Brooke Boquist (born July 27, 1996) is a Canadian

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forward. She most recently played in the

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(PHF) with the

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during the 2022–23 season.

Playing career

Across 139

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games with the

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, Boquist scored 91

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. She led the team in goals during the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons, and served as an assistant captain for the team during the latter. She studied management while attending

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Professional

After graduating, she signed her first professional contract with

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of the

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(SDHL), having been recruited as a potential top-line

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after several star players left the club. She would score 20 points in 17 games in her rookie SDHL season before being sidelined with a concussion. She joined

Leksands IF Dam Leksands Idrottsförening, abbreviated Leksands IF or LIF, is a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play in Leksand, a town in the western-central Swedish province of Dalarna, at Tegera Arena. Un ...

the next season, her signing being announced in mid-October after the club picked up only two points in their first nine games. She posted 29 points in 24 games with Leksands, finishing first on the team for goals and second in points. She earned the SDHL Goal of the Week Award in the third week of 2020. In May 2020, she announced she was returning to North America alongside Leksands teammate Emma Woods to sign with the NWHL expansion team the Toronto Six. Boquist logged her first-ever goal in NWHL play in a 2–1 triumph against the eventual

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champion

Boston Pride The Boston Pride was a professional women's ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was one of the four charter franchises of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). The Pride played at Warrior Ice Arena, which is also the practice fac ...

. Opposing the Pride on January 26, 2021, the Six fought back from a 1–0 deficit with a pair of third period goals by Boquist and

Mikyla Grant-Mentis Mikyla Grant-Mentis (born July 15, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for PWHL Seattle of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). She is the all-time leading scorer of the Merrimack Warriors women's ice hockey team. In ...

. Boquist was named the First Star of the Game, while Elaine Chuli recorded 24 svaes in the win.

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