Category: NLL Finals

NLL Finals Game 2 Albany 13 Buffalo 15

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Box Score
Buffalo wins series 2-0

The clock strikes midnight for the Firewolves and the Bandits win back to back championships.

Leading 9-7 entering the third quarter, the Bandits outscored the Firewolves 5-1 to grab a 14-8 lead and never looked back and claimed back to back championships in the process.

Chase Fraser scored five goals and dished out two assists and Josh Byrne scored one goal and dished out eight assists and Dhane Smith scored two goals and dished out five assists and Matt Vinc made 36 saves.

Now we start the long NLL offseason.

 

NLL Finals Game 1 Buffalo 12 Albany 8

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Box Score
Buffalo leads the series 1-0

The Firewolves looked good for the first two quarters and took a 6-5 lead into going into the locker room at halftime.

The script flipped over the final two quarters and Bandits look like they are ready to repeat after outscoring the Firewolves 7-2 over the final two quarters to take a 1-0 series lead going back to Buffalo for Game 2 Saturday night.

Josh Byrne scored three goals and dished out four assists and Dhane Smith scored two goals and dished out nine assists and Matt Vinc made 37 saves for the Bandits.

The clock looks to have struck midnight on the Firewolves Cinderella season.

NLL partners with AXIA

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The National Lacrosse League (NLL) today announced a new, multi-year partnership with AXIA Time as the “Official Timepiece of the NLL” and the presenting partner of the upcoming 2024 NLL Finals presented by AXIA Time that starts this Friday between the defending NLL champion Buffalo Bandits and the Albany FireWolves.

Full Release can be found HERE

A quick scan of the Xfinity guide shows only game 3 on the ESPN family of networks and that is game three.

Games 1 and 2 being relegated to ESPN Plus.

NLL Finals Game 3 Colorado 4 Buffalo 13

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Box Score

Attendance 18,296

Defense wins championships and the Buffalo Bandits are your 2022-2023 NLL Champions.

Matt Vinc and the Bandits defense put on a clinic tonight to give the Bandits their fifth league title and first since 2008.

Josh Byrne returned to the Bandits lineup and scored four goals matching Colorado’s goal total by himself and dished out three assists. NLL Finals MVP Dhane Smith scored two goals and dished out seven assists and Matt Vinc made 46 saves.

Another slow start doomed Colorado or maybe Buffalo just wanted it more.

ESPN Plus

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Games one and two on the ESPN family of networks.

Now the deciding game three is only available on ESPN Plus and local stations in Buffalo and Denver.

If the NLL wants to be taken seriously. (stop laughing) The league needs to get every game of a best of three championship series on linear television.

 

 

WNLO – TV News 4 Buffalo

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Will televise game three of the NLL finals between Buffalo and Colorado to the Buffalo NY and the surrounding area.

The league seriously dropped the ball here by not getting Game 3 of the NLL finals on one of the ESPN channels.

So we are left with ESPN plus outside of Buffalo NY and the surrounding area.

Good for the Bandits to get game 3 of the Cup Finals on a local station.

 

 

Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts

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The Ratings for Game one of the NLL Finals are in and its no wonder the league was not publishing the viewership numbers.

108 NAT. LACROSSE LEAGUE L: COLORADO/BUFFALO ESPN2 7:00 PM

Minutes 163

18-49 Rating 0.02

P2+ 69 which equals 69,000 IIRC

You can find the full list HERE