The Buffalo Bandits (2-1) and the New England Black Wolves (2-1) will face off in the first of three important divisional showdowns during the 2016 NLL regular season tonight at the Mohegan Sun Arena. The last time these two teams met was a 2015 week 18 battle at the First Niagara Center where the Bandits emerged victorious with the 20-10 home victory. As the old saying goes, that was then…
In a showdown of two long standing Eastern Division rivals, the Buffalo Bandits (2-1) saw their team firing on all cylinders of their game and sent the Toronto Rock (0-4) back to the drawing board still looking for their first win of the season after the Bandits crushed the Rock 12-6 in front of 13,395 at the First Niagara Center Saturday night. The win against the Rock not only…
Saturday’s tilt between the Toronto Rock and Buffalo Bandits is a must win for Toronto. They have suffered two losses to Rochester and and one to Georgia. Buffalo split their first two games; a win over Calgary and a loss to Colorado in overtime, both one goal games. The defending Eastern Conference champion Rock cannot go down four straight to start the season and expect to have success later. With…
The Buffalo Bandits will travel out west to take on the Colorado Mammoth at the Pepsi Center. Both teams are coming off hard fought, tight games in Week Two. Buffalo got the 10-9 win over Calgary, while Colorado defeated Rochester 16-14 in a back and forth affair. The Bandits offense seemed to be off last week; there were a lot of dropped passes, and missed shots. Also not to mention…
The Buffalo Bandits celebratory 25th season as a franchise was in full swing Saturday night as the team faced off against the visiting Calgary Roughnecks in front of 14,286 screaming Banditland fans inside the First Niagara Center. Bandits forward Dhane Smith gave the fans definitely something to cheer about with a stunning stutter-step/fake of a shot past Roughnecks starting goaltender Frankie Scigliano in the closing two minutes of the game…
The Calgary Roughnecks (0-1) play their first road game of the year in the east division tomorrow when they visit the Buffalo Bandits (0-0) in their home opener. After shutting out the Saskatchewan Rush last week in the first quarter and most of the second, they failed to make the adjustments that the Rush made and came out on the losing end after such a solid start, and they know…
The Calgary Roughnecks today announced they have acquired transition player Brandon Goodwin from the Buffalo Bandits in exchange for defenceman Mitch de Snoo. Goodwin, 24, recorded seven points (three goals, four assists) and 17 loose balls in 10 games during his 2015 NLL rookie campaign. The 6-foot-2, 212-pound transition player from New Westminster, British Columbia, was selected by Buffalo in the first round, ninth overall, in the 2014 NLL Draft….
2015 Record: 11-7 (third in division/lost in first round of Eastern playoffs) Team Acquisitions: (F) Anthony Malcolm (F) Daryl Veltman (T) Tim Edwards (T) Craig England Team Losses: (F) John Tavares (F) Corey Fowler (F) Jordan Dance (F) Joe Resetarits (D) Derek Suddons Offense: The 2015 NLL season saw the Buffalo Bandits offense finally show some major signs of improvement. The offensive trinity of Ryan Benesch (led all…
Professional lacrosse is coming back to Pennsylvania, this time, up in the Lehigh Valley area. The New England Black Wolves and Buffalo Bandits will battle in their second preseason matchup at the PPL Center tomorrow night at 7 p.m. New England and their new Head Coach, Glenn Clark, have made some good moves this offseason, acquiring Shawn Evans and Shane MacDonald along with re-signing Kevin Crowley. MacDonald and Evans tallied…
Last night the Buffalo Bandits defeated the New England Black Wolves 15-8 to open their pre season. After the contest, we caught up with head coach Troy Cordingley and forward Tyler Ferreira. Troy Cordingley Tyler Ferreira