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You hear it all the time in the NLL.

“If only we won some of those one goal games, we woulda made the post-season.” Or something like that, right?

Rochester, who dropped five one goal games in 2008, finished 8-8 last year, but could have just as easily gone 13-3, right?

Same with Minnesota on the other side of the table. The Swarm went 5-0 in games decided by one, with their 10-6 end of regular season record potentially being more like something in the ballpark of 5-11.

After the jump, check out who excelled when things were close and who coulda had a whole different season if they coulda posted one or two more in 2008.

1 Goal Games

Minnesota Swarm 5-0
Chicago Shamrox 3-1
Philadelphia Wings 3-2
Portland Lumberjax 3-2
New York Titans 2-0
San Jose Stealth 2-1
Colorado Mammoth 2-2
Edmonton Rush 1-1
Buffalo Bandits 2-1
Calgary Roughnecks 1-3
Toronto Rock 0-4
Rochester Knighthawks 0-5

2 Goal Games

Philadelphia Wings 2-0
Edmonton Rush 2-0
Toronto Rock 2-1
Buffalo Bandits 1-0
Chicago Shamrox 1-1
Portland Lumberjax 1-1
Minnesota Swarm 1-2
Colorado Mammoth 0-1
San Jose Stealth 0-2
Calgary Roughnecks 0-2

3+ Goal Games

Rochester Knighthawks 8-3
Buffalo Bandits 8-4
New York Titans 8-6
Colorado Mammoth 7-4
San Jose Stealth 7-4
Calgary Roughnecks 6-4
Philadelphia Wings 5-4
Toronto Rock 5-4
Minnesota Swarm 4-4
Portland Lumberjax 2-7
Chicago Shamrox 2-8
Edmonton Rush 1-11

And for those that haven’t done the math after racing through those numbers, 24% of the games in 2008 were decided by one goal, 10% by two and then 66% for the rest.

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