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Boulton played one season of junior hockey for the [[London Knights]] of the [[Ontario Hockey League|OHL]] during the [[2023-24 OHL season|2023-24 season]]. During his season with London he was a teammate of his brother [[Ryder Boulton]] and London won the OHL championship.<ref name=ryder>{{cite web|title=London Knights Ryder Boulton Handed Lengthy Suspension For Slashing Calgary Flames Top Prospect Zayne Parekh|author=Brown, Jared|date=November 28, 2024|accessdate=2025-11-03|publisher=The Hockey News|url=https://thehockeynews.com/ohl/latest-news/london-knights-ryder-boulton-handed-lengthy-suspension-for-slashing-calgary-flames-top-prospect-zayne-parekh}}</ref><ref name=bully>{{cite web|title=Sawyer Boulton Embodies What It Means to be a Broad Street Bully; Signs Two-year AHL Deal With Lehigh Valley Phantoms|author=Brown, Jared|date=July 4, 2024|publisher=Yahoo!|accessdate=2025-11-03|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/sawyer-boulton-embodies-means-broad-231000777.html}}</ref> <ref name=memorial>{{cite web|title=Boulton suspended for Knights vs. Saginaw at Memorial Cup|accessdate=2025-11-03|publisher=CTV News|author=Varley, Kristylee|date=May 29, 2024|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/boulton-suspended-for-knights-vs-saginaw-at-memorial-cup/}}</ref> He scored 3 goals and 2 assists with 63 penalty minutes in 40 games one assist in 16 ganes during the OHL playoffs.<ref name=memorial/> during the regular season and During the season, Boulton was suspended seven times, and was also suspended for a game during the [[2024 Memorial Cup|Memorial Cup playoffs]].<ref name=bully/> |
Boulton played one season of junior hockey for the [[London Knights]] of the [[Ontario Hockey League|OHL]] during the [[2023-24 OHL season|2023-24 season]]. During his season with London he was a teammate of his brother [[Ryder Boulton]] and London won the OHL championship.<ref name=ryder>{{cite web|title=London Knights Ryder Boulton Handed Lengthy Suspension For Slashing Calgary Flames Top Prospect Zayne Parekh|author=Brown, Jared|date=November 28, 2024|accessdate=2025-11-03|publisher=The Hockey News|url=https://thehockeynews.com/ohl/latest-news/london-knights-ryder-boulton-handed-lengthy-suspension-for-slashing-calgary-flames-top-prospect-zayne-parekh}}</ref><ref name=bully>{{cite web|title=Sawyer Boulton Embodies What It Means to be a Broad Street Bully; Signs Two-year AHL Deal With Lehigh Valley Phantoms|author=Brown, Jared|date=July 4, 2024|publisher=Yahoo!|accessdate=2025-11-03|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/sawyer-boulton-embodies-means-broad-231000777.html}}</ref> <ref name=memorial>{{cite web|title=Boulton suspended for Knights vs. Saginaw at Memorial Cup|accessdate=2025-11-03|publisher=CTV News|author=Varley, Kristylee|date=May 29, 2024|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/boulton-suspended-for-knights-vs-saginaw-at-memorial-cup/}}</ref> He scored 3 goals and 2 assists with 63 penalty minutes in 40 games one assist in 16 ganes during the OHL playoffs.<ref name=memorial/> during the regular season and During the season, Boulton was suspended seven times, and was also suspended for a game during the [[2024 Memorial Cup|Memorial Cup playoffs]].<ref name=bully/> |
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Boulton’s longest suspension was for 10 games, for making a hit to [[Bryce McConnell-Barker]] of the [[Soo Greyhounds]] “in direct contact to the head of a vulnerable opponent, resulting in injury.”