Season: | 2023–24 |
Year: | 2024 |
Team: | PWHL Boston |
League: | PWHL |
Record: | 8–4–3–9 (3rd) |
Homerecord: | 3–3–2–4 |
Roadrecord: | 5–1–1–5 |
Goalsfor: | 50 |
Goalsagainst: | 57 |
Generalmanager: | Danielle Marmer[1] |
Captain: | Hilary Knight[2] |
Goalsleader: | Hilary Knight (6)[3] |
Assistsleader: | Alina Müller Megan Keller (11) |
Pointsleader: | Alina Müller (16) |
Pimleader: | Kaleigh Fratkin (26) |
Plusminusleader: | Megan Keller (+9) |
Winsleader: | Aerin Frankel (8)[4] |
Gaaleader: | Aerin Frankel (2.00) |
Next Season: | 2024–25 |
The 2023–24 PWHL Boston season was the team's inaugural season as a member of the newly created Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). They played their home games at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts.
PWHL Boston finished third overall in the league standings and drew a match-up against PWHL Montreal in the playoff semifinals. Boston defeated Montreal in three straight games—with all three games decided in overtime—to advance to the finals, where they faced PWHL Minnesota for the Walter Cup championship.[5] Minnesota won the series in five games, leaving Boston as the runners up.[6]
On September 1, 2023, Boston hired Danielle Marmer as its general manager.[7] The team hired Courtney Kessel as its first head coach on September 15.[8] In November, it was announced that the team would play its home games at the Tsongas Center in Lowell.[9]
On September 7, Boston announced the signings of its first three players, American national team members Hilary Knight, Aerin Frankel, and Megan Keller.[10] Knight was named team captain, with Keller and Jamie Lee Rattray named assistant captains.[2]
Boston hosted its inaugural game on January 3, 2024, against PWHL Minnesota. Theresa Schafzahl scored the team's first goal in the second period; however, Minnesota went on to win the game by a score of 3–2.[11] Boston secured its first win in its second game, defeating PWHL Montreal in overtime by a score of 3–2 on a goal by Amanda Pelkey.[12] Boston sat outside of the playoff picture for much of the season; however, the team won four of its final five games, clinching a playoff spot in its final regular season game, a 4–3 win over Montreal.[13]
The regular season schedule was published on November 30, 2023.[14]
|- style="background:#fcc;"| 1 || January 3 || PWHL Minnesota || 2–3 || || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 4,012 || 0–0–0–1 || 0 || [15] |- style="background:#ccc;"| – || January 8 || PWHL Ottawa || colspan="8"|Postponed due to inclement weather.[16] Moved to February 19.[17] |- style="background:#ccf;"| 2 || January 13 || @ PWHL Montreal || 3–2 || OT || Frankel || Verdun Auditorium || 3,245 || 0–1–0–1 || 2 || [18] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 3 || January 17 || @ PWHL Toronto || 3–2 || || Söderberg || Mattamy Athletic Centre || 2,491 || 1–1–0–1 || 5 || [19] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 4 || January 20 || PWHL New York || 1–4 || || Söderberg || Tsongas Center || 4,007 || 1–1–0–2 || 5 || [20] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 5 || January 24 || @ PWHL Ottawa || 3–2 || || Frankel || TD Place Arena || 5,208 || 2–1–0–2 || 8 || [21] |- style="background:#ccf;"| 6 || January 27 || PWHL Minnesota || 4–3 || OT || Söderberg || Tsongas Center || 4,059 || 2–2–0–2 || 10 || [22] |-|- style="background:#fff;"| 7 || February 4 || PWHL Montreal || 1–2 || OT || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 