Happy holidays to everyone who are or were celebrating this week or last! I was doing some family stuff last weekend so I managed to watch the Rock/Desert Dogs game replay on Sunday afternoon and then Bandits/Roughnecks on Sunday evening, but nothing else. Then we’re going away for New Years so I may not be able to watch much next weekend either.
Category Archives: Saskatchewan Rush
2026 NLL Week 4
Only four games this week but a lot of awesome to throw around. The Knighthawks and Wings remembered how to score goals but nobody else did. We had one game with 11 goals and one with 14. Another had 19, which is still pretty low, but each team had a 25+ minute scoring drought. We have a few Awesomes, a few Not Awesomes, and one that was kind of both and neither.
2026 NLL Week 3
After a busy week, all teams have played at least one game now. Halifax is 2–0, Rochester and Philly 1–0, Oshawa 1–2, Calgary 0–2, and Las Vegas 0–1. Everyone else – eight different teams – is 1–1, and four of those also have zero goal differentials. Things will almost certainly open up a bit more as the season progresses, but just as early season stats are fun, early season standings can be fun as well.
2026 NLL Week 2
Only two games in Week two but lots to talk about, including one of the best goaltending performances ever, an amazing NLL debut goal, and a big comeback. Let get right to it.
2026 NLL Preview: Part II
Here’s part II of my pre-season preview; part I was here. For each team (alphabetically from Ottawa through Vancouver), I’ll share where I think they will end up, and who might have a breakout year.
As I did last year, I’m not going to make specific standings predictions. I’ll break things up into groups: Top 4, Middle 4 (i.e. #5-8), and Miss Playoffs (#9-14).
NLL 2026: Who’s in, who’s out
Here it is: a complete summary of all the roster changes for each team, all in one place. I will update this article as things change, up until the beginning of the season.
Just to be clear, “In” means that the player is part of the announced roster for the 2026 season and was not on the active roster during the team’s last game of the season in 2025. “Out” means just the opposite: they were on the roster for the last game last year, but are not on the active roster as of now. So a player who was injured at the time of the last game last year but is back now is “In”, while a player who is currently injured might be “Out”.
Not all teams have announced who’s on their IR, PUP, or holdout lists so take an empty list with a grain of salt. Also most teams don’t have (or didn’t announce) a Protected or Draft list, but a few did.
Future Hall of Famers, Part II
Recently I wrote about non-players who deserve consideration for induction to the NLL Hall of Fame once their careers are over. In that article, I covered owners as well as broadcasters and today I’m going to cover GMs, coaches and officials.
Future Hall of Famers, Part I
The National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame is a very important place. It contains players, coaches, GMs, journalists, and officials that have had a significant effect on the league during their careers. However, it’s also not a place at all, in the sense that there is no specific location associated with it. You can’t go and visit the NLL Hall of Fame like you can the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame (in St. Catharine’s, Ontario), the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame (in New Westminster, BC), or the National [American] Lacrosse Hall of Fame in Sparks, MD.
It also seems to have fallen off the radar of the league itself, since only one group of people has been inducted into the Hall in the last ten years.
2025 NLL Playoffs: Finals week two
The 2025 NLL season is over. Congratulations to the Buffalo Bandits, who became the second team in NLL history to win three straight Championships with an impressive 15–6 victory over the Saskatchewan Rush.
My prediction for game three of the finals was not entirely wrong, but mostly; I said last week that I’d expect it to be “a low-scoring, close, exciting game that’s down to the wire”. Well, it was exciting, anyway.
2025 NLL Playoffs: Finals week one
Only one game left. The Rush refused to be taken out in two games, and the Bandits lost their first playoff game in almost two years (Game 2 of their Championship series against the Mammoth in 2023). The 2025 season is now down to one game, next Saturday afternoon (at an unusual 4:30pm EDT start time) in Buffalo. Both teams have strong defences, incredible goaltending, and powerful offences so it’s hard to predict what’s going to happen, but low-scoring games have been far more common in these playoffs than high-scoring games. I’d expect more of the same – a low-scoring, close, exciting game that’s down to the wire.
NLL Chatter 