<ref name=barker>{{cite web|title=OHL slaps 10-game ban on London Knights player over head hit|author=Pyette, Ryan|publisher=London Free Press|date=December 13, 2023|accessdate=2025-11-03|url=https://lfpress.com/sports/hockey/junior-hockey/ohl-slaps-10-game-ban-on-london-knights-player-over-head-hit}}</ref><ref name=mistakes>{{cite web|title=”Mistakes happen”: London Knights back Sawyer Boulton amid 10-game ban|author=Pyette, Ryan|publisher=London Free Press|date=December 15, 2023|accessdate=2025-11-03|url=https://lfpress.com/sports/hockey/junior-hockey/mistakes-happen-london-knights-stand-behind-rugged-sawyer-boulton}}</ref> McConnell-Barker ended up missing 14 games due to a [[concussion]] he suffered from the hit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Observations: Captain’s comeback as the Soo slide by the Sting|publisher=Sault Star|author=Anderson, Gordon|date=January 29, 2024|accessdate=2025-11-03|url=https://www.saultstar.com/sports/observations-captains-comeback-as-the-soo-slide-by-the-sting}}</ref> Greyhound coach John Dean said of the hit:{{quote|It was their game plan to come in here and drag the game into the gutter. They end up with, my guess is a huge suspension for their hit on Bryce. And that was just a result of style of play. The league has an opportunity to protect [one of its] best players. Bryce is a world-class player and it was an obvious attempt at the head.<ref name=barker/>}} |
Boulton’s longest suspension was for 10 games, for making a hit to [[Bryce McConnell-Barker]] of the [[Soo Greyhounds]] “in direct contact to the head of a vulnerable opponent, resulting in injury.”<ref name=barker>{{cite web|title=OHL slaps 10-game ban on London Knights player over head hit|author=Pyette, Ryan|publisher=London Free Press|date=December 13, 2023|accessdate=2025-11-03|url=https://lfpress.com/sports/hockey/junior-hockey/ohl-slaps-10-game-ban-on-london-knights-player-over-head-hit}}</ref><ref name=mistakes>{{cite web|title=”Mistakes happen”: London Knights back Sawyer Boulton amid 10-game ban|author=Pyette, Ryan|publisher=London Free Press|date=December 15, 2023|accessdate=2025-11-03|url=https://lfpress.com/sports/hockey/junior-hockey/mistakes-happen-london-knights-stand-behind-rugged-sawyer-boulton}}</ref> McConnell-Barker ended up missing 14 games due to a [[concussion]] he suffered from the hit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Observations: Captain’s comeback as the Soo slide by the Sting|publisher=Sault Star|author=Anderson, Gordon|date=January 29, 2024|accessdate=2025-11-03|url=https://www.saultstar.com/sports/observations-captains-comeback-as-the-soo-slide-by-the-sting}}</ref> Greyhound coach John Dean said of the hit:{{quote|It was their game plan to come in here and drag the game into the gutter. They end up with, my guess is a huge suspension for their hit on Bryce. And that was just a result of style of play. The league has an opportunity to protect [one of its] best players. Bryce is a world-class player and it was an obvious attempt at the head.<ref name=barker/>}} |
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After the 2023-24 season, Boulton signed a professional contract with the [[American Hockey League|AHL]] [[Lehigh Valley Phantoms]].<ref name=bully/><ref name=camp>{{cite web|title=Sawyer Boulton Ready To Establish Himself At Flyers Development Camp After Signing With Phantoms|author=Nolan, Siobhan|date=July 6, 2024|accessdate=2025-11-03|publisher=The Hockey News|url=https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/philadelphia-flyers/latest-news/sawyer-boulton-ready-to-establish-himself-at-flyers-development-camp-after-signing-with-phantoms}}</ref> |
After the 2023-24 season, Boulton signed a professional contract with the [[American Hockey League|AHL]] [[Lehigh Valley Phantoms]].<ref name=bully/><ref name=camp>{{cite web|title=Sawyer Boulton Ready To Establish Himself At Flyers Development Camp After Signing With Phantoms|author=Nolan, Siobhan|date=July 6, 2024|accessdate=2025-11-03|publisher=The Hockey News|url=https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/philadelphia-flyers/latest-news/sawyer-boulton-ready-to-establish-himself-at-flyers-development-camp-after-signing-with-phantoms}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 00:27, 4 November 2025
Sawyer Boulton is an American ice hockey forward who plays for the Reading Royals of the ECHL while under contract to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the AHL. Both Reading and Lehigh Valley are minor league affiliates of the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL.
