29 April 2016

The Great Playoff Push

Before we get into the bulk of today's information, we'd like to direct you to the new home for friend of BNG Steven Grant who is now located at Steven Grant Design. While the NLL regular season winds down, the East is going to see the most drastic action tonight with the West all locked up. If Georgia beats Vancouver tomorrow then Rochester's first ever purple jersey game will not matter. If Georgia loses, Rochester need to win both  Saturday against Saskatchewan and Sunday against New England to lock up third. If Buffalo loses to New England and Saskatchewan loses, New England Needs to beat Rochester to get the number one overall playoff seed and the East division title. Likewise, the Bandits need to either beat New England (regardless of Saskatchewan result). If they lose, they need Rochester to win on Sunday in New England. For Saskatchewan, they need to beat Rochester along with a Buffalo loss and Rochester to beat New England the day after for the number one overall seed.



In the case of Buffalo or New England as the overall seed, the east division winner out right would have first overall as both beat Saskatchewan in their lone games against the Rush. If Buffalo loses but New England splits, the tie breaker will belong to Buffalo by a two games to one season series. As for the west, Saskatchewan will await the winner of Calgary at Colorado in a winner take all meeting at Pepsi Center in Denver. Back east, the Bandits or Black Wolves will await the winner of the play in, likewise play-in host New England/Buffalo will host either Georgia or Rochester.


All playoff games will be mostly on Saturday nights and perhaps a Friday somewhere- not including Calgary at Colorado next week. Should New England have to win the play-in game, they would host the following Monday (May 16) in game one of the division finals. If the Bandits win tomorrow night, that will be the case for the Black Wolves. That covers all of the potential playoff scenarios as we can affirm the Finals would be the only thing up for debate as it stands. Time for the teams to light the lamp in the playoffs with quite possibly (if all goes according to higher seeds) the road leading to the toughest place to play: Banditland.

-Ricky

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