CANTLON: UMASS ROARS PAST HUSKIES 6-2
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings AMHERST, MA – The tenth-ranked and Hockey East’s first-place team, the UMASS Minutemen, rode a two-goal, three-point performance by forward, Carson Gicewicz, to pull away from the UCONN Huskies for a 6-2 win on a…
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 NEWS & NOTES VOLUME 38
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The AHL Belleville Senators made a big announcement last Wednesday night in a YouTube Zoom call in a new fashion with Ottawa/Belleville Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, Ottawa/Belleville Senators President of…
CANTLON: CRDA LOOKS TO FINALLY START BUILDING RENOVATION
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The opening of the XL Center in the first quarter of 2021 and the February 5th AHL start date stand like everything else, held hostage by recent COVID spikes. “We have been told probably February, but so…
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: (SAT) HUSKIES WIN THE HOME OPENER IN A SHOOTOUT
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings STORRS, CT – Sometimes, it’s not how you start that matters most, but how you finish. In dramatic fashion, the UCONN Huskies overcame a two-goal, third-period deficit and scored late to tie the game before going on to…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF-SEASON NEWS & NOTES VOL. 35 PT 1
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The hopes of having professional hockey in the winter and spring of 2021 rest on the Avenue of the Americas, and negotiations between the NHL and NHLPLA as a resolution had been hoped to be reached on…
CANTLON: (FRI) UMASS DROPS UCONN 5-1 IN HOCKEY EAST OPENER
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The seventh-ranked UMASS Minutemen used a string of performances from Oliver Chau and Bobby Trivigno, who had two points each in overwhelming and dominating the Huskies, 5-1, on Friday night at the Mullins…
CANTLON: UCONN HOCKEY OPENS UP AGAINST UMASS (PREVIEW)
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – From Sunday through Wednesday, UCONN Huskies Head Coach, Mike Cavanaugh, was unsure if his team would start their season or not. What was supposed to be their opening season series this past weekend…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF-SEASON NEWS & NOTES VOLUME 34
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The story, not just in hockey, but in all aspects of life these days, continues to be the Covid-19 pandemic. Not only the death, although that’s always the most serious repercussion, but also the…