Boulton played one season of junior hockey for the London Knights of the OHL during the 2023-24 season. During his season with London he was a teammate of his brother Ryder Boulton and London won the OHL championship.[1][2] [3] He scored 3 goals and 2 assists with 63 penalty minutes in 40 games one assist in 16 ganes during the OHL playoffs.[3] during the regular season and During the season, Boulton was suspended seven times, and was also suspended for a game during the Memorial Cup playoffs.[2] During the season he also engaged in six fights.[4]
Boulton’s longest suspension was for 10 games, for making a hit to Bryce McConnell-Barker of the Soo Greyhounds “in direct contact to the head of a vulnerable opponent, resulting in injury.”[5][6] McConnell-Barker ended up missing 14 games due to a concussion he suffered from the hit.[7] Greyhound coach John Dean said of the hit:
It was their game plan to come in here and drag the game into the gutter. They end up with, my guess is a huge suspension for their hit on Bryce. And that was just a result of style of play. The league has an opportunity to protect [one of its] best players. Bryce is a world-class player and it was an obvious attempt at the head.[5]
At that point in the season, Boulton had already been suspended twice before, once for two games for a high hit on Quentin Musty of the Sudbury Wolves and once for three games for a fight that the league deemed to have been staged with Jackson Stewart of the Owen Sound Attack.[5][8] In the case of the latter suspension, Stewart claimed that the fight was not set up in advance.[8] As a result of these three suspensions, Bouton had been suspended for 15 games at a time he had played in 18.[6]
Two of Boulton’s subsequent OHL suspensions were also against Greyhounds players. He was suspended in February for two games for actions to instigate a fight with Matthew Virgilio in February.[9][10][11] A month later he was suspended for another two games for slew footing Christopher Brown.[10] During the OHL playoffs, Boulton had to serve another two game suspension for slew footing in a playoff game against the Saginaw Spirit.[11] During the Memorial Cup playoffs, Boulton was suspended for one game for making “unnecessary contact with a Moose Jaw [Warriors] player while exiting the ice following the completion of the warm-up.”[3][12]
After the 2023-24 season, Boulton signed a professional contract with the AHL Lehigh Valley Phantoms.[2][4][13]
Sawyer’s father Eric Boulton was also an aggressive hockey player, who played in the NHL from 2000 through 2016.[2][8][14]
- ^ Brown, Jared (November 28, 2024). “London Knights Ryder Boulton Handed Lengthy Suspension For Slashing Calgary Flames Top Prospect Zayne Parekh”. The Hockey News. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ a b c d Brown, Jared (July 4, 2024). “Sawyer Boulton Embodies What It Means to be a Broad Street Bully; Signs Two-year AHL Deal With Lehigh Valley Phantoms”. Yahoo!. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ a b c Varley, Kristylee (May 29, 2024). “Boulton suspended for Knights vs. Saginaw at Memorial Cup”. CTV News. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ a b Spiegel, Jackie (September 12, 2004). “Five things to watch as rookie camp opens”. Philadelphia Daily News. pp. 29, 31. Retrieved 2025-11-03 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Pyette, Ryan (December 13, 2023). “OHL slaps 10-game ban on London Knights player over head hit”. London Free Press. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ a b Pyette, Ryan (December 15, 2023). “‘Mistakes happen’: London Knights back Sawyer Boulton amid 10-game ban”. London Free Press. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ Anderson, Gordon (January 29, 2024). “Observations: Captain’s comeback as the Soo slide by the Sting”. Sault Star. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ a b c Cowan, Greg (November 8, 2023). “An old-school heavyweight hockey fight leads to suspension for Attack brawler”. The Sun Times. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ Stockl, Joely (February 17, 2024). “Sawyer Boulton Suspended Indefinitely After Actions Against Soo Greyhounds Defenceman Matthew Virgilio”. The Hockey News. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ a b Anderson, Gordon (March 16, 2024). “Observations: Two steps behind, turning point and Sawyer strikes again”. The Sault Star. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ a b Stockl, Joely (May 3, 2024). “Sawyer Boulton Has Been Suspended (Again) For Two Games Due to Slew Footing in Game 4 Versus the Saginaw Spirit”. The Hockey News. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ Stockl, Joely (May 29, 2024). “Sawyer Boulton Suspended for One Game in the Memorial Cup Due to Pre-Game Warmup Violation”. The Hockey News. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ Nolan, Siobhan (July 6, 2024). “Sawyer Boulton Ready To Establish Himself At Flyers Development Camp After Signing With Phantoms”. The Hockey News. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
- ^ “Eric Sawyer”. Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
