GO WITH A SMILE…
VERSUS In the original Batman movie starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton, the Joker says at one point in the script, “…As my plastic surgeon always said, ‘when you got to go, go with a SMILE.” A crowd of 7,275 left the XL Center Saturday…
OH WHAT A NIGHT!
VERSUS Playing with a consistency, passion and sense of desperation like they’ve only found sporadically all season long, the Hartford Wolf Pack put on a first class performance as they dominated all over the ice Saturday Night at the…
ONE FOR THE AGES
VERSUS The next time NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, or AHL Commissioner Dave Andrews needs to explain to someone why hockey is the greatest sport that there is, they won’t have to do anything other than show them a tape of Saturday night’s Bridgeport and…
WOLF PACK SPEAK
It has been an eventful 24 hours to say the least for the Hartford Wolf Pack. At the trade deadline, the Rangers organization traded versatile forward Jordan Owens to the Detroit Red Wings who sent Grand Rapids Griffins center Kris Newbury back to the…
HARD TIMES
VERSUS If it’s not one thing, it’s another… If the Hartford Wolf Pack stand any chance at all of making the American League playoffs, they’re going to need their star players to elevate their games. That’s not news. General Manager Jim…
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Andres Ambühl is back from a very successful turn in the Vancouver Olympics. While Ambühl didn’t score any points, he played exceptionally well on defense and played center as well and was good on face-offs. In the games since Ambühl left Hartford on…
AMBUHL OUT, BROUILLETTE BACK TO CHARLOTTE
Steve Zipay of Newsday is reporting on Twitter than Andres Ambϋhl has left the Wolf Pack and been reassigned to the Swiss National Team in order to play for his country in the Olympics. He will return to the Pack afterwards. Julien Brouillette was sent…
PACK ZABA ADMIRALS
VERSUS The Hartford Wolf Pack played their most complete road game of the season Saturday night and blew by the Norfolk Admirals 5-1. Derek Couture had his first multi-goal game as a member of the Wolf Pack and “The Two Corey’s,” Locke and…
SHOT BY THE SHOOTOUT
VERSUS The fourth game in five nights of which the last three straight were all overtime affairs. How about injuries to two of the team’s top defenseman? What about having their replacements rushed up from Charlotte of the ECHL and one of them…
PIRATES TIMBERS SHIVERED
VERSUS If the Hartford Wolf Pack wind up with an extended playoff run, they’ll look back to Friday night’s 4-3 overtime win over the visiting Portland Pirates as how they got themselves there. Dane Byers finished off their visitors from Maine…