2010 Boston Blazers season

2010 Boston Blazers
League	NLL
Division	4th East
2010 record	8-8
Home record	5-3
Road record	3-5
Goals for	161
Goals against	162
General Manager	Doug Reffue
Coach	Tom Ryan
Arena	TD Banknorth Garden
Average attendance	8,310
Team leaders
Goals	Dan Dawson (36)
Assists	Dan Dawson (52)
Points	Dan Dawson (88)
Penalties in minutes	Paul Dawson (65)
Loose Balls	Greg Downing (101) Ryan Hotaling (101) Mitch Belisle (101)
Wins	Anthony Cosmo (7)
Goals against average	Anthony Cosmo (9.50)
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The Boston Blazers are a lacrosse team based in Boston playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2010 season was their second season in the NLL.

Standings

Reference:

East Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Orlando Titans – xy	16	11	5	.688	0.0	5–3	6–2	172	154	+18	10.75	9.62
2	Toronto Rock – x	16	9	7	.562	2.0	6–2	3–5	197	156	+41	12.31	9.75
3	Buffalo Bandits – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	4–4	4–4	169	170	−1	10.56	10.62
4	Boston Blazers – x	16	8	8	.500	3.0	5–3	3–5	161	162	−1	10.06	10.12
5	Rochester Knighthawks	16	7	9	.438	4.0	4–4	3–5	155	181	−26	9.69	11.31
6	Philadelphia Wings	16	5	11	.312	6.0	3–5	2–6	168	194	−26	10.50	12.12

West Division

P	Team	GP	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	GF	GA	Diff	GF/GP	GA/GP
1	Washington Stealth – xyz	16	11	5	.688	0.0	6–2	5–3	211	179	+32	13.19	11.19
2	Calgary Roughnecks – x	16	10	6	.625	1.0	5–3	5–3	193	169	+24	12.06	10.56
3	Edmonton Rush – x	16	10	6	.625	1.0	5–3	5–3	186	201	−15	11.62	12.56
4	Minnesota Swarm – x	16	5	11	.312	6.0	3–5	2–6	189	201	−12	11.81	12.56
5	Colorado Mammoth	16	4	12	.250	7.0	0–8	4–4	167	201	−34	10.44	12.56

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:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
1	January 9, 2010	Toronto Rock	TD Banknorth Garden	L 7–17		8,215	0–1
2	January 15, 2010	@ Toronto Rock	Air Canada Centre	L 7–8	OT	11,502	0–2
3	January 16, 2010	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wachovia Center	L 8–12		9,330	0–3
4	January 23, 2010	Orlando Titans	TD Banknorth Garden	W 13–9		7,812	1–3
5	January 30, 2010	Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	TD Banknorth Garden	W 11–9		7,289	2–3
6	February 6, 2010	Rochester Knighthawks	TD Banknorth Garden	W 14–8		7,546	3–3
7	February 13, 2010	@ Rochester Knighthawks	Blue Cross Arena	L 9–11		6,066	3–4
8	February 20, 2010	@ Orlando Titans	Amway Arena	W 12–11	OT	8,442	4–4
9	February 27, 2010	Washington Stealth	TD Banknorth Garden	W 11–9		8,354	5–4
10	March 13, 2010	Buffalo Bandits	TD Banknorth Garden	L 8–9	OT	9,062	5–5
11	March 20, 2010	@ Edmonton Rush	Rexall Place	W 12–5		8,034	6–5
12	March 27, 2010	@ Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)	Wachovia Center	L 7–13		11,241	6–6
13	April 3, 2010	Orlando Titans	TD Banknorth Garden	L 10–13		8,168	6–7
14	April 10, 2010	Minnesota Swarm	TD Banknorth Garden	W 13–8		10,032	7–7
15	April 16, 2010	@ Colorado Mammoth	Pepsi Center	W 9–7		15,104	8–7
16	April 24, 2010	@ Buffalo Bandits	HSBC Arena	L 10–13		18,480	8–8

Playoffs

Game log

Reference:

Game	Date	Opponent	Location	Score	OT	Attendance	Record
Division Semifinal	May 1, 2010	@ Orlando Titans	Amway Arena	L 11–12		4,205	0–1

Transactions

Trades

August 13, 2009	To Boston Blazers Second round pick, 2011 entry draft	To Minnesota Swarm Jay Thorimbert
July 7, 2009	To Boston Blazers Mike Kirk	To Washington Stealth Jason Bloom

Entry draft

The 2009 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 9, 2009. The Blazers selected the following players:

Round	Overall	Player	College/Club
1	8	Max Seibald	Cornell University
2	20	Matt Abbott	Syracuse University
3	33	Scott Kahoe	Syracuse University
4	38	Matt Messina	NYIT
6	59	Mike Stone	Middlebury College

Roster

2010 Boston Blazers roster
Active (21-man) roster				Inactive roster		Coaches
Goaltenders 44 Anthony Cosmo 30 Mike Poulin Defensemen 85 Mitch Belisle  2 Paul Dawson 12 Jon 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  8 Greg Downing 19 Matt Lyons 25 Sean Morris 23 Brett Queener 97 Kyle Ross 10 Brenden Thenhaus 75 Jay Thorimbert 16 Daryl Veltman Transition 47 Jason Bloom 37 Nick Cotter		Practice Squad 20 Travis Brown 05 Paul Manesis 66 Nick Rose		Head Coach {{{Head Coach}}} Legend * Suspended list (C) Captain (A) Alternate captain Roster updated 2009-02-04 NLL Transactions

See also

• 2010 NLL season