WHEN YOU’RE HOT, YOU’RE HOT

      VERSUS     BY: Bruce Berlet Despite numerous injuries and call-ups, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers had proven to be a bugaboo for the Connecticut Whale. The Sound Tigers were 5-1-1-1 in…

TWO POINTS ARE TWO POINTS

      VERSUS      The Connecticut Whale should be happy they came away with the two points they got for the 5-3 win Sunday afternoon in Manchester when they faced the Monarchs…

SHORT ON THE MEASURING STICK

      VERSUS    On Friday night the theme approaching Saturday night’s battle with the AHL leading Norfolk Admirals was that the game would be a measuring stick as to where the…

CLASH OF THE TITANS

      VERSUS       It doesn’t get more exciting than that! The Connecticut Whale came from behind three separate times capped by Kris Newbury’s goal off a fluke bounce with 4.9…

MONARCHY CRUMBLES IN 3:37

      VERSUS      If there’s one thing about this particular Connecticut Whale team it’s that they can lull you to sleep and then suddenly snap out of it and look like…

NOT ONE FOR THE HIGHLIGHT REEL

     VERSUS      “Coverage mistakes and lack of urgency on the back-check cost us two goals,” Whale head coach Ken Gernander told Brian Ring after the Connecticut Whale wasted a lead…

SPOTLIGHT: GOALIES

BY: Bruce Berlet The AHL’s two hottest teams in February resided in Connecticut, and their successes could be traced right to the goalies. The Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Connecticut Whale…

IT STARTS IN THE NET

     VERSUS     It’s one of the oldest cliché’s in hockey, “You build your team from the net out.” The emergence of the New York Rangers certainly starts with Henrik Lundqvist…

WHALE SINK PIRATES SHIP

     VERSUS     BY: Bruce Berlet Special teams often are the difference at all levels of hockey these days, and the Connecticut Whale proved that again Friday night against the Portland…

11-OF-12: AND IT DIDN’T SEEM LIKE ENOUGH

      VERSUS      “All good things must come to an end,” goes the old English proverb. For the Connecticut Whale their five-game winning streak ended in a 2-1 overtime loss to…