Nick Weiss (born August 16, 1992) is a Canadian professional
box lacrosse
Box lacrosse, also known as boxla, box, or indoor lacrosse, is an indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America. The game originated in the 1930s in Canada, where it is more popular than field lacrosse. Lacrosse is Canada's officia ...
player for the
Buffalo Bandits
The Buffalo Bandits are an American professional box lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York, that competes in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The team plays its home games at KeyBank Center. The Bandits played in the Major Indoor Lacrosse L ...
of the
National Lacrosse League
The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league comprises 14 teams8 in the United States and 6 in Canada. The NLL is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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and the
Peterborough Lakers of
Major Series Lacrosse
Major Series Lacrosse (MSL) is a Senior A box lacrosse league with 7 teams based in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. The league championship team each year goes on to play against the champions of the Western Lac ...
. Hailing from
Port Hope, Ontario
Port Hope is a municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, about east of Toronto and west of Kingston, Ontario, Kingston. It is at the mouth of the Ganaraska River on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in the west end of Northumberland County, Onta ...
, Weiss began his career with the
Peterborough Junior Lakers of the
Ontario Junior A Lacrosse League
The Ontario Junior Lacrosse League (OJLL) is considered the most competitive Junior A men's box lacrosse league in the world and the number one source for talent for the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The OJLL is sanctioned by the Ontario Lacros ...
, with whom he played from 2010 to 2013, before being called up to the MSL Lakers in 2014.
Weiss was drafted in the second round of the
2013 NLL Entry Draft by the
Vancouver Stealth
The Vancouver Warriors are a Canadian professional box lacrosse team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that competes in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The team moved from Everett, Washington, for the 2014 NLL season.
History
The Warri ...
, and played in fifteen games in his rookie year. He was dealt, along with some draft picks, to the Buffalo Bandits in exchange for defenseman
Rory Smith and goaltender
Eric Penney, as well as a first round pick in the
2014 Draft.
Weiss has also played
junior hockey
Junior ice hockey is amateur-level ice hockey for 16 to 20 year-old players. National Junior teams compete annually for the IIHF World Junior Championship. The United States men's national junior ice hockey team are the defending champions from t ...
in a variety of leagues. He ended his Junior hockey career with the
Port Hope Panthers
The Port Hope Panthers are a junior hockey, junior ice hockey, hockey team based in Port Hope, Ontario, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Provincial Junior Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association.
History
In 1995, the Trenton ...
in the
Ontario Hockey Association
The Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) is the governing body for the majority of junior and senior level ice hockey teams in the province of Ontario. Founded in 1890, the OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern ...
in the
Empire B Junior C Hockey League.
Weiss is also an avid
hunter
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products ( fur/ hide, bone/tusks, ...
and
fisherman
A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.
Worldwide, there are about 38 million Commercial fishing, commercial and Artisan fishing, subsistence fishers and Fish farming, fi ...
in
Central Ontario
Central Ontario is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario that lies between Georgian Bay and the eastern end of Lake Ontario.
The population of the region was 1,123,307 in 2016; however, this number does not in ...
.
Statistics
References
External links
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Nick Weiss's NLL statsa
pointstreak.coma
pointstreak.coma
pointstreak.com
1992 births
Living people
Lacrosse people from Ontario
Buffalo Bandits players
Vancouver Warriors players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Estevan Bruins (SJHL) players
Grande Prairie Storm players
Ontario Junior Hockey League players
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