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 START NEW YEAR WITH TIME CHANGE
WHALE’S JAN. 1 GAME CHANGED TO 5PM * * * * Battle with P-Bruins rescheduled from 7PM HARTFORD, December 28, 2010: Whalers Sports & Entertainment president and COO Howard Baldwin, Jr. announced today that this Saturday’s…
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…
WHALE WEEKLY: December 20-26, 2010
The Whale won two out of three games this past week, to up their record to 14-12-2-4 for 34 points. Connecticut outlasted the Adirondack Phantoms Wednesday in Glens Falls, NY, 6-4, before returning home and winning its second overtime game of the…
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…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. – Talk about a marriage made in heaven happening by happenstance. Two years ago, Juan Nunez was working his way toward a degree in business management at the University of Hartford while holding down two jobs in Blue Back…
OWN A GAME WORN DANBURY WHALERS JERSEY
Danbury, CT_This Saturday, November 27th, at 7:05 PM, when the Danbury Whalers take on the Rome Frenzy the team will be auctioning off the official game worn white jersey’s they will be wearing in that night’s game. Fans can place their bids…
FOREVER THE FACE OF THE TEAM
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. _ Ken Gernander has been the face of the Hartford Wolf Pack for more than 13 years. He has been pro hockey’s torchbearer in the Connecticut capital since the Whalers left for North Carolina in 1997. Gernander was Wolf Pack…
DANBURY WHALERS TO THE RESCUE
There are a few times during a season where a team comes together for a special moment. This happened for the Danbury Whalers Hockey Club on Monday night, early Tuesday morning, as they recorded an assist but not in the traditional hockey score sheet…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Wolf Pack coach Ken Gernander has never been averse to shuffling lines to try to shake up his troops, but he has changed them more this year than his socks. And that’s something considering the Wolf Pack usually don’t play more than four…