2015 Nll Season, 29Th Year Of Pro Indoor Lacrosse, Opens On Jan. 2

Road to the Champion’s Cup starts at Mohegan Sun Arena for ’15 opener

The National Lacrosse League has announced the 2015 NLL regular season schedule. The 29th season of professional indoor lacrosse will open on Friday, Jan. 2 with the Buffalo Bandits visiting the New England Black Wolves at Mohegan Sun Arena. Seven more teams play their season openers on Saturday, Jan. 3 with the Edmonton Rush at Buffalo, Toronto Rock at Rochester Knighthawks, Colorado Mammoth at Minnesota Swarm and Vancouver Stealth at Calgary Roughnecks.

The Mammoth, Rush and Stealth will play their home openers on Saturday, Jan. 10 while the Rock host their first game in Week 4 on Friday, Jan. 23. The West Division champion Roughnecks and three-time defending NLL champion Knighthawks will rematch the 2014 Champion’s Cup Finals with a home-and-home season series, first at Rochester on Saturday, Feb. 28 in Week 9 before the teams face off in Calgary in Week 11 on Saturday, March 14.

To finish it off, the 18-week NLL regular season concludes on Saturday, May 2 before the 2015 NLL Playoffs begin the weekend of May 8-10.

The first two rounds of the playoffs shall remain under the same format as last year with single elimination for both first-round Division Semifinal games and a two-game series for the Division Finals. As adopted for 2014, a 10-minute tiebreaker game will be played immediately following Game 2 of the Division Finals should the series be tied 1-1.

This offseason, the league announced that the NLL Champion’s Cup Finals will expand to a full best-of-three series format. The Cup Finals are scheduled to commence with Game 1 on the weekend of May 30, 2015. The best-of-three series will be played on consecutive weekends with the higher-seeded team hosting Game 1 and Game 3 (if necessary).

2015 NLL regular season schedule: