Player Spotlight

Player Spotlight highlights the finer details and elements while supplying insight to the fans on what a player's thought process may be pertaining to a certain play, game or situation. It brings the intensity, passion, and inner most thoughts of the individual player that otherwise may not be felt or heard.

In Player Spotlight this week is Paul Gait of the Pittsburgh Crossefire.

**This interview conducted prior to the notice of the Paul Gait / Pittsburgh Acquirement.

Friday night, the Albany Attack returned home to face a struggling 0-3 Syracuse squad. The Attack struggling themselves with two overtime loses alone this season faced a treacherous double overtime session in which Darris Kilgour planted the sudden death game winner.

Coming off the field after a hard fought battle, Saul Davidson of Arena Media met up with Paul Gait for a PLPA Spotlight.



Question How do you feel visiting Albany for the first time?
Answer HAHA, not too good about it. You can’t feel to good about it after a loss. And it doesn’t even help that it was in overtime really. And we’ve been close the last three games, and it’s a tough one.


Question What’s the overall feeling as a whole right now for the Smash?
Answer Ah, we feel that we’re in every game, we’re one or two goals away every game for the last three games. And even though we’ve got talent, we’re just not putting it together.


Question Do you think you’ll ever get the chance or want the chance to play with Gary again?
Answer Yeah, I’d love to play with Gary again and before I retire I will definitely play with Gary again.


Question You racked up 3 more assists tonight and you’re in the quest for the elusive 300th career goal, is that one coming soon?
Answer I don’t know...haha...how far off am I? I’m not a stats guy obviously.


Question When you face your brother head to head, can you describe the competitive edge?
Answer We’re just out there trying to win games and we try to do whatever we can. So far he’s doing a much better job at it and hopefully I can rise to the occasion.


Question How about the officials this year in your opinion. Fair, no?
Answer Haha, no comment.


Question How about your thoughts of a return of a franchise in Boston?
Answer Of course, I’d love to see a franchise in Boston and ever other major city in the country.


Question And the possibility of the field league, the MLL, is that something that we’ll see you in action in if it comes to light?
Answer Yeah, I think I’m gonna play. I think there’s 8 exhibition games and I’m going to play at least 6 of them this year.


Question Over the many teams that you’ve played with the MILL and the NLL, what’s been the most memorable for you in your career so far?
Answer Ah, jeez, you know they’re all memorable. I can say that each team I’ve played for except for this one, I’ve won a championship so you know I can’t pick one over the other.


PLPA Correspondent

Saul Davidson has followed the MILL / NLL since 1990. His first involvement with the MILL came with the forming of the Boston Blazers Boosters at the FleetCenter in Massachusetts in 1995, under the close eye of the Blazers PR department. He also constructed and maintained the Blazer's homepage on the world wide web, which is still in existence today. His history includes news articles and awards for several news web sites, including e-lacrosse, the Boston Herald, the Outsiders Guide to the NLL, and many other fan sites. Since the departure of the Blazers franchise from the league, he formed Arena Media in early 1998, a one stop source on the Internet for sports, stadium and expansion news. Arena Media currently hosts one of the largest sources of professional lacrosse news.



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