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At Center Ice: Boston Beanpot Wins
By Laura Everett, edited by Abbi Holt Boston, Mass. – This is what we deserve. The 4k video screens at the center of TD Garden are 18 feet x 32.5 feet, nearly double the previous size before their 2021 rehabilitation. These screens are dubbed “Hub Vision,” self-proclaimed for both their centrality above center ice and…
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Op-Ed: For Herself Alone: Women’s Hockey and the Unjust Burden of Little Girls
op-ed by Laura Everett “Future PWHL player” the sign in the stand reads, and a ruddy-faced girl child in an oversized hockey jersey peeks above the sign. Catnip to nearly every cameraman and beat writer assigned to the inaugural matches of the Premier Women’s Hockey League. She was in every sell-out arena. Every home game.…
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Boston’s Newest Pro Hockey Team Falls to MN in First Game of New League
Thursday January 4, 2024 Written by Laura Everett and Edited by Abbi Holt LOWELL, MA: Boston’s inaugural game as a part of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League kicked off in Lowell on Wednesday January 3, 2024 with a massive crowd, over four thousand fans, filling Tsongas Arena, but not quite the win the team…
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NWSL Update: Boston Unity Soccer Partners Propose $30m White Stadium Overhaul
Community Meets on Thursday to Discuss Written by Laura Everett Edited by Abbi Holt Thursday July 13, 2023 Boston’s bid for a professional women’s soccer team moved a few steps closer to the goal this week with the announcement that the Boston Unity Soccer Partners were the sole bidders in the City of Boston’s Request…
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JoJo & John Boynton: The Boston Women’s Sports Interview
Johanna (JoJo) & John Boynton are former Governors of Premier Hockey Federation and former owners of the Boston Pride, Toronto Six, and Metropolitan Riveters. This interview was conducted on Friday June 30, 2023. It has been lightly edited for consistency, context, and clarity. Boston Women’s Sports: I imagine it has been a pretty busy day. John…
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Is this Good for Hockey?
By Laura Everett and Abbi Holt In a shockingly sudden announcement last night, players, staff, fans, and press simultaneously found out that the PHF (Premier Hockey Federation) and the PWHPA (Professional Women’s Hockey Player’s Association) were both bought out and will be reincorporated in some new form as one league. The yet-to-be-named new league will…
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While No One Was Watching: PHF Bought & Player Contracts Voided
Thursday June 29, 2023 Laura Everett & Abbi Holt Boston Women’s Sports -this is a developing story- Late Thursday night, news broke first on Twitter of the sale of the Premier Hockey Federation and the subsequent voiding of all player contracts, including those of The Boston Pride. Billie Jean King Enterprises and the Mark Walters…
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NWSL Team to Boston, Date yet Unknown
By Laura Everett 1/29/23 The good news, first: In a story first reported by Jessica Toonkel and Rachel Bachman in the Wall Street Journal, Boston will indeed be one of the cities for the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) expansion for new professional women’s soccer teams. The less good news: Boston will not join Utah…
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