ROAD WARRIORS/GLADIATORS GAME POSTPONED
GREENVILLE, SC – The Greenville Road Warriors and The BI-LO Center announced tonight that the 7:05 p.m. scheduled game against the Gwinnett Gladiators has been postponed due to unsafe ice conditions. Ticket stubs or proof of purchase is required…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. – Howard Baldwin and his Whalers Sports and Entertainment group have been working feverishly for months in an attempt to revitalize the local hockey market and get back into the NHL. But one of the major rivals of…
WHALE WEEKLY: December 13-19, 2010
The Whale is on a 6-0-0-2 roll, and has won a season-high four straight games, after sweeping a pair of home outings this past weekend. The Whale thumped the first-place Manchester Monarchs, 5-1, on Saturday night at the XL Center, and then gutted out a…
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BOUNCES
(Due to having a crippling case of the flu, we were unable to watch yesterday’s game between the Connecticut Whale and the Adirondack Phantoms. However, our good friend Bruce Berlet was there and files this report) VERSUS By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD,…
WHALE BECOMING ‘MOBY DICK’
VERSUS On the 80’s TV show, “The ‘A’ Team,” the team’s leader John “Hannibal” Smith would always say the phrase, “I love it when a plan comes together.” If Connecticut Whale coach Ken Gernander were that kind of boisterous sort, he might have said…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet When an athlete says his parents are his idols because of the strong faith they show every day, you know you have a special person. Connecticut Whale defenseman Jared Nightingale is just such an individual. While Nightingale is one of the…
EX-WHALE (PACK) GIROUX AHL ALL-STAR CAPTAIN
Congratulations to ex-Whale forward Alexandre Giroux on his being named this afternoon Captain of the Western Conference All Star team for the upcoming game in Hershey in January.
THE NEW JONAH OF THE WHALE
HOWARD BALDWIN, JR. NAMED PRESIDENT & COO OF WHALERS SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT * * * * Will Head up Entirety of WSE, CT Whale Business HARTFORD, CT – Whalers Sports & Entertainment chairman Howard Baldwin…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet CROMWELL – Winning has a way of curing a lot of ills, as the Connecticut Whale has discovered the past three weeks. After a 1-9-2-1 slide led to the worst start in the franchise’s 14-year history (4-10-2-2), the Whale is on a 6-1-0-2 run…
WHALE WEEKLY: December 6-12, 2010
The Whale (10-11-2-4, 26 pts.) has climbed into a tie for fourth place in the Atlantic Division, after a 2-0-0-1 week last week. A 2-1 shootout loss at Worcester was the first non-win for the Whale since the re-branding from the Wolf Pack, and the club…