NLL Announces Players Available to Boston in Expansion Draft
Published on July 27, 2007 under National Lacrosse League (NLL) News Release
The yet-to-be-named Boston team will begin to build their roster next Tuesday in the expansion draft, when they select a player from each of the 13 returning team's unprotected lists, all of which have now been announced. Key unprotected players include Buffalo's Cory Bomberry, Colorado's Brian Langtry, Minnesota's Scott Stewart and Toronto's Pat Merrill.
Clubs were given the option of either protecting one goaltender and thirteen of its runners (forwards/defensemen/transition players) or two goaltenders and ten runners. The protected player lists are below.
No team may lose more than one of its players in the Expansion Draft. Draft results will be posted live at the league's official website, nll.com.
Arizona Sting
Protected Players Blasdell, Rob Brown, Matt Codd, Bruce Conn, Craig Dawson, Dan Lough, Peter MacDonald, Brad Malawsky, Derek McKay, Chris Murray, Bruce Plunkett, Lindsay Secore, Andy Self, Scott Veltman, Peter
Unprotected Players Atherton, Brandon Attwood, Mike Beisel, Brian Grimes, Mike Hinman, Greg Lazore, Andrew Malawsky, Curt Seller, Chris Tinning, Mark
Buffalo Bandits
Protected Players Bucktooth, Brett Dostie, Kevin Greenhalgh, Sean Laverty, Kyle McCready, Pat Powless, Delby Sanderson, Phil Smith, Billy Dee Steenhuis, Mark Tavares, John Teat, Dan Thompson, Mike Vyse, Roger White, Chris
Unprotected Players Bomberry, Cory Bonterre, Troy Hill, Clay Kilgour, Rich Sams, Daniel Seymour, Daryl Thenhaus, Brenden
Calgary Roughnecks
Protected Players Couling, Kyle Dietrich, Steve Gelsvik, Craig Heavenor, Nolan Hinton, Luke Kelusky, Tracy Llord, Ian McBride, Andrew Moleski, Jeff Ranger, Scott Ratcliff, Lewis Shattler, Jeff Toth, Kaleb Wray, Devan
Unprotected Players Anderson, Scott Avery, Ryan Cable, Shawn Corrigan, Pat Francey, Tyler Gillespie, Travis Goundrey, Kyle Leyshon, Andrew McNish, Ryan Oglivie, Andy Phillips, Jese Susheski, Kerry Tom, Derek
Chicago Shamrox
Protected Players Clark, Jason Dupont, Kyle Gibson, Darryl Giles, Mat Hobbins, Mike Jacobs, Cody Kazarian, Bryan Kirk, Mike Leveille, Kevin McGlone, Bill Miller, Brandon Montour, Tom Wasson, Josh Woods, Cam
Unprotected Players Candy, Drew Collins, Derek Derks, Jonas Gallagher, Ryan Harasym, Jon Heffner, Zach Kruger, Rusty Panos, Chris
Colorado Mammoth
Protected Players Bloom, Jason Carey, Dan Carlson, Nick Catton, Rich Ethington, Tom Gajic, Nenad Gallant, John Leveque, Matt Moss, Jim Nash, Gee Prout, Gavin Shewchuk, Jamie Sims, Josh Taylor, Matt
Unprotected Players Cornfield, Jordan Coyle, Pat Davidson, Scott Hanford, Jamie Langtry, Brian Law, Mike Levis, Chris Stilley, Dave
Edmonton Rush
Protected List Accursi, Mike Allen, Mac Daly, Randy Finck, Dan Gill, Chris Glaves, Rory McElroy, Chris Palidwor, Curtis Prepchuk, Ben Quinlan, Jim Shannon, AJ Stroup, Dan Turner, Andrew Wulder, Jason
