2022 Buffalo Bandits season

2022 Buffalo Bandits
East Division Champions
League	NLL
Division	1st East
2022 record	14-4
Home record	7-2
Road record	7-2
Goals for	247
Goals against	185
General Manager	Steve Dietrich
Coach	John Tavares
Captain	Steve Priolo
Alternate captains	Dhane Smith, Kevin Brownell
Arena	KeyBank Center
Team leaders
Goals	Dhane Smith (41)
Assists	Dhane Smith (94)
Points	Dhane Smith (135)
Penalties in minutes	Tehoka Nanticoke (47)
Loose Balls	Steve Priolo (116)
Wins	Matt Vinc (14)
Goals against average	Matt Vinc (10.10)
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The Buffalo Bandits are a lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York, playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2022 season was their 30th season in the NLL. The Bandits returned to play after the entire 2021 season was cancelled due to Covid 19. They started the season on December 4 at home.

Regular season

NLL Standings Reference:

East Conference

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Buffalo Bandits – xyz	18	14	4	.778	0.0	7–2	7–2	247	185	+62	13.72	10.28
2	Toronto Rock – x	18	13	5	.722	1.0	7–2	6–3	207	166	+41	11.50	9.22
3	Halifax Thunderbirds – x	18	11	7	.611	3.0	7–2	4–5	198	195	+3	11.00	10.83
4	Albany FireWolves – x	18	9	9	.500	5.0	5–4	4–5	198	195	+3	11.00	10.83
5	Philadelphia Wings – x	18	9	9	.500	5.0	4–5	5–4	185	199	−14	10.28	11.06
6	Georgia Swarm	18	9	9	.500	5.0	4–5	5–4	205	212	−7	11.39	11.78
7	New York Riptide	18	6	12	.333	8.0	3–6	3–6	214	226	−12	11.89	12.56
8	Rochester Knighthawks	18	4	14	.222	10.0	2–7	2–7	184	221	−37	10.22	12.28

West Conference

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	San Diego Seals – xy	18	10	8	.556	0.0	5–4	5–4	202	183	+19	11.22	10.17
2	Calgary Roughnecks – x	18	10	8	.556	0.0	6–3	4–5	194	201	−7	10.78	11.17
3	Colorado Mammoth – x	18	10	8	.556	0.0	7–2	3–6	196	198	−2	10.89	11.00
4	Saskatchewan Rush	18	8	10	.444	2.0	6–3	2–7	196	194	+2	10.89	10.78
5	Panther City Lacrosse Club	18	7	11	.389	3.0	3–6	4–5	190	223	−33	10.56	12.39
6	Vancouver Warriors	18	6	12	.333	4.0	3–6	3–6	199	209	−10	11.06	11.61

East Division

Buffalo Bandits 9-1 Halifax Thunderbirds 8-2 Toronto Rock 7-4 Albany Firewolves 6-7 Philadelphia Wings 5-6 Georgia Swarm 5-6 Rochester Knighthawks 3-7 New York Riptide 2-8

West Division

San Diego Seals 8-2 Colorado Mammoth 6-4 Vancouver Warriors 5-5 Calgary Roughnecks 3-6 Panther City Lacrosse Club 4-8 Saskatchewan Rush 3-8

