Worcester Blades

Worcester Blades
founding	2010
history	Boston Blades (2010–2018) Worcester Blades (since 2018)
Stadion	Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center
Location	Worcester , Massachusetts , USA
Team colors	  
league	Canadian Women's Hockey League (since 2010)
Head coach	Paul Keneddy
General manager	Derek Alfama
Clarkson Cups	2012/13 , 2014/15

The Worcester Blades (until 2018 Boston Blades ) are an American women's ice hockey team from Worcester , which was founded in 2010 as Boston Blades and has since played in the Canadian Women's Hockey League . In 2018 the team moved from Boston to Worcester. In their history, the Blades finished the regular season of the CWHL twice as the best team on points and twice won the Clarkson Cup (2013 and 2015).

history

Boston Blades players: # 8 Caitlin Cahow , # 4 Angela Ruggiero and # 22 Kacey Bellamy (2011)

The Blades were founded in 2010 as an expansion franchise to the Canadian Women's Hockey League . This also made the Blades the first CWHL franchise in the United States. In September 2010, Erin Whitten was introduced as the first head coach. In order to fill the player roster of the Blades, an expansion draft was carried out by the CWHL , in which the Blades could sign Angela Ruggiero , among others .

Blades players during the 2011-12 season

At the Clarkson Cup tournament in Markham in 2013 , the Blades achieved their first major title win when they defeated the Montréal Stars 5-2 in the final and thus won the Clarkson Cup. Two years later, the Boston team was able to repeat this success. These successes were based, among other things, on the fact that the squad consisted partly of US and Canadian internationals . So played, among others, Kacey Bellamy , Meghan Duggan , Hilary Knight , Gigi Marvin , Molly Schaus , Anne Schleper , Kelli Stack , Geneviève Lacasse and Tara Watchorn for the Blades.

In the 2017/18 season, the Blades played their home games at the Lawrence Larsen Skating Rink at the Mike Eruzione Center in Winthrop , a suburb of Boston. In the summer of 2018, the Blades moved from Boston to Worcester .

successes

Championship title

CWHL Regular season

2013, 2015

Clarkson Cup

2013, 2015

Individual awards

• 2013 Hilary Knight , CWHL Player of the Year
• 2013 Geneviève Lacasse , CWHL goalkeeper of the year
• 2014 Jillian Dempsey , CWHL Rookie of the Year
• 2015 Brianna Decker , CWHL Rookie of the Year
• 2015 Tara Watchorn , CWHL Defender of the Year

Season statistics

Legend for season statistics: GP or SP = total games; W or S = victories; L or N = defeats; T or U = tie; OTS = wins after extra time ( overtime ); OTN or OL = overtime defeats; SOS = shootout wins; SOL or SON = Shootout Losses; P = points; Pct% = wins in%; GF or T = goals; GA or GT = goals conceded

season	Sp	S.	OTS	OTN	N	T	GT	Pt	Regular season	Postseason
2010/11	26th	10	-	1	15th	73	101	21st	4th place	Final tournament qualification missed
2011/12	27	20th	-	0	7th	107	61	46	place 2	3rd place (final tournament)
2012/13	24	19th	-	1	4th	72	39	39	1st place	Clarkson Cup
2013/14	24	13	-	0	11	77	71	26th	place 2	Runner-up
2014/15	24	15th	2	1	6th	94	43	35	1st place	Clarkson Cup
2015/16	24	0	1	0	23	18th	122	2	5th place	-
2016/17	24	2	0	2	20th	32	137	6th	5th place	-
2017/18

Well-known players

Janine Weber and Tara French (2015)

• Kacey Bellamy
• Caitlin Cahow
• Brianna Decker
• Jillian Dempsey
• Meghan Duggan
• Molly Engstrom
• Sam Faber
• Kaleigh Fratkin
• Jaclyn Hawkins
• Hilary Knight
• Jessica Koizumi
• Geneviève Lacasse
• Monique Lamoureux
• Erika Lawler
• Gigi Marvin
• Jenny Potter
• Angela Ruggiero
• Molly Schaus
• Anne Schleper
• Jen Schoullis
• Kelli Stack
• Kelley Steadman
• Karen Thatcher
• Taylor Wasylk
• Tara Watchorn
• Janine Weber

Web links

Commons : Worcester Blades  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Worcester Blades website (English)
• Team profile at eliteprospects.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ MA Sports Marketing Office: Boston Blades. (No longer available online.) In: masportsoffice.com. July 17, 2017, archived from the original on March 14, 2018 ; accessed on March 13, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Clarkson Cup to Boston. In: iihf.com. March 24, 2013, accessed March 13, 2018 . 
3. ^ Stan Grossfeld: Boston Blades: Boston's best-kept sports secret - The Boston Globe. In: bostonglobe.com. March 21, 2013, accessed March 13, 2018 . 
4. ^ Boston Blades Partners up with WPS - Winthrop Massachusetts Newspaper. In: winthroptranscript.com. November 3, 2017, accessed March 13, 2018 . 
5. ↑ thecwhl: CWHL Announces Relocation Blades to Worcester - Canadian Women's Hockey League. In: thecwhl.com. August 20, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .