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2008 All-Star Game

Edmonton, AB - After many months of planning, the Edmonton Rush are pleased to announce the details about the festivities and events that will lead up to the 2008 All Star Game on March 16th.

"We were very excited to have the opportunity to host the All Star Game when it was announced by the NLL back in March of 2007," said Bruce Urban, Owner and Governor. "All along our goal has been to put on the best All Star Game weekend that the league has seen ensuring that we continued with Rush tradition of providing fans with value for their entertainment dollars. We are excited about the events that we have put together and are sure that fans, players, and coaches alike will be thrilled with the weekend."

2007 NLL Entry Draft

Boston has selected the following players:

The Boston club has traded Brian Langtry to the Colorado Mammoth in exchange for Sean Morris and Casey Cittadino.

The PLPA sponsored the 1st Windsor Minor Lacrosse Camp which was run and conducted by NLL Champion John Rosa and All Stars Ryan Cousins of the Minnesota Swarm and Goaltender Matt Roik of the Philadelphia Wings. All camp participants thoroughly enjoyed themselves while learning the game of lacrosse from the pros on and off the floor.

ALL-STAR GAME STARTING LINEUPS ANNOUNCED February 10, 2005 The National Lacrosse League has announced the starting lineups for its 2005 All-Star Game, which will be played at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary on Saturday, February 26th at 2pm Eastern. The game will be broadcast live on NBC. The East and West Division All-Star Teams were determined by the combined votes of the league's general managers, league media, and fans, who voted online at the league's official website, www.nll.com. The votes of each of the three groups weighed equally in determining the starting lineups. 2005 All-Star Game Starting Lineups EAST DIVISION Forwards John Grant-Rochester Knighthawks Blaine Manning-Toronto Rock John Tavares-Buffalo Bandits Defensemen Glenn Clark-Toronto Rock Andrew Turner-Rochester Knighthawks Goaltender Pat O'Toole-Rochester Knighthawks WEST DIVISION Forwards Dan Dawson-Arizona Sting Gary Gait-Colorado Mammoth Tracey Kelusky-Calgary Roughnecks Defensemen Pat Coyle-Colorado Mammoth Jim Moss-San Jose Stealth Goaltender Anthony Cosmo-San Jose Stealth The twelve reserves for the East and West teams are expected to be announced on Monday, February 14th. Each All-Star team will have a total of eighteen players, and all ten NLL teams will have at least one player in the All-Star Game. The West Division All-Stars will be coached by Calgary Roughnecks head coach Chris Hall. Hall won the honor based on his team's first place position in the West Division following the games to be played this weekend. The league earlier announced that the head coaches of the teams in first place of their respective divisions following the games of Week #7 (games played Feb. 11-13) would become the head coaches of the All-Star team of their respective divisions. The league has determined that Calgary (4-2) has already clinched at least a share of first place in the West Division following the games of the upcoming weekend, and would win a tie-breaker over Arizona, the only team that could tie them for first place following this weekend's games. The East Division head coach is yet to be determined, with one game separating the five teams heading into Week #7. The head coaches of the second place teams following this weekend's games will become the assistant coaches of the All-Star teams in their respective divisions.

NLL ON NBC NLL January 30, 2005

NBC will provide live coverage of the 2005 NLL All-Star Game and Champion's Cup Final, a historic first for the game of lacrosse. The National Lacrosse League has announced a historic television agreement with NBC Sports that will bring the game of lacrosse to network television for the first time in the history of the sport. The announcement was made today by Ken Schanzer, President, NBC Sports and NLL Commissioner Jim Jennings. NBC will provide live broadcasts of the NLL All-Star Game and Champion's Cup Final. The All-Star Game will be played on Saturday, February 26 at 2 p.m. ET at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. The Champion's Cup Final will be played on Saturday, May 14 at 3:30 p.m. ET. We are thrilled to bring this action packed sport to a network audience for the first time in history, said Schanzer. We're excited to welcome NBC as a broadcast partner, and look forward to bringing the great game of lacrosse to a national network audience for the first time in its history, said NLL Commissioner Jim Jennings. It's a great day for all who play, coach and support the great game of lacrosse.

