By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist For those who like indoor lacrosse for its frequent scoring and quick transitional play, Saturday night was not your night. That was just…
Wings shut down Bandits’ offense
Bandits pull out another OT win
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The perfect script for an exciting win in indoor lacrosse is for a team to score the tying goal in the final seconds…
The NLL’s Glass Ceilings
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist We’re about six weeks into the current National Lacrosse League season. That means there’s been enough time to look around at how the…
Bandits pull out win over Rock
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Chase Fraser had a big night in leading the Buffalo Bandits to a 10-8 win over the Toronto Rock on Saturday night. The…
Bandits stumble badly in loss to Halifax
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist It’s been a tough weekend at the KeyBank Center for the home teams. On Friday night, the Buffalo Sabres couldn’t score a goal…
Preview: Bandits have hard act to follow
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The Buffalo Bandits couldn’t have come much closer to winning a National Lacrosse League title than they did last season. The Bandits reached…
Notes from Second Period Gym Class
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The time seemed like a mistake. The Buffalo Bandits were scheduled to play a preseason game (maybe scrimmage would be a better word)…
The ‘other’ Mr. Bandit
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports page Columnist There were two people who virtually were part of the Buffalo Bandits’ organization since Day One in 1992. Now we’re down to one….
Bandits add depth in draft
By Budd Bailey The Buffalo Bandits suffered some big losses in the expansion draft earlier this year in Shawn Evans and Jordan Durston. On Tuesday night, they had the chance…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 8
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 8: October, 1991 – The Bandits trade Brian Nikula to Detroit for John Tavares. The Major Indoor Lacrosse League (forerunner of the…
Bandits lose pair in expansion draft
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The Buffalo Bandits paid the expected price for having the deepest roster in the National Lacrosse League during Tuesday’s expansion draft. In fact,…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 34
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 34: February 28, 2018 – The Bandits trade Callum Crawford and a second-round draft choice in 2019 to New England for Shawn…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 42
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columist No. 42: December 19, 2002 – The Bandits trade Ken Montour and a third-round draft choice in 2004 to Columbus for Mark Steenhuis….
Bandits reveal protected list
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist We all knew that the Buffalo Bandits had some difficult choices to make when it came to this year’s expansion draft, where they…
