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Boston Blazers MILL Lacrosse

New England Blazers / Boston Blazers (1989-1997)

June 20, 2018

The New England Blazers were an expansion entry in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League during the winter of 1989. The club played initially in the small central Massachusetts city of Worcester before moving to the Boston Garden 1992. A little over a decade after the original Blazers went out business in 1997, a re-booted version of the Blazers took the floor at Boston’s TD Garden from 2009 to 2011, albeit without the original club’s garish orange, green & white uniforms.

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1975 Boston Bolts program from the National Lacrosse League

Boston Bolts (1975)

February 1, 2013

The Boston Bolts lacrosse team played box (indoor) lacrosse for one steamy season at the non-air conditioned Boston Garden in the summer of 1975. The Bolts were members of the short-lived National Lacrosse League (1974-1975). The franchise started out as the Toronto Tomahawks in 1974. The club fared poorly at Maple Leaf Gardens and relocated to Boston prior to the NLL’s second and final season.

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Terry O'Reilly on the cover of a 1971 Boston Braves program from the American Hockey League

Boston Braves (1971-1974)

November 11, 2012

Pro hockey grew so popular in Boston during the Big Bad Bruins era of the early 1970’s that the demand for tickets greatly exceeded what the Boston Garden could hold for NHL hockey.  Meanwhile, the B’s top farm club was half a country away at Oklahoma City in the Central Hockey League.  The Bruins’ ownership decided to kill two birds with one stone and applied for an expansion team in the East Coast-based American Hockey League.  The Boston Braves caused a sensation during their debut season at Boston Garden in the winter of 1971-72 and shattered the AHL’s single season attendance record. But the arrival of the World Hockey Association and its New England Whalers franchise the following winter put THREE teams into the Boston Garden and interest in the Braves cratered. The team was out of business by 1974.

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