Photo by Garrett James
With NLL rosters smaller, like last season, and more and more talent without teams, a lot of lacrosse media has been discussing expansion. For the sake of argument, us at ILWT have developed three viable potential NLL rosters that could compete in 2015. We came together with three markets the league is exploring- Philadelphia, Winnipeg, and Montreal.
To make the rosters make sense, we placed most of the west based players on Winnipeg, east/Ontario based players with Montreal, and mostly American players with Philadelphia. Not all of these are accurate, because we did have to fill the entire rosters, but tried to follow these guidelines.
Do you think any of these teams could compete in the NLL?
Philadelphia Wings Part II
Forward: Trevor Wagar, Terry Ellis, Martin Bowes, Luke Wiles, Ty Thompson, Wenster Green, Ian Martin, Zach Palmer, Brock Levick, Chad Mitchell
Transition: CJ Costabile, Cam Flint
Defense: Dominique Alexander, Andrew Casimir, Eric Hoffman, Zach Rogers, DJ Lubs, Mike Mawdsley, Jake Crans, Rodd Squire
Goalie: Jacob Lazore, Kevin Croswell
Montreal Express Part II
Forwards: Todd Kozak, Scott Jones, Kyle Perreria, Keegan Bal, Dylan Webster, Dan Keane, Mike Melnychenko, Shawn Williams, Mike Burke, Jimmy Purves, Gavin Prout, Brady Heseltine
Transition: Joel Matthews, Jordan Critch, Anthony Patterson
Defense: Glen Bryan, Mike Lum-Walker, Aaron Brown, Jayson Crawford, Eric Pitrie,
Goalie: Rance Vigneux, Don Alton
Winnipeg Expansion Team
Forwards: Jamie Shewchuk, Dane Stevens, Mike Crampton, Mitch Bannister, Jordan McBride, Casey Jackson, Pat Henry, Colton Clark, Joel Dalgarno, Brett Baron, Eric Guiltanan
Transition: Brad Richardson
Defense: Ben Snider, Mitch McAvoy, Brandan Smith, DJ Saari, Andrew Smistad, John Rae, Jakob Doucet
Goalie: Matt Roik, Cody Hodgedorn
