Both the San Diego Seals and Oshawa FireWolves have three players whose fathers also played in the NLL.
San Diego: Ari Steenhuis, Dylan Watson, Jake Govett
Oshawa: Dyson Williams, Taggart Clark, Jaxon Fridge
This season, the Las Vegas Desert Dogs and Ottawa Black Bears both have negative goal differentials in the first three quarters but hugely positive in the fourth. Las Vegas is +16 in 4th quarters while Ottawa is a league high +27 in the fourth.
Colorado's next regular season win will be their 200th. They are 199-182.
Buffalo's next regular season loss will be their 200th. They are 298-199.
The record for goals in a quarter by a team is 11, done once by the Philadelphia Wings in 2008 and once by the Colorado Mammoth in 2015. Both times it was the fourth quarter and both times it was against the Minnesota Swarm.
Over the entire history of the NLL, the day of the week with the highest average attendance is... Thursday?!
Friday: 774 games / 9100 avg attendance
Saturday: 1836 / 9364
Sunday: 278 / 7536
Monday: 7 / 6583
Tuesday: 2 / 4505
Wednesday: 1 / 8100
Thursday: 30 / 9397
Only four goaltenders have ever led the Toronto Rock in saves in a season:
Bob Watson (13 seasons)
Matt Roik (1)
Brandon Miller (1)
Nick Rose (11)
41 different players have reached 100 points in one season. Dhane Smith has had eight such seasons, while nobody else has had more than five.
In 2005, Colin Doyle led the league in scoring with 111 points. Doyle became the first player not named Tavares or Gait to lead the league in scoring since Terry Martinello in 1990.
On January 10, the FireWolves beat the Thunderbirds 16-9. There were 140 penalty minutes assessed in the game. Only one other game this season has half that many - Vancouver and Rochester collected 76 minutes on January 31.
There are ten games in the NLL this weekend, tied for the second-busiest weekend in NLL history. Week 13 of 2007 and week 13 of 2009 also had ten games, but week 15 of 2007 featured 11 games.
There were nine games in week 14 of 2007, so weeks 13-15 featured 33 games in 16 days.
Out of the 37 NLL Championship winners, 25 of them were first in the league in either goals scored (most) or goals against (fewest). The only teams first in both were the '94 Wings and '18 Rush. The lowest-ranked team was the '22 Mammoth: 8th in GF and 7th in GA.
In 2009, Regy Thorpe was both a player on the Rochester Knighthawks and also the General Manager, becoming the first and only player-GM in NLL history. Curt Styres took over the GM duties a year later.
The Buffalo Bandits have played in 70 playoff games; 44 at home and 26 on the road. Their goal differential in home games is +110. In away games, it's +6.
The original Rochester Knighthawks played in 46 playoff games; 20 at home and 26 on the road. Their goal differential in home games was +47. In away games, it was -33.
The next goal allowed by the Buffalo Bandits at home will be their 3,000th. The next closest team is the Toronto Rock, who have allowed 2,348 goals at home, followed by Calgary at 2,285, Colorado at 2,115, the original Wings at 2,102, and the original Knighthawks at 2,095.
Philadelphia's Isaiah Davis-Allen and San Diego Head Coach and GM Patrick Merrill share a birthday today. Merrill was born in 1979 and Davis Allen in 1995.
Buffalo and Georgia are tied for the tallest teams in the league this year, with an average player height of 6'2". Ottawa is the smallest, with an average height of 6'0.2".
Buffalo is also the heaviest, weighing an average of 203 lbs. Oshawa is the lightest, averaging 191.3 lbs.
There have been only three teams that played more than one NLL season and made the playoffs every year:
Boston Blazers, 3 seasons
New Jersey Saints, 2
Washington Power, 2
There have been eight teams that played more than one NLL season but never made the playoffs:
Anaheim Storm, 2 seasons
Columbus Landsharks, 3
Chicago Shamrox, 2
New Jersey Storm, 2
New York Riptide, 4
Ottawa Rebel, 3
Pittsburgh Bulls, 4
Syracuse Smash, 3
Jeff Teat has more points in his career (564) than any other player who has never played a playoff game. The rest of the top five:
2. Jack Hannah, 264
3. Gewas Schindler, 260
4. Connor Kelly, 248
5. Larson Sundown, 202
John Grant Jr. scored nine goals in one game twice in his NLL career: Feb 18, 2005 and Jan 27, 2007. Both times he had a hat-trick in the first and the fourth quarters. In the first game, his ninth goal came in overtime.
The 2026 season is the 10th season that the Swarm have been in Georgia. Ed Comeau has been the head coach the entire time, and Jordan MacIntosh has been the captain the entire time.
Over the team's history, the Georgia Swarm are 46-36 at home and 47-36 on the road.
Nick Rose is the only goalie ever to have three consecutive seasons with a GAA below 10.00 (2022-2024). He is also the only goalie ever to have three consecutive seasons with a save percentage over 80% (also 2022-2024).
There have been six Championship Final games that featured the losing team scoring 14 or more goals:
1988, NJ 17 @ WAS 16
1994, PHI 26 @ BUF 15
1995, ROC 14 @ PHI 15
2017, SSK 14 @ GEO 18 (game 1) and GEO 15 @ SSK 14 (game 2)
2022, COL 14 @ BUF 15 (game 1)
Since 2005, the total goal differential leaders by quarter are:
1st - Bandits, +123
2nd - Rock, +137
3rd - Bandits, +116
4th - Mammoth, +163
OT - Mammoth, +9
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On this day in 1990, the Wings beat the Turbos in Philadelphia. The lacrosse nets at the Spectrum in Philadelphia went missing, so the game was played with hockey nets, two feet wider than lacrosse nets. The final score was 21-19.
Since 2005, the top teams in goal differential in each quarter are:
1st - 2013 Rush, +27
2nd - 2014 Rush, +29
3rd - 2015 Rush, +29
4th - 2023 Thunderbirds, +26.
OT - 2023 Bandits, +4
No Rush team is in the top 20 in the fourth quarter.
Christian Del Bianco has not played less than 50 minutes in a game since March 24, 2018 when he played 13:56 in a Calgary loss to the Rock. He has played 115 straight games of 50+ minutes.
