NL plays B level tournaments. Aside from their FO, goalie and 1 pole, they are a B level team. Attack is beyond weak, defense is serviceable and middies are decent.
Of the 15 goals NL scored on Madlax in the playoffs, i wonder how many the "weak" attack scored?
Would rather not see people (previous poster) cutting down players in specific positions on other teams— that’s lame. Coaches, they’re fair game. Kids might be on here, that’s just not cool.
As for ML, teams are having a very tough time scoring on Madlax this summer from the look at the scores on US Club Lax (most games they’re giving up 2 or 3 goals against elite teams, including Hawks, Venom, Nationals, Ex North, etc). But they’re also having trouble scoring. But overall, Madlax has had a pretty good summer season through 4 tourneys. Their losses are to Hawks (by one) BBL (OT and by 3) and NXT (OT). The NXT loss certainly an outlier, it was end of day, overtime, meltdown. Nice wins against BBL, 91 Venom, 3D New England, Ex North, Nationals, Mad Dog West Elite, FCA.
As for NL— of course they’re a good team, very athletic. Some great players, and they play well together. Their FOGO is their difference maker, has been problematic for Madlax in their matchups, who rotates 5-6 kids through the dot. NL won like 26 of the 31 faceoffs in that HoCo game. ML is working to resolve that in the very near future and when they do, they will be very hard for anyone to beat if they can muster 40-50% at the dot.
Thankfully this season is almost in the books.
