CANTLON: CENTRAL CONNECTICUT KNOCKS OFF WESTFIELD STATE IN ACHA ACTION AT THE XL CENTER
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Wednesday afternoon featured the XL Center’s first ever, college club hockey game. The game was between two club teams from the American College Hockey Association’s (ACHA) Division-2 between…
KEELEY: MARINERS ACQUIRE DEFENSEMAN JUTZI FROM GREENVILLE
Mariners add to the blue line in futures deal BY: Michael Keeley, Maine Mariners PORTLAND, ME – January 18, 2019 – The Mariners bolstered their blue line on Friday, acquiring defenseman Jon Jutzi from the Greenville Swamp Rabbits in exchange for future…
CANTLON: HUSKIES LOSE TO ENGINEERS, 5-2
By Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Avon’s Chase Zieky had three points propelling RPI to a 5-2 non-conference win over the UCONN Huskies before 3,165 fans at the XL Center on Wednesday night. The UCONN record drops to 7-14-1 and 2-10-1…
CANTLON’S CORNER: XL CENTER’S FUTURE STILL REMAINS IN LIMBO
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The darkness of the long night of indecision for the XL Center continues on. Whether the sun will rise and bring forth a new day and a newly renovated building remains as nebulous as it did more than five…
CANTLON: (1/5/19) PACK CLIP PHANTOMS 3-1
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Hartford Wolf Pack Wolf Pack won their fifth in a row edging out the Lehigh Valley Phantoms 3-1. The Pack rode a goal and an assist from Peter Holland and Matt Beleskey, a very strong team defensive…
CANTLON: PACK KNOCK OFF SOUND TIGERS 4-2
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings BRIDGEPORT, CT – Gabriel Fontaine’s shorthanded goal in the third-period combined with Marek Mazanec’s 22 saves and a fantastic five-on-three, late-in-the-game penalty-kill all worked together to give the Hartford Wolf…
CANTLON’S CORNER: LOOKING AHEAD TO PACK 2019-20
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The calendar has flipped over to January 2019 and it’s just short seven weeks until the arrival of the NHL’s trading deadline on February 25th. There are some very interesting variables that…
CANTLON: HUSKA LEADS UCONN PAST YALE, 3-1
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings NEW HAVEN, CT – UConn goaltender Adam Huska’s spectacular 39 save performance helped the Huskies defeat Yale Univesity 3-1 at Ingalls Rink in New Haven in a New Year’s Eve matinee. It’s not understating it to…
CRAWFORD: PACK STILL SEARCHING FOR A WAY TO BEAT SOUND TIGERS
BY: Bob Crawford, Hartford Wolf Pack Bridgeport, CT, December 27, 2018 – Scott Eansor scored two goals, including the shorthanded game-winner, Thursday night at the Webster Bank Arena, to lift the Bridgeport Sound Tigers to a 3-2 victory over the…
CANTLON’S CORNER: PACK PREPARE FOR LAST HOME GAME BEFORE CHRISTMAS
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings CROMWELL, CT – The Hartford Wolf Pack return home from North Carolina with the glass somewhere between half-full and half-empty. The half-full part comes from their performance in holding the high-octane Charlotte…