FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet If the Connecticut Whale survives another wild playoff chase better than a year ago, they can look back to a 9-2 drubbing in Toronto on Feb. 9 as the turning point of the season. After tying franchise records for most goals allowed and…
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 would be the game that you’d point to as exhibit number one. However despite the…
WHALE GOES MOBY DICK ON SHARKS
VERSUS So much for trouble scoring goals. First, the goal-challenged New York Rangers scored seven goals for the third time this season and defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, a division rival, 7-0 Sunday afternoon. Then their AHL affiliate, the equally…
“TIGER’S BLOOD AND ADONIS DNA”
VERSUS It was such great spectacle the first time so why not do it again? The Connecticut Whale played the third period of Saturday’s back-end of the home-and-home series with the Springfield Falcons, taking a page out of the Charlie Sheen quote book,…
STRANGE BUT TRUE
From the HUH? Department, yesterday Francis Lemieux and Alexandre Imbeault were released from their PTO‘s. According to the AHL Transactions list, today is word they have both been resigned to PTO’s. Perhaps it was a paperwork situation,…
JUST NOT ENOUGH
VERSUS Goaltender Mike Murphy stopped all 28 Connecticut Whale shots on goal and Matthew Pistilli scored the first goal of the game for the second consecutive game meting with the Checkers and that was enough to give Charlotte a 1-0 win at the Time…
BRUTAL
VERSUS Top to bottom the Whale’s visit to Charlotte for the first time against the team that for 17 years was their ECHL affiliate ended as badly as it started as the visit resulted in a, hard-to-watch, 5-1 loss in front of 4,511 at the Time-Warner Cable…
REDDEN TO THE RESCUE
VERSUS If there’s one thing that’s consistent about the Connecticut Whale in 2010-2011, it’s that they don’t win many games pretty; that’s for sure. Tuesday afternoon’s holiday matinee in Portland was no different. The Whale brought a one-goal lead into…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet It’s never a good time to lose a lead after two periods, but Connecticut Whale picked one of the worst Saturday night. Despite an error-prone opening 10 minutes of the second period that helped the Providence Bruins to three goals and a…
WHALE RECIPE FOR SCORING? ADD SOME PUNCH
The Connecticut Whale are having trouble scoring goals. That’s a secret to nobody. With the disclosure that came after the afternoon contest between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers that right wing Marian Gaborik has sustained a concussion…