4,210 || 2–2–1–2 || 11 || [23] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 8 || February 14 || PWHL Toronto || 3–5 || || Söderberg || Tsongas Center || 1,791 || 2–2–1–3 || 11 || [24] |- style="background:#fff;"| 9 || February 17 || PWHL New York || 1–2 || OT || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 4,002 || 2–2–2–3 || 12 || [25] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 10 || February 19 || PWHL Ottawa || 2–4 || || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 2,849 || 2–2–2–4 || 12 || [26] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 11 || February 21 || PWHL Ottawa || 3–1 || || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 1,889 || 3–2–2–4 || 15 || [27] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 12 || February 25 || @ PWHL Minnesota || 2–0 || || Frankel || Xcel Energy Center || 10,186 || 4–2–2–4 || 18 || [28] |-|- style="background:#fcc;"| 13 || March 2 || @ PWHL Montreal || 1–3 || || Frankel || Verdun Auditorium || 3,232 || 4–2–2–5 || 18 || [29] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 14 || March 6 || @ PWHL Toronto || 1–3 || || Frankel || Mattamy Athletic Centre || 2,479 || 4–2–2–6 || 18 || [30] |- style="background:#ccf;"| 15 || March 10 || PWHL New York || 3–2 || OT || Söderberg || Tsongas Center || 4,607 || 4–3–2–6 || 20 || [31] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 16 || March 13 || @ PWHL Minnesota || 0–4 || || Frankel || Xcel Energy Center || 4,669 || 4–3–2–7 || 20 || [32] |- style="background:#ccf;"| 17 || March 16 || PWHL Ottawa || 2–1 || SO || Frankel || Little Caesars Arena || 13,736 || 4–4–2–7 || 22 || [33] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 18 || March 20 || @ PWHL Toronto || 1–2 || || Söderberg || Mattamy Athletic Centre || 2,525 || 4–4–2–8 || 22 || [34] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 19 || March 25 || @ PWHL New York || 2–3 || || Frankel || UBS Arena || 2,834 || 4–4–2–9 || 22 || [35] |-|- style="background:#cfc;"| 20 || April 18 || PWHL Toronto || 2–1 || || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 4,084 || 5–4–2–9 || 25 || [36] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 21 || April 20 || @ PWHL New York || 2–1 || || Frankel || Prudential Center || 5,132 || 6–4–2–9 || 28 || [37] |- style="background:#fff;"| 22 || April 24 || @ PWHL Ottawa || 2–3 || SO || Frankel || TD Place Arena || 7,686 || 6–4–3–9 || 29 || [38] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 23 || April 27 || @ PWHL Minnesota || 2–1 || || Söderberg || Xcel Energy Center || 9,977 || 7–4–3–9 || 32 || [39] |-|- style="background:#cfc;"| 24 || May 4 || PWHL Montreal || 4–3 || || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 5,964 || 8–4–3–9 || 35 || [40] |- style="text-align:center;"|
On May 6, 2024, PWHL Toronto announced that it had elected to play PWHL Minnesota in the first round of the playoffs, leaving PWHL Montreal and PWHL Boston matched up for the second semifinal.[41]
Boston went on to win their semifinal series with three straight wins over Montreal, with all three victories coming in overtime, including a triple-overtime win in Game 2. This sent Boston to the final, where they faced Minnesota. Boston won the first game, on home ice, to take an early series lead.[42] However, they lost the next two, before forcing a fifth and deciding game with a double-overtime win in the fourth game.[43] Boston lost the deciding game by a score of 3–0 as Minnesota captured the inaugural Walter Cup championship.
