CANTLON’S CORNER: WOLF PACK OFF SEASON REPORT – VOLUME 7
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The ECHL’s Kelly Cup has been won. The AHL’s Calder Cup winner was decided. On Wednesday night, the top award in professional hockey, the Stanley Cup will be awarded to either the St. Louis…
CANTLON’S CORNER – OFF-SEASON VOLUME 6 PART 1
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Hockey is winding down its various level championship series at all levels and the news just keeps flowing. CALDER CUP FINALS Both finalists competing for the Calder Cup Championship’s teams, start…
CANTLON’S CORNER: WOLF PACK OFF SEASON – VOLUME 5
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – There is so much activity going on in Rangers-World that Blueshirts fans have plenty to be excited about. DAVIDSON RETURNS One of the many issues John Davidson (JD) will find on his new big desk as…
CANTLON’S CORNER: WOLF PACK OFF-SEASON VOLUME 4
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Calder Cup playoffs have their final four teams set to battle to for an opportunity to win the 2018-19 AHL Championship. On Friday, the Charlotte Checkers and Toronto Marlies will do battle in the East…
CANTLON’S CORNER: THE XL CENTER STILL HAS LIFE
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Apparently, the XL Center has more lives than any feline could ask for. Prior to Thursday’s night’s monthly CRDA meeting, it’s Executive Director, Michael W. Freimuth, executive director of the…
CANTLON: WOLF PACK OFF-SEASON VOLUME 3
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Much is going on in the hockey world. You would think the hockey season is coming to a close with the playoffs in the conference finals, but the hockey world is not slowing down. The hockey hotbed of North…
CANTLON’S CORNER: NORTH AMERICAN JUNIOR DRAFTS
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Its spring. Besides the flowers and bushes that all bloom, so do many of young hockey player’s futures as they hope to get drafted by various junior leagues in North America. For some Connecticut…
CANTLON’S CORNER: WOLF PACK OFF-SEASON REPORT VOLUME 2
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The name of the game this week in hockey is, “Transaction-Time!” On Tuesday, the New York Rangers made a big move in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes. The Blueshirts acquired a…
CANTLON’S CORNER: OFF-SEASON NEWS AND NOTES – VOLUME II
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Much has gone on in the hockey world. In the AHL Calder Cup Playoffs, the best-of-five first-round series have mostly ended and there are a few surprises. The Bridgeport Sound Tigers won Game 4 in overtime…
CANTLON’S CORNER: OFF-SEASON NEWS AND NOTES – VOLUME I
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Now that the Bradford pears and forsythias have sprung into bloom and are kicking in, the New York Rangers might want to put a giant set of forsythias in front of the XL Center to obscure the Hartford Wolf…