CANTLON’S CORNER: AHL ON THIN ICE
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The AHL will open its season in just over two weeks. The Hartford Wolf Pack will have a 24-game schedule featuring all afternoon games. Friday was the schedule’s release date, but issues surrounding…
CANTLON: WOLF PACK PRESEASON VOLUME 3
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The first baby steps on an AHL 2020-21 season are about to be taken. In what will be the first hockey action since March 12, 2019, on January 31st, the Hartford Wolf Pack will play in a pre-season tilt…
CANTLON’S CORNER: WOLF PACK PRE-SEASON VOLUME 2
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Off the ice, a contract is being drawn up with the approved and agreed upon amendments to the present Hartford Wolf Pack lease agreement for a CRDA Board approval at their regular monthly meeting coming up…
CANTLON: HARTFORD WOLF PACK PRE-SEASON VOLUME 1
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The first skating sessions for the Hartford Wolf Pack’s truncated 2020-21 season are set to begin when training camp begins on Sunday. The ice at Champions Skating Center in Cromwell is being worked…
CANTLON: UCONN HAS A POSITIVE COVID TEST-SEASON PAUSED
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings STORRS, CT – The COVID-19 carousel has finally come to UCONN Husky hockey. Monday night, the team issued a two-sentence press release stating they have paused their activities because an undisclosed player tested…
CHAIMOVICH: 28 TEAMS TO PARTICIPATE IN 2020-21 AHL SEASON
League’s 85th campaign set to begin Feb. 5 BY: Jason Chaimovich, American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and Chief Executive Officer Scott Howson announced today that the 2020-21 season will include 28 teams…
CANTLON: FEW DETAILS EXIST FOR START OF AHL SEASON
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – AHL hockey will return on February 5th, that much is for certain, but regarding details, like schedules, the number of games, yea or nay to spectator participation, and a plethora of other decisions still…
CANTLON’S CORNER: WILL THE AHL SEASON BE SAVED?
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The AHL season is not dead yet. While it seemed almost a certainty that there would not be an AHL season a week ago, now seems to have completely flipped the other way. The AHL’s Return to Play…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF-SEASON NEWS & NOTES VOL 36
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Covid-19 continues to be the top story worldwide. Its effects are almost too wide to document, and it’s had a profound effect on the hockey world as well. UCONN-MAINE POSTPONED Because of positive…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF-SEASON NEWS & NOTES VOL 35 PT 2
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Hockey East conference released the coaches poll late last week, with UCONN listed at number seven. MEN’S POLL: Points, with first-place votes in parentheses Boston College, 95 (8) Massachusetts, 87…