HARTFORD WOLF PACK RETURN HOME WITH SERIES LEAD
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Hartford Wolf Pack return to the XL Center Wednesday seeking a win to close out the Best of Five series against the Providence Bruins. The win would advance the Wolf Pack to the Atlantic Division …
HARTFORD WOLF PACK BEAT THE TORONTO MARLIES IN OT
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Jake Leschyshyn had an assist and a late goal, and the overtime winner at 1:12 propelled the Hartford Wolf Pack to a hard-fought 2-1 win over the Toronto Marlies. The win was the Pack’s fifth…
SCOTT HOWSON UNDER FIRE AT THE AHL
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – With his first contract nearing completion, Scott Howson, AHL President, Scott Howson is facing an insurrection from league owners. It has become severe enough that the NHL’s second-in-command,…
CANTLON: BLAINE STOUGHTON CHERISHES HIS TIME IN HARTFORD
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – For just the second time in his post-playing career, and the first time at Dunkin’ Donuts Park, Blaine Stoughton was back to Hart City, a place he still holds many fond memories of. Dunkin’…
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 Bill Hunter Award as the WHL Best Defenseman of…
CANTLON’S CORNER: KHORDORENKO LEARNING
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The AHL exists for a reason, and Patrick Khordorenko is a perfect example of why. The 22-year-old product of Michigan State via Walnut Grove, CA, is learning in his hockey apprenticeship on the farm at the…
CANTLON: UCONN BLANKS PROVIDENCE COLLEGE 2-0
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings STORRS, CT – On the strength of Tomas Vomacka’s 37 saves, and Jonny Evans’ two-point performance, the UCONN Huskies earned a 2-0 shutout victory over the Providence College Friars win Monday afternoon at the…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF-SEASON NEWS & NOTES – VOL 30
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – So much news and activity in the hockey world this week. As a business, the AHL had a small-town model that was the norm nearly 30 years ago. That is now long gone. An average salary then was a mere $40K.…
CANTLON: AS EXPECTED, RANGERS SELECT LAFRENIERE
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The New York Rangers made their first overall selection in the NHL Entry Draft for the first time in 54 years, and just like then, the pick came from the province of Quebec, as the team chose Alexis…
CANTLON’S CORNER: KEVIN MORRISON, A NEW HAVEN ORIGINAL
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Hockey has been ingrained in Kevin Morrison’s DNA from his early days in Nova Scotia through the time he passed through Connecticut in the late 1960s and early 1970s, leaving an indelible mark in New…