Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
NL is on the rise Will be top 3

Next Level is awful. Horrible summer, literally didn’t beat a top 20 team got blown out several times by the likes of 2Way. Have had a poor fall as well— I think they lost a game yesterday by 7-8 goals. Haven’t beat anyone of significance since last April.

The team to beat around here is FCA. Couple of key holdbacks, including 2027 FCA’s best player #14 he is legit. Picked up a few other horses as well. They’ll be tough to beat come spring.

Madlax has had a rough fall missing goalie and 6-7 players every weekend to football. But they had the best summer by far with full squad, beat 2Way, Venom, 3D New England, BBL, Ex North and LIE MULTIPLE TIMES. Only losses were one goal losses to Hawks, NXT, and BBL. They’ll be ready for HoCo.

Hawks were bad this fall too, likely missing a bunch of players. Can’t explain some of those losses otherwise. Gotta assume they were short players, unless they had a mass exodus?? They should be back for HoCo.

Crabs— nope. They got rolled this weekend by a mid level team. Not there yet.

FCA top of the stack after Fall Ball. And there is separation above the rest.

-Not an FCA Dad

Agree that NextLevel does not seem to have much - can someone explain how they beat MadLax twice last spring and won HoCo?

Short answer is faceoffs.

Faceoffs were a big problem for MadLax in their two HoCo Spring 2022 games vs. NL. But their three overall HoCo losses came in two different ways. Two early season losses to Hawks (5-9) and NL (4-5) were offensive struggles. They clearly are capable of much more offensively, even against tough defenses like NL and Hawks. But the playoff game vs. NL was not as close as the 15-12 score indicates. And, yes, faceoffs were dominated by NL. But NL also pretty much scored at will. MadLax scored some [Censored] time goals against NL's backup goalie to almost get within striking distance (yes, it was so out of hand that NL put in its backup early in second half). So NL was forced to re-insert the starting goalie and other starters to close things out. Odd game. MadLax is much better defensively than they played that day.

On NL's tournament struggles specifically, I don't think much has been said about NL using short bench during HoCo (once a week games in spring) and having a tougher time in tournaments with multiple games on same day. Could explain their uneven performance. Also, NL director probably under pressure to give PT to non-starters after leaning heavily on core players during HoCo.