SORYAL SIGNS IN CAROLINA
Justin Soryal, who has been the Hartford Wolf Pack / Connecticut Whale enforcer for the past three seasons will join another ex-Wolf Pack player, Bobby Sanguinetti when he joins the Carolina Hurricanes AHL club in Charlotte. Here’s the official release…
BRODIE DUPONT TRADED
Brodie Dupont, who’s spent the last four years in Hartford and finally broke through getting his first experience in the NHL this past year playing one game with the New York Rangers, was traded by the only team he’s ever played for as a pro to the…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet Within weeks of trading captain Mike Richards and fellow high scorer Jeff Carter on the same day, the Philadelphia Flyers won the Jaromir Jagr sweepstakes Friday after the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings bowed out. Jagr signed…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet GREENBURGH, N.Y. – There was a passing of the veteran center guard in New York Rangers camp on Thursday. A day after buying out the final year of Trumbull native/captain Chris Drury’s five-year, $35.35-million contract, the Rangers…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet The run of Trumbull native Chris Drury as center and captain of the New York Rangers is over. The Rangers bought out the final year of Drury’s five-year, $35.25-million contract on Wednesday, making one of the world’s all-time great…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet HOWE TO THE HALL Mark Howe was making the one-hour drive from his beach house in Beach Haven, N.J., to his home in Jackson, N.J., on Tuesday afternoon when his cell phone rang. Howe said reception in the area isn’t always good, but the…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet While the Rangers tried to peddle Evgeny Grachev for a year before trading the forward to the St. Louis Blues on Saturday, they have no interest in dealing fellow Russian and former Hartford Wolf Pack center Artem Anisimov. That’s hardly…
GREAT NEWS FOR WHALE FANS
The Connecticut Whale announced today that they are going to be broadcasting EVERY game this season on WCCC-FM. The radio deals that the team has had the past couple of seasons have been nothing shy of a joke. You had to either have a digital radio…which…
GRACHEV SENT PACKING
We hate to say we told you so, but we told you so. For all they press attention that surrounded Evgeny Grachev, repeatedly Howlings readers were told that it was just that – Hype. While we’re completely sure that he won’t ever say so publicly or…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet Veteran right wing Jeremy Williams, the Connecticut Whale’s leading goal scorer and only AHL All-Star last season, won’t be returning to Hartford. The 27-year-old Williams wasn’t offered a new contract by the parent New York Rangers and…