FLORIDA AGAIN?
ESTERO, FL – Tonight’s game is the second of a three-game series between the Greenville Road Warriors and the Florida Everblades. It’s also Greenville’s sixth of a season-high seven-game road trip in which the Road Warriors are…
UPGRADING NET COVERAGE
While Pier-Oliver Pelletier is a really good bloke, he’s not an AHL quality netminder. Friday, The Connecticut Whale sent him packing and brought back Dov-Grumet Morris and signed the Greenville Road Warrior netminder to a Professional Try-Out (PTO)…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet CROMWELL, CT – Jeremy Williams’ first All-Star appearance this week provided several memorable moments, not the least of which was playing center for an extended period for the first since learning to skate on the rink on his family farm…
GOING UP…AGAIN, BOYCHUK RECALLED
‘CANES RECALL ZACH BOYCHUK FROM CHARLOTTE Forward has seven points in 18 NHL games this season RALEIGH, NC – Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has recalled…
CHIEF DANIELS EXCITED ABOUT WHALE-BOWL
By Brittany Burke Whalers alumnus Scott “Chief” Daniels isn’t returning to Hartford this month as just an alum, waiting to take on his former rivals, the Boston Bruins in the Harvest-Properties.com “Whale Bowl”. He is traveling to Hartford to be a…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Ron Francis. Kevin Dineen. … Kevin Dineen. Ron Francis. Trying to select the best player in Hartford hockey history always comes down to the two most iconic figures since the New England Whalers arrived in town from Boston in 1974. Gordie…
GRACHEV SENT “PACKING” … OKAY, WHALING
Evgeny Grachev has been sent back to the Connecticut Whale today by the New York Rangers. It’s logical considering the fact that the Rangers are finally getting healthy. Ryan Callahan is certain to play as is Dan Girardi. What it also means is that…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet After 15 years playing and coaching in the University of Connecticut’s antiquated rink covered by an open dome, Bruce Marshall thought he was finished with outdoor hockey. “Coaching outdoors wasn’t high on my list to do,” Marshall, a 1985…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet No one – repeat no one – enjoyed/enjoys tough, physical, fan-pleasing hockey more than Kevin Dineen. The former Hartford Whalers star right wing/captain, now coach of the Portland Pirates, thrived on the kind of play, earning endless…
FARRELLY AND HENRIE TO WHALE BOWL
FILMMAKER BOBBY FARRELLY AND ACTOR DAVID HENRIE TO JOIN CELEBRITY ROSTER FOR WHALERS VS. BRUINS LEGENDS GAME AT OUTDOOR HARVEST-PROPERTIES.COM “WHALE BOWL” FEBRUARY 19 Legends Game Precedes Outdoor AHL Battle between the CT Whale and Providence Bruins at…