JUST LIKE THAT
VERSUS Connecticut Whale head coach Ken Gernander, along with just about every coach from Pee-Wee on up, preaches to his players about playing the full 60 minutes. In Gernander’s case he’s been saying it in Hartford back to when he was on the ice as a…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By: Bruce Berlet MCDONAGH MAKES RANGERS DEBUT Rookie defenseman Ryan McDonagh became the third Connecticut Whale player to make his NHL debut this season with the Rangers on Friday night against the Dallas Stars. McDonagh played 21 shifts for 12:03 in…
MCDONAGH TO MAKE DEBUT VERSUS STARS
According to all of the NY Rangers beat writers, the word out of Dallas is that Michael Rozsival is out for tonight’s game and that Ryan McDonagh will make his NHL debut afterall.
YOU CAN’T WIN’EM ALL
VERSUS Martin Jones is simply the best goaltender that the Connecticut Whale have faced all season. The Ranger’s top AHL farm team just can’t seem to find a way to beat him. They have dropped all three contests when they’ve faced him in the 2010-2011…
WHO KNEW…
VERSUS As the Hartford Wolf Pack they struggled to find a way to win even six of their first 22 games and were last in the Atlantic Division. As the Connecticut Whale they’ve won 12 of their first 16 and moved into second place. How did they manage…
WEISE A NEW YORKER
The New York Rangers announced today that center Eric Christensen has suffered a second degree sprain to the medial collateral ligament (MCL) in his right knee, and will be sidelined four to six weeks.
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet While the parent New York Rangers are on a youth kick, the Connecticut Whale added two thirty-something forwards this week who will make their Whale debuts Friday night perhaps on the same line in a key rematch with the Portland Pirates…
WHALE “GO-MOBY” AND SINK PIRATES
VERSUS (We apologize for the late posting…busy day in the office) The Connecticut Whale have become more than the blue whale with a hockey stick like their logo suggests and become more like Moby Dick and are just trampling over their competition.…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet The Connecticut Whale might have seen the last of crafty wing Mats Zuccarello. The 5-foot-7, 170-pound “Norwegian Hobbit” had his second consecutive strong game and recorded his first NHL point Monday night in a 7-2 romp over the New York…
WHALE AND BLIZZARD STORM BRIDGEPORT
VERSUS Sometimes concern for others supersedes the concern for making money. Sometimes it doesn’t.