Category Archives: San Diego Seals

Off-season moves, Part II

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about some changes made to National Lacrosse League teams thus far in the off-season. Since then, we’ve had two different drafts and free agency opened up, so there have been even more changes.

I love hearing about trades and free agent signings prior to the season. It’s fun to think about how these changes will affect the teams, which changes might work just as expected (or better), and which ones might not work so well. It’s also fun to think about how a team that might have been a lock to miss the playoffs a couple of years ago seems unlikely to miss them now, or the other way around.

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2026 NLL Player Poll

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The Lax Mag posted their annual Player Poll last week. This is always a really interesting poll since it gives you insight into what the players think that you really don’t get anywhere else. The fact that it’s entirely anonymous means the players are more likely to give honest answers. I thought it would be fun (for me, anyway) to answer the same questions.

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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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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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2026 NLL Semi-Finals – Week 1

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The unexpected results from round one continued this weekend. The higher-seeded Rock won game one of their battle with the Seals on Friday night, but Sunday saw the Seals battle back to tie the series – with their backup goalie in net, a man who’s seen less than 180 minutes of action this entire season, and only 38 minutes (all last weekend) since early January. Meanwhile, the eight-seed Halifax Thunderbirds dominated their game against the Swarm and now have two chances at home to clinch their first-ever trip to the NLL Finals.

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Game report: Semi finals game 1, San Diego @ Toronto

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The Rock played their first home playoff game in just over two years on Friday night, and what a game it was. It started off looking like it would be very physical, but that sort of calmed down a bit. But the end-to-end action never did, and literally right to the end of regulation time, it was anybody’s game.

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Not Awesome: the overtime goal

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I’m sure that by now you’ve heard about the controversial goal scored in overtime in the San Diego / Colorado game from this past weekend. A minute into the overtime period, Tre Leclaire took a shot, Ward stopped it, Wes Berg picked up the rebound, and passed it to Leclaire who scored. Or did he?

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