NLL streaming moves to FloSports

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Judging by the comments online, this might have been a bigger story this NLL offseason than the Wings and Black Bears folding. At least with those stories, we all saw them coming. Not this one.

The NLL announced on Thursday that they had agreed to a partnership with a company called FloSports for exclusive streaming rights to all NLL games, both regular season and playoffs. That’s right, NLL+, the league’s own broadcast and streaming service, is no more. Considering how much time and work (and presumably money) the league put into NLL+, this was surprising to me.

The reaction from many fans to the news of this partnership was… less than enthusiastic. There were complaints about the broadcast quality but mostly there were complaints about the fact that watching NLL games this season would no longer be free.

I reached out to the league’s Executive VP of Broadcast and Media Joel Feld and the Senior VP of Technology and Broadcast Operations Ed Derse to ask about the reasoning behind this decision. After I talked to Joel and Ed, they (virtually) introduced me to Brian Reinert, VP of Corporate Communications at FloSports, and I had a conversation with him as well. This is a summary of those conversations.

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Off-season moves, Part I

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All things considered, it hasn’t really been a busy off-season for the NLL. There have been some retirements and some team changes (one will change colours, one will change arenas, and two will vanish entirely). We also had the first NLL Hall of Fame inductees in several years, but there was only one trade and not much else. But the two-team dispersal draft, the opening of free agency, and the entry draft are all within the next two weeks. It’s not unlikely that an awful lot of player movement will occur during that time, so let’s go over what’s already happened and then we can discuss those changes later.

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2026 NLL Season in review: Part III

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This is Part III of my III-part season in review wrap-up. Part I included awesomes and not awesomes for each team from Buffalo through Oshawa, and Part II included each team from Ottawa through Vancouver. This one is about the league in general. There are more Not Awesome entries here than Awesome but don’t take that to mean that 2026 was anything other than a fantastic season for the NLL.

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2026 NLL Season in review: Part II

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This is Part II of my season in review wrap-up. I’ve listed at least one awesome thing and at least one not awesome thing about each and every team. Part I included Buffalo through Oshawa, and this one includes Oshawa through Vancouver. Part III, coming soon, will list some awesome and not awesome things about the league in general.

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2026 NLL Season in review: Part I

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I am trying something new here. Every week during the season, I list all the awesome and not-so-awesome things that happened that week, whether it’s a game, a team, a player, a specific play, a trade, or anything else relating to the NLL. This year, as a season-end wrap-up, I’m going to find at least one thing that was awesome and at least one thing that was not awesome about each team. That will get long, so I’ll break it into two alphabetically. Part I will include Buffalo through Oshawa, and Part II will include Ottawa through Vancouver.

But wait, there’s more! There were a bunch of awesome things and not awesome things about the league in general, so that will be in Part III. So we invite you, wherever you are, whether you’re at home or whatever, to kick your shoes off and put your feet up, and lean back and get yourself a cup of coffee or something, and just relax and join us in this 2026 NLL season in review.*

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The Halifax Experience

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I travelled to Halifax this past weekend with my wife and a couple of friends to see game two of the Finals. This was my third time in Halifax in the past three years, but my first Thunderbirds game there. Seeing a game there became a bucket-list thing for me not long after the team arrived there; the atmosphere inside the Nest always looked really exciting and loud, so I was looking forward to seeing just how exciting and loud it could be. I’ve heard many people say that the experience in the Nest was really great, and even “unmatched” in the NLL, but most of those people worked for the T-Birds, played for the T-Birds, or were fans of the T-Birds. I’m none of those three, so let me give you my unbiased opinion: all of those people were absolutely right.

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2026 NLL Finals game two

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The books are closed on the 2026 NLL season, as the Toronto Rock defeated the Halifax Thunderbirds in the Nest to take game two. The Rock won their seventh Championship, but first since 2011. Challen Rogers was 17 when the Rock last won it all. CJ Kirst was eight. The Thunderbirds lost their first trip to the Finals since 2018 when they were the old Rochester Knighthawks. Of course that predates their move to Halifax, so the vast majority of Thunderbirds fans will consider that their first trip to the dance.

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2026 NLL Finals, game one

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Game one of the finals was close, back-and-forth, and exciting with some great goaltending, exceptional defense, and a big comeback. But unlike the quarterfinals, it wasn’t the Halifax Thunderbirds staging the big comeback.

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NLL Experience of GMs & Coaches

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During the semi-finals, I noticed that all of the people listed on San Diego’s “Coaching staff” web page were very high NLL draft picks. I posted that to X and someone suggested that I do that for all the teams. I decided to add some additional information – when they played in the NLL if at all, whether they are in the Hall of Fame, and what awards they had won.

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2026 NLL Semi-Finals, week 2

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Good news: The Finals are here! We’re this close to determining the 2026 NLL Champion!
Bad news: There are at most three games left in the NLL season.

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