Random Thoughts: NLL Expansion!
It’s time for NLL expansion and that means player movement, predictions, and plenty of uncertainty over the next few weeks!
Random Thoughts: Minto Run in SWAT Sight, So-Long Stealth, NLL Award Waste
The Saskatchewan SWAT are making history with an unexpected run, the Stealth are gone, the NLL awards are a bust and much more.
Random Thoughts: Rush Win NLL Cup, We Get Canada, Making Moves
Team Canada resolved its issues, the SWAT pulled off an upset and the Saskatchewan Rush captured the NLL Cup on home soil.
Random Thoughts: NLL Finals Built for a Grand Finale
Is everybody excited for NLL Finals Game 3? Well perhaps not if you’re a Rush fan as you would have loved for it to be over with last Saturday, but for everybody else, we have a series that will go to the bitter end, which is exactly what everyone else wanted to see.
Random Thoughts: Rush Hot in Game 1, Ref Issues, Summer SWAT
After two weeks of waiting, we finally got down to business in a highly anticipated NLL final. The Saskatchewan Rush, who were the best team all season, and the team that managed to knock them off their pedestal twice, the Rochester Knighthawks.
Expansion Draft Projection 3.0 – Late May 2018 Edition
In this update to the Expansion Draft, we look at what has changed since the last projection back in mid-February. Certain rosters have changed and trades have been made. Those trades have impacts on who everyone is and isn’t protecting.
Random Thoughts: NLL Finals Set, No Scrubs, Press on CLA
The 2018 NLL Finals are figured out, Rochester against Saskatchewan. But, can the Canadian Lacrosse Association ever get their act together? The clock is on and we don’t want no scrubs.
Random Thoughts: No Canada, The Great Debate, NLL 1st Round
Another week in the NLL and another week closer to determining a winner. Yet, despite the opening round of the NLL playoffs taking place, the news was much smaller in the lacrosse world than other events going on around it. Like Canada potentially missing the FIL Championships.
NLL Playoff Scenarios: What if there were No Divisions?
The NLL Season had been building to a point for weeks, and I honestly didn’t think it was going to happen. But, it did. With only one more weekend of games, there was not a single Eastern Division playoff team locked in. Before the weekend, Evan did a great job outlining the NLL Playoff Scenarios.
Random Thoughts: End of Year Awards, Postseason Locks, Records Broken
We finally had a conclusion to what was a crazy season in the East division. The fantastic thing about it was that of the five games this weekend, four meant something in the playoff picture. But to think about it for a second, Vancouver almost beat Georgia. We would have had near chaos in the […]
Brett Bucktooth: Family, Fundamentals and Athleticism
Editor’s note: Please welcome GameChanger (and Brett Bucktooth) to LaxAllStars! GameChanger has developed an amazing new app called Team Manager, which we encourage every lacrosse team administrator to try. The folks at GC love lacrosse, and we’re pumped to have them on board as our partner. We hope you enjoy their podcast! Today on the show […]
Random Thoughts: Eastern Division Craziness!
If there wasn’t a perfect way to end the NLL Eastern Division season this year, we saw the results Saturday night. Nothing was settled and instead we saw the perfect storm, with New England beating Rochester 11-6 and Toronto beating Buffalo 16-11.