A light week in the NLL with only three games, and yet thanks to the holidays I’m still getting this article up several days late. Apologies for my tardiness but on the upside, there are no Not Awesomes this week! I mean, there were things that weren’t awesome from this past week – for example, Colorado’s offense, but much of that was Georgia’s defense and goaltending. I didn’t think it was bad enough to warrant a whole Not Awesome section. Similarly, Panther City’s attendance was not awesome (in fact, it sucked) but that’s a dead horse I’m kinda getting tired of beating.
Category Archives: Weekly report
2024 NLL Week 2
Another weekend of exciting games, including all the teams that didn’t play in week one, so every team has played now. The two teams that met in the Championship last season both lost to teams that were a combined 11-25 last season, the Knighthawks and FireWolves continue their hot start, the Desert Dogs grab victory from the jaws of defeat, and the Rock, Swarm, and Seals begin their seasons with wins.
2024 NLL Week 1
The 2023-2024 NLL season (I tend to shorten that to just the 2024 season since the majority of it will be played in 2024 and it’s just easier) started this past weekend with some pretty exciting games. The T-Birds dominated the Rush, Panther City got by the new-look Warriors, after a dismal 2023 season the Firewolves open their season with a win against Las Vegas, the Knighthawks came from behind to beat the Roughnecks, and the Wings managed to prevent the Riptide from doing the same. Let’s have a look at what rocked and what didn’t in week one.
2023 NLL Championship
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.
2023 NLL Finals: Games one and two
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.
2023 NLL Week 22
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.
2023 NLL Week 21
We’re almost there… There are only six games left in the 2023 NLL season, and some playoff decisions have yet to be made. Rochester clinched their spot this past weekend, while the Wings were eliminated. The Bandits locked up first in the East while the Seals did the same in the West. Halifax and Georgia are still fighting for the last spot, and how awesome is it that they play each other on the last day of the season to decide it?
2023 NLL Week 20
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.
2023 NLL Week 19
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.
2023 NLL Week 14
Seven games this past weekend, going from Friday at 6:30 Eastern all the way until Monday night. We had four one-goal games, one three-goal game that took place outside, and a couple of others which I wouldn’t call blowouts, but one team was noticeably more dominant than the other.
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