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“t’s an vital process at hand and I couldn’t be extra excited for the chance forward.”
The Boston Fleet formally have their new captain.
Boston’s Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) workforce introduced on Saturday that defender Megan Keller has been named as workforce captain for the 2025-26 season, with forwards Jamie Lee Rattray and Alina Müller serving as alternate captains.
“It is a enormous honor,” Keller mentioned in a workforce launch. “It’s so particular to be part of this workforce and particularly this management group. It’s an vital process at hand and I couldn’t be extra excited for the chance forward.”
Keller, 29, has been a key cog on Boston’s blue line for the reason that workforce’s first season in 2023-24. The 2-time alternate captain has not missed a recreation for the Fleet for the reason that PWHL began.
A 2024 PHWL Defender of the Yr finalist, Keller has posted 9 objectives and 32 factors in 62 whole video games with the Fleet (postseason included). The Farmington, Mich., native performed faculty hockey at Boston Faculty — and gained each a gold (2018) and silver medal (2022) for Staff USA on the Winter Olympics.
Keller steps right into a management position vacated by Hilary Knight, who signed with the Seattle Torrent within the offseason and was named as captain of the PWHL expansion franchise on Saturday.
It will mark the third-straight season the place Rattray will don the “A” in Boston, with the 33-year-old ahead scoring seven objectives and 22 factors over 60 whole video games with the Fleet.
Müller — the primary worldwide participant drafted within the PWHL — is a first-time alternate captain for the Fleet. She has been a key playmaker for Boston over the previous two years, scoring 14 objectives and 38 factors over 58 video games.
“This group brings a superb stability of management to our locker room,” Boston Fleet Head Coach Kris Sparre mentioned. “Megan is a extremely aggressive particular person. She units the usual for work, compete and the way we need to act not solely on the rink however in our neighborhood.
“Alina brings a ardour to the ice that exhibits her deep love for the sport and her bond with Boston. She units the usual for professionalism every single day and is the sort of chief our gamers can mannequin themselves after. Rattray is a veteran chief whose mentorship might be very important in our room. I’ve full confidence of their potential to information the Fleet and set the aggressive commonplace we anticipate each night time.”
The Fleet will formally open their 2025-26 season on Nov. 23 after they host the Montreal Victoire at Tsongas Middle.
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