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 are…shave today as we have our first playoff game tonight and you cannot shave…
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 right hand to introduce himself. Hagelin, fresh…
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 beginning with the 2011-12 season.
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 (Buffalo Sabres) series going forward, the AHL has provided a magnificent preview of…
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 you’re welcome to join in on the fun too…We allow for equal opportunity when it comes to facial…
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 can’t minimize the job that Gernander did to get his Connecticut…
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 godsend to the Whale as a late-season AHL signee after spending most of the…
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 Harry “Hap” Holmes Memorial Award for 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 City Barons won the Willie Marshall Award as the AHL’s leading goal…
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: VERSUS Rangers-Capitals Game 1: at D.C., Wednesday, 7:30, MSG, Versus. Game…