Jake Elliot

00:29 Background on Jake Elliot

-Voice of Jr. and Sr. A Thunder

-Voice of WLA

-Voice of Vancouver Stealth/ Lacrosse Club

-Called more lacrosse games than anyone

-Close to 3,000 games called

03:56 How does Jamie's son Colin (an American) find his way up to Coquitlam to play Box Lacrosse?

-Jamie played for Boston Blazers while coaching at Yale

-Started recruiting Canadians while coaching Denver

-Email from Matt Brown started a lot

-Started developing players like how Canadians play

-Colin went up to St. Katherines to play Pee Wee

-Went back West to play Intermediate at 17

-Culture, passion, love of the game around box lacrosse

10:17 Box Lacrosse and Field Lacrosse and their Differences

-Two different sports

-Different environment, rules, space, net size, etc.

-Box players playing field vs field players playing box

-Field is a 1v1 game

-Box has more 2 man, passing and feeding, and picking game

-Off ball game vs isolation game

-2 handedness vs playing with one dominant hand

-Future of the NLL with American born players

-Jamie's tryout with the Colorado Mammoth

-Garry Gait and the Victoria look back

-Gait brothers revolutionizing sticks

23:04 Lacrosse in Canada in August

-Minto Cup

-Story from one of the best games in Minto Cup history

-Goalie had open net shot at the end of regulation of game 5/5 and missed

-How the Minto Cup works

-Recap on last two Minto Cups

-Tehoka Nanticoke and Six Nations

29:55 Teams in the Minto Cup this year

-Calgary Mountaineers, Okotoks Raiders - 2 Alberta Teams

-Brampton Excelsiors

-Coquitlam Adanacs

-The road for each team to the Minto

-Coquitlam is the team to beat

-Rules with Alberta to be more competitive in the Minto Cup

-These teams paths in the last few years

-Jeff Teat as the Wayne Gretzky of Jr. A Lacrosse

-Starpower coming in the Minto this year

Where to watch the Minto Cup?

albertalacrossetv.com