Derek Malawsky

Derek Malawsky is a retired Canadian lacrosse player, born on September 6, 1973, who spent his professional career in the National Lacrosse League and finished with the Edmonton Rush. He was selected eleventh overall in the 1997 National Lacrosse League draft by the Ontario Raiders, out of Sonoma State University, and he also played on the 2002 Canadian national team. His brother Curt also played in the league, and the two were teammates in Rochester, San Jose and Arizona. When the 2008 season was cancelled and then reinstated, the Arizona Sting and Boston Blazers sat out, and Malawsky was taken by the Portland LumberJax in the dispersal draft, and again after the Sting folded before 2009. A third dispersal draft in July 2009 sent him to the Philadelphia Wings, who traded him to the Edmonton Rush for Dan Teat.