NLL Announces Week Eight Player Awards
February 21, 2007 - National Lacrosse League (NLL) News Release
The National Lacrosse League has announced the Week Number Eight player awards for the 2007 season. Buffalo Bandits goaltender Steve Dietrich was named both the Overall Player of the Week and the Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in a 12-8 road victory over the Philadelphia Wings in the Hall of Fame Game. Arizona Sting forward Dan Dawson earned Offensive Player of the Week honors, Colorado's Nenad Gajic was named Transition Player of the Week and Philadelphia Wings forward Kyle Wailes was named Rookie of the Week.
Buffalo Bandits goaltender Steve Dietrich earned both Overall Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week honors. Dietrich had a strong performance in a victory over the Philadelphia Wings in the 2007 NLL Hall of Fame Game on Saturday night at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia. Dietrich racked up 49 saves and held the Wings to eight goals in the 12-8 road victory.
Arizona Sting forward Dan Dawson earned Offensive Player of the Week Honors for his performance in Arizona's 12-11 overtime home win over the Edmonton Rush on Sunday at Jobing.com Arena. Dawson scored three goals, including the over-time game winning goal, and tallied four assists for seven points as the Sting recorded their fourth straight victory. Dawson also collected three loose balls in the game and scored one of his goals on the power play.
Nenad Gajic of the Colorado Mammoth earned Transition Player of the Week honors in Week Eight. Gajic scored three goals, including a short-handed tally and collected eight loose balls in a 10-8 road win over Portland on Thursday. Gajic also tallied two assists and collected five loose balls in a 15-12 home win over the Calgary Roughnecks on Sunday at Pepsi Center in Denver
Philadelphia Wings forward Kyle Wailes was named Rookie of the Week for Week Eight. Wailes scored five points on three goals and two assists and collected 13 loose balls in a 12-8 home loss to Buffalo in the 2007 NLL Hall of Fame Game on Saturday. Wailes scored all three of his goals on the power play.
Week Number Eight Results
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Colorado Mammoth at Portland LumberJax: 10-8 COL
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Buffalo Bandits at Philadelphia Wings (Hall of Fame Game): 12-8 BUF
Portland LumberJax at Rochester Knighthawks: 18-12 ROC
Minnesota Swarm at New York Titans: 15-14 MIN
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Edmonton Rush at Arizona Sting: 12-11 (OT) ARZ
Chicago Shamrox at Toronto Rock: 11-10 TOR
Calgary Roughnecks at Colorado Mammoth: 15-12 COL
New York Titans at Minnesota Swarm: 17-14 MIN
The Weekly Player Awards are determined by a vote of the General Managers and Head Coaches of the league's thirteen member clubs.
National Lacrosse League Stories from February 21, 2007
- Knighthawks Pat Cougeven on News 10 NBC Friday - Rochester Knighthawks
- Merrill Will to Represent LumberJax in Western Division - Portland Lumberjax
- Wings' Wailes Named NLL's Rookie Of The Week - Philadelphia Wings
- Mammoth to be featured on ESPN2 - Colorado Mammoth
- Gajic honored by NLL - Colorado Mammoth
- Rochester's John Grant named NLL All-Star Game starter - Rochester Knighthawks
- Weekend on the road features Rush, Mammoth - Portland Lumberjax
- an Dawson named NLL Offensive Player of the Week - Arizona Sting
- NLL Announces Week Eight Player Awards - NLL
- Rock face Roughnecks in home and home series - Toronto Rock
- Rush Captain to start in NLL All-Star Game - Edmonton Rush
- Dawson and Blasdell named All-Star starters - Arizona Sting
- Chicago Shamrox Player Cam Woods Makes NLL All-Star Team - Chicago Shamrox
- Carey named starter for NLL All-Star Game - Colorado Mammoth
- Three Wings Chosen As Starters for 2007 NLL All-Star Game - Philadelphia Wings
- NLL Announces All-Star Game Starting Lineups - NLL
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