I’ve done this for a number of years: I make up a team consisting of players who are not part of any team, whether on an active roster, IR, PUP, holdout list, practice roster, or anything else and who hadn’t retired. Sometimes this team is pretty decent, and there have been years where the team is better than decent – with the right coach and a bit of luck, they could possibly make the playoffs against the existing NLL teams. This year’s team is not bad goaltending-wise but is pretty good defensively and solid up front as well. Not sure they’re making the playoffs against the 2026 NLL teams but they wouldn’t suck.

Forwards

Holden Cattoni
Taite Cattoni
Kevin Crowley
Turner Evans
Tyson Gibson
Zach Herreweyers
Casey Jackson
Curtis Knight
Dan Taylor
Miles Thompson

Transition / Defense

David Brock
Tyler Burton
Joey Cupido
Jonathan Gagliardi
Tyler Garrison
John Lintz
Tor Reinholdt
Brandon Slade
Mitch Wilde

Goalies

Alex Buque – On Las Vegas’s practice roster
Angus Goodleaf
Steve Fryer

Note: I’m assuming that Jack Hannah is on Las Vegas’s holdout list, but the team has not published that list. Negotiations are ongoing but in the unlikely event that they release him (more likely they’ll trade him if they don’t sign him), he will instantly be picked up by someone, so he’s not listed here.