While Peterborough fans will remember the saves, championships and imposing presence in the crease, Vinc's NLL career was on an entirely different scale.
He finishes as the league's all-time leader in regular-season wins by a goaltender, with 182, while also holding the career records for saves and minutes played. The NLL credits him with 11,824 regular-season saves and 17,836:49 between the pipes.
He was named NLL Goaltender of the Year eight times and won three consecutive championships twice, first with the Rochester Knighthawks from 2012 through 2014, then with the Buffalo Bandits from 2023 through 2025. That makes Vinc the goaltender behind both three-peats in NLL history.
And somehow, even after all of that, Vinc's final NLL chapter ended with another championship.
At 43, he helped Buffalo complete its own three-peat in 2025 before returning for one more season. Now, after two decades in the league, he has decided it is time to step away.
Vinc's farewell message was fittingly less about the records than the people who shared the journey with him.
He thanked his coaches, front-office and medical staffs, teammates and fans, while saving his deepest gratitude for his family, who he said had been by his side throughout it all.
“I love this sport and look forward to supporting the next generation of players,” Vinc wrote.
For Peterborough, that next generation will always have a pretty special example to look back on.
The Lakers years were only one chapter in Matt Vinc's extraordinary career. But for those who watched him patrol the crease at the Memorial Centre, they were seven seasons, and four Mann Cups, worth remembering.
And now, after 20 seasons, six NLL championships and enough saves to fill a record book, lacrosse's most accomplished goaltenders is finally hanging up his pads.
