The Boston Pride continued in its time-honored tradition of scooping up former CWHLers to form a squard that had already build solid team chemistry, acquiring forward Corinne Buie after seeing her skate in Canada, and then once more at the international camp in Boston.

Buie was a standout player at the camp, with soft hands she uses to guide the puck rather than slap it around. She has a slick wrister that she can float past the goaltender, and sees openings others. She has a large amount of patience and will wait for a goaltender to make just the wrong move in order to slide it behind them.

If I remember correctly, Buie was one of the few players to put a puck past a Riveters pick-up from the camp, Team Japan goaltender, Nana Fujimoto. That will be key for the Pride, as all the teams try to find away around the Riveters’ Fujimoto and the Beauts’ McLaughlin, both of whom are elite goaltenders who have represented their home countries.

As Fujimoto’s goaltending is more situational than anything, giving very little for skaters to exploit, the Pride finding someone who has already faced Fujimoto down and won will prove highly valuable.

Buie works hard, and is never far from the action. She’s fast, got a good sense of the game and brings a lot of forward momentum to her team.

General manager Hayley Moore certainly saw something she liked in the forward, whose timing on the ice is a thing of beauty.

“Buie is a force on the ice,” said Moore in the NWHL press release. “She’s one of those players that can fly under the radar, but make a big splash. Her shot is lethal, making her a huge offensive threat that we are very happy to add to our roster.”

Buie played her undergraduate career with the Providence College Friars, graduating in the spring of 2014. During her time with the Friars she became only the 33rd Friars player to reach the 100-point plateau, which she managed during her senior season. Overall, Buie scored 100 points (44g, 56a) during her four years at PC.

Her junior season she notched a career-high fifteen goals.

Buie also earned Hockey East Player of the Week multiple times, as well as WHEA Rookie of the Month. Buie made the All-Rookie Team her freshman season at PC.

After graduation Buie was selected in the CWHL 2014 draft by the Boston Blades, where she joined former Providence College teammates Genevieve Lacasse and Janine Weber on the Blades roster.. She posted 9 points (5g, 4a) in 20 games and earned 2 assists in the postseason, one of which was Weber’s game-winning OT goal against the Montreal Stars, earning them the Blades their second Clarkson Cup ever.

Weber was the first former CWHL player to sign with the NWHL.

Buie, along with the rest of the Blades, was honored in March at the Boston Bruins game for their Cup win. A YouTube account with her name connected to it posted this video of the event to YouTube, linked below.

However, Buie determined it was in her best interests to make the move to the NWHL where she would find it a little easier to dedicate time to training and practice when they knew remuneration was guaranteed.

“I’m really looking forward to playing on the Boston Pride,” said Buie, per the press release. “I’ll bring my speed to the forecheck and backcheck. I’m competitive and love the game, and I can’t wait to play alongside so much talent.

“It feels amazing to have the opportunity to play hockey at the professional level,” she said. “I’m grateful for all the trailblazers before me who made this possible and I’m so happy to be a part of this first season.”

“My hometown is basically a really huge hockey town,” she said in an interview for Providence College’s site. “In Edina (Min.), the boys’ hockey program is huge there. Growing up there I always looked up to them.” Now, many will look up to Buie, as one of the first women paid to play hockey.

She joins former Blades teammates Brittany Ott, Blake Bolden, Jillian Dempsey, Jordan Smelker, and Alyssa Gagliardi on the Pride.