CANTLON: PACK UPENDED BY BRUINS
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Paul Carey and Jason Zrobil each had a goal and an assist to pace the red-hot Providence Bruins to their 11th straight regulation win and 12th overall in a 3-1 win over the Hartford Wolf Pack before an…
CANTLON’S CORNER: ANDERSSON BOLTS WOLF PACK
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Saturday was the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, and ironically the potential day that one of the shortest Hartford Wolf Pack careers comes to an apparent end. The New York Post reported…
CANTLON’S CORNER: OFF-SEASON NEWS AND NOTES – VOLUME I
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Now that the Bradford pears and forsythias have sprung into bloom and are kicking in, the New York Rangers might want to put a giant set of forsythias in front of the XL Center to obscure the Hartford Wolf…
CANTLON: PACK LAST FULL HOME WEEKEND OF PLAY
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Hartford Wolf Pack have a pair of weekend games in which they seek to snap a five-game losing streak against the Utica Comets Saturday night and the Binghamton Devils Sunday afternoon. The task got a…
CANTLON: NHL ANNOUNCES 2018 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings Hartford, CT – It was a special moment for one of the most diverse groups ever selected had their names called. 43-year-old Greenwich resident, Martin St. Louis, who ended his 1,137 NHL game career with 1,033 points. He…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet The New York Rangers’ Summer of Success continued Thursday on several fronts. The Rangers again averted often contentious salary arbitration, and this time it was with former Hartford Wolf Pack forward Brandon Dubinsky, their leading…
FAN-FARE: CAP AND GROWN
BY:Adam Gavriel The Growth of the Salary Cap The NHL Collective-Bargaining Agreement that was ratified after the 2004-2005 lockout ended an entire NHL season included a salary cap with a maximum cap of $39 million on a team, and $7.8 million on a single…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet The run of Trumbull native Chris Drury as center and captain of the New York Rangers is over. The Rangers bought out the final year of Drury’s five-year, $35.25-million contract on Wednesday, making one of the world’s all-time great…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
BY: Bruce Berlet Trumbull native Chris Drury’s time as New York Rangers center and captain is on the verge of ending. Multiple sources have told the New York Post that Rangers president and general manager Glen Sather has informed Drury that he will be…
FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET
By: Bruce Berlet Talk about being way off base. Larry Brooks, longtime New York Rangers beat writer for the New York Post, rightfully took George Laraque to task in his column Sunday for saying the NHL team somehow turned their back on Derek Boogaard in…