WHALE WEEKLY: March 14-20, 2011

The Whale (33-26-2-6, 74 pts.) split four games over the past week, beginning with a 5-2 road win over the league-leading Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Tuesday. Connecticut then returned to the…

THE BEST OF 13

VERSUS  The Connecticut Whale travelled to the DCU Center in Worcester Sunday afternoon with a five-game winning streak against and a two point lead on their Atlantic Division opponents. Their…

VARSITY AND JV BOTH WIN

VERSUS  Saturday hosted one of those rare nights where both the NHL and their AHL affiliates would squared off on the same day. The AHL Connecticut Whale did their part…

FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet

By Bruce Berlet For the past month, the Connecticut Whale proved the tough really can get going when the going gets tough. The stretch epitomized their coach, Ken Gernander, who…

FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet

By Bruce Berlet Facing pucks flying at him at more than 100 mph never seemed so easy, so mundane, so inconsequential to Connecticut Whale goalie Dov Grumet-Morris. Not when you’re…

EIZENMAN SENT TO THE ECHL

WHALE LOAN FORWARD OREN EIZENMAN TO ECHL ELMIRA *           *           *           * Has Six points in 33 Games with Whale HARTFORD, March 10, 2011:  Connecticut Whale general manager Jim Schoenfeld…

FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet

By Bruce Berlet Bruce Landon has known Howard Baldwin for nearly four decades. When Landon wasn’t tending goal for Baldwin’s New England Whalers for parts of their first five seasons…

WHALE SPECIALS

One of Howlings biggest supporters is our good friend, Dave Romeiko of the Connecticut Whale. Dave will go out of his way to make sure that the people that come…

REFS GONE WILD

VERSUS If you were looking to make the argument against having two referees on the ice at the same time, or maybe just having these two particular referees period, this…

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…