The new Minnesota NLL team will take a major step in stocking its inaugural season roster during the 2004 Expansion Draft on October 19th at 2pm Eastern. Minnesota will select a total of ten players from the other NLL teams via the Expansion Draft. Each team is allowed to protect a designated amount of its current roster players from being selected. Teams can either protect one goaltender and thirteen runners or two goaltenders and ten runners. The Expansion Draft will consist of ten selections. Minnesota will end up selecting one player from each of other ten teams. No team can lose more than one player in the Expansion Draft. The teams have now submitted their 'Protected Player' Lists. Please see the lists below to see which players are protected and unprotected. Minnesota will draft ten players from the Unprotected Lists.

Notable names among the Unprotected Players include Philadelphia Wings forward Jake Bergey, Buffalo Bandits forward and team captain Rich Kilgour, Toronto Rock forward Chris Driscoll and veteran defenseman Glenn Clark, Rochester Knighthawks forward Kim Squire and veteran Vancouver Ravens players including forwards Chris Gill, Dan Stroup, defenseman Pat Coyle and goaltender Dwight Maetche.

(Unprotected List can Include Unprotected Roster players, Holdouts, Practice Players, Injured Reserve players, and players Physically unable to Report)

ANAHEIM STORM

Protected Players
Matt Disher - Goaltender
Matt Roik - Goaltender
Damien Davis
Mike Law
Richard Morgan
Mark Morley
Chris Panos
Casey Powell
Ryan Powell
Chris Seller
Scott Stewart
Chad Whittman

Unprotected Players 
Cam Bergman
Joe Ghedina
Ted Jenner
Brian Kelly
Todd MacFarlane
Jamie McKeracher
Blake Miller
Brian O'Keefe
Gordon Purdie
Brad Reppert
John Rosa
Paul Talmo
Matt Kwiecien
Mike McGovern
Brad Scott
Greg Traynor
Jeff Brownlee
Ryan McMicheal
Adam Mitchell
Matt Silverio
Andrew Towers
Mike Laurano
Scott Hochstadt
Blake Miller



ARIZONA STING

Protected Players
Mike Miron - Goaltender
Kasey Beirnes
Cory Bomberry
Troy Bonterre
Bruce Codd
Ryan Cousins
Dan Dawson
Bill Greer
Peter Lough
Pat Maddelena
Lindsay Plunkett
Gewas Schindler
Scott Self
Peter Veltman

Unprotected Players
Mark Cochrane
Chad Culp
JJ Dickie
Tyler Francey
Travis Gillespie
Kyle Jamieson
Sean Pollack
Wes Suddons
Phil Whetherup
Thomas Witte
Josh McNaughton
Jeff Frazer
Cory Kahoun
Luke Ogelsby
Chris Fiore
Ken Montour
Tyler Johnston
Cole Murray
Richard Haan
Kevin Leveille
Mike Bonk
Kyle Neufeld


BUFFALO BANDITS

Protected Players
Steve Dietrich - Goaltender
Mike Accursi
Kyle Couling
Jason Crosbie
Jonas Derks
Bryan Kazarian
Chris Langdale
Kyle Laverty
Pat McCready
AJ Shannon
Kerry Susheski
Billy Dee Smith
Mark Steenhuis
John Tavares

Unprotected Players
Drew Candy
Jason Clark
Roy Colsey
Greg Floris
Randy Fraser
Derek General - Goaltender
Mike Hominuck
Rich Kilgour
Darren Mutch
Neal Powless
Bill Brennan
Corey Quinn
Tyler Harris
Louis Alfred
Jon Donnelly
David Brown
Adam Doneger
Aime Caines


CALGARY ROUGHNECKS

Protected List
Curtis Palidwor - Goaltender
Ted Dowling
Craig Gelsvik
Kyle Goundrey
Tracey Kelusky
Rob Kirkby
Brad MacArthur
Brad MacDonald
Andrew McBride
Jesse Phillips
Lewis Ratcliff
Kaleb Toth
Devan Wray
Taylor Wray

Unprotected List
Kevin Dostie
Scott Forbes
Matt Green
Grant Hamilton
Kevin Howard
Matt King - Goaltender
Tyson Leies
John Olsen
Jason Wulder
Chris Levis
Jordan West-Pratt
Jeff Moleski
Brad Dairon
Peter Gut
Sterling Mitchell
Jeremy Richardson
Craig Stevenson


