CHECKERS COME UP SHORT AGAINST SENATORS
VERSUS SENS SCORE THREE STRAIGHT TO SKIP CHECKERS Bailey scores first two goals of the season; Brust makes 31 saves in win CHARLOTTE, N.C. – After falling behind 1-0 in the game’s opening five minutes, the Binghamton Senators scored three…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet For the past month, the Connecticut Whale proved the tough really can get going when the going gets tough. The stretch epitomized their coach, Ken Gernander, who has carried his dislike for losing from his playing days to behind the bench.
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Facing pucks flying at him at more than 100 mph never seemed so easy, so mundane, so inconsequential to Connecticut Whale goalie Dov Grumet-Morris. Not when you’re helping bury one of your best friends and former Harvard teammates after…
EIZENMAN SENT TO THE ECHL
WHALE LOAN FORWARD OREN EIZENMAN TO ECHL ELMIRA * * * * Has Six points in 33 Games with Whale HARTFORD, March 10, 2011: Connecticut Whale general manager Jim Schoenfeld announced today that the team has returned forward…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Bruce Landon has known Howard Baldwin for nearly four decades. When Landon wasn’t tending goal for Baldwin’s New England Whalers for parts of their first five seasons in the World Hockey Association, he was playing mostly in Springfield,…
REFS GONE WILD
VERSUS If you were looking to make the argument against having two referees on the ice at the same time, or maybe just having these two particular referees period, this would be the game that you’d point to as exhibit number one. However despite the…
ON A CLEAR DAY…
Lots of news and a bit of a surprise start off the day for the Connecticut Whale. First is the announcement of the signing of Francis Lemieux to a full AHL contract, up from the PTO that he had signed late last month. The reason he was signed, besides…
WHALE WEEKLY: March 7-13, 2011
The Whale (31-24-2-6, 70 pts.) finished an important three-game stretch with playoff implications with a perfect 3-0-0-0 record last week, posting two wins over Springfield and one over Worcester. The Whale started their week with a last-second, 3-2,…
WHALE GOES MOBY DICK ON SHARKS
VERSUS So much for trouble scoring goals. First, the goal-challenged New York Rangers scored seven goals for the third time this season and defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, a division rival, 7-0 Sunday afternoon. Then their AHL affiliate, the equally…
CHECKERS JUMP OVER MONARCHS
VERSUS BOYCHUK’S LATE GOAL STINGS MONARCHS Pogge makes 33 saves, now 11-5-1 on the road MANCHESTER, N.H. – Zach Boychuk’s goal with less than a minute remaining in the third period broke a tie and the Charlotte Checkers defeated the Manchester…