Pre-Draft Trades and 2009 Midget Draft Results

A number of trades occurred leading up to the Midget Draft.

The British Columbia Junior A Lacrosse League announces the date for the 2009 Free Agent Midget Draft

• Sunday February 8, 2009 10AM
• Location: PoCo Recreation Complex at 2150 Wilson Avenue in Port Coquitlam

The draft is over... here is a complete list.

 February 8, 2009
Nanaimo and New WEstminster exchange drafts and players
New West aquired Nanaimo's 2nd pick in the 3rd round (21st overall) and picked Brandon Bull. In exchange, Nanaimo aquired the playing rights of Trevor Gains and New Westminister's 2nd round pick in the 2010 draft.

 February 8, 2009
Coquitlam and Delta trade playing rights and draft pick
Coquitlam trades the Jr A playing rights of Andrew Copeland to Delta Islanders. In return the Delta Islanders trade their 2009 5th round draft pick to Coquitlam.

 February 6, 2009
Nanaimo and Burnaby trade picks prior to draft.
The Nanaimo Timbermen and the Burnaby Lakers have announced a pre-draft swap of first round picks in the Midget Draft set for Sunday, February 8th.

Nanaimo acquires Burnaby's first round pick in 2009, at #8 overall. In exchange, Burnaby acquires Nanaimo's, first and third round, picks in the 2010 draft.

"This worked well for both clubs," said Forbes Mitchell, GM of the Nanaimo Timbermen. "The move allows our coaching staff to have more leverage in drafting the players they would like to have in our organization. We have a very young and talented core group now, and we feel confident that we will come out of the 2009 draft with some very high caliber lacrosse players."

 February 2, 2009
Delta and Nanaimo trade players and draft picks
The Delta Islanders trade the playing rights of Riley Donahue and their 1st round pick 5th overall to Nanaimo for their 1st round pick 3rd overall in the 2009 Midget Free Agent draft.

 January 30, 2009
Burnaby and Langley trade players and picks
Burnaby trades their 2009 2nd round pick, to Langley for Jackson Decker and Langley's 2010 3rd round pick in the Free Agent Midget draft.

 January 29, 2009
Burnaby and Delta trade goaltenders
Burnaby trades with Delta the rights of Burnaby's last years draft pick goalie Ben Harris for the rights of Delta's draft pick goalie Patrick Balis.

 January 26, 2009
Coquitlam, Langley Make Pre-draft Swap 
The Langley Jr Lacrosse club and the Coquitlam Jr Adanacs agreed to the following Pre-Draft trade.

Langley receives from Coquitlam the Junior playing rights to Keigan Bal, Coquitlam’s 5th and 8th round 2009 draft picks.

In return Langley trades to Coquitlam the Junior playing rights to Tor Reinholt and Langley’s 8th round 2009 draft pick.