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The Boston Blades are a professional women's ice hockey team that plays in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. Boston Blades are a new franchise in the Canadian Women's Hockey League

Canadian Women's Hockey League

The Canadian Women's Hockey League is one of two major women's ice hockey leagues in Canada. The league was founded in 2007. The league currently has six ice hockey teams: three in Ontario, one in Quebec, one in Alberta and one in Boston, Massachusetts....

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The team play their games and hold practices at Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington (the Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...

practice facility).

History

On August 12, 2010, the CWHL

Canadian Women's Hockey League

announced that the city of Boston

Boston

would receive an expansion team for the 2010–11 CWHL season

2010–11 CWHL season

The 2010–11 CWHL season is the fourth in the history of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. For the season, the league will run on a budget of $500,000 and players will pay for their own equipment.-Offseason:...

. In the 2010 CWHL Draft

2010 CWHL Draft

On August 12, the Canadian Women's Hockey League hosted the 2010 CWHL Draft. The event was held at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto at 7:00pm. The first overall selection was former Ohio State hockey player and Olympic gold medallist Tessa Bonhomme...

, Boston was able to protect some players from being selected from their first roster. The team is coached by Erin Whitten

Erin Whitten

Erin Whitten is a hockey goaltender who has played professionally with various men's teams. She has played with the Dallas Freeze of the CHL, the Toledo Storm of the ECHL, the Utica Blizzard, Muskegon Fury, and the Flint Generals of the Colonial Hockey League...

Season-by-season

See also: 2010–11 Boston Blades season
See also: 2010–11 CWHL season
2010–11 CWHL season
The 2010–11 CWHL season is the fourth in the history of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. For the season, the league will run on a budget of $500,000 and players will pay for their own equipment.-Offseason:...

For 2010-11, the Boston Blades’ 26-game schedule includes 16 home games

Year by year|-
Year	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
2010-11	26	10	15	1	73	101	21

Note:
GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points.

Season standings

Year	Regular Season	Playoffs
2010-11	3rd	lost in first round

Current Roster 2010-11

Goalies
Number		\|Player		\|Former Team	\|Hometown
33	United States	Moe Bradley	Boston Shamrocks	Swampscott, Massachusetts
30	United States	Heather Heckman-Mckenna	JMH	Salem, New Hampshire
1	United States	Mandy Cronin	Brampton (CWHL)	York, Maine

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United States
|align=center|Angela Ruggiero

Angela Ruggiero

Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice...

|align=center|National Team USA
|align=center|Panorama City, California
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United States
|align=center|Jess Koizumi

Jess Koizumi

Jessica Koizumi was a former member of the United States national women's ice hockey team. Koizumi also competed for the Minnesota Whitecaps of the WWHL and for the Montreal Stars and the Boston Blades of the CWHL...

United States
|align=center|Sami Faber

Sami Faber

Sam Faber was a former member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She was part of the gold medal winning roster at the 2008 IIHF Women's World Championship. Faber also competed for the New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey program in Hockey East...

United States
|align=center|Erika Lawler

Erika Lawler

Erika Lawler is a member of the 2009–10 United States national women's ice hockey team which participated in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Lawler played prep hockey at Cushing Academy where she won the Betty Davis Award as the top athlete in her class three times...

United States
|align=center|Karen Thatcher

Karen Thatcher

Karen Thatcher is an American ice hockey forward. She was named to the United States women’s ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics.-NCAA:...

United States
|align=center|Liz Keady
|align=center|Princeton university
|align=center|Braintree, Massachusetts
|-
|}

Coaching Staff 2010-11

Head Coach: Erin Whitten-Hamlen
Erin Whitten
Erin Whitten is a hockey goaltender who has played professionally with various men's teams. She has played with the Dallas Freeze of the CHL, the Toledo Storm of the ECHL, the Utica Blizzard, Muskegon Fury, and the Flint Generals of the Colonial Hockey League...
Assistant Coach: Mariel Lachina
General Manager: Paul Hendrickson

History

Season-by-season

Season standings

Current Roster 2010-11

Coaching Staff 2010-11

Links

See also