Graeme Perrow

2026 NLL Week 12

We are officially at the halfway point of the season, as every team has now played at least nine games. The Rush are now tied for the fourth-longest single-season winning streak at eight games, the Mammoth are right behind them with a seven-game streak, and the Swarm have won five…

Quite possibly the least popular hockey player ever, Sean Avery

2026 NLL Week 11 I would guess that nobody is shocked at most of the game results this week, other than maybe the game in Banditland (which I guess was more unexpected than shocking). The Warriors beating the Knigh…

ICYMI: 2026 NLL Week 11
Awesome: Paul Tutka and @tymerlax.bsky.social, TOR, OSH, PHI, standings
Not awesome: Gash/Clark fight, BUF, pregame fight, goalies in YVR

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2026 NLL Week 11

I would guess that nobody is shocked at most of the game results this week, other than maybe the game in Banditland (which I guess was more unexpected than shocking). The Warriors beating the Knighthawks isn’t shocking (they did it last week too), but the final score was a bit…

Kid Rock's biggest song is "Bawitdaba"

It's funny how those angry over "I didn't understand Bad Bunny's lyrics because they're in Spanish" are the same people saying "translate his lyrics, they are inappropriate for kids". If your kids don't understand them, who cares? And Kid Rock's biggest song is "Bawitdaba"

2026 NLL Week 10

A crazy high-scoring weekend with seven games, only two of which were settled by less than six goals. There were goals and hits and injuries and controversy. The Desert Dogs are an offensive powerhouse and the Bandits have suspect defense. The world has gone crazy.

Contact on a fast breaking opponent

The incident happened a little over twelve hours ago as I write this, and there are already tons of posts all over social media talking about it. Many are condemning the hit, others saying it was a legal hit blown out of proportion, and still others saying we…

2026 NLL Week 9

A light week in the NLL with only four games, and all ended up fairly close. The Swarm took out the Rock in OT, the Seals came back to beat the Wings by two, Vancouver led 10–3 in the second until Ottawa surged but couldn’t get closer than three back, and Oshawa got within two with…

2026 NLL Week 8

We’re about a third of the way through the 2026 NLL season. A bunch of teams are playing as well as expected or even better: Saskatchewan, Rochester, Colorado, Ottawa, Las Vegas, and arguably Georgia. Others are struggling: Calgary, San Diego, Philadelphia, Oshawa, Halifax. I…

2026 NLL Week 7

There was so much awesome this week that I cut down on the commentary for each entry a little bit. Otherwise this article would be five times as long as my normal articles.

Winning in Buffalo did what it's supposed to - brought tons of people in the doors. That didn't work in Washington (i.e. the Stealth) or Albany (both times), and was only temporary in Sask and Toronto.

New feature on NLLStats.com: Attendance!

You can find the highest and lowest game attendance, totals and averages for every season, and data on every game and every season for every team.

See the Attendance menu on the left side of the page.

I'd be on the floor by halftime

The NLL Drinking Game

The next time you’re watching an NLL game at home, here’s a fun game to play while you watch. Grab yourself a frosty beverage, and whenever one of the following things happens, take a drink. If the frosty beverage in question contains alcohol, you may want to choose a game in…

2026 NLL Week 6

As of week 6, every team has won at least one and lost at least one. Four teams are at .500, five are above, and five are below. The top four teams were in the top five last year, and three of the bottom four were in the bottom four last year. So not much has changed, right? No, it…

2026 NLL week 5

Happy holidays to everyone who are or were celebrating this week or last! I was doing some family stuff last weekend so I managed to watch the Rock/Desert Dogs game replay on Sunday afternoon and then Bandits/Roughnecks on Sunday evening, but nothing else. Then we’re going away for…

New feature on NLLStats.com: You can now select multiple seasons for player and goalie lists. Want to see who had the most points from 2009-2013? (Dan Dawson) Or the lowest GAA among starters from 2006-2009? (Ken Montour)
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That's a good point. My wife tried to organize a Scouting group trip to a Rock game just before the pandemic, and her group price was about $29 a ticket. She tried to do it again for this year and they want $49 a ticket.

2026 NLL Week 4

Only four games this week but a lot of awesome to throw around. The Knighthawks and Wings remembered how to score goals but nobody else did. We had one game with 11 goals and one with 14. Another had 19, which is still pretty low, but each team had a 25+ minute scoring drought. We…

2026 NLL Week 3

After a busy week, all teams have played at least one game now. Halifax is 2–0, Rochester and Philly 1–0, Oshawa 1–2, Calgary 0–2, and Las Vegas 0–1. Everyone else - eight different teams - is 1–1, and four of those also have zero goal differentials. Things will almost certainly…

The new place: TD Coliseum

On Saturday night, the Toronto Rock returned home to Hamilton (man, that’s a weird sentence) and the Rock faithful were finally able to see the extent of the renovations that forced the team to play in Mississauga last season. I had been looking forward to this for a…

This really sucks and I'm sure it was a very difficult decision but I believe it was the right one. Kudos to you for sticking to your principles. Good luck in the next chapter of your career

Faceoffs don’t matter because they do The question of whether faceoffs “matter” in the NLL has come up many times over the years. I’ve tried to answer it myself statistically a couple of times, and the result of my mo…

"Big 'When everyone is super, no one will be' energy" - I wrote exactly that last year. Great minds and all that
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New feature on NLLStats.com: Career milestones page for goalies

Want to know how many goalies have faced at least 5000 shots in their career and also have a career GAA under 11?

(Answer: Bold, Cosmo, Del Bianco, Rose, Vinc)

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(2) The game search for players + goalies pages and season milestone pages can also use age as a search criteria.
(3) Also made all of those pages look slightly nicer on mobile devices

New features on NLLStats.com:
(1) The game search for players + goalies pages, season milestones page, and career milestones page can now use shots on goal, face-offs won, face-offs attempted, and face-off percentage as search criteria.

2026 NLL Week 2

Only two games in Week two but lots to talk about, including one of the best goaltending performances ever, an amazing NLL debut goal, and a big comeback. Let get right to it.

NLLStats.com is updated with the games from week 2

Lacrosse 101 If you’re new to the National Lacrosse League, it can sometimes be difficult to watch a game on NLL TV or Twitter Live because the broadcasters use terms you might be unfamiliar with. Many of…

If you're new to lacrosse, here's an article I wrote a bunch of years ago that might help you learn the terminology. In fact, I think even seasoned experts will see something they didn't already know
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