WHO KNEW…
VERSUS As the Hartford Wolf Pack they struggled to find a way to win even six of their first 22 games and were last in the Atlantic Division. As the Connecticut Whale they’ve won 12 of their first 16 and moved into second place. How did they manage…
WHALE “GO-MOBY” AND SINK PIRATES
VERSUS (We apologize for the late posting…busy day in the office) The Connecticut Whale have become more than the blue whale with a hockey stick like their logo suggests and become more like Moby Dick and are just trampling over their competition.…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Few sporting entities ebb and flow together more than a hockey goaltender and his or her team. Chad Johnson has discovered that more than ever this season, which seems almost divided between when the local AHL team was the Hartford Wolf…
WHALE AND BLIZZARD STORM BRIDGEPORT
VERSUS Sometimes concern for others supersedes the concern for making money. Sometimes it doesn’t.
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…
MAMA SAID…
VERSUS “Mama Said there’d be days like this. There’d be days like this my mama said…” You knew they were bound to lose at some point, but you didn’t think with the way they were playing that it would come off something like the stinker the Connecticut…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet When Chad Kolarik was asked how the Connecticut Whale had been able to make such a dramatic turnaround the past month, you could almost hear the surfer sounds of America’s band, the Beach Boys, reverberating through the XL Center. “Catch…
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 No Nick Fotiu, no Jack Carlson, no Curt Brackenbury, no Gilles Bilodeau from the New England Whalers days in the World Hockey Association. No Stu Grimson, no Jim McKenzie, no Dave Schultz, no Torrie Robertson from the Hartford Whalers…
WHALE ARE GHOSTBUSTERS
VERSUS Be thankful that they don’t award style points in hockey, because if they did, Wednesday night’s 6-4 road victory by the Connecticut Whale over the Adirondack Phantoms would have sent them home empty-handed. The Connecticut Whale swept both…