Rock End Three Win Game Streak on the Road in Buffalo 1/18/2020

January 18, 2020

Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Sara Schmidle The Toronto Rock (3-2) drove down the QEW highway to visit the Buffalo Bandits (3-1) at the KeyBank Center in front of 12, 026 Bandits fans.  Unfortunately, they had to do it without two of their top offensive players as Tom Schreiber and Adam Jones were both out with upper body injuries.  They started fast and…

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Bandits Break Out in Georgia & Dominate Swarm 1/11/2020

January 12, 2020

Chris Vale, Correspondent Buffalo Bandits Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Kyle Hess The Buffalo Bandits (2-1) came off the bye week and headed down to Georgia and took down the Swarm (2-2) by the score of 16-10. One big take away from this game was the return of Bandit’s forward Chase Fraser (3G, 3A) who had himself a six point night and earned himself the Player of the…

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Justin and Friends NLL Picks Week 7 -1/10/2019

January 10, 2020

Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Standings: Shawn Palmer 15-7 Justin Ivey 14-8 Stephonya Hunter-Penner 14-8 Chris Vale 12-10 Week 6 only had two games, but they were exciting!  The Colorado Mammoth completed an outstanding come from behind victory over the Vancouver Warriors on the back of their gritty defense.  The New York Riptide had a similar scenario to get their first win of the season against the Philadelphia…

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GEICO Extends Partnership With National Lacrosse League For Full 2019-20 Season 1/9/2020

January 9, 2020

[MEDIA RELEASE]  Renewal of League’s Major Partnership Another Big Step Forward For NLL And The Sport of Lacrosse  Philadelphia, January 9​, 2020 – The National Lacrosse League (@NLL) has announced an extension of its groundbreaking partnership with GEICO, one of the largest insurance providers in the United States.  GEICO will be the official insurance provider of the NLL for the full season after becoming a partner in March of 2019….

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Thunderbirds Rumble in Buffalo 12/28/19

December 29, 2019

Di Miller, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Bill Wippert On Saturday December 28, 2019 the Halifax Thunderbirds (3-0) headed down to Buffalo to face their North Division rivals the Bandits (2-1) at KeyBank Center.  The Bandits drew the most fans in the league this weekend in their game last night boasting 13,576 in total.  But the Halifax offense coupled with amazing net minding; and a total…

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Justin and Friends NLL Picks Week 5 (Saturday and Sunday Games) -12/28/2019

December 28, 2019

Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Standings: Shawn Palmer 10-4 Justin Ivey 9-5 Chris Vale 8-6 Stephonya Hunter-Penner 8-6 The panel was correct for the first Friday game!  New England steam rolled New York with many players hitting milestones (read our recap – it was amazing).  Calgary ended up coming out with a strong second half to defeat the Seals in San Diego.  Five of the eight weekend games…

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National Lacrosse League and B/R Live to Offer Live “Game of the Week” Available for Free Across B/R Live, Twitter & Facebook 12/11/19

December 11, 2019

 All 13 NLL teams to be featured to a global audience starting on Saturday, December 14 Philadelphia, December 11, 2019 – The National Lacrosse League (@NLL), the largest and longest-standing professional lacrosse league in the world, and its global media partner B/R Live today announced a wider expansion of NLL live game coverage across multiple platforms, with the launch of the NLL “Game of the Week” streaming for free across…

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Buffalo Dominates in Banditland to Defeat the Seals on Opening Night 12/8/19

December 8, 2019

Chris Vale, Correspondent Buffalo Bandits Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Courtesy of National League Lacrosse The Buffalo Bandits (1-0) are looking to make it back to the NLL Championship and bring it back to Buffalo in 2020. The first test for this new Buffalo team was Saturday night December 7 when the San Diego Seals (0-1) headed east to start off their season as well in the NLL Week…

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Justin and Friends NLL Picks Week 2 -12/7/2019

December 7, 2019

Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Standings: Chris Vale 3-0 Shawn Palmer 3-0 Stephonya Hunter-Penner 1-2 Justin Ivey 1-2 Wow.  The new look Rochester Knighthawks couldn’t find the chemistry to be competitive in Week 1 and Georgia looked like the most dangerous team in the NLL again.  Chris and Shawn saw right through the big offensive names.  Del Bianco had a huge 63 saves in Calgary’s win over Vancouver,…

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Bandits Take Brent Noseworthy 12th Overall 2019 NLL Entry Draft 9/23/19

September 23, 2019

Chris Vale, Correspondent Buffalo Bandits Lacrosse is Awesome© At the beginning of the season, the Buffalo Bandits roster included the second, third and fourth picks from the 2018 NLL Entry Draft; two of which were drafted, Ian Mackay and Matt Gilray both solid back end players. The other, a late season trade which gave them Chris Cloutier from the Wings a very talented lefty forward with a lot of upside….

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Roughnecks Strike Oil & Hoist the Champions Cup 5/25/19

May 26, 2019

Di Miller, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Candice Ward On May 25, 2019 the Western Division Champion Calgary Roughnecks after having defeated the Eastern Division Buffalo Bandits on their turf last Saturday May 18, had the chance to close out the series final and walk away with the Champions Cup at home in front of 17,038 Riggers fans and they did not disappoint.  The game was…

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Roughnecks Steal Game 1 in Buffalo – 5/18/2019

May 20, 2019

Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© In the 2019 regular and postseason, the Buffalo Bandits held opponents to 10 or fewer goals 12 times. They won all 12 of those games. The Bandits finished the regular season 7-2 at home, and easily won rounds one and two as the host team. The offense seemed unstoppable at times this year, and the defense caused so much confusion in games that…

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