FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

BY: Bruce Berlet The Bridgeport Sound Tigers will have a familiar look to Connecticut hockey fans behind the bench this season. West Haven native Eric Boguniecki was named a Sound…

DAMIEN HESS…TRAINING FOR EXCELLENCE

(Adam Gavriel contributed to the writing of this story)  On a racing team there is of course the driver and then he or she answers to the pit boss for…

DUPONT SIGNS IN NASHVILLE

Nashville Predators Sign Brodie Dupont By Press Release - Nashville Predators NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 8, 2011) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the…

SAUER SIGNS SWEET DEAL

The New York Rangers resigned two of their key homegrown, meaning former Hartford Wolf Pack players, Michael Sauer and Artem Anisimov. Both signed two year deals, Sauer gets $1.25 million…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

BY: Bruce Berlet Brad Richards met the New York media for the first time Wednesday as the newest member of the Rangers and showed why his on-ice prowess isn’t the…

A NEW KID IN TOWN AND OTHER AHL NEWS

We don’t know anything about Jonathan Audy-Marchessault, but if he can put the kind of numbers up in the American League as he did in the QMJHL, then he’ll be …

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

BY: Bruce Berlet For those New York Rangers/Hartford Wolf Pack/Connecticut Whale fans worrying about center Artem Anisimov not filing for arbitration on the deadline Tuesday, stop fretting. Anisimov, who played…

TESSIER SIGNS

The Connecticut Whale announced the resigning of forward Kelsey Tessier, returning to Head Coach Ken Gernander one of his most versatile and hardest working players for a second season on…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

BY: Bruce Berlet The New York Rangers plucked the cream of the free agency crop, Dallas Stars center Brad Richards, via a nine-year, $60 million contract with an annual cap…

A NEW DIVISION FOR THE WHALE

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO David Andrews announced that the league’s Board of Governors, convening this week for its Annual Meeting in Hilton Head Island, S.C.,…