IT WASN’T PRETTY; THAT’S FOR SURE!

VERSUS “That was what  we call in hockey, ‘a greasy win,’” Connecticut Whale Assistant Coach J.J. Daigneault said his team gutted one out and defeated the Springfield Falcons 3-1 Sunday…

VARSITY AND JV BOTH WIN

VERSUS  Saturday hosted one of those rare nights where both the NHL and their AHL affiliates would squared off on the same day. The AHL Connecticut Whale did their part…

REFS GONE WILD

VERSUS If you were looking to make the argument against having two referees on the ice at the same time, or maybe just having these two particular referees period, this…

WHALE GOES MOBY DICK ON SHARKS

VERSUS So much for trouble scoring goals. First, the goal-challenged New York Rangers scored seven goals for the third time this season and defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, a division rival,…

FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet

By Bruce Berlet With their top four centers missing and their leading scorer and No. 1 offensive defenseman injured before the game was 25 minutes old, the Connecticut Whale desperately…

STRANGE BUT TRUE

From the HUH? Department, yesterday Francis Lemieux and Alexandre Imbeault were released from their PTO's. According to the AHL Transactions list, today is word they have both been resigned to…

PATHETIC

VERSUS  What words can possibly be written without sounding unnecessarily vicious and yet accurately describe what happened on the ice after the Connecticut Whale and were so embarrassingly bad Wednesday…

WORST TO FIRST

       VERSUS       (Editor’s note: Our apologies for this being posted late…busy day at work) The Connecticut Whale rebounded from Saturday's poor performance against the Atlantic Division’s worst team, the…

JUST LIKE THAT

VERSUS Connecticut Whale head coach Ken Gernander, along with just about every coach from Pee-Wee on up, preaches to his players about playing the full 60 minutes. In Gernander’s case…

“FRUSTRATING…”

VERSUS  From the minute they took the ice for the first time on October 3, 1997 the heart of this team has been personified by Ken Gernander. He was a…