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Mitch Beck
- April 1, 2023
CRDA AND XL CENTER SPORTS BETTING HITS A SPEED BUMP
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - As if the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) needed another headache with the XL Center. The ongoing bidding process to marry the CRDA…
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- April 1, 2023
XL CENTER, CRDA IN FULL CRISIS MODE PART 2
By Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - The Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA), which controls the XL Center, has plenty of issues on its plate, and there seem to be…
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- March 26, 2023
XL CENTER IN FULL CRISIS MODE PART 1
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - The XL Center seems to be finally reaching an outcome. Last Thursday, at its monthly meeting, the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) unveiled…
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- September 7, 2021
CANTLON: WOLF PACK REPLACE BOB CRAWFORD
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - After 24 years as the lone voice of the Hartford Wolf Pack, Bob Crawford is no longer with the team, as announced early…
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- June 24, 2021
CANTLON: CT HOCKEY OFF-SEASON VOLUME 4
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - Incoming Hartford Wolf Pack defenseman Braden Schneider played the first two games of the team's abbreviated 2020-21 schedule. It was named the WHL…
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- June 12, 2021
CANTLON: CT HOCKEY OFF SEASON VOLUME 2
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - With the completion of the 2020-21 AHL season, it's time for hockey teams to begin the process of summer reflection, accounting, and planning…
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- May 21, 2021
TRUST: XL CENTER MESS CONTINUES
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - Over the last eight years, the process of modernizing the 48-year-old XL Center has been a focal point of endless peaks and valleys.…
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- March 18, 2021
CANTLON: XL CENTER WORKS CONTINUES
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - While the XL Center is open for hockey-only these days, work behind the scenes continues on. The Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) and…
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- December 25, 2020
CANTLON’S CORNER: WILL THE AHL SEASON BE SAVED?
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - The AHL season is not dead yet. While it seemed almost a certainty that there would not be an AHL season a week…
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- October 10, 2020
CANTLON: LATEST IN XL CENTER AND UCONN NEWS
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - On Wednesday, Howlings reported that CRDA Executive Director, Mike Freimuth, had said that the XL Center would NOT host any UCONN men's or women's…
