The late game of the week one slate was set to be an interesting matchup. On one side, you had the Vancouver Warriors, who made a ton of moves in the offseason and were primed to make a run at the NLL Cup this year. Two of the bigger additions they made were acquiring Jesse King and Curtis Dickson in free agency. On the other side, you had the Colorado…
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…
Going into their week 18 matchup, the Buffalo Bandits and Vancouver Warriors were trending in different directions. The Bandits, who sat atop the NLL standings, were 4-3 in their last seven games, while the Warriors were winners of two-in-a-row, and it seemed like the addition of Christian Del Bianco was the boost they needed to make a playoff push. Saturday night’s contest was set to be a good one in…
The final game on Saturday night of the week 17 slate was coming to you live from Rogers Arena in Vancouver. The hometown Warriors were set to do battle with the visiting Georgia Swarm. Both clubs came in logjammed in the middle of the standings, so a win for either side would prove to be crucial when it came to playoff seeding. Vancouver saw themselves with a five-goal lead late…
The late game of the Week 15 Friday night slate came to you from Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California. The hometown Seals were set to do battle with the visiting Vancouver Warriors. Both teams were right in the middle of the pack in the standings, so a win would be crucial in improving their playoff chances. San Diego has been a tenacious team all year long, using late-game heroics…
The Saskatchewan Rush scored four unanswered goals in the third quarter on Friday night to build up a big enough lead to hold off a late surge from the Vancouver Warriors, giving the Rush a 10-7 victory. The win improves the Rush to 9-2 on the season, putting them solidly in second place in the NLL. The Warriors drop to 5-6, putting them in a three-way tie for eighth position…
If you’re from the East Coast, you were in for some lacrosse after dark on Friday night. The late game came to you from Lee’s Family Forum in Las Vegas, as the hometown Desert Dogs welcomed in the Vancouver Warriors. Vancouver saw themselves in the top eight of the standings, while Las Vegas was towards the bottom and needed to string some wins together. We are at about the halfway…
The finale of the Friday night slate in week 11 was set to be a good one. The action came to you from Rogers Arena as the hometown Vancouver Warriors welcomed in the Calgary Roughnecks. It was an interesting game, as the total scoring by quarter was as follows: eight, eleven, seven, one. This should tell you that it was an absolute track meet for 45 of the 60 minutes,…
In a battle between the east coast Halifax Thunderbirds and the west coast Vancouver Warriors, it was fitting that the star of the game was Halifax defender Ryan Terefenko. Multiple times, he went from the defensive end to the offensive end, or coast to coast, to score his first career hat trick and add two assists to propel the Thunderbirds to a 10-9 victory over the Warriors at the Scotiabank…
Rogers Arena in Vancouver was the place to be Friday night, as the hometown Warriors welcomed in the Ottawa Black Bears. Both teams were in similar positions in the standings, so this one was crucial for a bit of jockeying. The game as a whole was very low-scoring and featured two phenomenal performances from both netminders. Aden Walsh and the Warriors got the better of the Black Bears, winning 8-4….