COLORADO MAMMOTH

Protected Players
Gee Nash - Goaltender
Nick Carlson
Gary Gait
John Gallant
Jamie Hanford
Jay Jalbert
Brian Langtry
Ben Prepchuk
Gavin Prout
Brian Reese
Brad Self
Josh Sims
Scott Stapleford
Dave Stilley

Unprotected Players
Shawn Cable
Rory Graham
Del Halladay
Erik Miller - Goaltender
Tom Phair
Brian Potter
Curtis Smith
Jeff Sonke
Tom Still
John Wilson
Matt Coughlin
Mike Henderson


PHILADELPHIA WINGS

Protected Players
Dallas Eliuk - Goaltender
Nick Schroeder - Goaltender
Keith Cromwell
Andrew Guindon 
Tom Hajek 
Dan Marohl 
Andrew Martin 
Spencer Martin 
Tom Marechek
Jeff Ratcliffe
Brian Tower
Ryan Ward

Unprotected Players
Bryan Barrett
Jake Bergey
Rich Brzeski
Hugh Donovan
Mark Frye
Keevin Galbraith
Tony Henderson
Peter Jacobs
Shawn Nadelen
Jeff Spano
Ryan Traynor
Michael Tobasso
Bryan Cole
John Gagliardi
Kevin Brennan
Zachary Burke
Jordan Guindon
Josh Ruhle
Dallas Squire


ROCHESTER KNIGHTHAWKS

Protected Players
Pat O'Toole - Goaltender
Marshall Abrams
Scott Evans
Matt Giles
John Grant
Mike Hasen
Steve Hoar
Derek Malawsky
Ryan O'Connor
Steve Penny
Chris Schiller
Andy Turner
Shawn Williams
Casey Zaph

Unprotected Players
Pat Campbell-Goaltender
Pat Cougevan
John Haraysm
Jeremy Hollenbeck
Steve Jennings
Dennis Juleff
Brock Robertson
Tim Soudan
Kim Squire
Buck Stobart
Jamie Taylor
Regy Thorpe
Shawn Wilkins
Patrick Dutton
Brandon Cullen
Chad Debolt
John Glatzel
Nick Reed
Darcy Sweet
Kevin Cassese
Chris Rotelli


SAN JOSE STEALTH

Protected Players
Rob Blasdell - Goaltender
Brandon Miller - Goaltender
Andrew Biers 
Darryl Gibson 
Kelly Hall 
Jim Moss 
Scott Ranger
Mike Regan 
Gary Rosyski
Steve Toll 
Chris White 
Cam Woods

Unprotected Players
Brian Beisel
Josh Bergey
Chris Cercy
Brennan Day
Tim Fry
Ross Johnson
Matt Ogelsby
Darren Reisig
Shaydon Santos
Dan Teat
Luke Gilbert
Derek Lowe
Kitan Gdadbeo
Michael McKay
Kyle McEwen

TORONTO ROCK

Protected Players
Anthony Cosmo - Goaltender
Bob Watson - Goaltender
Colin Doyle
Blaine Manning 
Patrick Merrill 
Ian Rubel 
Josh Sanderson
Phillip Sanderson 
Matt Shearer
Derek Suddons 
Jim Veltman 
Aaron Wilson

Unprotected Players
Tim Burke 
Sandy Chapman
Glenn Clark
Brian Croswell
Chris Driscoll
Pat Jones
Rusty Kruger
Dan Ladoucer
Mark Landriault
Carter Livingstone
Ken Millin
Eric Pacey
Matt Marchildon
John McLellan
Mark Craig
Chris Durno
Bobby McBride
Ryan McClay
Ryan McNish
Cal Smith
Tim O'Brien
Ryan Painter


VANCOUVER RAVENS

Protected Players
Nick Patterson - Goaltender
Darcy Berthiaume
Rich Catton
Craig Conn
Randy Daly
Matt Dwane
Curt Malawsky
Mark Miyashita
Peter Morgan
Bruce Murray
Andy Ogilvie
Kevin Olson
Cam Sedgwick
Rob Williams

Unprotected Players
Bruce Alexander
Luke Ansley
Pat Coyle
Chris Gill
Jamie Hackel
Dwight Maetche - Goaltender
Chris Prat
Aaron Smith
Dan Stroup
Mike Venittelli
Scott Whitley
Rob Williams
Tyler Heavenor
Chris Hodgson
Andrew Leyshon
Jamie Raffan
Scott Wylie
Jeff Hanson