| 2025 Buffalo Bandits | |
|---|---|
| League | NLL |
| 2025 record | 0-0 |
| Home record | 0-0 |
| Road record | 0-0 |
| Goals for | 0 |
| Goals against | 0 |
| General Manager | Steve Dietrich |
| Coach | John Tavares |
| Captain | Steve Priolo |
| Alternate captains | Dhane Smith, Nick Weiss |
| Arena | KeyBank Center |
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The Buffalo Bandits are a lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2025 season will be their 33rd season in the NLL.
The Bandits will enter the season as the defending champions for the second straight year and will look to become the first team since the original Rochester Knighthawks from 2012 to 2014 to win 3 straight NLL championships.
Listed below are the Bandits' opponents for 2025. The team will face every opponent in the league at least once. Exact dates and times will be announced in the fall.
On August 30, 2024, the NLL announced that the Panther City Lacrosse Club would cease operations. The league held a dispersal draft on September 2.[1][2]
| Round | Overall | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | Traded to Philadelphia[A] |
Notes
The 2024 NLL Entry Draft will be held virtually on September 15. The Bandits' selections are listed below.[3]
| Round | Overall | Player | College/Club | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | from Ottawa | ||
| 1 | 8 | from Rochester | ||
| 1 | 15 | |||
| 2 | 19 | from Vancouver | ||
| 3 | 38 | from Ottawa via Colorado | ||
| 4 | 61 | |||
| 5 | 69 | from Rochester | ||
| 5 | 76 | |||
| 6 | 89 | from Toronto | ||
| 6 | 91 |