MONARCHY CRUMBLES IN 3:37
VERSUS If there’s one thing about this particular Connecticut Whale team it’s that they can lull you to sleep and then suddenly snap out of it and look like world beaters. Friday night they never woke up dropping a 3-2 decision to the Portland…
BRUINS CAGED IN GARDEN
VERSUS NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES March 4, 2012 (Game 64, Home Game 31) Madison Square Garden – New York, New York Team Notes: The Rangers defeated the Boston Bruins, 4-3, today at Madison Square Garden for their fourth win in five…
ROAD WARRIORS MAKE TITANS LOOK SMALL
VERSUS The Greenville Road Warriors closed out a busy three-game week with a 6-3 win over the Trenton Titans at the BI-LO Center on Saturday night. The win improved Greenville to 36-20-4 on the season. Click here for tonight’s box…
REDDEN TO WEAR THE C
In a move that is long overdue, veteran defenseman Wade Redden has been named the sixth captain in the history of the New York Rangers Hartford affiliation, first with the Wolf Pack and now with the Whale. Head Coach Ken Gernander was the teams first…
NOT ONE FOR THE HIGHLIGHT REEL
VERSUS “Coverage mistakes and lack of urgency on the back-check cost us two goals,” Whale head coach Ken Gernander told Brian Ring after the Connecticut Whale wasted a lead entering the third period for the seventh time this season and lost on…
LIGHTNING STRIKES LAST
VERSUS NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES March 2, 2012 (Game 63, Away Game 33) Tampa Bay Times Forum – Tampa, FL New York Rangers 1 1 1 0 3 Tampa Bay Lightning 0 1 2 1 4 Team…
SPOTLIGHT: GOALIES
BY: Bruce Berlet The AHL’s two hottest teams in February resided in Connecticut, and their successes could be traced right to the goalies. The Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Connecticut Whale were a combined 17-3-1-1 in the Leap Year Month and entered March…
RANGERS JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER
VERSUS NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES March 1, 2012 (Game 62, Away Game 32) RBC Center – Raleigh, NC 1st 2nd 3rd OT Final New York Rangers 0 2 1 – 3 Carolina Hurricanes …
IT STARTS IN THE NET
VERSUS It’s one of the oldest cliché’s in hockey, “You build your team from the net out.” The emergence of the New York Rangers certainly starts with Henrik Lundqvist between the pipes. For the Connecticut Whale, their resurgence from a…
FAN-FARE: SATHER, HOWSON, NASH AND YOUNG
BY: Adam Gavriel The trade winds on Monday were blowing quite the storm through Columbus. At the eye of that storm was the seemingly never-ending story of Rick Nash, Scott Howson and Glen Sather. Right down to the 3pm Eastern Time deadline it was…