2026 NLL Week 14 There were ten games this past weekend, which ties for second place among the busiest weekends in NLL history - the last weekend of the 2007 season featured eleven games. Every team played, a bunch of teams played twice, and yet the standings didn’t change an awful lot. The Black…

2026 NLL Week 13 Only four games this past weekend, but they all made my Awesome list in one form or another. If you’ve got some time and you didn’t see any of them, head on over to NLL+ (or TSN.ca in Canada*) and check them out. You will not be disappointed.

Game review: Colorado @ Toronto This was a really entertaining game. It was close with a few lead changes and only a couple of leads of as much as two until the very end. I was going to list this game under the Awesome section of my weekly report, but it got kind of long so I split it out.

2026 NLL Week 12 We are officially at the halfway point of the season, as every team has now played at least nine games. The Rush are now tied for the fourth-longest single-season winning streak at eight games, the Mammoth are right behind them with a seven-game streak, and the Swarm have won five…

Quite possibly the least popular hockey player ever, Sean Avery

ICYMI: 2026 NLL Week 11 Awesome: Paul Tutka and @tymerlax.bsky.social, TOR, OSH, PHI, standings Not awesome: Gash/Clark fight, BUF, pregame fight, goalies in YVR nllchatter.com/2026/02/09/2...

2026 NLL Week 11 I would guess that nobody is shocked at most of the game results this week, other than maybe the game in Banditland (which I guess was more unexpected than shocking). The Warriors beating the Knighthawks isn’t shocking (they did it last week too), but the final score was a bit…

It's funny how those angry over "I didn't understand Bad Bunny's lyrics because they're in Spanish" are the same people saying "translate his lyrics, they are inappropriate for kids". If your kids don't understand them, who cares? And Kid Rock's biggest song is "Bawitdaba"

2026 NLL Week 10 A crazy high-scoring weekend with seven games, only two of which were settled by less than six goals. There were goals and hits and injuries and controversy. The Desert Dogs are an offensive powerhouse and the Bandits have suspect defense. The world has gone crazy.

Contact on a fast breaking opponent The incident happened a little over twelve hours ago as I write this, and there are already tons of posts all over social media talking about it. Many are condemning the hit, others saying it was a legal hit blown out of proportion, and still others saying we…

2026 NLL Week 9 A light week in the NLL with only four games, and all ended up fairly close. The Swarm took out the Rock in OT, the Seals came back to beat the Wings by two, Vancouver led 10–3 in the second until Ottawa surged but couldn’t get closer than three back, and Oshawa got within two with…

2026 NLL Week 8 We’re about a third of the way through the 2026 NLL season. A bunch of teams are playing as well as expected or even better: Saskatchewan, Rochester, Colorado, Ottawa, Las Vegas, and arguably Georgia. Others are struggling: Calgary, San Diego, Philadelphia, Oshawa, Halifax. I…

2026 NLL Week 7 There was so much awesome this week that I cut down on the commentary for each entry a little bit. Otherwise this article would be five times as long as my normal articles.

New feature on NLLStats.com: Attendance! You can find the highest and lowest game attendance, totals and averages for every season, and data on every game and every season for every team. See the Attendance menu on the left side of the page.

The NLL Drinking Game The next time you’re watching an NLL game at home, here’s a fun game to play while you watch. Grab yourself a frosty beverage, and whenever one of the following things happens, take a drink. If the frosty beverage in question contains alcohol, you may want to choose a game in…

2026 NLL Week 6 As of week 6, every team has won at least one and lost at least one. Four teams are at .500, five are above, and five are below. The top four teams were in the top five last year, and three of the bottom four were in the bottom four last year. So not much has changed, right? No, it…

2026 NLL week 5 Happy holidays to everyone who are or were celebrating this week or last! I was doing some family stuff last weekend so I managed to watch the Rock/Desert Dogs game replay on Sunday afternoon and then Bandits/Roughnecks on Sunday evening, but nothing else. Then we’re going away for…

New feature on NLLStats.com: You can now select multiple seasons for player and goalie lists. Want to see who had the most points from 2009-2013? (Dan Dawson) Or the lowest GAA among starters from 2006-2009? (Ken Montour) nllstats.com/allplayers nllstats.com/allgoalies

2026 NLL Week 4 Only four games this week but a lot of awesome to throw around. The Knighthawks and Wings remembered how to score goals but nobody else did. We had one game with 11 goals and one with 14. Another had 19, which is still pretty low, but each team had a 25+ minute scoring drought. We…

2026 NLL Week 3 After a busy week, all teams have played at least one game now. Halifax is 2–0, Rochester and Philly 1–0, Oshawa 1–2, Calgary 0–2, and Las Vegas 0–1. Everyone else - eight different teams - is 1–1, and four of those also have zero goal differentials. Things will almost certainly…

The new place: TD Coliseum On Saturday night, the Toronto Rock returned home to Hamilton (man, that’s a weird sentence) and the Rock faithful were finally able to see the extent of the renovations that forced the team to play in Mississauga last season. I had been looking forward to this for a…

New feature on NLLStats.com: Career milestones page for goalies Want to know how many goalies have faced at least 5000 shots in their career and also have a career GAA under 11? (Answer: Bold, Cosmo, Del Bianco, Rose, Vinc) nllstats.com/careerGoalie...

New features on NLLStats.com: (1) The game search for players + goalies pages, season milestones page, and career milestones page can now use shots on goal, face-offs won, face-offs attempted, and face-off percentage as search criteria.

