Albany Puts 6-0 Mark on the Line vs. San Diego in NLL Saturday Showcase for Week Eight

PHILADELPHIA - Jan. 18, 2024 - PRLog -- The National Lacrosse League (@NLL), the largest and most successful professional lacrosse property in the world, features five games in Week Eight, highlighted by the NLL Saturday Showcase in which the 6-0 Albany FireWolves will host the San Diego Seals. The FireWolves are looking to be the first team to open the season 7-0 since the Edmonton Rush opened the 2014 season 14-0. NLL fans will multiple screens going, because the League's other remaining unbeaten team, the 4-0 Toronto Rock, are also at home.

Here are 10 things to know about the NLL entering Week 8:

• Turnstiles Keep Spinning Across NLL: Fans across North America have taken notice of the exciting start to the NLL season. All seven Week 7 games had big attendance numbers, battling through the crazy weather:
  • Colorado, 9652, nearly matching last year's average (9972)
  • Halifax, 8921, seventh best in team history since moving to Halifax
  • Vancouver, 8363, seventh best in team history, even including the five years as the Stealth
  • Rochester, 8167, highest in team history
  • Georgia, 7154, best so far this season
  • Las Vegas, 6203
  • New York, 4928
• Mad Fast Hatters: Dating back to 2002, when records such as these are readily available, San Diego's Austin Staats (Six Nations, Ont.) and Albany FireWolves forward Jonathan Donville (Oakville, Ont.) completed two of the quickest "hat tricks" from the start of the game in NLL history.
• Tucker Decade: The Buffalo Bandits will host Tucker Out Lymphoma Night for the 10th time on Saturday when they host the New York Riptide at KeyBank Center beginning at 7:30 p.m. The evening will honor the memory of Tucker Williams, the son of former Bandits player Shawn Williams
• Sundown, Taking Care: ESPN SportsCenter tabbed this Landon Sundown (Basom, N.Y.) goal from a nifty Jeff Teat (Brampton, Ont.) behind-the-back feed (https://youtu.be/0u_A7xcgxEE?si=N9rOhe3PaNdtRwql&t=37) as its No. 8 play on Saturday's Top 10
• Six, Afraid of Seven?: The Albany FireWolves became the 13^th NLL team to start the season 6-0 with their 12-8 win at Georgia on Saturday.
• Tube Time: Four NLL games this weekend will feature local broadcasts, on five networks.
• Defense Wins LaxMetrics: This week's "LaxMetrics Powered by the NLL" feature on NLL.com takes a look at the other side of the ball—the defense (https://www.nll.com/news/laxmetrics-week-7-defensive-domi...) and how Week 7 showed the power of the big stops in winning NLL games.
• Power Plays: NLL.com's Week 8 Power Rankings are live (https://www.nll.com/news/week-8-power-rankings-2/), and the biggest jumpers are the Buffalo Bandits, hoisted to No. 3 from No. 5