The 2008 National Lacrosse League season, the 22nd in the history of the NLL, began on December 29, 2007, and concluded with the Buffalo Bandits winning the championship game over the Portland LumberJax on May 17, 2008.
There was also a tie atop the west division standings, as the San Jose Stealth and Colorado Mammoth both finished with 9–7 records.
[1] Philadelphia Wings second-year stars Athan Iannucci and Geoff Snider set a number of new league records in 2008.
The expansion Boston Blazers and 2007 Western division champion Arizona Sting had decided for "a number of business reasons"[5] to opt out of the 2008 season and return in 2009.
Due to the short time frame between the agreement on a new CBA and the start of the season, the New York Titans were unable to secure 8 home dates for the revised schedule, and thus both the Toronto Rock and Buffalo Bandits hosted a Titans home game in their own arena.
[7] When the revised schedule was released on November 2, 2007, it was announced that both the Arizona Sting and Boston Blazers were suspending operations for the 2008 season, returning in 2009.
[3] The next day, commissioner Jim Jennings even said that the league would not change its mind about the cancellation, saying: There's no hope due to the fact that we've released our dates.
[4] Before the initial cancellation of the season, the Versus network announced that it would not carry a game of the week, as they had in 2007, even if an agreement was reached before the deadline.