|- style="background:#cfc;"| 1 || May 9 || @ Montreal || 2–1 || OT || Frankel || Place Bell || 9,135 || 1–0 || [44] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 2 || May 11 || @ Montreal || 2–1 || 3OT || Frankel || Place Bell || 10,172 || 2–0 || [45] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 3 || May 14 || Montreal || 3–2 || OT || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 2,781 || 3–0 || [46] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 1 || May 19 || Minnesota || 4–3 || || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 4,508 || 1–0 || [47] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 2 || May 21 || Minnesota || 0–3 || || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 4,543 || 1–1 || [48] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 3 || May 24 || @ Minnesota || 1–4 || || Frankel || Xcel Energy Center || 9,054 || 1–2 || [49] |- style="background:#cfc;"| 4 || May 26 || @ Minnesota || 1–0 || 2OT || Frankel || Xcel Energy Center || 13,104 || 2–2 || [50] |- style="background:#fcc;"| 5 || May 29 || Minnesota || 0–3 || || Frankel || Tsongas Center || 6,309 || 2–3 || [51]
Player | data-sort-type="number" | ! | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
24 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 56 | 6 | |||
24 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 53 | 12 | |||
24 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 84 | 6 | |||
24 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 65 | 8 | |||
24 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 39 | 4 | |||
17 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 38 | 6 | |||
17 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 46 | 2 | |||
23 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 30 | 4 | |||
20 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 0 | |||
20 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 6 | |||
24 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 12 | |||
24 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 6 | |||
24 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 69 | 2 | |||
24 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 26 | |||
7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | |||
10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |||
22 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 8 | |||
24 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 8 | |||
23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 8 | |||
9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | |||
4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Player | data-sort-type="number" | ! | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 2 | |||
8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 10 | |||
8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 0 | |||
8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | |||
8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | |||
8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | |||
8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |||
8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | |||
8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 0 | |||
8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |||
8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 0 | |||
8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | |||
8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||
6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | |||
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | |||
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | |||
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 8 | |||
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 2 |
+ colspan="16" style="background:#fff; border-top:#164E36 5px solid; border-bottom:#C3C6CC 5px solid;" | Regular season | |||||||||||||
Player | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
18 | 1050:52 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 35 | 2.00 | 490 | 0.929 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
8 | 401:24 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 2.54 | 170 | 0.900 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+ colspan="16" style="background:#fff; border-top:#164E36 5px solid; border-bottom:#C3C6CC 5px solid;" | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
Player | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8 | 580:58 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 1.45 | 300 | 0.953 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Player | Milestone | Reached |
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1st career PWHL goal | January 3, 2024 | |
1st career PWHL game | ||
1st career PWHL goal | ||
1st career PWHL game | ||
1st career PWHL assist | ||
1st career PWHL game | ||
1st career PWHL assist | ||