Unprotected List Bowen, Jamey Bergman, Cam Hillier, Darren Howard, Kevin Jenner, Ted Melville, Cory Roy, Jamie Stobart, Buck Wagar, Kurtis Welsh, Daryl Williams, Rob
Minnesota Swarm
Protected List Beirnes, Kasey Cousins, Ryan Culp, Chad Disher, Matt Hill, Dean Hominuck, Mike Pacey, Eric Patterson, Nick Pollock, Sean Sharp, Ryan Sullivan, Jon Ward, Ryan
Unprotected List Boyle, Brock Biers, Andr Hill, Travis Kemp, Riley Kilby, Mike Martin, Spencer McDade, Rory McLean, Ashton Ross, Kyle Stewart, Scott Talbot, Noah
New York Titans
Protected List Alrich, Matt Barrett, Bryan Boyle, Ryan Brzeski, Rich Kelly, Anthony Maddalena, Pat McLellan, Mike Mundorf, Brendan Orsen, John Park, Jarett Peyser, Greg Powell, Casey Vinc, Matt Zash, Matt
Unprotected List Galbraith, Keevin Ghedina, Joe Horsey, Bobby Miller, Erik Schindler, Gewas Schroeder, Nick Spano, Jeff Tower, Brian Zummo, Tom
Philadelphia Wings
Protected List Christmas, Jon Cromwell, Keith Crosbie, Jason Fiat, Kyle Hajek, Tom Iannucci, Athan Marohl, Dan Nadelen, Shawn Roik, Matt Snider, Geoff Sweeney, Kyle Van Beek, Rob Wailes, Kyle Wray, Taylor
Unprotected List Bergey, Jake Burke, Zach Davis, Damien Jacobs, Peter Montour, Ken Morley, Marc Preece, John Ratcliffe, Jeff Rosenburger, Ian
Portland LumberJax
Protected List Bateman, Ryder Crashley, Ian Eliuk, Dallas Hall, Kelly Holman, Matt Jones, Pat King, Matt Merrill, Brodie Morgan, Peter Morgan, Richard Powell, Ryan Stapleford, Scott
Unprotected List Alexander, Bruce Bysouth, Adam Dirscoll, DJ Guze, Ray Halladay, Del Heavenor, Tyler Marshall, Ryan Mazuran, Scott Palmer, Graham Prossner, Jed Reisig, Darren
Rochester Knighthawks
Protected List Abrams, Marshall Chapman, Sandy Ditzell, Scott Evans, Scott Evans, Shawn Forget, Luke Grant, John Greer, Bill Hoar, Stephen O'Toole, Pat Reid, Jack Schiller, Chris Toll, Steve Williams, Shawn
Unprotected List Brown, Dave Cougevan, Pat Crawley, Grant Croswell, Brian Dutton, Patrick Millin, Ken Thorpe, Regy Wetherup, Phil
San Jose Stealth
Protected List Bold, Aaron Cosmo, Anthony Crawford, Callum Doyle, Colin Hawksbee, Ian Hodgson, Curtis Martin, Eric Rosyski, Gary Sedgwick, Cam Sorensen, Kyle Wiles, Luke Zywicki, Jeff
Unprotected List Booth, Tim Burkholder, Andrew Dawson, Paul Green, Wes Guindon, Andrew Halls, Darren Holmes, Steve Mitchell, Sterling Santos, Shaydon Wiles, Jason Williams, Shawn
Toronto Rock
Protected List Benesch, Ryan Carroll, Matt Driscoll, Chris Fines, Kevin Manning, Blaine Marshall, Rob Poulin, Mike Sanderson, Josh Suddons, Derek Veltman, Jim Watson, Bob Wilson, Aaron
Unprotected List Campbell, Scott Ladouceur, Dan MacArthur, Brad McLeod, Mike Merrill, Patrick O'Brien, Tim Rubel, Ian Shearer, Matt Stewart, Chris Taylor, Jamie
Unprotected list only includes draft eligible players on active NLL rosters. Unlisted players on injured reserve, holdout, retired lists, etc., are eligible to be drafted.
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