FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet The Connecticut Whale has made the offseason a lot more pleasant and relaxing for Jared Nightingale. The Whale exercised their 2011-12 option on the AHL contract of the unrestricted defenseman six weeks before the parent New York Rangers…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, CT – There’s bad luck, and there’s REALLY bad luck. Then there’s the bizarre one-in-a-million bad luck that Connecticut Whale wing Mats Zuccarello suffered Thursday night in Game 5 of the Atlantic Division semifinals against the…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
By Bruce Berlet The headlines Tuesday night at the XL Center were the Connecticut Whale’s continued penalty killing excellence backstopped by goalie Dov Grumet-Morris, the return of their two most skilled players, wings Mats Zuccarello and Chad Kolarik,…
WHALE WEEKLY: April 11-17, 2011
The Whale (40-32-2-6, 88 points) wrapped up a playoff spot this past week with a win over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Friday, which will enable them to enter postseason play for the 13th time in the 14-year history of the franchise. Connecticut also…
THIS HURTS…
I guess that whole, “We want Zuke to play down there” thing got changed when the Rangers showed that without Ryan Callahan they don’t have any offensive spark. Zuccarello is obviously being brought up to play more than just 7 minutes. “The Norwegian…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
By Bruce Berlet With veterans such as Wade Redden, Kris Newbury, Brodie Dupont and All-Star Jeremy Williams in the Connecticut Whale locker room, one might not think there’s much room for others to make an imprint on the team. But defenseman Jared…
NEWBURY BACK TO WHALE
The New York beat reporters are all reporting that Kris Newbury has been returned to the Connecticut Whale. Below you’ll find the official release. In regards to the Ryan Callahan injury, its being reported that it’s non-surgical, but according to…
GROOVIN ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON
VERSUS If a movie producer was pitching a film to a studio about this past weekend’s Connecticut Whale games they’d likely say that it was equally part “Slap Shot,” part “Night of the Living Dead and a measure of “Sybil” or “Invasion of the Body…
NEWBURY TO NEW YORK
In listening to Sunday’s broadcast of the New york Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers, Ruslan Fedotenko left the game in the second period after a hit by Braydon Coburn that apparently had more than just a little affect on him. He has had injury issues this…
NEW YORK LEADS SPRINGFIELD OVER CONNECTICUT
VERSUS If “the wheels on the bus go round-and-round” as the children’s song goes, then the wheels on the Connecticut Whale bus have gone flat and Head Coach Ken Gernander and his staff are running out of time to get the bus moving again as the Whale…