Category Archives: Colorado Mammoth

2023 NLL Off-season Report, Part II

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This has been a very busy off-season in the NLL. I wrote back in August about a whole bunch of changes, and now only a month later, there are a whole bunch more. And that’s not even considering the 2023 entry draft which just happened. Let’s have a look at the big deals and changes across the league, and one thing that’s not part of the NLL but affects a lot of NLL people: the Mann Cup.

We still have a couple of months until training camps start, so don’t be surprised if there’s an Off-season report, Part III.

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2023 NLL Championship

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They did it. After losing in both of the last two finals, the Buffalo Bandits got that monkey off their backs and won their first NLL Championship in 15 years. And after a very close game one and losing big in game two, they did it in convincing fashion, destroying the Colorado Mammoth 13-4 in Game three. After losing in their own building to these same Mammoth in game three of last year’s final, the Bandits had no intention of having history repeat itself this year.

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2023 NLL Finals: Games one and two

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. In a higher-scoring game than you might have expected, the Bandits got by the Mammoth by a single goal in game one of the NLL Championship Finals in Buffalo. In game two, the Bandits took a lead in the first half, but the hometown Mammoth came back and won by a few goals. Buffalo took far more penalties than Colorado in that game. Game three will be in Banditland to decide it all.

So, am I talking about the 2022 or 2023 Finals? Yup.

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2023 NLL Playoffs and Awards

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I spent most of the last 3 weeks on vacation in Italy, and it was fabulous. Of course, you’re not here for details on my trip so let’s get into what I missed: a couple of rounds of playoff action, as well as the announcement of the annual NLL awards nominees. The winners of those awards have been announced this week as well, so I’ll touch on those and how I screwed up my vote on one of them.

I’ve seen none of the playoff games so far, since they all took place starting at 1am Central European Time at the earliest. So other than a few video highlights here and there, all of my comments below are based solely on the game summaries and various comments on the games that I read on twitter. I’m going full boxscore cowboy this week.

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2023 NLL Week 22

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So the curtains are closed on the 2023 regular season. The Warriors, Desert Dogs, Rush, Wings, FireWolves, Swarm, and Riptide are all done for the year. The playoff curtains open next weekend for the rest, and we’re in for some pretty exciting games. Well, you are in for some exciting games. Details on that below.

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2023 NLL Week 20

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The playoff picture in the West is almost set – we know the four teams who will be in the post-season. In are the Seals, Roughnecks, PCLC, and Mammoth. The top two will be the Seals and Roughnecks but we don’t know the order, and third and fourth will be PCLC and the Mammoth, but we don’t know the order.

The East is less set. Similar to the West, we know the top two will be the Rock and Bandits, and next week’s matchup in Banditland will decide the order. But the other two spots are up for grabs. It could be Halifax/Rochester, or Rochester/Halifax, or Rochester/Georgia, or Georgia/Halifax, or Georgia/Philadelphia, or Halifax/Philadelphia, or possibly others. We could have all four of those teams tied at 9-9, which case I believe we’d have Halifax 3rd and Philadelphia 4th.

There are only 13 games left in the 2023 regular season, but still lots to be decided.

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2023 NLL Week 19

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Once again, I wasn’t able to see any games this past weekend, so this week’s report will be short. Kudos to the FireWolves for finally ending their losing streak and taking down the Knighthawks and to the surging Swarm for taking down the Rush.

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2023 NLL Week 16

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Some great news in terms of attendance… for some teams anyway. Panther City makes both the awesome and not awesome lists, Colorado looked good last weekend, and the East is getting closer and closer.

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2023 NLL Week 13

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So. Much. Awesome.

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2023 NLL Name Pronunciation Guide

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Look at my name. Just look at it. If you were to see “Graeme Perrow” for the first time, how would you pronounce it? GRAM-ee puh-ROW? That’s probably the most common one I get, but unless I’m in Scotland or talking to someone who is Scottish, people almost never get it right. I’ve been used to it my whole life. So back in 2011 when I was watching a Calgary Roughnecks game and the announcer talked about KAY-leb TAWth, who had already been a star in the league for a decade, I got frustrated. I decided to write an article listing all of the difficult-to-say names in the NLL and how to say them properly.

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