Round 1 Georgia Swarm – RF Lyle Thompson – Albany (NCAA) The Swarm couldn’t have picked a better time to hold four selections in the first round. For one, this is arguably the most talented crop of players to ever come through in a single draft class. With two picks in the top three and another two by the sixth selection, they are in a prime position to come…
Photo: StealthLax.com The Vancouver Stealth have announced the team has signed unrestricted free agent defenseman Jeff Moleski to a one-year contract pending league approval. Moleski who will enter his 12th National Lacrosse League season played with the Calgary Roughnecks in 2015. The Prince George, B.C. native returns to the Stealth organization he played for from 2011 to 2014, a tenure which included two trips to the NLL Champion’s Cup Final. Previous to that he…
The Buffalo Bandits off season talk for the past few years has been dominated by speculation of the future of John Tavares. The 46 year old veteran is an unrestricted free agent once again, and this year the Bandits did not franchise him. There was talk once again during the 2015 season that Tavares may not return, and when speaking to the Buffalo News this week, he added fuel to…
The Calgary Roughnecks today announced the National Lacrosse League club has re-signed transition player Karsen Leung to a two-year contract. Leung, named one of three finalists for the 2015 NLL Transition Player of the Year award, recorded 11 goals and 35 points along with 79 loose balls in his second season with the Roughnecks. Selected by Calgary in the second round, 10th overall, in the 2013 NLL Draft, the 25-year-old…
In one of the most surprising, and also quietest, moves of the NLL offseason, the Calgary Roughnecks have released star faceoff man Geoff Snider. The move occurred on August 3 and went relatively unnoticed until the NLL updated their transactions page early this week. Snider, who led the league in faceoff percentage in 2015, was benched twice in late March, as was highlighted in the Calgary Sun on March 27:…
The Vancouver Stealth announced today that the team has signed free agents Travis Cornwall, Colton Clark, and Adam Shute. Travis Cornwall is a familiar name to lower mainland lacrosse fans having spent his junior career with his hometown Coquitlam Junior Adanacs. Cornwall was a member of the 2010 Minto Cup Champion team. During his five year Junior A career, he scored 102 goals, 147 assists, and 249 total points. Cornwall…
Buffalo Bandits General Manager Steve Dietrich today announced the team has agreed to terms on a one-year contract with defenseman Billy Dee Smith. Smith had five points (1+4) and 32 loose ball recoveries while playing a career-high 17 games during the 2015 season. He is fourth all-time in Bandits history with 163 games played, and also ranks first in team history with 526 penalty minutes and 10th with…
Following our first 2015 NLL Mock Draft, posted in late June, we bring you our second Mock Draft, that features the recently declared Derek Searle, along with many players whose stock has risen, and many players whose stock has dropped some as the 2015 summer season has wore on. Round 1 1. Georgia Swarm – Lyle Thompson (O) – Onondaga Redhawks (Can-AM Sr. B) While Thompson may have been surpassed…
It’s the NLL’s version of Hot Stove season (to use a baseball term), and that means general managers are as active as ever. Leading up to the draft in September, we will be discussing the off season with as many general managers as possible. First up is Buffalo bandits general manager Steve Dietrich. Question: How did the Veltman signing come to fruition? We wanted to add an impact left handed scorer coming in…
The Buffalo Bandits have signed unrestricted free agent Daryl Veltman to a two-year deal, drawing the leftie forward away from the Calgary Roughnecks. This ends a five-year relationship between the Roughnecks and Veltman, who they acquired after the Boston Blazers folded. In five seasons with the Riggers, Veltman contributed 265 points (87 goals, 178 assists) with his biggest impact coming on the powerplay where he notched 30 goals and 75…