Game log

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	December 4, 2021	Calgary Roughnecks	KeyBank Center	W 16–9		7,395	1–0
2	December 11, 2021	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 12–8		4,311	2–0
3	January 8, 2022	Toronto Rock	KeyBank Center	W 12–6		8,005	3–0
4	January 14, 2022	Georgia Swarm	KeyBank Center	W 12–10		7,744	4–0
5	January 30, 2022	@ New York Riptide	Nassau Coliseum	W 18–17	OT	4,051	5–0
6	February 5, 2022	Rochester Knighthawks	KeyBank Center	W 11–8		9,371	6–0
7	February 12, 2022	@ Toronto Rock	FirstOntario Centre	L 10–12			6–1
8	February 18, 2022	Albany FireWolves	KeyBank Center	W 13–8		8,241	7–1
9	February 26, 2022	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 14–8		4,830	8–1
10	March 5, 2022	@ Albany FireWolves	Times Union Center	W 12–11	OT	6,011	9–1
11	March 12, 2022	Philadelphia Wings (2018-)	KeyBank Center	W 17–5		11,451	10–1
12	March 26, 2022	Halifax Thunderbirds	KeyBank Center	W 16–11		11,169	11–1
13	March 27, 2022	@ Halifax Thunderbirds	Scotiabank Centre	W 16–11		5,715	12–1
14	March 31, 2022	@ Philadelphia Wings (2018-)	Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)	W 17–12		10,699	13–1
15	April 2, 2022	@ Colorado Mammoth	Ball Arena	L 14–15		9,601	13–2
16	April 9, 2022	New York Riptide	KeyBank Center	L 12–15		12,436	13–3
17	April 16, 2022	@ Georgia Swarm	Gas South Arena	W 18–9		9,374	14–3
18	April 30, 2022	Toronto Rock	KeyBank Center	L 7–10		13,481	14–4

Playoffs

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Eastern Conference Quarterfinals	May 7, 2022	Albany FireWolves	KeyBank Center	W 10–5		12,535	1–0
Eastern Conference Finals (Game 1)	May 15, 2022	Toronto Rock	KeyBank Center	W 18–17		10,258	2–0
Eastern Conference Finals (Game 2)	May 21, 2022	@ Toronto Rock	FirstOntario Centre	W 10–9		7,992	3–0
NLL Finals (Game 1)	June 3, 2022	Colorado Mammoth	KeyBank Center	W 15–14		14,274	4–0
NLL Finals (Game 2)	June 11, 2022	@ Colorado Mammoth	Ball Arena	L 8–11		10,082	4–1
NLL Finals (Game 3)	June 18, 2022	Colorado Mammoth	KeyBank Center	L 8–10		19,060	4–2

Roster

Buffalo Bandits roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders 48 Matt Vinc 57 Doug Buchan Defensemen 21 Justin Martin 23 Steve Priolo (C) 25 Matt Spanger 37 Ethan O'Connor 53 Justin Robinson 94 Bryce Sweeting		Forwards 1 Tehoka Nanticoke 2 Chris Cloutier 5 Connor Fields 10 Brad McCulley 22 Josh Byrne 91 Kyle Buchanan 92 Dhane Smith (A) 95 Chase Fraser Transition 4 Ian MacKay 6 Max Adler 8 Kevin Brownell (A) 15 Brent Noseworthy 17 Jordan Stouros 20 Nick Weiss		Practice Squad 13 Sam LaRoue 27 Dalton Sulver 30 Devlin Shanahan 49 Marcus Minichiello Injured Reserve 44 Nathaniel Kozevnikov Holdout Alec Tulett Unable to play Joel Matthews 83 Frank Brown		Head Coach John Tavares Assistant Coaches Steve Dietrich Anthony Cosmo Eric Vinc Equipment Manager Ted Cordingley Legend * Suspended list (C) Captain (A) Alternate captain Roster updated 2022-02-11 NLL Transactions

Entry Draft

The 2021 NLL Entry Draft took place on August 28, 2021. The Bandits made the following selections:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
1	3	Tehoka Nanticoke	Six Nations MSL/University of Albany
1	14	Thomas Vaesen	Nanaimo Jr. A/Montevello University
2	26	Colin Munro	Coquitlam Jr. A/Georgetown
4	57	Carson Rees	Maple Ridge WLA/Chestnut Hill
4	62	Nicholas Miller	Hawkeyes UCBLL/St. John Fisher College
5	73	Kyle Hebert	New Westminster WLA/Stony Brook
6	86	Hunter Aggus	Six Nations Jr. A/Paris ALL

External links

• 2022 Buffalo Bandits at nllstats.com