CANTLON: HARTFORD WOLF PACK OFFSEASON NOTES 10
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The world of professional hockey never sleeps. Being past the NHL Draft and initial free agent frenzy means the fine-tuning is underway. Meanwhile, in Hartford, the reunion of Hartford Whalers at the…
CANTLON’S CORNER: MID-WEEK NEWS AND NOTES
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Olympics are into the medal round, and several former Hartford Wolf Pack players and those connected to Connecticut are doing well representing their homelands. Men’s Team Canada knocked off the…
CANTLON: EURO HOCKEY TITLE WINNERS DETERMINED
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The 2020-21 Euro hockey season, fractured like hockey season’s worldwide from the Covid-19 pandemic, is closing out its seasons with some title winners. The champions are (alphabetically): Alps…
CANTLON: PACK WIN SEVENTH STRAIGHT
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings BRIDGEPORT, CT – The Hartford Wolf Pack kept their winning streak alive, winning their seventh straight in defeating the Bridgeport Sound Tigers 4-2 on Thursday afternoon. The Wolf Pack’s seven straight wins have…
CANTLON: (SAT) PACK DROP SOUND TIGERS 5-2
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Hartford Wolf Pack won for the second straight game on Saturday afternoon at the XL Center, 5-2, over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. The line of Justin Richards, Tim Gettinger, and Ty Ronning powered the…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF-SEASON NEWS AND NOTES VOL 39
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The LANAH (Ligue Nord Americaine de Hockey) (North American Hockey League) a six-team, Quebec-based, minor professional circuit, announced it will not move its 25th season start date in 2020-21 due to…
CANTLON: FREE AGENCY FRENZY – PART TWO
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The cyclonic activity of roster changes during free agency continued even into Monday. With a pandemic and large economic worldwide distress, salaries in the NHL and AHL are off the chart. On Saturday, the…
CANTLON: DAY PLACED ON UNCONDITIONAL WAIVERS
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – In an expected move, the New York Rangers have placed defenseman Sean Day on unconditional waivers Saturday with the purpose of terminating the last year of his entry-level contract ($725K-NHL/$70K-AHL).…
CANTLON’S CORNER: WOLF PACK TRAVEL TO PA TO BREAK STREAK
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Kris Knoblauch, the Hartford Wolf Pack’s (11-4-0-5) first-year head coach, is taking the Wolf Pack’s first losing streak, currently three games, as calmly as he took their nine-game winning streak to…
CANTLON’S CORNER: THE POST FREE AGENT FRENZY
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – If Steve Miller wanted to rewrite his masterpiece, “Take the Money and Run” and put a Hartford Wolf Pack spin on it, it might sound something like this. “This a story about Bigras and…