SPOTLIGHT: ALEXANDRE GIROUX
BY: Bruce Berlet For the past two summers, former Hartford Wolf Pack high-scoring wing Alexandre Giroux had Europe on his mind. The personable Giroux had established himself as a premier AHL player without getting a full-time shot at the NHL, so he…
WHALE ON TV
CT WHALE PARTNERS WITH CPTV SPORTS * * * * 18 Games to Air in Tape-delayed, Edited Format Whalers Sports & Entertainment (WSE) announced today the launch of a partnership with CPTV Sports that will see 18 Connecticut…
YOU CAN’T WIN’EM ALL
VERSUS Two goal leads and discipline have been the Connecticut Whale’s Achilles’ Heel to this point in the season and they both reared their ugly heads Sunday as the Binghamton Senators defeated the New York Ranger’s top minor league…
SPOTLIGHT: AL MONTOYA
BY: Bruce Berlet Friday night wasn’t exactly what former Hartford Wolf Pack goalie Al Montoya and AHL Hall of Famer Bruce Boudreau had in mind, but it did have some redeeming value. Montoya played his first game in the building where he watched games as…
SPOTLIGHT: HARTFORD GRADUATES
BY: Bruce Berlet Hartford Wolf Pack/Connecticut Whale graduates are helping the parent New York Rangers more all the time. Take Thursday night, in a 5-3 victory over the host Carolina Hurricanes, in which the Rangers rallied from 1-0 and 2-1 deficits.…
HOWARD BALDWIN, JR. – “NOW IS THE TIME”
The following is a released statement from Howard Baldwin, Jr. the President and Chief Operating Officer of Whalers Sports and Entertainment. We fully agree word-for-word with it and encourage you to follow up on what Mr. Baldwin is saying.
SPOTLIGHT: WHO’S PLAYING AND WHERE?
BY: Bruce Berlet Connecticut Whale defenseman Pavel Valentenko is sometimes self-conscious about his English. But the personable Russian has certainly improved on the official language of the United States since arriving in Hartford two years ago. And he…
RANGERS LOOK TO STAY NORTH AS THEY HEAD SOUTH
NY RANGERS at CAROLINA HURRICANES Thursday, Dec. 1, 7:00 p.m. RBC Center – Raleigh, North Carolina Rangers: 13-5-3 (29 pts) Hurricanes: 8-14-4 (20 pts) * All information through NHL games on Nov. 29 TOMORROW’S GAME: The Rangers will face-off…
FAN-FARE: The Art of the Undrafted
BY: Adam Gavriel We all know the stories about the kid from Canada playing in the OHL who went undrafted and is now a future all-star in the NHL. We know the story about the kid from Norway who took the Swedish Elite League by storm and now is in North…
ROUND ONE OF BATTLE OF THE BOURQUES GOES TO: RYAN AND THE WHALE
VERSUS BY: Bruce Berlet The Bourque brothers, sons of Hall of Fame defenseman Ray Bourque, did their different things Tuesday night while playing against each other for the first time. With their parents and a dozen friends from Boxford, Mass.,…