The Saskatchewan Rush beat the Buffalo Bandits 11-10 in Game 2 of the NLL Finals on Sunday night, forcing a decisive Game 3 this Saturday. In a game where neither team had more than a three-goal lead at any point, it was the hometown Rush who finished the strongest. The last time the Bandits lost a playoff game was May 29, 2023, when the Colorado Mammoth beat them 16-10 in…
Bandits take game one
For the fifth consecutive season, the NLL Finals came to us from KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. The hometown Buffalo Bandits welcomed the Saskatchewan Rush for a clash of the league’s top two teams. Moreover, it would be a rematch of the 2016 NLL Finals that saw Saskatchewan beat the Bandits. This year was a bit different, as the Rush were looking towards “destiny” as they looked to return…
Rush Advance to Finals After Wild Game 2 Finish
The Saskatchewan Rush are headed to the NLL Finals after sweeping their best-of-three series against the Halifax Thunderbirds. But the outcome was not a sure thing—a flurry of goals in the final 3:23 of the second game nearly resulted in Halifax forcing a Game Three. Instead, the Rush tied the game in the dying seconds, and won 10-9 in overtime. The game looked like it might be a blowout in…
NLL: Buffalo sweeps Vancouver, punches ticket to fifth-straight Finals
The second round of the NLL Playoffs came to us from KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York on Friday night. The hometown Bandits welcomed the Vancouver Warriors for the first game of the best-of-three series. The path that these two clubs took to get to this point was vastly different. Buffalo defeated San Diego 5-4, in the lowest scoring game in history, while Vancouver exploded for 15 goals in their…
NLL: Austin Shanks burns former team in Saskatchewan’s game one win
Former Halifax Thunderbird, Austin Shanks, scored six goals in the Saskatchewan Rush’s 16-7 win over the Thunderbirds during game one of the NLL semi-final match-up at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, N.S. Shanks scored a hat trick in the first quarter, and another hat trick in the third quarter to propel the Rush to victory. Shanks was a Thunderbird for the past four seasons but signed with the Rush in…
NLL: Rush Advance to Semi-Finals With 13-9 Win Over Swarm
The Saskatchewan Rush took a 13-9 win in their opening round playoff matchup against the Georgia Swarm. The Rush move on to a three-game series against the Halifax Thunderbirds next weekend, while the Swarm will pack up and start looking to next year. Georgia’s Jacob Hickey opened the scoring just a minute into the contest on a fast break, with Brendan Bomberry adding to the lead a few minutes later….
NLL: Bandits advance in lowest-scoring game in league history
The 2024-25 NLL Playoffs officially kicked off Friday night from raucous Banditland in Buffalo, New York. The first round was a single elimination matchup between the Buffalo Bandits and the San Diego Seals. These two clubs split their season series, and San Diego won the last time they stepped foot into the KeyBank Center. Both games were tightly contested, so this one was sure to be a banger. Banger it…
NLL: Thunderbirds finally get past the NLL quarter-finals
For the first time in the Halifax Thunderbirds’ history, they have won a single elimination quarter-final game. Defeating the Calgary Roughnecks 16-12 on Saturday night at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax to move on to the semi-finals against the Saskatchewan Rush. “It’s an awesome feeling, it is the first playoff win in my career as well, so I’m still getting used to it and getting prepared for the next week,”…
Georgia punches ticket in final week
In the final week of the regular season, the matchup between the Buffalo Bandits and the Georgia Swarm had massive implications for the hometown Swarm, and absolutely none for the Bandits. The answer for Georgia was simple; win, and you’re in. Lose, and you go home. Buffalo had already locked up the one-seed for the playoffs, so they were looking to sharpen their game heading into the postseason. There were…
Roughnecks Clinch
After the punishing grind of a twenty-one week NLL season, the playoff hopes for the Calgary Roughnecks all came down to a final double-header. The 8-8 Roughnecks had earned the right to control their own destiny and their first chance to clinch came with a match-up against the Las Vegas Desert Dogs. Calgary jumped out to a 7-1 lead and then survived a furious Las Vegas comeback to win…