NLL Expansion Draft on July 13; Available player lists announced
June 30, 2005 - National Lacrosse League (NLL) News Release
The 2005 National Lacrosse League Expansion Draft will take place on Wednesday, July 13th at 4pm Eastern, the league announced earlier today. The league's two new entries, the Edmonton Rush and Portland (to be named) will each select up to nine players from the league's current teams as their rosters begin to take shape for the 2006 season. The Expansion Draft will be conducted via conference call.
The Expansion Draft will consist of nine rounds with the first selection going to Portland, who received the first pick by winning a coin flip with Edmonton at the Board of Governors Meetings earlier this month at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Portland will select first in each round, followed by Edmonton.
Edmonton and Portland will be drafting unprotected players from the other nine teams. Each team is allowed to protect 13 of its runners and one goaltender, OR ten of its runners and two goaltenders. Seven of the nine teams elected to protect 13 runners and one goaltender. Minnesota and San Jose both opted to protect two goaltenders and ten runners.
As a player is selected from a team during the Expansion Draft, that team's General Manager can then protect an additional player who was previously available. No team can lose more than two players in the Expansion Draft. Once a team has had two of its unprotected players selected, the remaining players on that team's list are no longer available for selection.
Some notable names among the players left unprotected include Arizona forwards Cory Bomberry and Chris Panos; Buffalo midfielders Aime Caines and Rich Kilgour; Calgary forward Ted Dowling; Colorado defenseman Pat Coyle; Rochester defensemen Marshall Abrams and Regy Thorpe; San Jose goaltender Rob Blasdell and Toronto defensemen Glenn Clark and Dan Ladouceur.
Each team's list of protected and unprotected players is enclosed. The Unprotected Players List includes Unprotected Roster Players, Retired Players, Injured Reserve Players, Holdouts, and players who are Physically Unable to Report.
ARIZONA STING
Protected Players
Codd, Bruce
Conn, Craig
Dawson, Dan
Derks, Jonas
Kirkby, Rob
Lough, Peter
Maddalena, Pat
McKay, Chris
Miron, Mike
Plunkett, Lindsay
Self, Scott
Seller, Chris
Talbot, Noah
Veltman, Peter
Unprotected Players
Bomberry, Cory
Bonterre, Troy
Clark, Jason
Cochrane, Mark
Fiore, Chris
Halls, Darren
Leveille, Kevin
Montour, Ken
Ogelsby, Luke
Panos, Chris
Robertson, Brock
Tinning, Mark
BUFFALO BANDITS
Protected Players
Couling, Kyle
Crosbie, Jason
Dietrich, Steve
Harasym, Jon
Hill, Clay
Laverty, Kyle
McCready, Pat
Powless, Delby
Shannon, AJ
Smith, Billy Dee
Steenhuis, Mark
Tavares, John
Teat, Dan
White, Chris
Unprotected Players
Brown, David
Caines, Aime
Candy, Drew
Colsey, Roy
Doneger, Adam
Floris, Greg
Francey, Tyler
General, Derek
Hominuck, Mike
Jamieson, Kyle
Kazarian, Bryan
Kilgour, Rich
Langdale, Chris
Montour, Thomas
Myers, Brian
Squire, Chad
Van Velzen, Regy
CALGARY ROUGHNECKS
Protected Players
Biers, Andrew
