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…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Oh, for the love of hockey. Yes, it’ll always be known as Memorable Monday for Alexandre Imbeault. It started with a 4 a.m. wakeup call in Fort Myers, Fla., and ended with a much-deserved snooze on the Connecticut Whale team bus after a…
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…
WHALE LOOK TO MAKE TWO POINTS AND COME UP SHORT ON BOTH
VERSUS “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” The start to Charles Dickens, The Tale of Two Cities. It’s so cliché to use it to describe anything these days, but it truly did describe Saturday’s Whale Bowl at Rentscheler Field that saw…
WHALE SHOOTOUT PHANTOMS
VERSUS It wasn’t pretty but it’s still two points.
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet After the forgettable performance/effort in the opener of their only venture into Canada this season, the Connecticut Whale needed a serious gut check Friday night. They got it from start to finish, scoring on their first two shots and…
DIDIOMETE’S GOAL TAMES BULLDOGS
VERSUS A great start and an even better finish sent the Connecticut Whale to their 25th win of the season with a 3-2 road win against the Hamilton Bulldogs Friday night. Devin DiDiomete got his sixth goal of the season and first career game-winner with…
PATHETIC
VERSUS What words can possibly be written without sounding unnecessarily vicious and yet accurately describe what happened on the ice after the Connecticut Whale and were so embarrassingly bad Wednesday morning as the Toronto Marlies destroyed them 9-2…
PIRATES HARPOON THE GREAT WHALE
VERSUS There’s a popular old saying that goes, “Better Late Than Never.” However if you asked the Connecticut Whale players what they thought about that saying and how it played a part in their Saturday night demise, a stunning 3-2 loss on a goal…
WHALE TAKE SPRING FROM FIELD OF FALCONS
VERSUS There was a book written in 1964 called “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.” Now some 47 years later, if Connecticut Whale head coach Ken Gernander were to write his version of it about this season, it would be entitled, “The…