ROAD WARRIORS SPOIL STINGRAYS PARTY
VERSUS NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – The Greenville Road Warriors forced Stingrays fans to wait the duration of the game to toss their teddy bears on Saturday night. The Road Warriors earned a 2-0 win to defeat the Stingrays at the North Charleston…
MCKELVIE TO GREENVILLE
In a move that does not come as much of a surprise, forward Chris McKelvie has been “loaned” to the Greenville Road Warriors of the ECHL. McKelvie has played in only one game since November 7th against Bridgeport. The New Brighton, Minnesota native…
UPCOMING WHALE EVENTS
There are some big special events coming up fans of the Connecticut Whale. Here’s a listing of some of them…
WHALE DUNK BRUINS IN P-TOWN
VERSUS Since rebranding the Hartford Wolf Pack into the Connecticut Whale a week ago Saturday the team has won two games and lost another in a shootout. While the name has changed, some of the problems the coaching staff has been facing with it’s…
ALL-STAR BALLOTING TO BEGIN
REEBOK FAN BALLOTING BEGINS TUESDAY FOR 2011 AHL ALL-STAR CLASSIC PRESENTED BY CAPITAL BLUECROSS SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The American Hockey League has announced that 2011 AHL All-Star Classic Fan Balloting presented by Reebok will begin Tuesday,…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. – On the one hand, Oren Eizenman was a typical pro hockey wannabee growing up in Toronto, skating on a rink in his backyard with older brothers Alon and Erez. On the other hand, Eizenman has about as atypical a background…
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME
VERSUS In the 13 years as the Hartford Wolf Pack, each team presented a different challenge to the coach…even in the good years. The name has changed now from the Hartford Wolf Pack to the Connecticut Whale, and for Ken Gernander’s team, the problems…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. – Talk about a marriage made in heaven happening by happenstance. Two years ago, Juan Nunez was working his way toward a degree in business management at the University of Hartford while holding down two jobs in Blue Back…
DONATI GOES BACK-TO-THE-FUTURE
The Tyler Donati experiment is over in Hartford. The Whale today announced that they have “loaned” Donati to the Jackals. Donati really didn’t do all that much as a member of the team and had been scratched the past several games. Donati has familiarity…
WHALE WEEKLY: November 29-December 5, 2010
After a 4-3 shootout loss in Bridgeport Friday in the last game as the Hartford Wolf Pack, the franchise won its first two games as the re-branded Connecticut Whale, both at home. A crowd of 13,089, the second-largest in team history, saw the Whale…