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With the game tied at two apiece entering the second quarter, the Seals outscored the Mammoth 7-3 to take a 9-5 lead into the locker room.
However, the Mammoth came alive after halftime and outscored the Seals 10-4 over the final thirty minutes, holding the Seals scoreless in the third quarter.
Eli McLaughlin, led the Mammoth attack netting six goals and adding six assists. While Wes Berg netting four goals and added two assists to lead the Seals.
The Colorado Mammoth at San Diego Seals will now be available for viewing on ESPN U. on Friday May 13 at 10 PM ET
East
Game One Sun May 15 Toronto at Buffalo 6:00 PM ET
Game Two Sat May 21 Buffalo at Toronto 7:00 PM ET
*Game Three Sat May 28 Toronto at Buffalo 7:30 PM ET
West
Game One Fri May 13 Colorado at San Diego 10 PM ET
Game Two Sat May 21 San Diego at Colorado May 21 9:30 PM ET
*Game Three At San Diego May 27-29 TBD
*If Necessary
Buffalo 10 Albany 5
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The Bandits let Firewolves hang around in the first thirty minutes. After halftime the Bandits turned it up a notch and outscored the Firewolves 8-3 to move the East Finals against the Toronto Rock.
Seven Bandit players scored at least one goal and Matt Vinc made 45 saves in between the pipes.
San Diego 9 Philadelphia 8
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Frank Scigliano looked like Bob Waston last night and frustrated the Wings offense all night long.
Scigliano and the Seals defense held the Wings big three Crowley, Small, and MacIntosh to zero goals combined.
Five different Seals scored at least one goal and Scigliano made 44 saves in between the pipes.
Zach Higgins made 52 saves in net for the Wings and deserved a better outcome.
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All four NLL quarterfinals games will be available via ESPN plus and TSN.ca
The Philly and San Diego game will be available locally in the Philly market on CW57.
Western Conference Playoff Standings
* Wild Card due to playoff cross over.
Friday May 6 9:30 PM ET
Colorado at Calgary
Saturday May 7 10:00 PM ET
Philadelphia at San Diego
So nice of the NLL, to finally get around to posting the conference tiebreakers.
Conference Tiebreakers
Head-to-head winning percentage between tied teams
Conference winning percentage
Head-to-head goal differential
Conference goal differential
Winning percentage against common opponents played an equal number of times
Strength of victory (Combined Win% of all teams defeated; teams defeated multiple times will count the number of times defeated)
Strength of schedule (Combined Win% of all teams competed against; teams competed against multiple times will count the number of times competed against)
League wide goal differential
Goals For
Goals Against
Coin toss.
The above order will determine 4th place in the West Conference and 5th place in the East Conference.
Once it is determined who is properly slotted in each conference, the league uses the overall tiebreakers to determine who earns the wildcard spot:
Overall Tiebreakers:
Note: Strength of victory and Strength of schedule factors into the team’s final record, not the record at the time the teams played.
Did we ever tell you the NLL season is too dam long? June 20 as the last possible date to hoist the cup? C’mon man
The National Lacrosse League (@NLL), the largest and most successful professional lacrosse property in the world, today announced the outline of the 2022 Playoff schedule,
which runs up to seven weeks from May 5 through June 20. Under the new expanded playoff format instituted for this season, the top four teams in the East, top three teams in the West and one wild card team with the next best record qualify.
With 34 games on the schedule to determine playoff spots and seeds, the Chase to the Championship begins tomorrow, March 31 when the Philadelphia Wings host the East Conference leading, Buffalo Bandits, the first and only team to qualify thus far.
Media partners ESPN and TSN will provide live broadcasts of every game (beginning with the single-elimination quarterfinal matchups held May 5-9. The first game of the best-of-three Conference Finals is set for the following week (May 12-16), with Game 2 (May 19-23) and Game 3 (if necessary, May 26-30) set to close out the month (dates subject to change).
The best-of-three NLL Finals will take place June 2-6, June 9-13 and June 16-20 (if necessary). Exact dates and the TSN and ESPN broadcast schedules for all rounds will be announced once the teams have clinched playoff home games in each series.
You can find the full release HERE
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Corey Small scored the game tying goal for the Bandits with :28 seconds left to force overtime. Rhys Duch scored the game winning goal 1:12 into overtime for the Roughnecks and to give the Roughnecks their third NLL Championship in franchise history
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