June 15, 2026
By Evan Lepler
Throughout the UFA season, there are typically dozens of noteworthy individual performances every week. But only seven special efforts can earn their way onto the weekly Honor Roll, highlighting the best of the best across the Association.
Players are listed alphabetically by last name.
Peter Boerth, Boston Glory
Amongst the several dozen significant storylines across the 13-game Week 8 slate, Boston’s brilliant 2-0 weekend through New York and DC easily rises to the top of the headlines. And the Glory may not have won either game without Peter Boerth being healthy, active, and relentlessly impactful. His personal highlight reel would include a little bit of everything, but he made a few skycraping scoring snags that were absolutely magnificent. At the very end of overtime on Friday against the Empire, for instance, Roan Dunkerley launched a deep missile for Boerth, and the fourth-year Glory soared over Daan De Marree for the memorable game-sealing score. That was one of his five goals in the Glory’s back-to-back wins, and Boerth also added six assists and two blocks in Boston’s triumphant and consequential weekend.
Will Brandt, Minnesota Wind Chill
The 2024 Championship Weekend MVP became Mr. Buzzer Beater on Friday night in Oakland, catching two goals and throwing another in the waning seconds of three of the four quarters in the Wind Chill’s dramatic one-goal win out West. Will Brandt’s continued production as a downfield target—Friday was just the third time in his 57-game UFA career that he’s surpassed 300 receiving yards—has helped to reshape Minnesota’s ceiling, elevating everyone’s regard for the Wind Chill in the process. Adding in his numbers from Saturday’s steamrolling over Vegas, Brandt finished the weekend with seven goals, seven assists, and three blocks. All the stats are nice, but his playmaking in the biggest moments on Friday against the Spiders is what vaulted Brandt onto the Week 8 scintillating seven. He’s delivered in big games throughout his career, and the 2026 Wind Chill, now 7-0, have many more big games ahead.
Tobe Decraene, Boston Glory (Pictured)
You can’t overlook his red zone turnovers on Friday night in New York. Truly, Tobe Decraene nearly threw Boston out of the game. But at the end of the weekend, the Glory were 2-0 with a pair of impressive road wins, and their best player was ultimately a sparkling centerpiece of that astonishing success. Decraene finished the weekend directly involved in 20 of his team’s 44 total scores, and he also added eight more hockey assists and over 1,200 total yards across the two games. No one else in the UFA—with at least four games played—has more than seven scores per game, while Decraene sits at 8.4 scores across his nine contests so far this season. He’s presently number one in assists, tied for second in goals, seventh in throwing yards, and first in receiving yards. Sure, he’s sixth in throwaways too, but his immense production and playmaking make the error total, while plentiful, more tolerable. He’s still two weeks away from his 23rd birthday, but there’s a chance that we’ll look back at this past weekend as one of the signature performances of Decraene’s career. Remarkable.
Thomas Edmonds, Boston Glory
Of course, it’s impossible to mention Boerth and Decraene and not dedicate another entire section to Thomas Edmonds, who went 100-for-101 passing for 778 throwing yards during the Glory’s Week 8 road trip. His superpower is his steadiness, though his most exciting moment may have been a turnover. On Friday against the Empire, Edmonds’ outrageous greatest attempt landed incomplete, but his ridiculously athletic layout and throw back into the field of play on a disc that otherwise was sailing out of bounds was truly mind-boggling. If it had been caught, it would’ve immediately resided among the greatest greatests in UFA history. In his last five games—in which Boston has had players going in and out of the lineup with regularity—Edmonds has been the constant rock. He’s 233-for-234 passing in his last five games, and it’s hard to fathom where the Glory might be without him.
Max Gibson, San Diego Growlers
What a gutsy game from Max Gibson and the Growlers on Saturday night at Colorado. They trailed for virtually the entire night, but Gibson’s great leaping catch with three seconds left gave San Diego its first, last, and only lead of the evening, capping San Diego’s incredible 22-21 interdivisional victory. Gibson was truly a beast down the stretch, with a clutch layout block and several key cuts to help the Growlers escape tricky situations. He finished the game with three goals, three assists, and four blocks while playing 18 of his 24 points on the D-line. He also added 439 total yards, the most in a game league-wide this season for anyone spending at least three-quarters of their playing time on the D-line.
Matt Tucker, Carolina Flyers
We now enter the ‘good players having career days against Houston’ portion of the Honor Roll. On Saturday night in North Carolina, Matt Tucker, one of the league’s feistiest and most underrated defenders, compiled the first double-digit plus-minus of his 56-game UFA journey. The 27-year-old NC State alum produced five goals, four blocks, and 218 receiving yards—all of which were career highs—in his plus-10 performance, as the Flyers rolled 32-11. It’s also meaningful to note that Tucker played zero O-points on Saturday. He’s the first player this season—and just the third in the UFA this decade—to finish a game with a double-digit plus/minus while playing zero O-points.
Alec Wilson Holliday, Atlanta Hustle
The Havoc also had absolutely no answer for Alec Wilson Holliday on Friday night in Atlanta. The 28-year-old cutter caught 11 scores in the Hustle’s dominant home win, the most goals for any player so far this decade in the UFA. Since 2021, four others have had 10-goal games, but it’s been since Quentin Bonnaud’s 11-goal game in June of 2019 since anyone went on a scoring spree akin to Wilson Holliday’s stampede. Five of his goals came in the second quarter as Atlanta built a 16-7 halftime lead. Then he added five more in the second half, the last of which came with just 16 seconds left to give the Hustle a 29-14 victory. By the way, no UFA player has caught more than 11 goals in a game since Lior Givol—playing for the now-defunct San Francisco FlameThrowers—found the end zone 13 times in a 2018 game against Seattle. In the current decade, only five players—Ben Jagt, CJ Colicchio, James Lewis, Zeppelin Raunig, and now Wilson Holliday—have reached double-digit goals in a single game.
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