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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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