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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 17

April 30th, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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Well that’s it. The 2012 NLL regular season is over and its time for the playoffs. It was a record breaking season and congratulations go to John Grant Jr. for breaking the all time points record with 116. Even more special is the fact that Grant only played 14 games this season, the same number of games that John Tavares played when he set the record in 2001. Toronto’s Garrett Billings also had a spectacular season and finished just two points behind Grant in the scoring race but set a new assist record with 82 on the season. Congrats also go to Washington’s Bob Snider for setting a new record for faceoff wins in a season with 319, bettering the old record of 318 held by his brother Geoff and retired Wing Peter Jacobs.
Next week a new season begins. It might be the time for Calgary or Colorado to continue their great seasons or it could be a time of redemption for teams like Buffalo or Philadelphia.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 16

April 23rd, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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There were five games in the NLL this weekend and we finally know who is in the playoffs and who is out. Wins from the Bandits and Edmonton Rush, combined with Washington’s loss against the Toronto Rock ensure that the 2010 champions, and last year’s finalist, are the odd team out this season. In the West, Colorado loss and Calgary’s victory not only ensure that Calgary gets the first seed but we also have locked up every position from 1-5 and already can start looking forward to first round playoff matchups. In the East the only thing we know for sure is that Toronto can finish no worse than second and Buffalo can finish no higher than third. Philly can finish as high as first and as low as third and Rochester can also finish anywhere from 2nd to 4th.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 15

April 16th, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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There were four games in the NLL this weekend and even though I was on a pretty good run with my predictions over the last few weeks I was a perfect 0 for 4 this weekend. In Minnesota the Swarm continues to baffle me. After losing 4 in a row the Swarm have now won 2 straight and have solidified a playoff berth with an 14-9 victory over the Stealth. Buffalo continued their hot and cold play as they lost an 11-8 game to the stingy Edmonton Rush. In Rochester the Knighthawks continued what started halfway through their game in Calgary last week. Last week it was too little too late but not this week as the Knighthawks competed from the opening whistle and got a huge home win (14-12) over the Roughnecks. And last but not least, the Toronto Rock threw up a dud in a 19-12 loss to John Grant Jr. and the surging Colorado Mammoth in the CBS game of the week.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 14

April 8th, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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There were four games in the NLL this weekend. Two results were as expected as the Toronto Rock defeated the Edmonton Rush for the sixth straight time at the Air Canada Centre and the Calgary Roughnecks got their 6th straight victory by defeating the Rochester Knighthawks 15-14 in Calgary. However I don’t think many of us were expecting the Philadelphia Wings to fall flat this weekend. The Wings dropped out of first place by losing both games, a 13-9 loss at home to Minnesota and an embarrassing 17-7 drubbing at the hands of the Buffalo Bandits on the CBS Sports debut of the National Lacrosse League.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 13

April 2nd, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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The big news this weekend has to be the scoring binges by Johnny Grant Jr. and Toronto’s Garrett Billings. On Saturday afternoon Grant scored 11 points to lead his Colorado Mammoth to a 16-12 victory over his old team, the Rochester Knighthawks. Grant now has 98 points and with three games remaining he has a very good chance of breaking the single season record of 115 points set by John Tavares back in 2001. Tavares set the record back when the league had a 14 game schedule but because Grant missed two games due to injury no one can claim there should be an asterisk next to this record if Junior accomplishes this great feat. Not to be outdone, on Saturday night in Buffalo, Garret Billings set a new Toronto Rock record by scoring 4 goals and 11 assists for 15 points. The most amazing thing in Billing’s great night is that he was in on every single Toronto Rock goal.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 12

March 26th, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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It’s too early to predict that the east division leading Philadelphia Wings will meet the West division leading Colorado Mammoth in the 2012 championship but judging by their games this weekend it would not be disappointing if they did. In two of this season’s most exciting games, the Philly Wings and Colorado Mammoth split a home-and-home with the visitors taking each game by a goal. They were games that featured this season’s two MVP and leading scorer candidates, Dan Dawson against John Grant Jr., as well as the likely rookie of the year winner Kevin Crowley or Adam Jones. And we also got to witness great goaltending by both Brandon Miller and Chris Levis (it took nine minutes of overtime before we had a winner).

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 11

March 19th, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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It was a pretty quiet weekend in the NLL with only three games, two of which involved the Buffalo Bandits who finally halted their losing streak at 6 games. In fact the Bandits are now on a two game winning streak after defeating both the Toronto Rock and the Minnesota Swarm. The up and down season for the Toronto Rock is definitely on the downswing as they lost their third in row. In the only game of the weekend not involving the Buffalo Bandits the Philadelphia Wings avenged their loss from few weeks ago by defeating the Edmonton Rush in a close one 16-15. With the March 20th trade deadline looming, expect a few of the aforementioned teams to be active.

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National Lacrosse League Power rankings: Week 10

March 12th, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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It was a busy weekend in the NLL with six games on the schedule. There was no earth shattering news but it was a weekend of continuing themes. The Calgary Roughnecks continued their domination over Edmonton. The Buffalo Bandits continued their losing streak. The Toronto Rock continued to struggle at home and the Washington Stealth has continued to take steps toward respectability.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 9

March 4th, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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I think I’m going to give up making predictions. For the second time this year I went 0-4 as the road teams won every game this weekend. The two biggest surprises came in Toronto and Calgary. In Toronto, the 1-6 Washington Stealth were without Rhys Duch, Cam Sedgwick and Tyler Richards yet played like champions as they defeated the Rock 14-9. In Calgary, the NLL’s hottest team, fresh off a 21-10 dismantling of the Colorado Mammoth, were dumped 15-11 by the surprising Minnesota Swarm. In other games, the Buffalo Bandits losing steak hit 5 games as they lost at home to the Colorado Mammoth and the Rochester Knighthawks have continued their dominance over the Philadelphia Wings by defeating them for the second time this year – both games in Philly.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 8

February 27th, 2012 by Brian Shanahan
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The big news this weekend is that the West Division All stars defeated the East division 20-18. It was the first victory by the West in the last six All Star games and Calgary’s Geoff Snider won the MVP award for the second time in his career. However I am being facetious. The All-star game is fun but the real news this weekend was that Colorado tasted defeat – actually had it shoved down their throat – for the first time this season. Further West, many of us were expecting a storybook result for Coach Chris Hall’s return to the Stealth after finishing cancer treatment. The script did not call for Washington to be embarrassed for the second time at home this season – this time 15-7 at the hands of the Minnesota Swarm.

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