Gelsvik, Craig
Goundrey, Kyle
Kelusky, Tracey
MacDonald, Brad
McBride, Andrew
McNish, Ryan
Palidwor, Curtis
Phillips, Jesse
Ratcliffe, Lewis
Toth, Kaleb
Wray, Taylor
Wray, Devan
Wulder, Jason
Unprotected Players
Catton, Rich
Dostie, Kevin
Dowling, Ted
Gillespie, Travis
Green, Matt
Gut, Peter
Hamilton, Grant
Howard, Kevin
Leyshon, Andrew
Moleski, Jeff
Morehouse, Matt
Neufeld, Kyle
Ogilvie, Andy
Richardson, Jeremy
Sharp, Ryan
Sundher, Jordan
Williams, Rob
COLORADO MAMMOTH
Protected Players
Carlson, Nick
Gallant, John
Hanford, Jamie
Jalbert, Jay
Langtry, Brian
Miyashita, Mark
Nash, Gee
Prepchuk, Ben
Prout, Gavin
Self, Brad
Sims, Josh
Stapleford, Scott
Stilley, Dave
Stroup, Dan
Unprotected Players
Coyle, Pat
Ethington, Tom
Daly, Randy
Gait, Gary (retired)
Gait, Paul (retired)
Halladay, Del
McLellan, John
Prat, Chris
Reese, Brian
Still, Tom
MINNESOTA SWARM
Protected Players
Bateman, Ryder
Beirnes, Kasey
Cousins, Ryan
Culp, Chad
Disher, Matt
Gibson, Darryl
Hall, Kelly
Kemp, Riley
Patterson, Nick
Pollock, Sean
Susheski, Kerry
Ward, Ryan
Unprotected Players
Alexander, Bruce
Attwood, Mike
Boyle, Brock
Berthiuame, D'Arcy
Campbell, Scott
Guze, Ray
Henderson, Tony
Hill, Travis
Jenner, Ted
Kilby, Mike
Martin, Andrew
Pacey, Eric
Sullivan, Jon
Summerfield, Shawn
Sweet, D'Arcy
Taylor, Jamie
PHILADELPHIA WINGS
Protected Players
Bergey, Jake
Burkholder, Andrew
Cromwell, Keith
Eliuk, Dallas
Finck, Dan
Guindon, Andrew
Hajek, Thomas
Jacobs, Peter
Marohl, Dan
Morley, Marc
Nadelen, Shawn
Ratcliffe, Jeff
Sweeney, Kyle
Van Beek, Rob
Unprotected Players
Barrett, Bryan
Bendig, Bryan
Brennan, Kevin
Brzeski, Rich
Burke, Zachary
Cole, Bryan
Frye, Mark
Galbraith, Keevin
Gagliardi, John
Guindon, Jordan
Marechek, Tom (retired)
Pape, Mike
Ruhle, Josh
Ryan, Tom
Schroeder, Nick
Spano, Jeff
Squire, Dallas
Wasik, Andrew
ROCHESTER KNIGHTHAWKS
Protected Players
Accursi, Mike
Croswell, Brian
Evans, Scott
Grant, John
Hasen, Mike
Hoar, Steve
Livingstone, Carter
O'Connor, Ryan
O'Toole, Pat
Penny, Steve
Schiller, Chris
Toll, Steve
Turner, Andrew
Williams, Shawn
Unprotected Players
Abrams, Marshall
Campbell, Pat
Cassese, Kevin
Cougevan, Pat
Dutton, Patrick
Giles, Mat
Millin, Ken
Morrison, Mike
Moulson, Matt
Rotelli, Chris
Soudan, Tim
Stobart, Buck
Thorpe, Regy
Zaph, Casey
SAN JOSE STEALTH
Protected Players
Boyle, Ryan
Cosmo, Anthony
Fines, Kevin
Hodgson, Curtis
Malawsky, Derek
Martin, Eric
Miller, Brandon
Moss, Jim
Regan, Mike
Rosyski, Gary
Sedgewick, Cam
Woods, Cam
Unprotected Players
Alrich, Matt
Blasdell, Rob
Bergey, Josh
Dairon, Brad
Gajic, Nenad
Gilbert, Luke
Johnson, Ross
Martin, Spencer
Ogelsby, Matt
Olson, Kevin
Powell, Mike
Ranger, Scott
Reisig, Darren
Virk, Drew
TORONTO ROCK
Protected Players
Beisel, Brian
Doyle, Colin
Driscoll, Chris
Manning, Blaine
Merrill, Patrick
O'Brien, Tim
Quinlan, Jim
Rubel, Ian
Sanderson, Josh
Sanderson, Phil
Suddons, Derek
Veltman, Jim
Watson, Bob
Wilson, Aaron
Unprotected Players
Chapman, Sandy
Clark, Glenn
Durno, Chris
Forget, Luke
Kruger, Rusty
Ladouceur, Dan
McClay, Ryan
Rosa, John
Shearer, Matt
Trudeau, Nick
Wetherup, Phil
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