Aaron Bold returns to the fold of the Victoria Shamrocks tonight.
After closing out the National Lacrosse League campaign with the Saskatchewan Rush last weekend, the Victoria product will make his first start tonight for the 鈥橰ocks against New Westminster. Bold was an instrumental part of the 2015 Mann Cup championship with the local WLA club.
鈥淕oaltending is such a vital position, for where we want to go,鈥� said Shamrocks head coach Bob Heyes. 鈥淵ou have to have that depth, but you also need that go-to guy, who has that championship pedigree, who鈥檚 been there.
鈥淚 made the comment, when we first signed him this year, it鈥檚 like having [Montreal Canadiens goalie] Carey Price here, he鈥檚 that dominant. But it doesn鈥檛 give you a guarantee that you鈥檙e going to win anything. The rest of the team has to follow suit. It takes a full team effort.鈥�
Bold was expected to play the minimum five games required to be eligible for playoffs. He comes in early after the Rush 鈥� looking for a third straight NLL championship 鈥� lost to Georgia last weekend.
鈥淚 wanted to get him here as soon as we could after their season was over just to get focused in on our season. This wasn鈥檛 a game where he was scheduled to be here, but we were able to make it work,鈥� Heyes said of Bold, who flies in today. 鈥淚鈥檓 happy to have him here. Hags [Cody Hagedorn] has been awesome 鈥� we couldn鈥檛 have asked for more from him and he is going to remain a big part of the rotation here.鈥�
Bold is not the only Mann Cup champion returning to the club. Transition player Tyler Hass is also back in the green and white tonight.
In five seasons with the Shamrocks, Hass played 64 games with 55 points in the regular season and 57 games with 49 points in the playoffs.
The Victoria native also won the Bill Ellison Trophy as most valuable player in the 2014 WLA playoffs.
