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Hilary Knight is the career-scoring chief on the Ladies’s World Championships (101 factors).
PWHL Boston has its new captain.
With the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League’s (PWHL) Boston squad set to open its inaugural season on Wednesday night at Lowell’s Tsongas Heart, ahead Hilary Knight has been named captain of a roster loaded with among the prime expertise throughout ladies’s hockey.
PWHL Boston GM Danielle Marmer enlisted some assist from one other former hockey captain as a part of Tuesday’s announcement, with former Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron handing Knight her new hockey sweater with the “C” stitched in place.
“It’s a historic second. We all the time want leaders… As a former captain myself in Boston, you’re representing your teammates, you’re representing a neighborhood, you’re representing your fan base,” Bergeron stated. “But in addition, you’re a job mannequin for the youthful era, the younger ladies that wanna be in your footwear at some point.
“And I believe the individual I’m about to call is an incredible ambassador for girls’s hockey, and might be an incredible consultant of this staff, this group. So, with that stated, the primary captain in PWHL Boston historical past from Solar Valley, Idaho: Hilary Knight.”
You’ll be able to watch Bergeron’s announcement under:
Knight, 34, has established herself as one of many biggest ladies’s hockey gamers of all time over her illustrious profession. Knight is a four-time Olympian, taking residence a gold medal throughout the 2018 Winter Video games in PyeongChang with Group USA, plus with three silver medals in different appearances.
The 2023 IIHF IIHF Feminine Participant of the Yr, Knight is the career-scoring chief on the Ladies’s World Championships (101 factors).
PWHL Boston additionally introduced its two alternate captains in ahead Jamie Lee Rattray and defenseman Megan Keller.
A two-time Olympian with Group USA, Keller performed 4 seasons at Boston School from 2014-19. Rattray, who received a Gold Medal with Canada on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, received the Patty Kazmaier Award and helped Clarkson win their first NCAA ladies’s hockey championship in 2014.
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