2011 Boston Blazers season

2011 Boston Blazers
League NLL
Division 4th East
2011 record 8-8
Home record 4-4
Road record 4-4
Goals for 166
Goals against 155
General Manager Doug Reffue
Coach Tom Ryan
Captain Dan Dawson
Arena TD Banknorth Garden
Team leaders
Goals Casey Powell (34)
Assists Dan Dawson (59)
Points Dan Dawson (90)
Penalties in minutes Jack Reid (48)
Loose Balls Kyle Rubisch (143)
Wins Anthony Cosmo (8)
Goals against average Anthony Cosmo (9.66)

The Boston Blazers are a lacrosse team based in Boston playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2011 season was their third and final season in the NLL. After acquiring both Casey Powell and Josh Sanderson in the off-season, the Blazers looked to dominate the NLL East. But the Blazers did not gel as much as they might have hoped, and finished 4th in the East with an 8-8 record.

Standings

Reference: [1]

East Division
P Team GP W L PCT GB Home Road GF GA Diff GF/GP GA/GP

1 Buffalo Bandits xy 16 10 6 0.625 0.0 44 62 169 159 +10 10.56 9.94
2 Toronto Rock x 16 10 6 0.625 0.0 71 35 187 168 +19 11.69 10.50
3 Rochester Knighthawks x 16 10 6 0.625 0.0 44 62 176 159 +17 11.00 9.94
4 Boston Blazers x 16 8 8 0.500 2.0 44 44 166 155 +11 10.38 9.69
5 Philadelphia Wings 16 5 11 0.313 5.0 26 35 143 179 -36 8.94 11.19
West Division
P Team GP W L PCT GB Home Road GF GA Diff GF/GP GA/GP

1 Calgary Roughnecks xyz 16 11 5 0.688 0.0 62 53 198 181 +17 12.38 11.31
2 Minnesota Swarm x 16 8 8 0.500 3.0 53 35 187 180 +7 11.69 11.25
3 Washington Stealth x 16 8 8 0.500 3.0 35 53 203 198 +5 12.69 12.38
4 Colorado Mammoth x 16 5 11 0.313 6.0 35 26 151 172 -21 9.44 10.75
5 Edmonton Rush 16 5 11 0.313 6.0 44 17 175 204 -29 10.94 12.75

xClinched playoff berth;cClinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division;yClinched division;zClinched best regular season record;GPGames Played
WWins;LLossesGBGames back;PCTWin percentage;HomeRecord at Home;RoadRecord on the Road;GFGoals scored;GAGoals allowed
DifferentialDifference between goals scored and allowed;GF/GPAverage number of goals scored per game;GA/GPAverage number of goals allowed per game

Game log

Reference:[2]

Game Date Opponent Location Score OT Attendance Record
1 January 8, 2011 @ Philadelphia Wings Wells Fargo Center W 106 7,940 10
2 January 15, 2011 Edmonton Rush TD Garden W 107 8,536 20
3 January 21, 2011 @ Toronto Rock Air Canada Centre L 1415 OT 9,104 21
4 January 22, 2011 Rochester Knighthawks TD Garden L 1011 OT 10,422 22
5 January 28, 2011 Philadelphia Wings TD Garden L 511 7,492 23
6 January 29, 2011 @ Rochester Knighthawks Blue Cross Arena W 167 4,945 33
7 February 5, 2011 Toronto Rock TD Garden W 97 7,598 43
8 February 12, 2011 Colorado Mammoth TD Garden W 116 8,462 53
9 February 19, 2011 @ Minnesota Swarm Xcel Energy Center W 1411 7,051 63
10 March 6, 2011 Buffalo Bandits TD Garden L 89 8,524 64
11 March 12, 2011 @ Buffalo Bandits HSBC Arena L 1012 16,347 65
12 March 25, 2011 @ Washington Stealth Comcast Arena at Everett L 89 3,616 66
13 March 26, 2011 @ Colorado Mammoth Pepsi Center L 89 OT 17,123 67
14 April 2, 2011 Rochester Knighthawks TD Garden L 819 9,008 68
15 April 9, 2011 Philadelphia Wings TD Garden W 97 9,654 78
16 April 16, 2011 @ Buffalo Bandits HSBC Arena W 169 17,318 88

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:[3]

Game Date Opponent Location Score OT Attendance Record
Division Semifinal April 30, 2011 Buffalo Bandits TD Garden L 1011 11,273 01

Transactions

Trades

August 23, 2010[4] To Boston Blazers
Kevin Buchanan
Fourth round pick, 2010 entry draft
To Washington Stealth
Mat Giles
First round pick, 2012 entry draft
August 13, 2010[5] To Boston Blazers
Josh Sanderson
First round pick, 2010 entry draft
To Calgary Roughnecks
Daryl Veltman
Jon Harnett
Kyle Ross
First round pick, 2010 entry draft
August 12, 2010[6] To Boston Blazers
Fourth round pick, 2011 entry draft
To Calgary Roughnecks
Paul Dawson

Entry draft

The 2010 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 8, 2010.[7] The Blazers selected the following players:

RoundOverallPlayerCollege/Club
12 Kyle Rubisch Dowling College
17 David Brock University at Albany
326 Matt Quinton Roanoke College
435 Martin Cahill University of Delaware
436 Brock Armour Towson University
546 Tyler Collins Colgate University
654 Chase Williams Bellarmine University

Roster

2011 Boston Blazers roster
Active (20-man) roster Inactive roster Coaches
Goaltenders
Defensemen
  • 85 United States Mitch Belisle
  • 12 Canada Jon "Bubba" Durno
  • 28 Canada Dilan Graham
  • 33 Canada Jon Harnett
  •  4 Canada Carter Livingstone
  • 15 Canada Curtis Ptolemy
  • 18 United States Jack Reid
Forwards
Transition
Practice Squad
  • 20 Travis Brown
  • 05 Paul Manesis
Head Coach
  • Matt Sawyer
Assistant Coaches
  • Todd Francis
  • Randy Fraser
  • Corey Hallman

Legend
  • * Suspended list
  • (C) Captain
  • (A) Alternate captain

Roster updated 2009-02-04
NLL Transactions

See also

References

  1. "National Lacrosse League - 2011 Regular Season - Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
  2. "Boston Blazers – National Lacrosse League". NLL.com. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  3. "Boston Blazers – National Lacrosse League". NLL.com. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  4. "Blazers & Swarm Trade Forwards". NLL.com. August 23, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
  5. "Josh Sanderson To Blazers In Big Trade". NLL.com. August 13, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
  6. "Roughnecks Acquire Paul Dawson In Trade". NLL.com. August 12, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
  7. "2010 Entry Draft, Presented By Marc Mesh". NLL.com. September 8, 2010. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
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