SPOTLIGHT: DEVEAUX TO THE PRESS BOX
BY: Bruce Berlet With first-line right wing Andre Deveaux suspended three games because of boarding incidents in two games against the Springfield Falcons last weekend, the Connecticut Whale could use some reinforcements. They could be getting them from…
DEVEAUX LOST TO WHALE VIA SUSPENSION
Right Wing Andre Deveaux lost his job in the NHL with the New York Rangers when he took a foolish elbowing penalty. “I Guess I elbowed my way out of the NHL,” he then told the media. Well apparently he hasn’t learned form that lesson and the American…
THE LOST WEEKEND
VERSUS In 1945, Ray Milland starred in a film called, “The Lost Weekend” about an alcoholic trying to get a hold of his issues only to succumb to a four-day bender where all of the issues that were plaguing him rise to the surface. In many…
WHALE OBJECTION OVERRULED
VERSUS If the Connecticut Whale are going to make a serious run at a Calder Cup championship they are going to have to learn how to play with a lead and that it takes a full sixty minutes to win. Friday night in Binghamton, New York the Whale…
SPOTLIGHT: WHALE ALL-STARS REACT
BY: Bruce Berlet Connecticut Whale wing Mats Zuccarello likely was the most surprised of the 48 players named to participate in the 2012 AHL All-Star Classic on Wednesday. Zuccarello, the skilled Norwegian playing his second season in North America, had…
SPOTLIGHT: ALL-STAR GAME
BY: Bruce Berlet Congratulations to Connecticut Whale forwards Jonathan Audy-Marchessault and Mats Zuccarello on being named Wednesday to the Eastern Conference team for the AHL All-Star Classic on Jan. 29-30 in Atlantic City, N.J. Audy-Marchessault, a…
I’D BE SITTING IN THE BACK OF THE BUS
VERSUS Connecticut Whale head coach Ken Gernander does not handle losing well and it is almost a certainty that he was beside himself on Monday afternoon at the Cumberland County Civic Center after his Whale amassed a three goal lead over the…
WHALE DROWN CHASING SHARKS
VERSUS In the baseball film, “Bull Durham” the Manager of the baseball team that Kevin Costner plays for is upset after a loss and tells his players his view of the game this way: “This is a simple game. Ya throw the ball; Ya hit the ball; Ya catch the…
GERNANDER: A LEADER ON AND OFF THE ICE
VERSUS Ken Gernander coaches hockey the way that he played the game…with great attention to detail, a lot of emotion and a hockey sense and intelligence that few can match. The 2011-2012 Connecticut Whale have taken on that persona and are…
ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS
VERSUS The Connecticut Whale ended their four day holiday break and began their toughest stretch of the season that will see them play five games over the next eight days and as they did earlier in the season blew a lead entering the third…