BYERS BACK…OR IS HE?
The New York Rangers announced today that they have resigned restricted free agent and last year’s Hartford Wolf Pack captain, Dane Byers. That’s the good news. The bigger question becomes where Byers, 24, plays. Byers has been mentioned several times,…
CLOSE OUT SPECIALS
VERSUS “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” As cliché as that phrase might sound, and it’s been used too often, it truly is the best phrase to sum up the entire New York Rangers organization 2009-2010 campaigns in both…
GO WITH A SMILE…
VERSUS In the original Batman movie starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton, the Joker says at one point in the script, “…As my plastic surgeon always said, ‘when you got to go, go with a SMILE.” A crowd of 7,275 left the XL Center Saturday…
OPEN AND SHUT
VERSUS The Hartford Wolf Pack entered Wednesday night’s game with the Worcester Sharks in a desperate need of two points. Instead they got just two goals and were trounced by the first place Sharks 9-2 and remain five points behind the Bridgeport Sound…
ON THE BRINK…
VERSUS You have to feel for Hartford Wolf Pack head coach Ken Gernander. Over his career as a player it was often said that he was a coach on the ice. The man played EVERY shift like it was his last. The Coleraine, Minnesota native knows…
S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E!!!
In Monday morning’s AHL Transactions list comes imagine our surprise to see this little shocker. “03/28/2010 – Corey Locke (C) – Hartford – DEL – Recalled from loan by N.Y. Rangers (NHL)” Who the diminutive Locke could be replacing is hard to…
PIRATED
VERSUS The third time isn’t always the charm. In the previous two games, the Hartford Wolf Pack fell behind by two goals and rallied for wins. This time, they spotted their opponent the two goals but weren’t able to close the deal. Kyle…
ONE FOR THE AGES
VERSUS The next time NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, or AHL Commissioner Dave Andrews needs to explain to someone why hockey is the greatest sport that there is, they won’t have to do anything other than show them a tape of Saturday night’s Bridgeport and…
“I’M NOT DEAD!”
VERSUS Early in the film, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” a worker is collecting dead bodies. The Eric Idle, as the Cart-master is clanging a cow bell and shouting, “Bring out your dead!” [clang] “Bring out your dead!” With that, John…
PACK COME UP XL AT THE XL
VERSUS If Saturday’s game was the season in a microcosm, then this game was what the 2009 – 2010 season could have been. Sure it wasn’t pretty at times and the team wasn’t perfect, but they competed and didn’t give up. The team’s best players…