GAME FOUR – IT’S NOW A BEST OF THREE
VERSUS (Hear all interviews below) It’s now a best of three series starting Thursday night in Portland as a critical Game Four in Hartford goes to the Connecticut Whale who came out to right from the drop of the opening puck and dominated from…
1ST RD: GAME ONE – ’57 MINUTES NOT ENOUGH!
VERSUS Thursday night the Connecticut Whale returned to the playoffs after a one year absence, the first in the team’s history, only to have the first game turn into a microcosm of their entire 2010-2011 season. The Whale didn’t put out a full…
WHALE ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS
VERSUS (Due to a previous and unavoidable commitment, we could not be there for tonight’s game between the Whale and Sound Tigers…we will be there Saturday and Sunday as usual.) By Bruce Berlet BRIDGEPORT, CT. – The Connecticut Whale hit the daily…
THIS HURTS…
I guess that whole, “We want Zuke to play down there” thing got changed when the Rangers showed that without Ryan Callahan they don’t have any offensive spark. Zuccarello is obviously being brought up to play more than just 7 minutes. “The Norwegian…
GROOVIN ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON
VERSUS If a movie producer was pitching a film to a studio about this past weekend’s Connecticut Whale games they’d likely say that it was equally part “Slap Shot,” part “Night of the Living Dead and a measure of “Sybil” or “Invasion of the Body…
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
VERSUS With under five minutes to go in the game Friday night and the Connecticut Whale trailing 0-2, some of the 5,862 fans at the XL Center began filing out of the building…wonder how they feel now after the home team scored two goals in 1:13 to tie…
WE DON’T NEED NO 60 MINUTES!
VERSUS Muhammad Ali faced one of his toughest opponents, George Foreman in one of the most amazing fights of all time, “The Thrilla in Manila.” In that fight, Ali allowed Foreman to throw all of his strongest punches, which he dubbed “Rope-A-Dope,” and…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Connecticut Whale rookie goalie Cam Talbot paid defenseman Pavel Valentenko quite the compliment Sunday. “He blocks shots so well it’s like having three goalies,” Talbot said after watching Valentenko doing plenty of just such dirty work…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet As the pressure mounts as the playoffs approach, players and teams can buckle or get stronger late in games. The latter has been the Connecticut Whale’s MO the past few weeks. Despite still having five players injured and two on recall to…
IT WASN’T PRETTY; THAT’S FOR SURE!
VERSUS “That was what we call in hockey, ‘a greasy win,’” Connecticut Whale Assistant Coach J.J. Daigneault said his team gutted one out and defeated the Springfield Falcons 3-1 Sunday afternoon in front of 4, 985 at the XL Center. “But we’ll take it,”…