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Lefty Young Guns Traded - Schuss for Powless

March 31, 2015

Your and mine favorite local professional indoor lacrosse team, the Minnesota Swarm, continue to make moves up to the NLL trade deadline. This trade appears be for player convenience as two of best young lefty forwards in the NLL have been moved for each other:

The Minnesota Swarm get:

The Vancouver Stealth get:

Even the reigning NLL Rookie of the Year can be traded as Logan Schuss will be playing at home now with the Vancouver Stealth. After a fantastic r ookie season in which he had 36 goals and 37 assists, Schuss' 2015 season has been stop and go as work had prevented him from playing in three of this year's twelve games so far. The past month has seen Logan able to just play Sunday games and with no games on the Sabbath left for the Swarm this regular season, we may have seen the last of Schuss this past Sunday, trade or no trade.

With Schuss' trade, the Swarm have traded their top draft pick in both 2010 (Andrew Suitor) and 2013 in the last two days and with the trade of the 2012 top draft pick (Brock Sorensen) last August, the only two remaining top Swarm draft picks are Jordan MacIntosh (2011) and Miles Thompson (2014).

The Swarm's newest player is Johnny Powless, who is in his fourth NLL season but is only 22 years old as he joined the league at the age of eighteen. But in these four years, Powless has racked up quite an array of championship rings that would would make some 10 to 20 year NLL veterans blush.

  • Three NLL Champions Cup with Rochester (2012 - 2014)
  • 2014 Minto Cup with Six Nations Arrows
  • 2014 Mann Cup with Six Nations Chiefs

Last year, Powless had his best season to date with 30 goals and 23 assists. Two of those goals last year were game winners against his new team, the Minnesota Swarm. But he played a secondary role on those Rochester teams and he wanted to be than that, so he asked for a trade to a team that he could be more of a top guy. So on draft day last September, the Knighthawks traded him to the Stealth in a blockbuster deal that shook up the draft. The Stealth, whom shared with the Swarm a league worst 2014 record of 4-14, heavily promoted Powless as a savior, a young player to bring the team to Champions Cup glory but it just didn't seem to work out in Vancouver. In 11 games, he had 7 goals and 32 assists and the grind of travel each week from Six Nations was taking his toll. Now both Powless and Schuss get a chance to reinjuvenate their careers closer to their homes. For Swarm fans, we hope to see Powless give a spark to an struggling offense as he is known for being a great feeder who should be able to find Miles Thompson and Shayne Jackson open close to the crease for easy goals.