FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By: Bruce Berlet Losing one of your most versatile forwards and second-leading scorer before the season even starts and your leading scorer and captain in the third game might throw many teams for a loop. The Rangers faced such a dilemma early in their…
WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN?
VERSUS Wolf Pack head coach Ken Gernander has repeatedly asked the question in his post game press conferences over the five-game home losing streak, that was stretched to six after last night’s 3-2 defeat to the Springfield Falcons at the Mass…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet With Tim Kennedy out with an undisclosed injury, the four centers who played for the Wolf Pack on Wednesday night started the game against the Albany Devils with a total of zero goals. That’s nada, zilch, none – in eight games. Ryan…
HOME NOT-SO-SWEET HOME
VERSUS The New York Rangers and Hartford Wolf Pack are in similar situations in terms of their offensive talent…their prime talent is injured and they really don’t have much depth in that department beyond that. However, the Rangers had won…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Jeremy Williams has seen plenty in seven pro seasons and scored some NHL-type goals while in the AHL, as he did Saturday night for the Hartford Wolf Pack. So while his highlight-reel goal that ended a 159-minute, 18-second scoring drought…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Tyler Donati had been hanging around his home in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, for several months hoping for a two-way American Hockey League–East Coast Hockey League contract. It seemed a formality after Donati led the ECHL in scoring…
SENATORS OVERRULE WOLF PACK
VERSUS “We won ugly on the road, and we’ll take it,” Head Coach Kurt Kleinendorst said after his Binghamton Senators beat the Hartford Wolf Pack 1-0 at the XL Center Friday night. The game winning goal was not without controversy.…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Devin DiDiomete says he might resemble a bouncing cannonball on his first shift on the XL Center ice Friday night. Who could blame the Hartford Wolf Pack’s feisty left wing? The 5-foot-11, 200-pound DiDiomete hasn’t played in a game since…
WOLF PACK LOOK LOST AND LOST
VERSUS When a team loses and shows little to no effort, at home no less, it’s a safe bet that nobody in the locker room is going to be in a particularly good mood. Such was the case Wednesday night as the Hartford Wolf Pack got trounced by…
NIGHT VISION
By: Bruce Berlet Cameron Talbot’s 41-save shutout in his first pro start Sunday proved even more remarkable than it originally appeared. Turns out Talbot tweaked his groin in the second period while chasing a puck that had been shot into the Hartford…