Every Team in Action in First Eight-Game Slate of the Season; 10 Things to Know for NLL Week 7

PHILADELPHIA - Jan. 11, 2024 - PRLog -- The National Lacrosse League (@NLL), the largest and most successful professional lacrosse property in the world, posts its first eight-game, all-team schedule of the year in Week Seven, with two games on Friday and six on Saturday. Standing out among those are the NLL on ESPN clash between the San Diego Seals and Las Vegas Desert Dogs (Friday 10 p.m ET / 7 p.m. PT, ESPNU), NLL Game of the Week on TSN featuring the Toronto Rock and Halifax Thunderbirds (Friday, 6:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. AT, also ESPN+) and NLL Saturday Showcase featuring the undefeated Albany FireWolves at Georgia Swarm (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+, TSN+).

Here are 10 things to know about the NLL entering Week 7:

• Great One Garb: Friday's NLL on ESPN battle between San Diego and Las Vegas is also "White Hot Rivalry" night at Michelob Ultra Arena. In honor of this game, the first 4000 fans will receive a Wayne Gretzky 99 Jersey.
• FireWolves Back to School: The Albany FireWolves announced DICK'S House of Sport in Latham, N.Y., as the presenting sponsor of the AFW School Program for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 NLL seasons.
• TV Everywhere: Supplementing the ESPNU and TSN games are six local broadcasts of five other NLL games this week.
• Sealed with a Trip: San Diego draws the first back-to-back nights on the 2023-24 schedule, following up Friday's game at Las Vegas with Saturday's trip to Colorado. They went 7-3 in the first game and 5-5 in the second. The Seals had one such weekend.
• Data Driven: This week's "LaxMetrics Powered by the NLL" feature on NLL.com dives deep into what the Buffalo Bandits' 2-2 start means, and how there's something more in the numbers (https://www.nll.com/news/laxmetrics-week-6-better-days-ah...) that suggests they may be right where they need to be.
• Rookie Simmons Breathing Fire: Fans expected a lot of Alex Simmons (Hamilton, Ont.) when he was the overall No. 4 selection of the Albany FireWolves in the 2022 NLL Draft. Simmons is up to 15 and 17 for 32 points.
• Swarm-Spectrum: Sympleaf Sport, a holistic whole health CBD brand featuring products developed to complement an active lifestyle, has partnered with the Georgia Swarm (https://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/symple...), making it the only CBD product in the Swarm's portfolio.
• Power On: NLL.com's Week 7 Power Rankings are live (https://www.nll.com/news/week-7-power-rankings-2/), and Adam Levi is finally a full believer in the Albany FireWolves, putting the league's only 5-0 team at the top.