2011 Boston Blazers season

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.

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)
← 2010 season

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	.625	0.0	4–4	6–2	169	159	+10	10.56	9.94
2	Toronto Rock – x	16	10	6	.625	0.0	7–1	3–5	187	168	+19	11.69	10.50
3	Rochester Knighthawks – x	16	10	6	.625	0.0	4–4	6–2	176	159	+17	11.00	9.94
4	Boston Blazers – x	16	8	8	.500	2.0	4–4	4–4	166	155	+11	10.38	9.69
5	Philadelphia Wings	16	5	11	.312	5.0	2–6	3–5	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	.688	0.0	6–2	5–3	198	181	+17	12.38	11.31
2	Minnesota Swarm – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	5–3	3–5	187	180	+7	11.69	11.25
3	Washington Stealth – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	3–5	5–3	203	198	+5	12.69	12.38
4	Colorado Mammoth – x	16	5	11	.312	6.0	3–5	2–6	151	172	-21	9.44	10.75
5	Edmonton Rush	16	5	11	.312	6.0	4–4	1–7	175	204	-29	10.94	12.75

x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games Played
W: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowed
Differential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game

Game log

Reference:[2]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 8, 2011	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wells Fargo Center	W 10–6		7,940	1–0
2	January 15, 2011	Edmonton Rush	TD Garden	W 10–7		8,536	2–0
3	January 21, 2011	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	L 14–15	OT	9,104	2–1
4	January 22, 2011	Rochester Knighthawks	TD Garden	L 10–11	OT	10,422	2–2
5	January 28, 2011	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	TD Garden	L 5–11		7,492	2–3
6	January 29, 2011	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	W 16–7		4,945	3–3
7	February 5, 2011	Toronto Rock	TD Garden	W 9–7		7,598	4–3
8	February 12, 2011	Colorado Mammoth	TD Garden	W 11–6		8,462	5–3
9	February 19, 2011	@ Minnesota Swarm	Xcel Energy Center	W 14–11		7,051	6–3
10	March 6, 2011	Buffalo Bandits	TD Garden	L 8–9		8,524	6–4
11	March 12, 2011	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	L 10–12		16,347	6–5
12	March 25, 2011	@ Washington Stealth	Comcast Arena at Everett	L 8–9		3,616	6–6
13	March 26, 2011	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	L 8–9	OT	17,123	6–7
14	April 2, 2011	Rochester Knighthawks	TD Garden	L 8–19		9,008	6–8
15	April 9, 2011	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	TD Garden	W 9–7		9,654	7–8
16	April 16, 2011	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	W 16–9		17,318	8–8

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:[3]

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Division Semifinal	April 30, 2011	Buffalo Bandits	TD Garden	L 10–11		11,273	0–1

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:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
1	2	Kyle Rubisch	Dowling College
1	7	David Brock	University at Albany
3	26	Matt Quinton	Roanoke College
4	35	Martin Cahill	University of Delaware
4	36	Brock Armour	Towson University
5	46	Tyler Collins	Colgate University
6	54	Chase Williams	Bellarmine University

Roster

2011 Boston Blazers roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders 44 Anthony Cosmo 66 Nick Rose Defensemen 85 Mitch Belisle 12 Jon "Bubba" Durno 28 Dilan Graham 33 Jon Harnett  4 Carter Livingstone 15 Curtis Ptolemy 18 Jack Reid		Forwards 22 Bryan Bendig  9 Gary Bining  6 Dan Dawson (C)  8 Greg Downing 19 Matt Lyons 17 Geoff McNulty 25 Sean Morris 23 Brett Queener Transition 47 Jason Bloom 37 Nick Cotter		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

• 2011 NLL season

References

1. "National Lacrosse League - 2011 Regular Season - Standings". NLL.com. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
2. "Boston Blazers – National Lacrosse League". NLL.com. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
3. "Boston Blazers – National Lacrosse League". NLL.com. Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. 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.