AND WHAT OF VALIQUETTE?
As we wrote Friday night based upon the sources we spoke to, the Checkers have been assigned Miika Wiikman and the Rangers have a new backup netminder in New York in Alex Auld. It appears now, for the time being anyway that all of the Rangers goaltending…
YOU KNOW THE OLYMPICS ARE ALMOST OVER WHEN…
The goalie shuffle between the New York Rangers and the Hartford Wolf Pack begins…and it’s begun today. The Rangers have sent Steve Valiquette and his broken finger back to the Wolf Pack and recalled Chad Johnson. Sending Johnson and not Matt Zaba makes…
PACK TIE TEAM RECORD…FOR LOSING
VERSUS After getting blown of of four straight games by an aggregate score of 27-12, for the Hartford Wolf Pack, the fact that Friday night’s 4-2 defeat to the visiting Bridgeport Sound Tigers was a close and spirited game was at least a step…
WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN…?
VERSUS The old cliché states that, “When it rains it pours.” For the Hartford Wolf Pack, after being blown out for the fourth straight time and having lost their fourth-in-a-row for the third time this season, they must feel like they’re in the…
WOLF PACK WEEKLY: February 16-21, 2010 AND ROSTER MOVES
The Wolf Pack (25-23-3-4, 57 pts.) dropped three Atlantic-Division games between Friday and Monday, remaining tied with Bridgeport and Providence for fifth place in the Atlantic. The Pack fell to the P-Bruins by a 7-1 score in Providence on Friday…
BRUTAL
VERSUS It was over before it really began. The Hartford Wolf Pack fell behind 3-0 before fans had even found their seats. The team battled back as best they could, but just could not slow down the red-hot Portland Pirates as they dropped a 7-4 decision…
AMBÜHL PACK MVP?
VERSUS Who knew that Andres Ambϋhl was such an integral part of the Hartford Wolf Pack? With Ambϋhl, the Pack knocked off Norfolk with little trouble handing the Admirals a 5-1 spanking. Ambϋhl was sent by the Rangers organization to join the Swiss…
POTTER AND JOHNSON DOWN…ZABA UP…WIIKMAN IN LIMBO
The goaltender shuffle continues as Chad Johnson will get in a couple of games with the Wolf Pack this weekend and they’ll have Corey Potter with him on the blue line. Matt Zaba has been sent to sit on the bench for a couple of days with the best seats…
“IT’S NOT MY FAULT”
VERSUS Just about every time Han Solo or Lando Calrissian went to jump into hyper-space in the film Star Wars and it didn’t work, that would be their first line of defense. In the past few years that we’ve been interviewing Wolf Pack head…
“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…