HUGE NIGHT FOR THE AFFILIATES
VERSUS “We rose to the occasion for some big games this year, and this was another one,” Dale Weise said after the Hartford Wolf Pack got a much win victory over the Lowell Devils 5-2 Friday night at the XL Center. “The more compact you can…
ON THE BRINK…
VERSUS You have to feel for Hartford Wolf Pack head coach Ken Gernander. Over his career as a player it was often said that he was a coach on the ice. The man played EVERY shift like it was his last. The Coleraine, Minnesota native knows…
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…
PACK COME UP XL AT THE XL
VERSUS If Saturday’s game was the season in a microcosm, then this game was what the 2009 – 2010 season could have been. Sure it wasn’t pretty at times and the team wasn’t perfect, but they competed and didn’t give up. The team’s best players…
HOME SWEET HOME
VERSUS Ken Gernander’s post game mood this season has not always been the most pleasant. However, after defeating the Lowell Devils 6-2 and winning their second game in a row, the first time since a pair of wins against Providence in mid-January,…
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
VERSUS What better way to get a team’s confidence back and end the season’s longest winless streak (0-3-3-1) than to play a rivalry game against the worst team in the American League? Wolf Pack Ken Gernander couldn’t have asked to visit the…
RUNNING ON EMPTY
VERSUS Wednesday night, the Hartford Wolf Pack dropped a game they REALLY needed to win to the first place Sharks 6-4 at the DCU Center in Worcester. The loss brings them one step further away from seeing their AHL record thirteenth consecutive…
HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL
VERSUS Everyone will get asked at some point in their life if they see a glass of a liquid as half-empty or half-full.” Your answer is supposed to dictate if you see life as an optimist or a pessimist. That philosophical challenge also sums up…
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…
“CHOPPERS”
VERSUS In the 70’s TV sitcom M*A*S*H whenever Radar O’Reilly (Gary Burghoff) sensed incoming wounded he would alert whoever was nearby that they were coming. It’s starting to feel that way around the Hartford Wolf Pack locker room. Trainer…