849284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Home games will be played at the FirstOntario Centre after the Toronto Rock signed a five-year agreement to play home games at the Hamilton arena starting in December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the name Toronto Rock will remain the same despite intense sports rivalries between the two cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rock Owner Jamie Darwick said in a statement that he understands the rivalries, but with the Toronto team being the only one in Ontario, the Toronto Rock represents the whole province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although they are currently named the Toronto Rock, the lacrosse team was founded in Hamilton in 1998 as the Ontario Raiders playing at what was then known as Copps Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later, the team was sold to a group of investors who moved the franchise to Toronto and renamed it the Rock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto\u2019s professional lacrosse team will start playing their home games in Hamilton, but will keep their name as is for now. The announcement was made in a virtual news conference on Tuesday mornin...","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":24421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[19,20,3620,5658,229,110,6923],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lacrosse.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28781,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions\/28781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}