On Feb. 21, the Halifax Thunderbirds lost 9-8 to the San Diego Seals, putting their record at three wins and seven losses. The Thunderbirds had scored 8.7 goals per game, which was one of the least productive offences in the league, and it looked like they were on their way to missing the playoffs for the first time since they moved to Halifax from Rochester in 2019. Fast forward…
The Georgia Swarm dismantled the Halifax Thunderbirds 21-9 to win game two of their NLL semi-final series on in front of a sold out crowd at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. The Swarm force a winner-take-all game three Sunday night in Halifax. The 11-point win is the largest playoff win since the Buffalo Bandits beat the Rochester Knighthawks 20-8 in the eastern quarter-finals in 2023, and the largest a road…
The Halifax Thunderbirds walked back to their dressing room at Rogers Arena in Vancouver last Friday night, down 7-1 at the end of the first half against the top-seeded Vancouver Warriors. Conventional wisdom would suggest they were about to play their final half of the season before being eliminated in the one-game knockout NLL quarter-finals. But the Thunderbirds weren’t deterred. “I don’t think it was as bad as the scoreboard…