Veteran player Brad Self not returning to the Lakers this season

Deadline Monday for season ticket holders to renew same seats

Long-time player Brad Self won’t be playing for the Peterborough Century 21 Lakers when the Major Series Lacrosse season opens next month, the team announced this week.

The 37-year-old Peterborough native has relocated with his family to Denver, after being traded to the Colorado Mammoth last season by the National Lacrosse League’s Buffalo Bandits. He is also the Mammoth’s youth lacrosse development manager. His wife Alicia is a Denver native.

Self, who also played for the OHL Peterborough Petes, joined the Lakers in 2002. He won gold with Team Canada at the 2015 world indoor lacrosse championships.

He is also the co-founder of the Nationwide Lacrosse youth lacrosse instruction program with Laker Shawn Evans. Evans brought in his cousin Turner Evans as the new co-owner in January.

Self joins scoring sensation Curtis Dickson as Lakers not returning from last year’s Mann Cup-winning squad. Dickson revealed last month that he is relocating back to his hometown Maple Ridge Burrards of the Western Lacrosse Association.

Despite the loss of Self and Dickson, the Lakers will be bolstered this season by the expected returns of Cory Vitatelli, Chad Tutton and Nick Weiss following their injuries.

The Lakers say they will also add to their roster this season with a few local players graduating from the Peterborough Jr. A Lakers.

The Lakers protected four Jr. A Lakers graduates in the off-season, forwards Kyle Killen and Jake Fox and defencemen Nick Finlay and Jordan Stouros, and also drafted Jr. A Lakers defenceman Tyler Gaulton and Jr. C defenceman Trent Larock.

The deadline for Lakers season ticket holders to renew for their same seats is Monday. Season tickets are on sale at the Memorial Centre box office and after Monday, non-renewal reserved seats will be released on a firstcome, first-served basis.

The Lakers open their season May 28 when they visit the Oakville Rock.

Their home opener is May 31 against the Brampton Excelsiors.

All their home games will be on Thursdays at the Memorial Centre with 8 p.m. starts.

They host Six Nations on June 7, Brooklin on June 14, Brampton on June 21, Cobourg on June 28, Brooklin on July 5, Oakville on July 12, Cobourg on July 19 and Six Nations on July 26.