“HOWE FAMILY NIGHT” – MARCH 26
MARCH 26 WHALE HOME GAME TO BE “HOWE FAMILY NIGHT” * * * * Entire Howe Family to be Saluted with Banner-raising; First 2,000 Fans to Receive Commemorative Howe Program HARTFORD, March 3, 2011: Whalers Sports and…
WHALE WEEKLY: March 14-20, 2011
The Whale (33-26-2-6, 74 pts.) split four games over the past week, beginning with a 5-2 road win over the league-leading Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Tuesday. Connecticut then returned to the XL Center for a pair of games, as they were narrowly…
FLORIDA FOR THE ROAD WARRIORS
ESTERO, FL – The Greenville Road Warriors are in southwest Florida for the final time this season to battle the Florida Everblades. The two-game mini-series kicks off tonight with a 7:00 p.m. faceoff at Germain Arena.
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Bruce Landon has known Howard Baldwin for nearly four decades. When Landon wasn’t tending goal for Baldwin’s New England Whalers for parts of their first five seasons in the World Hockey Association, he was playing mostly in Springfield,…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet It was a doubly good Tuesday for Connecticut Whale center Francis Lemieux. Lemieux was released from his second professional tryout contract and signed to an AHL deal before being among the 22 players on the Whale’s Clear Day list.…
ON A CLEAR DAY…
Lots of news and a bit of a surprise start off the day for the Connecticut Whale. First is the announcement of the signing of Francis Lemieux to a full AHL contract, up from the PTO that he had signed late last month. The reason he was signed, besides…
“TIGER’S BLOOD AND ADONIS DNA”
VERSUS It was such great spectacle the first time so why not do it again? The Connecticut Whale played the third period of Saturday’s back-end of the home-and-home series with the Springfield Falcons, taking a page out of the Charlie Sheen quote book,…
WINNING!!!
VERSUS Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” The Connecticut Whale looked like they had given away a standings point to the visiting Springfield Falcons after surrendering a Tomas Kubalik game-tying, power play goal with just 41.7 left…
SOMETHING’S UP WITH THIS MOVE
WHALE RELEASE FRANCIS LEMIEUX, ALEXANDRE IMBEAULT FROM PTOs * * * * Will Return to Florida of ECHL HARTFORD, CT: Connecticut Whale general manager Jim Schoenfeld announced today that the team has released forwards Francis…
JUST NOT ENOUGH
VERSUS Goaltender Mike Murphy stopped all 28 Connecticut Whale shots on goal and Matthew Pistilli scored the first goal of the game for the second consecutive game meting with the Checkers and that was enough to give Charlotte a 1-0 win at the Time…