NALL Draft: The Aftermath

So the NALL Draft has come and gone, and now we are left to analyze how each team ended up. Today we look at some of the notable players taken and some interesting stories from today's long but entertaining draft. Who do you think ended up with the best team?

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton had the first pick in the draft, and they went with the veteran with NLL experience, defenseman Steve Panarelli. The one time MLL All Star played three seasons in the NLL, two with Philadelphia and one with Washington. He totaled 7 points in his time in the NLL. On his personal twitter, Panarelli said "Real excited and honored to be the 1st pick in today's NALL draft. Big thanks to the WB Shamrocks...Now let's go chase a RING!!"

Hershey was obviously watching some lacrosse overseas. Their first round pick was Jamie Plunkett, who has been playing lacrosse over in Czech Republic for the Jinzi Metzo. Their second round pick was Peter Poupe from Prague, Czech Republic. Pretty cool to have some guys who've been playing overseas in the North American Lacrosse League.

With the third pick in the draft the Kentucky Stickhorses got their goalie in Pat Crosby out of Temple. Crosby is one of the few American goaltenders with indoor lacrosse experience. Crosby tried out for the USIL team combine a few years back. In the second round they went with a guy with some MLL experience, Ricky Pages. He was on the Swarm roster a few years back but never played. Pages is a three year veteran of the MLL with the Long Island Lizards. He has emerged as one of the best long pole middies in the game.

The Jacksonville Bullies drafted Irish born Ryan Licht out of Farleigh Dickinson University. He has an interesting story, the school has an article about him from a few years back here. In the second round they selected Wade Bucktooth out of Onandaga. He is Brett Bucktooth of the Bandit's cousin. He is just one of many Onandoga guys selected today, as Bucktooth, Printup, Lyons, Jacobs, and Stout were all taken.

One of our own was drafted today, as InLax writer Kevin Iwanusa was drafted by the Charlotte Copperheads in the 11th round. Congrats to Kevin on being selected. Kevin will be joining me on my show Goods On Lacrosse this Wednesday at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard time.

One other piece of news came out today. US goaltender Erik Miller has signed with the Jacksonville Bullies according to Bullies PR. As of now it is just waiting on league approval. Miller started for the US in the indoor championships at Prague this summer. Expect the announcement later this week.

You can find the whole draft here where it is organized by team and by round. Remember to keep checking back to InLax for all your latest NALL news. Listen in this Wednesday as I host two Copperheads on my show Goods On Lacrosse. I host the previously mentioned Kevin Iwanusa and Copperheads franchise player and former Boston Blazer Ryan Hotaling. If you're on twitter, follow me @GoodsOnSabres. Check out Twitter for some NALL drafted players, there are a lot of them. A few that I've found are @StevePanarelli (Steve Panarrelli, Shamrocks), @JoshRock08 (Josh Rachman, Hershey), and @TysonLW (Tyson Geick, Bullies). If you find any more comment below.