Who wins the PLL championship? Key stats, matchups, X factors for Outlaws-Atlas

The 2025 Premier Lacrosse League title is upon us. The last matchup represents the 2 champion teams successful the league this summer, arsenic the New York Atlas look the Denver Outlaws.

There is nary shortage of prima power, arsenic some teams formal rosters loaded with assemblage icons and aboriginal Hall of Famers. Coaches Mike Pressler (New York) and Tim Soudan (Denver) some marque their PLL title debuts.

If the 2 teams' regular-season matchup is immoderate clue, we're successful for different classic. They met Aug. 2 successful the Mile High City, and the crippled was won by Denver successful overtime,13-12.

Who volition hoist the trophy connected Sunday?

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Kessenich's keys
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Denver Outlaws vs. New York Atlas

Sunday | 12:30 p.m. | ABC/ESPN

Injury report

Outlaws: None to report

Atlas: None to report

Quint Kessenich's keys to the game

The Atlas are looking to triumph their archetypal PLL championship, and are fortified by specialists Trevor Baptiste (FOGO) and goalie Liam Entenmann.

New York's onslaught trio is dominant. Connor Shellenberger, Jeff Teat and Xander Dickson show uncanny chemistry and accomplishment level.

Teat, the 2024 MVP, and Shellenberger, the favourite to triumph the grant this summer, some eclipsed 40 points successful the regular season.

Shellenberger sent the regular-season crippled with Denver into overtime with an isolation extremity with 15 seconds to play. He produced a ho-hum 5 points successful the semifinal triumph implicit the Philadelphia Waterdogs.

Dickson roams the slot area, and has filthy wrists to decorativeness successful a crowd.

New York has unsafe players astatine the midfield presumption too, successful Bryan Costabile and Matt Traynor. Both necessitate attraction and are superior threats to people disconnected the dodge. Reid Bowering, a lefty with savvy, sets roadblock picks and is simply a wizard from successful tight. Traynor, a rookie from Penn State, had 4 points successful the semifinals. Costabile has arguably been the astir businesslike and unsafe midfield dodger successful the league this season.

Generally, the defence relies connected Entenmann to marque stops. Pay attraction to Gavin Adler, who volition apt gully the Pat Kavanagh duty successful this game. When the 2 teams met successful August, Adler held Kavanagh pointless.

Meanwhile, Michael Rexrode volition beryllium successful complaint of marking Brennan O'Neill. Defensive midfielder Danny Logan is the champion successful the league astatine his position.

The Outlaws shrugged disconnected a 30-day layoff to dispose of the upstart California Redwoods successful the semifinals, shutting California down for a 20-minute agelong on the way. Denver leads the PLL successful changeable attempts per crippled astatine 45, and they play fast.

Denver has an awesome group, including 4 Tewaraaton Award winners: Brennan O'Neill, Jared Bernhardt, Pat Kavanagh and Logan Wisnauskas. That's similar an NFL squad having 4 Heisman winners successful the aforesaid huddle.

The Outlaws acquired Kavanagh successful an offseason commercialized with Boston, and the 2024 Notre Dame postgraduate leads the league successful touches and shots this season. His constituent accumulation has tripled successful twelvemonth two.

Brennan O'Neill unleashed the fury successful the semis, with eye-popping goals worthy of a superhero and six points total.

O'Neill had 2 goals connected 9 shots portion being covered by Michael Rexrode successful the August matchup. Overall, helium is averaging 4.3 points per crippled since the All-Star break. He is pugnacious matchup astatine 6-2 and 220 pounds.

Bernhardt had the overtime game-winner successful the Outlaws' victory, and is the smoothest and fastest shot bearer successful the league. He runs astatine a velocity that astir can't handle. Bernhardt was signed connected June 2 aft pursuing an N...