Pro Lacrosse Talk contributor and Quick Stick host Nicole Weaving recaps all the pro lacrosse news from the week including Clinics For Change, PLL group play matchups release, MLL and NLL partnerships and latest PLL player extensions.
Last week the pro lacrosse community learned that the PLL Championship Series would be held in Utah. This week we learned the group play matchups. Each team will play four games to decide their seed in the single-elimination tournament. Of note, the Waterdogs will face the Chaos, Archers, Atlas and Chrome in their inaugural season in the league.
MLL and NLL announce new partnerships
The MLL and NLL announced new partnerships this week. Powell Lacrosse is now the official equipment and apparel partner of the MLL, while Wave TV struck a content and sales agreement with the NLL.
The PLL announced that Connor Farrell, Jake Bernhardt, Mike Chanechuk, Myles Jones and Tim Troutner signed extensions with the PLL. Troutner’s contract was a three-year deal, while Bernhardt, Chanechuk, Farrell and Jones all signed two-year deals.
Predicting the PLL Protected Player Rosters (Pro Lacrosse Talk Podcast #129)
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On this episode of the Pro Lacrosse Talk Podcast, Hutton Jackson and Adam Moore are joined by Lacrosse Playground contributor Brian Andrews. They discuss the Atlas cutting Scott Rodgers, Jeremy Thompson, Kyle Hartzell and Callum Robinson, the trade that sent Rob Pannell to the Redwoods and Chris Hogan, Dalton Crossan and Garrett Thul joining the PLL. They also discuss the retirement of Matt Danowski and Brett Schmidt, provide their predictions for the protected rosters particularly with Dillon Ward, Connor Fields, Paul Rabil, Joe Walters and Kyle Harrison, and theorize what it would take for Coach Sean Quirk to trade the top pick in the PLL Entry Draft and presumably the chance to draft Lyle Thompson.
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