Honor Roll: Divisional Championship Weekend


Photo by Ron Sellers

August 10, 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.

Raekwon Adkins, Oakland Spiders (Pictured)

Efficient, productive, and often spectacular, Raekwon Adkins helped carry the shorthanded Spiders offense in their 20-16 Saturday success against the Shred. Without both Daniel Ritthaler and Walker Frankenberg, two of the team’s O-line anchors, Adkins assumed even more responsibility, and the current University of Oregon student finished with a season-high 33 completions and no throwaways, while scoring four goals and dishing three assists. He also was credited with five hockey assists. The degree of difficulty will be several notches higher at Championship Weekend, but Adkins absolutely has the ability to elevate Oakland on the league’s grandest stage. If the Spiders can go all the way, Adkins will be a huge part of the team’s rise. 

Matt Armour, Austin Sol

The Sol’s thrilling one-goal win was keyed by so many different and important contributions, but I would contend the biggest factor was Matt Armour’s stabilizing presence on the team’s O-line. For a guy who played fewer than four O-points per game during the regular season, it felt particularly noteworthy how he helped to keep Austin alive by flexing onto the offense when the team was struggling to find its rhythm on Friday night against the Flyers. And while his stats weren’t necessarily eye-popping—he finished 19-for-20 with four assists, three goals, and one block—his steadiness and red-zone instincts helped the Sol O-line convert clutch holds eight times in a nine-possession span during Austin’s exhilarating second-half turnaround. Armour is also the only player on the Sol who’s getting ready to compete at Championship Weekend for the fourth time, and undoubtedly, the team will be hoping he can play a ton of points in their upcoming semifinal against the Wind Chill. 

Noah Coolman, Minnesota Wind Chill

The Wind Chill are heading to Championship Weekend for the fourth year in a row, but it’ll be the first Champ Weekend appearance of Noah Coolman’s five-year UFA career. And the Minnesota rookie picked a nice time to have his best game with his new team, making a bunch of big plays in the Chill’s 22-20 triumph over the AlleyCats this past Saturday night. Coolman tallied four assists, one goal, and two blocks, athletically throwing his body around and calmly launching several pristine puts as the Wind Chill earned their spot in Madison. Like Austin’s Armour, Coolman should be an important two-way threat for Minnesota in the semifinals; he played nine O-points and a season-high 10 D-points for the Chill on Saturday against Indy. 

Tobe Decraene, Boston Glory

Time will tell whether Tobe Decraene’s individual effort on Saturday—along with the rest of the season—earn him a second consecutive UFA MVP, but his personal performance in Boston’s season-ending setback did nothing but continue to feed into the belief that he’s currently one of the sport’s greatest talents. The 23-year-old Belgian was directly involved in 13 of his team’s 21 scores, while his 725 total yards—340 throwing and 385 receiving—were the second-most of any player in the league this past weekend. He also made a habit of saving Glory possessions with spectacular layout grabs. For the entire season, he registered 109 scores, becoming the first player to produce triple-digit scores in the UFA since Jordan Kerr, who had 103 for the Shred in 2023.

Daan De Marrée, New York Empire

Although a couple quirky possessions prevented Daan De Marrée from enjoying a truly historic stat line, his all-around performance in New York’s three-goal road win was typically mesmerizing. He tallied six assists, five more hockey assists, two goals, and a block, while churning for 526 receiving yards, the most for anyone so far in the 2026 playoffs and the fourth-most by any player in the UFA all season. Furthermore, while he made a handful of electric plays, De Marrée’s brilliance was often his steadiness, showcased through the ease with which he consistently got open and kept the disc moving. There’s no guarantee that the Empire will roll through their Championship Weekend opponents, but any Champ Weekend MVP odds chart would be foolish not to have De Marree at the top. 

Bobby Elston, New York Empire

While the Empire have so many household names, their lesser-known playmakers are fully capable of delivering game-changing moments too. Case in point: Bobby Elston picked a heck of a time to deliver multiple goals and multiple blocks in a game for the first time in his UFA career. After producing two goals and two blocks in the Empire’s 24-21 victory, Elston represents all of the Empire’s depth on this week’s postseason Honor Roll, as his clutch plays—including a pair of blocks on Decraene—typified the excellence and underrated contributions from all of New York’s unsung stars. The 25-year-old earned his first block by denying Decraene deep on the fourth point of the game, leading to New York’s first break to put the Empire ahead 3-1. Just a few minutes later, his second D led to another early break, giving New York a 5-2 advantage. Boston played the Empire dead even in the second, third, and fourth quarters, but Elston’s impact in the first was positively massive, as the Empire managed to hang on to that lead for the rest of the night. 

Stefan McCall, Oakland Spiders

The Shred might have gone into Saturday’s West title game thinking something like, “Let’s contain the Spiders’ most established stars and force a young guy like Stefan McCall to beat us.” Well, he did. After producing just six assists, three goals, and one block in the four regular season games he played this year, McCall erupted for five assists, three goals, and two blocks in the West final against Salt Lake, filling in ably as a dynamic presence on the Oakland O-line. McCall also led the Spiders with 295 receiving yards, 126 more than the next most on the team. It might be a while before we see McCall as a regular Spider—he’ll be entering his sophomore year at Georgia Tech this fall—but after watching his impact on Saturday, there should be no doubt about what he can bring to the new West Division champs in the many years ahead.