PLAYOFF FEVER COMING SUNDAY AND TUESDAY

(Click on the picture to be brought to the site to get your tickets) Whalers Sports & Entertainment staff and players are challenging the fans to grow a beard…The rules…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, CT. – The newest Connecticut Whale player, University of Michigan left wing/captain Carl Hagelin, circled the team’s XL Center locker room early Wednesday afternoon, extending his…

A DIFFERENT KIND OF SEASON IN ’11-’12

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE MODIFICATION TO BEGIN IN 2011-12 SPRINGFIELD, MA. - The American Hockey League announced today that its Board of Governors has approved a schedule modification plan…

AHL PREVIEW – WHALE AND PIRATES

For those of you interested in reading a stat heavy presentation to make up your own minds of how you see the Connecticut Whale (New York Rangers) and Portland Pirates…

WE’RE IN…ARE YOU?

The Rangers have announced a Beard-A-Thon and we think we should extend it to the Whale as well. Ladies, it’s frightening if you want to be in this one, but…

WHALE AUDITIONS, ROUND ONE

VERSUS Ken Gernander did not win the AHL equivalent of the Jack Adams award, the Louis A.R. Pieri Award. That went, deservedly so, to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Coach John Hynes, however you…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

By Bruce Berlet Dov Grumet-Morris earned the Connecticut Whale’s MVP and Fan Favorite awards in more ways than most. Grumet-Morris got it done on the ice, proving to be a…

BEST GOALTENDERS IN THE AHL

PENGUINS’ THIESSEN, CURRY WIN HARRY “HAP” HOLMES MEMORIAL AWARD SPRINGFIELD, MA … The American Hockey League has announced that Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins goaltenders Brad Thiessen and John Curry have won the…

LOCKE, MCDONALD WIN AHL SCORING RACES

SPRINGFIELD, MA. Corey Locke of the Binghamton Senators has won the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as the leading scorer in the American Hockey League, while Colin McDonald of the Oklahoma…

SCHEDULES…GET YOUR SCHEDULES HERE!!!

Here are your NHL and AHL playoff schedules for the team’s we’re covering on Howlings: First is the schedule for the New York Rangers playoff series with the Washington Capitals:…