SPOTLIGHT: MELROSE PICKS
By Bruce Berlet Former NHL player and coach Barry Melrose has always been an entertaining personality and a straight shooter as an ESPN hockey analyst. Not surprisingly, Melrose picked two former Hartford Whalers as the greatest power forwards in NHL…
WHALE WEEKLY: February 21 – 26, 2012
BY: Bob Crawford, Voice of the Connecticut Whale The Whale posted another successful week as they entered the third weekend in February, winning two out of three games on their slate. Connecticut began the weekend with a 6-3 defeat of the Springfield…
JOHNSON INJURED, MISSIAEN RECALLED
Chad Johnson was injured late in the first period of Friday night’s 6-3 Connecticut Whale victory over the Springfield Falcons at the XL Center. The injury has resulted in the immediate recall of Jason Missiaen from the Greenville Road Warriors as a…
WHALE OF A DEAL FOR SATURDAY NIGHT
Our pal Dave Romeiko over at the Whale sent us this for Howlings readers. It’s a great opportunity to get seats to see your favorite team and get a nice poster too. Say what you will about this team, but the marketing department is doing a “Whale “ of a…
SPOTLIGHT: BRENT THOMPSON
BY: Bruce Berlet Brent Thompson could be in line for a Coach of the Year daily double. The former Hartford Wolf Pack defenseman was named ECHL Coach of the Year last season after leading the Alaska Aces to the regular season and playoff titles. Now…
IT ALL STARTS AT THE XL CENTER
WHALE TO HOST “IT ALL STARTS HERE NIGHT” THIS SATURDAY * * * * In Conjunction with USA Hockey’s “Hockey Weekend Across America” Whalers Sports & Entertainment announced today that, in the spirit of “Hockey Weekend Across…
FAN FARE: MIKHAIL PASHNIN
BY: Adam Gavriel Let’s start with the simple understanding that when depending upon Google translating an article from Russian to English there could be some slight nuances, and maybe even who phrases not exactly written as they were meant to be. Given…
11-OF-12: AND IT DIDN’T SEEM LIKE ENOUGH
VERSUS “All good things must come to an end,” goes the old English proverb. For the Connecticut Whale their five-game winning streak ended in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers before 7,693 at the Webster Bank Arena Sunday…
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO CRUSH A MONARCHY?
VERSUS The Connecticut Whale struck three times in a span of just 1:31 in the second period and then rode solid goaltending by Chad Johnson to win their fifth straight game 4-1 at the Verizon Wireless Center in Manchester over the Monarchs…
STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED: BUT NOT TOO MANY
VERSUS There is something about the entire New York Rangers organization in 2011-2012…they just seem to dialed in to winning…even when they’re losing. In New York, the Rangers are tops in the Eastern Conference and are three points behind the…