Coach Andy Towers’ 30-man Training Camp Chaos Roster
Attack
Josh Byrne
Chris Cloutier
Chase Fraser
Tye Kurtz
Kevin Lindley
TJ Malone
Brian Minicus
Alex Simmons
Ryan Smith
Midfield
Kyle Jackson
Ian MacKay
Dhane Smith
Evan Zinn
Defensive Midfield
Zach Geddes
Mark Glicini
Pat Resch
Long Stick Midfield
CJ Costabile
Troy Reh
Defense
Will Bowen
Brett Kennedy
Jarrod Neumann
Jack Rowlett
Johnny Surdick
Faceoff
Max Adler
Demitri George
Jerry Ragonese
Nick Rowlett
Goalie
Mike Adler
Austin Kaut
Blaze Riorden
The PLL Bandits or the Buffalo Chaos will be missing many starters from training camp for the second season in a row. Coach Towers and his staff have made some moves to fill the gaps by the NLL players chasing a title.
Attackmen: Josh Byrne, Chris Cloutier, Chase Fraser
Faceoff: Max Adler
Midfielders: Dhane Smith & Ian MacKay
In the place of the missing starters Coach Towers has added the following players:
Attackmen: Jakob Patterson, Bradley Voigt & Brendan Kavanagh
Faceoff: Ashton Wood
Midfielders Will Perry & Jack Jasinski
Thoughts, Facts, Camp Position Battles (CPB)
Two Rowlett's, Two Jack's
CPB- The Chaos had a solid defense last season helped with super goalie Blaze Riorden in cage. This season they still have Blaze in cage, but they also added defenseman Will Bowen in the college draft and have defenseman Johnny Surdick returning after missing all of the 2022 season due to military commitments. Matt Rees who played an important role in 2022 for the Chaos left in free agency to join the Cannons. So, who does Coach Towers pick as his poles for this season? You'd think Rowlett is a lock, but if I was all the other poles at training camp, I would make sure to show up and show out to keep my roster spot this season.
The Chaos offense is box lacrosse dropped onto the field, the most important part of that offense hasn't been dropped in yet and are still chasing an NLL title. Those players will at least miss the first three days of training camp and if the series goes to a third game those players could miss the first game of the season on June 3rd & 4th. What does Coach Towers do to adjust to that change?
CPB- The SSDM position for the Chaos has been pretty solid the last two seasons. In 2022 the Chaos drafted Zach Geddes from Georgetown and he saw time in 6 games and played well. After the 2023 college draft the Chaos picked up rookie Evan Zinn from UVA and Johns Hopkins. Zinn and Geddes are FAST one of those young players will most likely get game time in the first two games this season with Ian MacKay still on box lacrosse duty. Zinn has the ability to play offense, which is where he started his career for Hopkins, but Geddes has experience and familiarity with the Chaos.
This is just a hope but, I'd like to see Tehoka Nanticoke make his PLL debut at some point this summer. I doubt that will happen because he's not on a PLL roster and will probably play summer box lacrosse up in Canada. We can only hope.
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