WHALE START NEW YEAR WITH TIME CHANGE
WHALE’S JAN. 1 GAME CHANGED TO 5PM * * * * Battle with P-Bruins rescheduled from 7PM HARTFORD, December 28, 2010: Whalers Sports & Entertainment president and COO Howard Baldwin, Jr. announced today that this Saturday’s…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Athletes often have unique ways to get involved with the sports that they love. Nick Evlampios Fotiu got plenty of enjoyment from football, soccer and boxing while growing up in Staten Island, but a bit of divine intervention helped the…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Four possible future forwards on the Connecticut Whale have been selected to play in the World Junior Hockey Championship Sunday through Jan. 5 in Buffalo, N.Y. Top prospects Chris Kreider and Ryan Bourque are two of eight returnees to…
WHALE BOWL UPDATE
INDIVIDUAL GAME TICKETS FOR “HARVEST-PROPERTIES .COM WHALE BOWL” ON FEBRUARY 19 NOW ON SALE Outdoor Whalers Hockey Fest Highlighted by February 19 games featuring celebrities, Whalers vs. Bruins Legends game and an AHL battle between the CT…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet After their team surrendered a four-goal lead Tuesday night, Connecticut Whale coach Ken Gernander and his assistants figured a 9 a.m. practice Wednesday, only eight hours after the team arrived home from New Hampshire, might not be “very…
ROLLING
VERSUS Chad Kolarik scored the game winner for the Connecticut Whale over the visiting Worcester Sharks Friday night. The Whale left-winger’s shot from the left circle with 29.5 left in overtime off the rush went over Worcester starting netminder Alex…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet When an athlete says his parents are his idols because of the strong faith they show every day, you know you have a special person. Connecticut Whale defenseman Jared Nightingale is just such an individual. While Nightingale is one of the…
THE NEW JONAH OF THE WHALE
HOWARD BALDWIN, JR. NAMED PRESIDENT & COO OF WHALERS SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT * * * * Will Head up Entirety of WSE, CT Whale Business HARTFORD, CT – Whalers Sports & Entertainment chairman Howard Baldwin…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. – Talk about a marriage made in heaven happening by happenstance. Two years ago, Juan Nunez was working his way toward a degree in business management at the University of Hartford while holding down two jobs in Blue Back…
WHALE WEEKLY: November 29-December 5, 2010
After a 4-3 shootout loss in Bridgeport Friday in the last game as the Hartford Wolf Pack, the franchise won its first two games as the re-branded Connecticut Whale, both at home. A crowd of 13,089, the second-largest in team history, saw the Whale…