A season of work comes down to one game for the Saskatchewan Rush and Calgary Roughnecks on Sunday. The two prairie rivals meet in the single-game NLL Western Final at SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon.

Saskatchewan is going into the game off a bye week after finishing first overall in the regular season with a 14-4 record.

"This is where we've wanted to be all season," said Rush defencemen Ryan Dilks. "We had a good weekend of practice, we flew into Saskatoon and had a good practice and watched the (semifinal) game together. We're as ready as we can be and now we've just got to bring it Sunday night."

The Rush posted a 3-0 mark against the Roughnecks during the regular season, including picking up an 11-10 win over Calgary in Saskatoon in the final game of the regular season. 

Calgary enters Sunday's Western Final after an upset 15-12 win over the Colorado Mammoth in the semifinal last weekend.

"We know it won't be easy, even though we swept them in the regular season, this whole league, it's so small and there's so many good players, any team can win on any night, so with the new playoff format being just one game, we have to bring our best and play a full sixty minutes because anything can happen," said Dilks.

The Rush scored the most goals in the league during the regular season with 254 and allowed the least with only 196 against. Calgary had the fifth most goals for (227) and was fourth in goals allowed (211).

Saskatchewan's Mark Matthews led the league in scoring with 116 points, while Robert Church was right behind him in second with 107. 

Calgary's led by Curtis Dickson, who tied with Church for second in the league with 47 goals and finished with 92 points. Wesley Berg with 86 points and Dane Dobbie with 85 makes for a potent attack for the Roughnecks.

Dilks said the Rush will have to play as a unit on defence to limit the goal scoring opportunities for Calgary.

"We need to give (Evan Kirk) the best possible chance of saving the ball, as soon as one or two of us break down, that's when they find holes in our system," said Dilks. "They've got a lot of talented players on their offence and we've had success in the past if we play a five-man defence against them and it should bring us out on top."

Sunday's game will feature the regular season's top-two goalies with Roughnecks netminder Christian Del Bianco leading the league with a 10.50 goals against average and a 0.793 save percentage. Evan Kirk for the Rush was right behind at 10.82 and 0.777, while also posting a league-best 12 wins.

"(Kirk) has been real steady, there's a lot of good goalies in the league and he's definitely near the top," said Dilks. "He gives our defence that confidence, knowing he's back there to make the big save if we need him to and we're just happy that he's on our side now."

One big advantage for the Rush will be the game being played at SaskTel Centre with a sold-out crowd expected to cheer on the home team. Dilks said he expects the crowd to play a big factor for them.

"It will be huge, since it's only one game, we'll need all the help we can get and Saskatoon is by far the craziest place to play and the fans can easily change the momentum of the game real quick," said Dilks. "We'll want to harness the energy, but don't want to get too excited."

The Rush and Roughnecks face-off at 5 p.m. Sunday night in Saskatoon. The winner will advance to the NLL Final to face the winner of Saturday's Eastern Final between Georgia and Rochester.