Last summer, despite being in its second season, the Premier Lacrosse League became one of the first American professional sports leagues to successfully operate a bubble amid the coronavirus pandemic. For more than three weeks, the PLL held its Championship Series outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, putting on what Paul Rabil, one of the league’s co-founders and an Atlas Lacrosse Club star, called the “strongest pound-for-pound punch” lacrosse had ever seen.
There are countless lessons Rabil says the league can apply heading into its third season, but nevertheless, Rabil says the PLL is planning on returning to a tour-based model this summer.