2026 NLL Week 2 Only two games in Week two but lots to talk about, including one of the best goaltending performances ever, an amazing NLL debut goal, and a big comeback. Let get right to it.

NLLStats.com is updated with the games from week 2

If you're new to lacrosse, here's an article I wrote a bunch of years ago that might help you learn the terminology. In fact, I think even seasoned experts will see something they didn't already know nllchatter.com/2018/03/05/l...

2026 NLL Week 1 The NLL is back! The 2026 season began last Friday with the first-ever game in Oshawa, followed by three games on Saturday in Buffalo, Ottawa, and Vancouver. Buffalo won their game, which surprised pretty much nobody, Colorado beat the heavily favoured Vancouver Warriors in an…

Goalies in the Sin Bin In last Saturday night’s Georgia/Buffalo game, Swarm goaltender Brett Dobson took a major penalty for high-sticking. It’s a bit unusual for a goalie to take a major penalty but that was less unusual than what happened next: Dobson was sent to the penalty box to serve his own…

2026 NLL Rule changes Every year, some tweaks are made to the NLL Rule book. There aren’t that many this year but Rule 67.16, the so-called “Bandits rule”, could significantly affect the defensive strategies of not only the Bandits but other teams as well - the Knighthawks come to mind.

2026 NLL Preview: Part II Here’s part II of my pre-season preview; part I was here. For each team (alphabetically from Ottawa through Vancouver), I’ll share where I think they will end up, and who might have a breakout year. As I did last year, I'm not going to make specific standings predictions.…

2026 NLL Preview: Part I Here's a quick look at each team, where I think each team will end up, and who might have a breakout year. I'll go alphabetically and cover Buffalo through Oshawa in this article, and then Ottawa through Vancouver in Part II. As I did last year, I'm not going to make…

Yearly PSA. When a player wears an "A" on their jersey, it stands for alternate, not assistant.

Presenting the 2026 Panther City Lacrosse Club I’ve done this for a number of years: I make up a team consisting of players who are not part of any team, whether on an active roster, IR, PUP, holdout list, practice roster, or anything else and who hadn’t retired. Sometimes this team is pretty…

NLL 2026: Who’s in, who’s out Here it is: a complete summary of all the roster changes for each team, all in one place. I will update this article as things change, up until the beginning of the season. Just to be clear, “In” means that the player is part of the announced roster for the 2026…

Yet another new feature for NLLStats: You can now search for games based on goalie stats rather than offensive stats. Want to find all games where a goalie allowed 8 or fewer goals and faced 60+ shots? There's only been four (Sams, Disher, CDB, Vinc) nllstats.com/playerGameSe...

Wanna know how I figured this out? It's a new feature on nllstats.com, of course: Career scoring milestones nllstats.com/careerScorin...

The entire list of NLL players with 500+ goals and 1200+ loose balls in their careers: John Tavares Ryan Benesch That's it.

NLL media folks, players, coaches, execs, or fans: if you have requests for new features or even just little tweaks you'd like to see on NLLStats.com, let me know!

Small new feature on nllstats.com: the Totals per quarter and Season records sections of the player page now split the numbers between regular season and playoffs

2025 Offseason report, Part II My goodness, the second half of the off-season was crazy busy. We had the new CBA finally agreed upon and signed, and then an absolute frenzy of free agent signings. Many free agents returned to their previous team but an awful lot of them signed somewhere else. If…

Billionaire owners of social media companies don't seem to understand this either

New feature on NLLStats.com: Officials. Without officials, we would have no games, so they deserve some love too. Now you can see which officials have covered the most games, and list which games each ref has worked. nllstats.com/allOfficials

I have a Google Calendar for the NLL schedule, which I just updated with the games for the 2025-2026 season! It's here: bit.ly/NLLCalendar

For those of you not on Twitter, here are the big-name NLL free agent signings announced over the last 2 days: Curtis Dickson -> VAN Eric Fannell -> PHI Chase Fraser -> LV Jesse King -> VAN Kyle Rubisch -> OSH Brendan Bomberry -> HFX Chris Cloutier -> LV Tony Malcom -> LV

So there have been a bunch of big-name forwards, transition guys, and defenders signed in NLL free agency so far. Too bad there aren't any big-name goalies who are free agents.

New feature on NLLStats.com: When showing the list of all players from a previous season, there is now a checkbox to show only the players who are still active. Want to see who played in 2009 and is still active? nllstats.com/allplayers?s... Works for goalies too!

New feature on nllstats.com: team offense and defense totals. You can now see team totals for offensive and defensive stats. Want to see what team led the league in blocked shots in 2025? (ROC) How about Save %? (VAN) nllstats.com/teamoffense nllstats.com/teamdefense

NLLStats.com update: I've made some changes to improve performance. There should not be any actual changes to the site itself, but things should be faster. Please let me know what you think

NLL schedule analysis: Teams with 5 bye weeks: GEO, PHI, ROC, SD Teams with 2 double weekends: GEO, PHI, ROC, SD Teams with 3 two-week gaps: ROC Teams with three-week gaps: SD, VAN Best schedule: TOR - byes in weeks 2, 4, 6, then exactly 1 game per week for the rest of the year

2025 Offseason report, Part I It’s been a busy off-season so far, and there’s lots more to come. Because we don’t have a CBA for next season, teams aren’t allowed to sign free agents yet though they’re allowed to talk to them. I’m sure many handshake agreements have been made and once we have a…