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Chris White, Buffalo Bandits

Already one of the sport’s top pure defensive ball players, many around the league felt that the Buffalo Bandits’ Chris White took his game up even another notch last winter, hands down one of last year’s best five defenders across the board, a shoula-been DOY winner in a lot of people’s opinion.

White is the definition of old school, hard nosed, physical, textbook, no BS defence and goes to work for 60 minutes, with no unionized 15 minute breaks anywhere in his work day, like few others in the league.

He mighta missed out on individual defensive hardware last year, that honour or course going to his equally deserving teammate, Billy Dee Smith, but that nod (potentially multiple times over) should definitely be in White’s future at the pro level soon enough.

Speaking volumes of his work ethic, dedication, unselfishness and leadership, Darris Kilgour announced during training camp that White, who’d worn the C at various times last year, would be this winter’s full-time captain in Buffalo.

With Rich Kilgour retired and coaching at Niagara CC, coach Kilgour told the WNY Media, “Chris has been captain-in-waiting for four years. He’s such a steadying influence in the locker room. Actually not one ounce of ‘me’ in him it’s all about ‘team’ and that’s what you have to have in a leader.”

His resume, even going back to his junior days, has always been low key, never really recognized for doing a job that is more meat and potatoes in the trenches kinda stuff, than a flash n’ dash under the limelight gig.

If White continues doing what he does, as well as he does, whether his name gets dropped in game recaps or not, he’ll always have a place in our Top 50.

Fact: Looking at Chris White’s O stats, even someone new to the sport could figure out what side of the centre-line Buffalo’s captain probably plays on. When he does score though, his team wins. Over the past five years, both NLL and MSL, White has scored a grand total four regular season goals, all four games, W’s, three with the Bandits and a lone one for the Peterborough Lakers. Better keep him off the scoresheet in 2010 if you wanna score that W, cuz when White throws that hammer down, you lose, in more ways than one.

# (last year)
20 (31) Chris White, Buffalo Bandits
21 (42) Matt Vinc, Orlando Titans
22 (25) Pat Maddalena, Orlando Titans
23 (NR) Jeff Moleski, Calgary Roughnecks
24 (34) Kyle Sweeney, Philadelphia Wings
25 (15) Scott Self, Minnesota Swarm
26 (NR) Dan Teat, Philadelphia Wings
27 (5) Jeff Zywicki, Washington Stealth
28 (38) Brian Langtry, Colorado Mammoth
29 (44) Shawn Evans, Rochester Knighthawks
30 (41) Jeff Shattler, Calgary Roughnecks
31 (NR) Dane Dobbie, Calgary Roughnecks
32 (NR) Merrick Thomson, Philadelphia Wings
33 (NR) Daryl Veltman, Boston Blazers
34 (NR) Ian Hawksbee, Edmonton Rush
35 (NR) Phil Sanderson, Toronto Rock
36 (11) Ryan Cousins, Minnesota Swarm
37 (NR) Tyler Codron, Toronto Rock
38 (33) Luke Wiles, Washington Stealth
39 (47) Steve Toll, Rochester Knighthawks
40 (19) Blaine Manning, Toronto Rock
41 (37) Sean Pollock, Minnesota Swarm
42 (NR) Mike Carnegie, Calgary Roughnecks
43 (NR) Scott Stewart, Edmonton Rush
44 (NR) Kaleb Toth, Calgary Roughnecks
45 (NR) Matt Disher, Edmonton Rush
46 (23) Ryan Ward, Edmonton Rush
47 (NR) Kyle Ross, Boston Blazers
48 (NR) Matt King, Calgary Roughnecks
49 (NR) Mac Allen, Rochester Knighthawks
50 (NR) Nick Inch, Minnesota Swarm

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