Justin Ivey, Co-Editor and NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© The Buffalo Bandits are headed to the NLL Finals for the first time since 2019. Game 1 highlighted the offense, and as many expected, Game 2 was a defensive battle. Matt Vinc (42 SV) set a new Bandits record with his fifth post season victory for the franchise while Josh Byrne (2G, 6A) and Dhane Smith (2G, 4A) mustered up just…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image courtesy of Buffalo Bandits Media Team. The Toronto Rock drove down Highway 401 to meet the Buffalo Bandits in Game One of the Eastern Conference Final which placed two of the top regular season teams in the NLL against each other. It was a game of runs that went back and forth throughout and ended with the Buffalo Bandits coming…
Justin Ivey, Co-Editor and NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Michael Hetzel/NLL The Buffalo Bandits ended the regular season with the best record in the NLL and the home floor advantage for their championship run. On Saturday night, they hosted the Albany Firewolves whom they had already beaten twice this season. Albany came in having been in playoff mode for their last month of the regular season,…
[MEDIA RELEASE] Final Score: Buffalo 14–Rochester 8 Knighthawks rookie forward Ryan Smith (3+1) recorded his second home hat trick of the season while leading the offense with four points. Forwards Turner Evans (1+2) and Holden Cattoni (1+2) both recorded three-point efforts with a goal and an assist apiece, while Charlie Bertrand (1+0), Thomas Hoggarth (1+1) and Matt Gilray (1+0) provided Rochester’s other tallies on the night. Veteran forward Shawn Evans…
Justin Ivey, Co-Editor and NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© The NLL needs to check some of the video from Friday’s game at KeyBank Center in Buffalo. Specifically, they need to investigate the net on the right of the benches from the perspective of the announcing crew. Exactly zero of the 21 goals scored during the Buffalo Bandits (7-1) win over the Albany Firewolves (4-5) on Friday passed that plane. Personally,…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The undefeated Buffalo Bandits (6-1) visited the Toronto Rock (5-3) in Hamilton for an early evening game on Saturday February 12, 2022. This should be the last game in Toronto without fans as the restrictions should be completely lifted when their next home game happens in March. Buffalo was trying to extend their winning streak to…
Christopher Crane, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Bill Wippert In this weekend’s NLL action, we got to see I-90 rivals in action. The Rochester Knighthawks (2-5) travelled to the KeyBank Center to take on the Buffalo Bandits (6-0) in front of a crowd of 9,371. It seemed as if the Bandits were going to control the tempo of the game as they would hold the Knighthawks to…
Christopher Crane, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Spencer Kagan To close out this weekend’s NLL action the Buffalo Bandits (5-0) would travel to the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to take on the New York Riptide (1-5) in front of a crowd of 4,051. This matchup between the two Eastern Division opponents would be a “Battle of the Half’s”. The Bandits would end up controlling the first…
Christopher Crane, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: M. Hetzel The National Lacrosse League action started a day early for the Buffalo Bandits (4-0) with their game that was originally scheduled for Saturday being moved to Friday night due to the Buffalo Bills NFL playoff game. They would play host to the Georgia Swarm (1-3) at the Key Bank Center in front of a crowd of 7,744. Though…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Ben Green The Toronto Rock (2-2) made their way down the QEW highway to take on the Buffalo Bandits (3-0) in a game where both teams donned special jerseys that were to be auctioned off after the game to raise money against cancer. This was the annual Tucker Out Lymphoma game in memory of Tucker Williams the younger…
Chris Crane, Rochester Knighthawks Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Photo Credit: Micheline V, Rochester Knighthawks In this weekend’s NLL action the Rochester Knighthawks (1-1) played host to the Buffalo Bandits (2-0) at the Blue Cross Arena. The game would remain very close for the first three quarters of play with Buffalo shutting out Rochester in the first quarter, but the Knighthawks would then return the favor in the second to take a…
Marcelo A. Sagüez, Correspondent Calgary Roughnecks Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Courtesy of Calgary Roughnecks It seems like a lifetime since we watched pro Lacrosse and last weekend marked the start of 2021 NLL season. The Calgary Roughnecks (0-1) opened the season in “Banditland” at the KeyBank Center home to the Buffalo Bandits (1-0) without the likes of Dane Dobbie and Rhys Duch who were traded in the off…