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The National Lacrosse League champions have lost their captain.

Veteran defender Dan MacRae, an integral part of the Calgary Roughnecks successful playoff run this spring, is gone.

The club’s captain was plucked by the New York Riptide in Tuesday’s NLL Expansion Draft.

Two new teams have joined the NLL, the Riptide and the Rochester Knighthawks, with the latter claiming another Roughnecks player, Shane Simpson.

The new edition of the Knighthawks, awarded by the league to the city in Upstate New York after the former Knighthawks franchise relocated to Halifax for next NLL season, chose defender Simpson in the fourth round of the expansion draft.

The Riptide selected MacRae in the fourth round.

“Like all current teams, we expected to lose two good players in the expansion draft, and we did,” said Roughnecks GM Mike Board. “We would like to thank Dan MacRae and Shane Simpson for all their efforts during their seasons as Roughnecks and for helping us to become the 2019 NLL champions.