Buffalo Bandits, NLL, lacrosse

[Taro T]

Vinc the save.  Bandits ball with 13.4 left.  Time out taken.

[Taro T]

And the Bandits win game 1.  13-12.

[Ann]

 

[Alaska Darin]

I don't know how many bad games the Bandits have played this season but they've slept through most of the 2nd/3rd quarters.

 

And the officiating in this game is horrifying.

[Taro T]

3 hours ago, Alaska Darin said:

I don't know how many bad games the Bandits have played this season but they've slept through most of the 2nd/3rd quarters.

 

And the officiating in this game is horrifying.

 

They had 4 horrid games counting tonight.  (And they lost 5.)  The next game against the opponent they played horribly against they flat out b#### slapped 3 of them.  They won all 4.  (And they also double b#### slapped the other team they lost against this year.)  The one team they didn't crush afterwards, but they did beat, was Colorado. 

 

Colorado plays a very unorthodox D which gives Buffalo fits.  They also have a very efficient aggressive PP which takes advantage of teams like Buffalo that spend a lot of time in the box.  Of course, they also give up a ton of shorties & the Bandits have 1 in both finals games.

 

Bandits need to play like they did in game 1 on Saturday.

[Alaska Darin]

 

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, Alaska Darin said:

 

 

Let's hope he plays like he was before he was injured and not how he played against Colorado last year.

 

That 1st Josh will be very hard to defend against and might help the Bandits to get that D to open up some.  The 2nd Josh might as well be on the bench; Cloutier who hasn't been effective this round will be more effective.

[Ann]

 

[Alaska Darin]

Byrne has been a monster thus far in Game 3.

 

 

[Ann]

 

[Ann]

 

[Alaska Darin]

 

[Taro T]

Took 7 ####ing games, but the Bandits FINALLY figured out how to beat the friggin' Mammoth.

 

Pass the ####ing ball and get Ward moving and also setting back in his crease.  And don't take dumb ####ing penalties because Colorado's PP is deadly.

 

From the very 1st goal with Josh Byrne drawing 2 defenders to him to set Naticoke clear to go in 1 on 1 on Ward through to MacKay cleanly stealing the ball to run out the last 28 seconds; this team played disciplined clean lax.  Matt Vinc had a mirror image season to last year - last year he was unbeatable to start the year and became a relative sieve (compared to the normal Matt Vinc) by the time the playoffs rolled around.  And this year, he couldn't stop a beach ball in the 1st game against Albany and wasn't much better the 1st quarter of the season, but he found his game as the year went on and set a record tonight for the fewest goals given up in a finals game - 4.

 

Stinks that this team had 2 championship chances stolen from them for Covid, but this team is REALLY good.  

 

And so cool that MacKay got to hold the ball to the final whistle.  That guy has meant so much this year at both ends of the field especially with all the injuries to the forwards they went through this year.

 

Let's go Ban-dits!

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