CANTLON: CT HOCKEY OFF SEASON VOLUME 6
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Off-Season is a busy time for hockey executives. Evaluations of the team’s talent, decisions on who to keep and who to release. Discussion of new talent to bring into the organization to improve…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet Veteran right wing Jeremy Williams, the Connecticut Whale’s leading goal scorer and only AHL All-Star last season, won’t be returning to Hartford. The 27-year-old Williams wasn’t offered a new contract by the parent New York Rangers and…
WHALE ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS
VERSUS (Due to a previous and unavoidable commitment, we could not be there for tonight’s game between the Whale and Sound Tigers…we will be there Saturday and Sunday as usual.) By Bruce Berlet BRIDGEPORT, CT. – The Connecticut Whale hit the daily…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
By Bruce Berlet With veterans such as Wade Redden, Kris Newbury, Brodie Dupont and All-Star Jeremy Williams in the Connecticut Whale locker room, one might not think there’s much room for others to make an imprint on the team. But defenseman Jared…
NEW YORK LEADS SPRINGFIELD OVER CONNECTICUT
VERSUS If “the wheels on the bus go round-and-round” as the children’s song goes, then the wheels on the Connecticut Whale bus have gone flat and Head Coach Ken Gernander and his staff are running out of time to get the bus moving again as the Whale…
HUMPTY-DUMPTY
VERSUS Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again The Connecticut Whale had been, to paraphrase Annie Savoy (New York Rangers’ fan,…
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
VERSUS With under five minutes to go in the game Friday night and the Connecticut Whale trailing 0-2, some of the 5,862 fans at the XL Center began filing out of the building…wonder how they feel now after the home team scored two goals in 1:13 to tie…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Connecticut Whale rookie goalie Cam Talbot paid defenseman Pavel Valentenko quite the compliment Sunday. “He blocks shots so well it’s like having three goalies,” Talbot said after watching Valentenko doing plenty of just such dirty work…
IT WASN’T PRETTY; THAT’S FOR SURE!
VERSUS “That was what we call in hockey, ‘a greasy win,’” Connecticut Whale Assistant Coach J.J. Daigneault said his team gutted one out and defeated the Springfield Falcons 3-1 Sunday afternoon in front of 4, 985 at the XL Center. “But we’ll take it,”…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet With their top four centers missing and their leading scorer and No. 1 offensive defenseman injured before the game was 25 minutes old, the Connecticut Whale desperately needed help from new sources Wednesday night against the Springfield…