Minnesota Swarm Announces Protected Player List For NLL Expansion Draft

June 28, 2006 - National Lacrosse League (NLL)
Minnesota Swarm News Release


SAINT PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Minnesota Swarm general manager Marty O'Neill announced today the team's protected player list for the 2006 National Lacrosse League (NLL) Expansion Draft. The Expansion Draft will take place on Wednesday, July 12th at 3:00 PM CDT via conference call. Listed below is the Swarm's protected player list:

MINNESOTA SWARM PROTECTED LIST

F Kasey Beirnes F Kelly Hall

D Andrew Biers G Nick Patterson

D Brock Boyle F Sean Pollock

D Ryan Cousins F Scott Stewart

F Chad Culp F Noah Talbot

G Matt Disher F Ryan Ward

The Expansion Draft will consist of 11 rounds with the first selection going to Chicago as New York won a coin flip at the Board of Governors Meetings earlier this month and chose to pick first in the upcoming Entry Draft. Each team is allowed to protect either 13 runners and a goaltender, or 10 runners and two goaltenders. Players that are left unprotected are available for selection by Chicago and New York in the Expansion Draft. During the Expansion Draft, once a player is selected from an existing club, the club is then allowed to protect one of its remaining unprotected players. No team may lose more than two of its players in the Expansion Draft. Once two players from a club have been selected, the club's remaining unprotected players are no longer available in the Expansion Draft.

The NLL has also announced its divisional alignments for the 2007 season. The expansion teams in Chicago and New York will join the Swarm in the Eastern Division in 2007 to create a seven-team division. The Western Division will consist of the same six teams that comprised the division during the 2006 season. Each team will play each of their divisional opponents at least twice in 2007, consisting of a minimum of at least one home game and one away game against each divisional opponent. The playoff format will remain unchanged, with the top four teams in each division advancing to the playoffs.

2007 NLL Eastern Division 2007 NLL Western Division
Buffalo Bandits Arizona Sting
Chicago Shamrox Calgary Roughnecks
Minnesota Swarm Colorado Mammoth
New York (to be named) Edmonton Rush
Philadelphia Wings Portland LumberJax
Rochester Knighthawks San Jose Stealth
Toronto Rock

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