1st career PWHL game | ||
1st career PWHL assist | ||
1st career PWHL game | ||
1st career PWHL assist | ||
1st career PWHL game | ||
1st career PWHL game | ||
Taylor Wenczkowski | ||
Kaleigh Fratkin | ||
Amanda Pelkey | ||
Taylor Girard | ||
Sophie Jaques | ||
Gigi Marvin | ||
Hannah Brandt | ||
Hilary Knight | ||
Jessica DiGirolamo | ||
Shiann Darkangelo | ||
Loren Gabel | ||
Jess Healey | ||
1st career PWHL game | ||
1st career PWHL loss | ||
Taylor Girard | 1st career PWHL goal | January 13, 2024 |
Hannah Brandt | 1st career PWHL goal | |
Amanda Pelkey | 1st career PWHL goal | |
1st career PWHL overtime goal | ||
Gigi Marvin | 1st career PWHL assist | |
Theresa Schafzahl | ||
Aerin Frankel | 1st career PWHL win | |
1st career PWHL overtime win | ||
Loren Gabel | 1st career PWHL goal | January 17, 2024 |
1st career PWHL assist | ||
Emily Brown | 1st career PWHL assist | |
1st career PWHL game | ||
1st career PWHL win | ||
Alina Müller | 5th career PWHL assist | January 20, 2024 |
Emma Söderberg | 1st career PWHL loss | |
Alina Müller | 1st career PWHL goal | January 24, 2024 |
Jamie Lee Rattray | ||
Megan Keller | 1st career PWHL assist | |
Kaleigh Fratkin | 1st career PWHL goal | January 27, 2024 |
Hilary Knight | ||
Jessica Digirolamo | 1st career PWHL assist | |
Shiann Darkangelo | ||
Nicole Kosta | ||
Hilary Knight | ||
Sophie Shirley | 1st career PWHL goal | February 4, 2024 |
Hanna Brandt | 1st career PWHL assist | |
Taylor Girard | 1st career PWHL assist | February 14, 2024 |
Madison Packer | 1st career PWHL assist | February 17, 2024 |
Megan Keller | 5th career PWHL assist | February 19, 2024 |
Jess Healey | 1st career PWHL assist | February 21, 2024 |
Kaleigh Fratkin | ||
Gigi Marvin | 1st career PWHL goal | February 25, 2024 |
Jamie Lee Rattray | 5th career PWHL assist | |
Jess Healey | 1st career PWHL goal | March 6, 2024 |
Amanda Pelkey | 1st career PWHL assist | |
Alina Müller | 10th career PWHL assist | March 10, 2024 |
Susanna Tapani | 5th career PWHL assist | |
Sidney Morin | 1st career PWHL goal | March 20, 2024 |
Emily Brown | 1st career PWHL goal | April 18, 2024 |
Nicole Kosta | 1st career PWHL goal | April 20, 2024 |
Lexie Adzija | 5th career PWHL assist | |
Megan Keller | 10th career PWHL assist | |
1st career PWHL game | ||
Hilary Knight | 5th career PWHL goal | April 24, 2024 |
Hannah Brandt | 5th career PWHL goal | April 27, 2024 |
Alina Müller | 5th career PWHL goal | May 4, 2024 |
Hilary Knight | 5th career PWHL assist | |
Hannah Brandt | ||
Kelly Babstock | 1st career PWHL assist |
Boston has been involved in the following transactions during the 2023–24 PWHL season.
Date | Player | Position | Term | Previous Team | Ref | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
September 7, 2023 | G | 3 years | Team Adidas | [52] [53] | ||
September 7, 2023 | D | 3 years | Team Scotiabank | |||
September 7, 2023 | F | 3 years | Team Sonnet | |||
October 27, 2023 | D | 3 years | ||||
October 30, 2023 | F | 3 years | ||||
October 31, 2023 | G | 2 years | ||||
October 31, 2023 | F | 3 years | Team Harvey's | |||
November 1, 2023 | F | 2 years | ||||
November 2, 2023 | F | 1 year | ||||
November 2, 2023 | D | 1 year | Team Sonnet | |||
November 3, 2023 | F | 1 year | Team Sonnet | |||
November 3, 2023 | D | 1 year | ||||
November 6, 2023 | D | 1 year | Team Sonnet | |||
November 7, 2023 | D | 1 year | ||||
November 8, 2023 | F | 2 years | ||||
November 8, 2023 | D | 2 years | Team Adidas | |||
November 9, 2023 | F | 1 year | ||||
November 9, 2023 | F | 2 years | Boston Pride | |||
November 10, 2023 | F | 1 year | Team Scotiabank | |||
December 11, 2023 | G | 1 year | Wisconsin | |||
December 19, 2023 | F | 1 year | Boston Pride | [54] | ||
December 19, 2023 | D | 1 year | [55] | |||
December 20, 2023 | F | 1 year | Team Adidas | [56] | ||
December 20, 2023 | F | 1 year | [57] |
See also: List of PWHL Boston draft picks. Below are the PWHL Boston's selections at the 2023 PWHL draft held on September 18, 2023.[59]
Rd | Pick | Player | Nationality | Position | Previous team | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 3 | Forward | Northeastern Huskies (Hockey East) | |||
2 | 10 | Defence | Ohio State Buckeyes (WCHA) | |||
3 | 15 | Forward | Team Harvey's (PWHPA) | |||
4 | 22 | Forward | Boston Pride (PHF) | |||
5 | 27 | Forward | Team Sonnet (PWHPA) | |||
6 | 34 | Defence | Team Adidas (PWHPA) | |||
7 | 39 | Forward | Vermont Catamounts (Hockey East) | |||
8 | 46 | Defence | Team Sonnet (PWHPA) | |||
9 | 51 | Forward | Connecticut Whale (PHF) | |||
10 | 58 | Goaltender | Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs (WCHA) | |||
11 | 63 | Forward | Wisconsin Badgers (WCHA) | |||
12 | 70 | Forward | Toronto Six (PHF) | |||
13 | 75 | Defence | Team Sonnet (PWHPA) | |||
14 | 82 | Forward | Team Scotiabank (PWHPA) | |||
15 | 87 | Defence | Buffalo Beauts (PHF) |