WHALE GUTS…
VERSUS After watching the Connecticut Whale work through 65 minutes of scoreless, defensive hockey and then score three times out of four in the shoot-out for a 1-0 victory over the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Penguins Sunday night, the only way to…
WHALE DROP PRESEASON OPENER
VERSUS BY: Brian Ring The Connecticut Whale fell to the Albany Devils, 3-1, Tuesday night in their preseason opener at Trinity College’s Koeppel Community Sports Center. Nathan Perkovich scored the game-winning goal for Albany and former Wolf…
BRUCE BERLET REPORTS – CHAD JOHNSON, A GOALIE LOOKING TO REBOUND
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET Chad Johnson, A Goalie Looking to Rebound Chad Johnson experienced about the ultimate in good news-bad news last season. The good? The New York Rangers called up the goalie from the Connecticut Whale on Feb. 28 after…
CHAD JOHNSON SIGNS
According to Cap Geek, Connecticut Whale goaltender Chad Johnson has signed a contract to return to the organization on a two-way deal that pays him $85K to play in Hartford and $525K if he makes it to the NHL. It’s safe to expect that if this report is…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet With general manager Dale Tallon having added 11 new players to the Florida Panthers’ roster in less than a month, first-year coach Kevin Dineen has plenty of familiarizing and strategizing to do before the season opener Oct. 8 on Long…
JOHNSON COMING BACK
New York Rangers goaltender Chad Johnson told Howlings Thursday night that he has been qualified by the Blueshirts and is working out his contract. The 25-year old native of Calgary, Alberta Canada said he fully expects to be either with the Rangers or…
STAJCER’S GOALTENDING IN RANGERS PLANS
This story broke in the media a couple of days ago, but the Rangers make it official with the signing of goaltender Scott Stajcer. Stajcer will compete for the goaltending job in Hartford with Cam Talbot for sure and possibly Chad Johnson if he’s…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet It was a doubly good Tuesday for Connecticut Whale center Francis Lemieux. Lemieux was released from his second professional tryout contract and signed to an AHL deal before being among the 22 players on the Whale’s Clear Day list.…
TALBOT TO HARTFORD, JOHNSON TO NHL
According to reports from the beat writers in NYC, Chad Johnson has been recalled by the New York Rangers to be Henrik Lundqvist’s understudy while Cam Talbot has been sent to Hartford to share the goaltending duties with Dov Grumet-Morris. This is going…
BRUTAL
VERSUS Top to bottom the Whale’s visit to Charlotte for the first time against the team that for 17 years was their ECHL affiliate ended as badly as it started as the visit resulted in a, hard-to-watch, 5-1 loss in front of 4,511 at the Time-Warner Cable…