Posted on Monday, 29th June 2009 by admin
1950-2009
The Victoria Shamrocks of the Western Lacrosse Association are very pleased to announce that they have acquired Curtis Hodgson via a trade with the Burnaby Lakers. Hodgson brings very impressive credentials: He has won two consecutive awards in 2007 and 2008 as the best defensive player in the WLA and he has been a first-team all-star for the last four consecutive seasons.
“We are very excited to add another elite player in Curtis Hodgson to our group,” said Shamrocks General manager Chris Welch. “There were several teams competing for his services and we paid a significant price to get him because we couldn’t pass up the opportunity when the Lakers made him available. He will make us better.” Welch is clear that this is not a case of acquiring a veteran player for the short-term. “We expect to have Curtis in our lineup for years to come,” said Welch.
In exchange for Hodgson, the Lakers receive the Shamrocks first round draft choices in 2010 and 2011.
Hodgson, who turns 28 in August, is a Burnaby native who won two Minto Cups with the Junior Lakers in 2000 and 2002. Shamrock goaltender Nick Patterson was his teammate on the 2002 team. In six WLA seasons, the 6’ 1”, 195-pounder has played 130 regular season and playoff games, all with the Lakers, in which he has scored 68 goals and added 91 assists for 159 points along with 95 penalty minutes.
Hodgson is a veteran of five seasons in the National Lacrosse League, all with the San Jose Stealth where he has played for Shamrocks Head Coach Art Webster who is an Assistant Coach with the Stealth and where he is teammates with Shamrock players Rhys Duch and Aaron Bold. In his five NLL seasons, Hodgson has played 85 regular season and playoff games, scored 20 goals and added 37 assists for 57 points along with 54 penalty minutes.
Hodgson is expected to make his Shamrock debut on Friday July 3 against his former club in Burnaby.
Other Notes:
The Shamrocks currently sit in first place atop the WLA standings with a record of 9 wins and 1 loss.
The 2009 WLA trading deadline is at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30, 2009.
The next Shamrock home game is on Wednesday, July 8 when they take on the visiting Coquitlam Adanacs.
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Jeff Shattler joins the Shamrocks fresh off of winning the 2009 National Lacrosse League championship with the Calgary Roughnecks. The 24 year-old was a Western Conference All-Star this year. He was also a member of the 2008 Mann Cup champion Brampton Excelsiors where he finished 14
Inch, a 6’ 1”, 215 pound defenseman, joined Shattler on the Western Conference All-Star Team this year. The 24 year-old Kitchener, Ontario native played with the Minnesota Swarm where he was teammates with fellow shamrocks Ryan Ward, Nick Patterson and Noah Talbot. 
Llord, a 6’ 3”, 220 pound defenseman from St. Catharines, Ontario, was Shattler’s teammate on last year’s Mann Cup champion Excelsiors. Llord, who will turn 24 on June 8, also won an NLL championship in 2008 with the Buffalo Bandits
Also joining the Shamrocks this year is Llord’s younger brother Dylan, a 6’ 3”, 190 pound forward. “Dylan adds an element of grit to our offense,” said Welch. “He’s not afraid to go through the middle and drive to the net.” The younger Llord put up just under two points per game in his rookie season of senior lacrosse last year with the Kitchener Waterloo Kodiaks in the Ontario Major Series.
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