The Tewaaraton Lacrosse League and the Ontario Junior Lacrosse League butted heads this summer when the TLL announced they planned to launch their new league. The TLL didn't wind up taking place this year and even their planned combine for NLL prospects fell through, the latter in large part because the Ontario Lacrosse Association (of which the OJLL is part) threatened to suspend any players who took part in the TLL in any way for this year and next year. Jason Shuttleworth is the operating owner of the OJLL's Toronto Beaches and now the owner of the expansion Toronto Lacrosse Club in the TLL. How will it work to be involved in both leagues, what made Shuttleworth come around from being an opponent of the TLL's proposed league to an owner, and what does the future of lacrosse in Toronto look like? 

We tackle all of that and more with Shuttleworth as well as Beaches coach and Beast Athletics owner Reid Acton, this week on LaxBeat. It's a start towards conversations that need to happen in the lacrosse world. 

Speaking of the lacrosse world, LaxBeat opens with a news section looking at NLL preseason, Baggataway Cup, IIJL World U15 and U17 championships and more.