FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Coaching hockey at one of the world’s finest institutions of higher learning (and discipline) has been in the Riley family tree for 60 years. Memories abound since Jack Riley began a 36-year run on the banks of the Hudson River in New…
NOW YOU SEE’EM, NOW YOU DON’T
VERSUS The players on the Hartford Wolf Pack talked about not getting too high or too low after dismantling the injury depleted Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Sunday, but that it was something they could build on. Well, so much for that. “I didn’t like…
NO SURPRISE TO HOWLINGS READERS
As we had surmised over the past few days, with the return of Evgeny Grachev there was just going to be no room for Brandon Wong on the current Wolf Pack roster. That sentiment became official Tuesday morning when the Wolf Pack sent the former Quinnipiac…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet John Paddock, who guided the Wolf Pack to their only Calder Cup in 2000, got an unexpected request Monday night to become the new interim coach of the Adirondack Phantoms, the top affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers. Paddock, the Flyers…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Wolf Pack coach Ken Gernander has never been averse to shuffling lines to try to shake up his troops, but he has changed them more this year than his socks. And that’s something considering the Wolf Pack usually don’t play more than four…
WOLF PACK/WHALE WEEKLY: November 8-14, 2010
The Wolf Pack (4-8-2-1, 11 pts.) snapped a franchise-record nine-game winless streak (0-7-2-0) with a 7-1 pounding of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers Sunday in GEICO Connecticut Cup action at the XL Center. Prior to that seven-goal explosion, the Pack had…
GRACHEV BACK IN HARTFORD
New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that forward Evgeny Grachev has been assigned to the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL). Grachev, 20, skated in six consecutive games following his recall on…
NINE AND COUNTING
VERSUS Two gift goals for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers sucked the life out of the Hartford Wolf Pack and led to their team record ninth consecutive defeat Saturday 4-1 in front of 5,046 at the Arena at Harbor Yard. “We’re just fortunate that…
SNAKEBITTEN
VERSUS The old saying goes, “When it rains; it pours.” That’s the best phrase to describe the Wolf Pack 13 games into the season. The team continues to find themselves in holes that they don’t have the offensive strength to dig their way out…
NEW WOLF PACK PLAYER COMING?
According to a TSN Analyst, the Wolf Pack could soon be getting some more help from the parent New York Rangers as Bob McKenzie reports that the Blueshirts have placed center Todd White on waivers. If White clears waivers at noon Saturday he would report…