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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 16

April 21st, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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We headed into the last weekend of the regular season with many questions. Would the Edmonton Rush finish first overall and win the right to host their first playoff games or would they drop to third in the West? Would the Buffalo Bandits salvage a disastrous season to make the playoffs or would we have a west division team earn the right to cross over to the East? On Saturday night we got our answers. The Edmonton Rush came oh so close to finishing first overall but Shawn Evans scored his 112th point of the year to give the Calgary Roughnecks the 12-11 overtime victory that gave Calgary the top seed in the West. In Buffalo, the Bandits came flying out of the gate in front of 19,070 fans to take a 4-1 lead but despite the final score of 10-9 for Rochester, the Knighthawks looked to be in firm control once they got going. And even though the Buffalo loss ensured that the Colorado Mammoth would make the playoffs the Mammoth still went in the front door by defeating the Minnesota Swarm 16-14. The win also put Colorado into fourth place in the West and will give them a playoff game in Calgary instead of Toronto.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 15

April 14th, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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There were five games on the NLL schedule on the second last weekend of the regular season and after the dust had settled everyone but Colorado, Rochester and Buffalo had secured playoff spots. However saying that “the dust has settled might” be getting ahead of ourselves. Heading into week 16, we could still have 5 teams finish with 7-9 records. Or we can have 5 teams that finish at 8-8. Edmonton could finish as top seed in the NLL or they could finish 3rd in the West and fourth in the league. You might as well say that the playoffs start next weekend because in each of the last four games played, there will either be a team fighting for a home playoff game or at least an invite to the playoff party.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 14

April 7th, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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It was a busy weekend in the NLL with four Saturday games and two Sunday matinees. Four of the six games were close while we had a couple of beat downs. Lets start with the beat downs. In the CBS game of the week, the Philadelphia Wings showed little offence against the Rochester Knighthawks in a 14-7 Rochester victory. However that game was not nearly as one sided as the game between the Buffalo Bandit and the Minnesota Swarm. The Swarm handed the Bandits their worst loss in team history as they whipped Buffalo 21-7. Both Alberta teams lost close games at home Saturday night. The Washington Stealth made up for last week’s loss to the Calgary Roughnecks by beating them 12-11. Meanwhile the Edmonton Rush are now 1-5 at home after losing to the Colorado Mammoth by a score of 9-7. On Saturday the Toronto Rock clinched first in the East by squeaking by the Rochester Knighthawks 10-9 while the Philadelphia Wings ended their losing streak by defeating the Minnesota Swarm 15-13.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 13

March 31st, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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There were five games in the NLL this weekend. The Toronto Rock split their weekend getting an 18-11 win over the Buffalo Bandits on Friday while losing to Matt Vinc and the Rochester Knighthawks 12-8 on Saturday. The Philadelphia Wings lost both of their games this weekend to the Minnesota Swarm and Colorado Mammoth, by scores of 20-11 and 10-9. With the Edmonton Rush having the weekend off the Calgary Roughnecks and Washington Stealth battled to take a share of first place in the west with Calgary ending up victorious by a score of 13-11. There was not much changing at the top of the Power Rankings but there sure was a lot of movement at the bottom.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 12

March 24th, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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There were only three games in the NLL this weekend and it was a very good weekend for the two teams from Alberta. The Calgary Roughnecks avenged an early season 13-12 overtime loss to the Colorado Mammoth by defeating them 12-11 in OT after trailing for most of the game. The other Alberta team, the red hot Edmonton Rush steam rolled overthe Buffalo Bandits on Saturday and the Toronto Rock on Sunday by a combined score of 31-19. Does that mean there is a change at the top of the Power Rankings?

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 11

March 18th, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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There were 4 games in the NLL this weekend and the biggest surprise was how the number nine ranked Minnesota Swarm stifled the last week’s number 2 ranked Washington Stealth by a score of 12-5. Washington only managed 2 goals in the first 50 minutes of play against Swarm netminder Tyler Carlson. In other games, the Edmonton Rush continued their fine play by defeating Rochester Knighthawks 12-9 in a Champion’s Cup rematch. The Toronto Rock easily handled the Philadelphia Wings 13-8 and the Colorado Mammoth got their second straight victory (16-13) against the Buffalo Bandits.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 10

March 10th, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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There were only 4 games in the NLL this weekend and judging by the IL staff picks the only mildly surprising outcome was that the Colorado Mammoth defeated the Buffalo Bandits twenty four hours after their loss in Toronto. What should be shocking is that the Mammoth outshot the Bandits 60-37 and held Buffalo to 6 goals. The game ended with a floor brawl and for a moment it looked like the coaches were going to get into it as well. Buffalo likely interpreted Colorado’s last minute timeout as an attempt to further embarrass the Bandits but one can argue that Colorado was using the timeout to make sure they had the right players on the floor in case Buffalo wanted to initiate trouble. Regardless what side of the fence you are on, Colorado won’t have any problems pumping up their fans for next week’s rematch.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 9

March 4th, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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There were 5 games in the NLL on week nine and we are following the same theme as last week. In other words, for the second week in a row things just got even tighter in the NLL. Other than the Colorado Mammoth and possibly the Minnesota Swarm, every other team is still within range of first place in their divisions. A few weeks ago it looked like Calgary and Toronto were going to run away from their divisions. Toronto lost this weekend and Calgary has now lost two in a row and three out of four. Meanwhile Philly, Edmonton and Washington have all won at least two straight and are the two hot teams in the NLL right now.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 8

February 25th, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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There were five games in the NLL this weekend and they were anything but predictable. I have been having a pretty good year with IL staff predictions (second place at 19-12 coming into this weekend) but I went 1-5 this weekend. I did select a Minnesota Edmonton split, but I got the games wrong. I correctly picked Philly to beat the Mammoth but as far as I was concerned the Wings had no chance in Rochester. Even if it’s difficult to pick the winners on any given game usually by the mid way point in the season the Power Rankings become a little more stable. A few weeks ago it looked like Calgary would challenge Toronto for the top spot, Rochester had turned it around and Philly had dropped near the bottom like we expected they would. However in the last two weeks Calgary has stumbled, Philadelphia has come back to life and Rochester has fallen back into the funk that they were in to start the season.

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National Lacrosse League Power Rankings: Week 7

February 18th, 2013 by Brian Shanahan
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Today was a President’s day in the United States and “Family Day” in Canada. I spent the day on the backyard rink with my family but now it’s time think about lacrosse again. Maybe one of these years we will try playing an NLL game on this holiday Monday. Every team in the NLL except for the Philadelphia Wings played this past weekend. Philly is coming off three straight losses and if they were hoping that another NLL team would stumble this weekend they must like what they saw in Colorado as Mammoth were beat up for the second straight weekend. In the marquee game of the weekend the Toronto Rock came back from an early 6-3 deficit against the red hot Calgary Roughnecks and dominated the rest of the game with a convincing 17-12 victory. There’s no doubt that Toronto is the number one team at this point in the season but let’s see how the other 8 teams fit in.

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