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 HARTFORD, Conn. – Howard Baldwin and his Whalers Sports and Entertainment group have been working feverishly for months in an attempt to revitalize the local hockey market and get back into the NHL. But one of the major rivals of…
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…
MCKELVIE TO GREENVILLE
In a move that does not come as much of a surprise, forward Chris McKelvie has been “loaned” to the Greenville Road Warriors of the ECHL. McKelvie has played in only one game since November 7th against Bridgeport. The New Brighton, Minnesota native…
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…
DONATI GOES BACK-TO-THE-FUTURE
The Tyler Donati experiment is over in Hartford. The Whale today announced that they have “loaned” Donati to the Jackals. Donati really didn’t do all that much as a member of the team and had been scratched the past several games. Donati has familiarity…
A NEW ERA BEGINS
VERSUS HARTFORD, Conn. – What a difference a day makes? Well that and an XL Center filled with 13,089 fans. A better than expected, pardon the pun, “packed” house and a very exciting victory over an interstate opponent, started off Howard Baldwin’s…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. – Howard Baldwin peered down from the XL Center’s directors suite at an arena three-quarters full and broke into a wide smile. “It’s a big night and a big step, but just one of many to come,” said Baldwin, the chairman and…
FOREVER THE FACE OF THE TEAM
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. _ Ken Gernander has been the face of the Hartford Wolf Pack for more than 13 years. He has been pro hockey’s torchbearer in the Connecticut capital since the Whalers left for North Carolina in 1997. Gernander was Wolf Pack…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Before thanking Howard Baldwin for bringing the Whale back to Hartford and proclaiming this “Connecticut Whale Week” in the state, Gov. M. Jodi Rell had a special request: “Where’s Pucky?” Pucky? Who’s Pucky? Oh, he’s the mascot of the…