I don’t have an official vote for the NLL awards, but I do vote for the IL Indoor staff awards and for Addicted to Lacrosse as well. Here are my top 5 picks (top 3 for the Bartley and GM awards) for each award for 2017. I didn’t give descriptions here for why I chose who I chose but you will see those next week on the IL Indoor article. As always, I also revisited my pre-season predictions to see how I did.

Final standings: In the east I had New England first, followed by Buffalo, Georgia, Toronto, and Rochester. Oh-for-five. In the west, Saskatchewan, then Colorado, Calgary, and Vancouver. I got the Rush right and that’s it.

MVP

Original pick: Mark Matthews. Always a good choice, but once again for Matthews, second place.

1. Lyle Thompson
2. Mark Matthews
3. Corey Small
4. Callum Crawford
5. Tye Belanger

Goaltender of the Year

Original pick: Aaron Bold.

1. Dillon Ward
2. Nick Rose
3. Tye Belanger
4. Mike Poulin
5. Aaron Bold

Defensive Player of the Year

Original pick: Robert Hope.

1. Dan Coates
2. Matt Beers
3. Kyle Rubisch
4. Ryan Dilks
5. Steve Priolo

Transition Player of the Year

Original pick: Karsen Leung. Leung didn’t even play in 2017, so that’d be a no.

1. Justin Salt
2. Joey Cupido
3. Craig England
4. Jordan MacIntosh
5. Jeff Cornwall

Rookie of the Year

Original pick: Ryan Keenan. Not a bad debut season for Keenan but less than what I would have expected from a first-overall pick. Of course, I could have said that about Lyle Thompson last year. Schreiber is a no-brainer but I had a tough time picking the rest of the top 5. The number of strong rookie candidates this year is staggering: Keenan, Kyle Jackson, Latrell Harris, Bryan Cole, Josh Currier, Reid Reinholdt, Chad Cummings, Dan Lomas, Mike Messenger, Jacob Ruest, Kieran McArdle, Challen Rogers, Holden Cattoni, James Rahe, Jordan Magnuson, …

1. Tom Schreiber
2. Kyle Jackson
3. Mike Messenger
4. Jacob Ruest
5. Josh Currier

Les Bartley Award

Original pick: Troy Cordingley.

1. Ed Comeau
2. Jamie Batley
3. Derek Keenan

GM of the Year

Original pick: Jamie Dawick or Steve Dietrich.

1. John Arlotta
2. Jamie Dawick
3. Doug Locker