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2024-2025 NLL Outlook: Colorado Mammoth

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2023-2024 Record: 5-13, last place, missed the playoffs.

New Faces:

F Will Malcom, D Ryan McLean, D Brent Mitchell, F Dalton Sulver, F Thomas Vaesen, F Thomas Vela, G Kaleb Martin

Key Losses:

T Joey Cupido, F Chris Wardle, D Paul Dawson, F Jon Phillips, G Nate Faccin, G Tyler Carlson, D Anthony Joaquim, F Dylan Kinnear

Major changes to all positions after a last place finish last season should make this team very exciting once again.

Offense:

Last year started off on the wrong foot when leading scorer Ryan Lee announced he was missing the season with another surgery.  This season Lee is back with a very strong supporting cast.  Eli McLaughlin had a great summer winning a Mann Cup, as well as being a huge force on the Haudenosaunee team at the World Lacrosse Box Championships.   Add Dalton Sulver, Will Malcom, Thomas Vaesen and Thomas Vela, to the core of Connor Robinson, Tyson Gibson, Zed Williams, McLaughlin and Lee, the Mammoth will certainly be able to light up the scoreboard.

Defense/Transition:

Losing Joey Cupido is certainly going to hurt the transition game, but Jalen Chaster, Jordan Gillies and Owen Rahn are going to make transition speedy, and exciting.  Brent Mitchell, Noah Lebar, Sean Kriwoken, Warren Jeffrey, Robert Hope, Tyler Garrison and Tim Edwards average 6’2, 220 pounds, making this a big bruising defense.  Oppositions will have to earn every opportunity they are going to get on the Mammoth net.

Tim Edwards has shown he should be in the conversation as one of the top faceoff men in the league.  The extra possessions given to this explosive group will yield a lot of offense.

Goaltending:

Dillon Ward battled injuries all last season, and just didn’t look himself at all.  Going into camp this year Ward is healthy.  A good summer in the PLL as well as a being part of the Six Nations Chiefs Mann Cup team have him ready for the season.  Gone are backups Tyler Carlson and Nate Faccin, but the Mammoth have their future in Minto Cup winning goalie Kaleb Martin.   Martin was originally drafted by Panther City but was released after camp last year.  After a strong summer in the MSL, Martin is ready to make the jump to the NLL learning from perennial All-Star Ward.

Overall:

Brad Self, Andrew McBride, and Pat Coyle have done a good job infusing top calibre talent to an already exciting lineup.  The mixture of youth with veteran leadership should make the Mammoth a team to be reckoned with once again this season.

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