The Top 10 Passers in the PLL By Jake Watts | Mar 27, 2020 The assist has long been the benchmark for ranking passers in lacrosse; a legacy stat that has its faults. The metric ignores the opportunities passers create that do not result in a goal. Shooters in the PLL missed 992 assisted shots …
Top 10 Unassisted Goal Scorers By Joe Keegan | Mar 23, 2020 Players who can create their own shot cause problems for opposing defenses. Dodge-to-shoot threats demand slides. Unassisted shots (23.0% league average) are more difficult than assisted shots (32.8%), but they are essential to initiating offensive sets. As ball-dominant players, these shooters’ percentages might …
Entry Draft Rapid Reactions By Joe Keegan | Mar 17, 2020 All seven teams improved via the entry draft. You can find the full results here. Let’s run through some rapid reactions. Zach Currier – who Waterdogs LC head coach Andy Copelan called the best two-way midfielder in the world – joins an already versatile …
Ranking the Entry Player Draft Pool By Joe Keegan | Mar 10, 2020 Finally. Rob Pannell is joining the PLL. Along with Zach Currier, a pool of experienced poles (Jesse Bernhardt, Ryland Rees, Eli Gobrecht, Jason Noble, Finn Sullivan, Craig Chick), All-World goalie Dillon Ward, and others. Here are the Top 10 players eligible for …
Romar Dennis Traded to Atlas LC By PLL | Mar 2, 2020 Chrome LC has traded midfielder Romar Dennis and a 3rd round pick (#20) in the 2020 College Draft to Atlas LC for a 3rd round pick (#17) in the 2020 College Draft. Share This With Friends Facebook Twitter Email You May Also Like …
Dread it. Run from it. The expansion draft arrives all the same. Some teams were hit harder than others when Waterdogs LC Head Coach Andy Copelan snapped his fingers at NBC studios. Here’s a ranking of the biggest losers (from the slightly depleted rosters to those with gaping holes). Think of it less as a ranking of the talent that was lost, more as a ranking of the club’s ability to replace that talent.
Garrett Epple and Ray Lewis
There might be better modern comparisons. Epple hawks passing lanes like Luke Kuechly. He either deflects or cleanly picks three or four passes per game. And when he slides, he slides with the body like another #52: Ray Lewis.
Welcome to the first-ever installment of what I hope will become an annual tradition: The All-Film Team. This is the most watchable team in lacrosse. These players have games that lacrosse junkies appreciate in ways that casual viewers or box score browsers might not. They move off-ball. They fight relentlessly for groundballs. They make the pass before the pass. You might not notice them when you watch the game live, but on a second viewing, they jump off the screen.
Atlas did not have the season they were hoping for, but the club’s best moments transcended the sport of lacrosse. Their season was filled with spectacular individual performances and unbelievable highlights. Here are the Top 10 moments of Atlas’s season.
The Archers are on the clock! The first overall pick game between Archers and Atlas was a one-sided battle from start to finish. Archers finished with the highest-scoring game of the season. The final score was a lopsided 25-7.