The Boston Blazers were a member of the
Major Indoor Lacrosse League
The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league comprises 14 teams8 in the United States and 6 in Canada. The NLL is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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from 1989 to 1997. They were called the
New England Blazers
The New England Blazers were a member of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL) from 1989 MILL season, 1989 to 1991 MILL season, 1991. They were based in Worcester, Massachusetts, playing at the Worcester Centrum. After the 1991 season, they move ...
from 1989 to 1991 while based in
Worcester, Massachusetts
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, and were renamed the Boston Blazers in 1992 when they moved to Boston. While in Worcester, the Blazers played at the
Worcester Centrum
The DCU Center (originally Centrum in Worcester, formerly Worcester's Centrum Centre and commonly Worcester Centrum) is an indoor arena and convention center complex in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. The facility hosts a variety of events, ...
. In Boston, they played at the
Boston Garden
The Boston Garden was an arena in Boston, Massachusetts. Designed by boxing promoter Tex Rickard, who also built the third iteration of New York's Madison Square Garden, it opened on November 17, 1928, as "Boston Madison Square Garden" (later ...
from 1992–1995 and then moved to the
FleetCenter in 1996 and played there until 1997.
A separate franchise, also known as the
Boston Blazers, was founded in 2007 and played in the
National Lacrosse League
The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league comprises 14 teams8 in the United States and 6 in Canada. The NLL is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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from 2009 to 2013. While the name of the new team was chosen "in part due to the popularity and nostalgia associated with the former Boston Blazers franchise" it did not share any lineage with the MILL Blazers.
Awards and honors
All time record
Playoff results
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20050729024306/http://www.arenamedia.com/content/blazers/index.shtml
Defunct National Lacrosse League teams
Lacrosse teams in Boston
Lacrosse clubs established in 1992
Lacrosse clubs disestablished in 1997
Major Indoor Lacrosse League teams
1992 establishments in Massachusetts
1997 disestablishments in Massachusetts
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