CANTLON: ALL BLACK NHL LINE FOLLOWS A STRONG HISTORY
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Hockey’s continued growth in non-traditional communities received a big boost with the line of all-black players deployed by the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Head Coach, Jon Cooper, at the end of the …
WHITE TO HARTFORD
After all the talk and speculation, the New York Rangers have officially sent Todd White to The Connecticut Whale. We will have more on this later. White is not on the ice for warm-ups. Oren Eizenman is…for that matter as is Stu Bickel. Recent…
HOW DOES HE DO IT?
Glen Sather pulled off a move that has got to leave some people scratching their heads wondering how he does it. The NY Rangers have announced that they have traded Donald Brashear AND Patrick Rissmiller to the Atlanta Thrashers for a serviceable center…
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…
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…
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…
HOME SWEET HOME
VERSUS Ken Gernander’s post game mood this season has not always been the most pleasant. However, after defeating the Lowell Devils 6-2 and winning their second game in a row, the first time since a pair of wins against Providence in mid-January,…
HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL
VERSUS Everyone will get asked at some point in their life if they see a glass of a liquid as half-empty or half-full.” Your answer is supposed to dictate if you see life as an optimist or a pessimist. That philosophical challenge also sums up…
“ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK…”
VERSUS Frustration, Head Coach Ken Gernander agreed, would be the best word to describe how he feels after watching his troops play a hard fought game but come up short for the 33rd time in 59 games (26-26-3-4) as the Bridgeport Sound Tigers…
PACK TIE TEAM RECORD…FOR LOSING
VERSUS After getting blown of of four straight games by an aggregate score of 27-12, for the Hartford Wolf Pack, the fact that Friday night’s 4-2 defeat to the visiting Bridgeport Sound Tigers was a close and spirited game was at least a step…