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NLL Insider is proud to announce the nominations for our inaugural National Jr. Player of the Year Awards.

Today we’ll be nominating our final ten players in the running for the National Jr. Player of the Year nod, given to the junior player in the country we deem to be “the best”. The player we feel is the pound-for-pound best player during the regular season. Reputations are completely out the window, we’re deciding solely on what players did this summer during the season, and only this summer during the season.

We are also announcing our final top five finalists for Defender, Goaltender, Rookie and Coach of the year.

Then, during the week leading up to this year’s Minto Cup in Calgary, we’ll be announcing our winner for each category, as well as our First and Second All-Canadian Teams.

We will also be tracking post-season performances both provincially and during the Minto Cup, naming our Playoff performer of the year as well. That announcement will be made after the Minto Cup has been awarded.

Below you can find our final nominees for all our year-end hardware (alphabetical order). Final decisions for award winners have not been made by NLL Insider as of yet, so please feel free to email us with your picks, and why, for each category.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Kevin Brownell  Burlington Chiefs
Kyle Buchanan  Akwesasne Indians
Alex Gajic  Burnaby Lakers
Cody Jamieson  Six Nations Arrows
Curtis Manning  New Westminster Salmonbellies
Matt McLeod  Orangeville Northmen
Cayle Ratcliff  Victoria Shamrocks
Nick Rose  Orangeville Northmen
Corey Small  St. Catharines Athletics
Matt Wilson  Coquitlam Adanacs

DEFENDER OF THE YEAR

Matt Beers  Coquitlam Adanacs
Dan Coates  St. Catharines Athletics
Jon Harnett  Orangeville Northmen
Curtis Manning  New Westminster Salmonbellies
Matt Wilson  Coquitlam Adanacs

GOALTENDER OF THE YEAR

Justin Delormier  Akwesasne Indians
Matt Flindell  Victoria Shamrocks
Evan Kirk  K-W Braves
Nick Rose  Orangeville Northmen
Joel Weber  Coquitlam Adanacs

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Cody Bremner  Nanaimo Timbermen
Colton Clark  Nanaimo Timbermen
Mark Cockerton  Whitby Warriors
Mark Matthews  Whitby Warriors
Randy Staats  Six Nations Arrows

COACH OF THE YEAR

Danny Green  Victoria Shamrocks
Rioth Jomha & Dave Pym (co-coaches)  Edmonton Eclipse
Dan Perreault  Coquitlam Adanacs
Matt Sawyer  Orangeville Northmen
Adam Thompson  Akwesasne Indians

Check back every Thursday afternoon for our favorites for top post-season performers as the playoffs continue. We’ll also be posting polls for each category shortly, to find out who you, the fans, feel was this year’s best-of-the-best in junior lacrosse for 2008.

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