The San Jose Stealth today put itself in position to make history at Wednesday's National Lacrosse League Entry Draft, trading Ryan Boyle and two other players to New York for the first-overall pick in the draft.

Barring any more trades, San Jose will become the first team in league history to exercise both the first- and second-overall picks in an entry draft.

In addition to Boyle, New York (team name due tomorrow) receives forward Matt Alrich and goaltender Matt Vinc, and sends goaltender Aaron Bold and a conditional sixth-round draft pick to the Stealth.

Boyle, the 2005 NLL Rookie of the Year, is coming off a sixteen-goal, 28-assist sophomore campaign, ranking third among Stealth players with 44 points.

That was a considerable slide from his debut season, though, in which Boyle scored 22 goals and handed out 42 assists. Boyle was the third-overall selection in the 2004 Entry Draft.

Alrich came to the Stealth two rounds after Boyle, 24th-overall, but, with just five goals and five assists in two seasons, has not displayed the offensive production he showed at the University of Delaware (34 goals his senior season and 83 for his collegiate career).

Vinc was a first-round pick by San Jose a year ago, selected sixth overall. He appeared in only one game in 2006, making five saves on nine shots faced over fourteen minutes of play.

The only player going the other way in the trade is Bold, who entered three games for the Portland LumberJax in 2006, posting a 2-0 record with 30 saves on 38 shots faced.

Bold was drafted in the third round of last year's Entry Draft (29th overall) and was subsequently snagged by New York in the third round of this summer's Expansion Draft.

San Jose's history-making picks both came as the result of trades, with the Stealth receiving the number-two selection in a trade with Chicago earlier this summer after sending its own first-rounder (fourth overall) to Philadelphia back in March.