HARTFORD WOLF PACK VS SPRINGFIELD THUNDERBIRDS CALDER CUP PLAYOFF PREVIEW
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Hartford Wolf Pack has a familiar opponent for the first round of the Calder Cup playoffs. Behind three points from Chris Wagner and a four-goal third period, the Providence Bruins defeated the…
HARTFORD WOLF PACK LOSE SEASON FINALE TO SPRINGFIELD THUNDERBIRDS
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings SPRINGFIELD, MA – Joel Hofer’s 35-save effort at the MassMutual Center led the Springfield Thunderbirds to a 1-0 shutout win over the Hartford Wolf Pack, ending the team’s eight-game winning streak. The…
CANTLON: FREE AGENT FRENZY
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The free-agent frenzy has led to completing the 2022-23 Hartford Wolf Pack roster as the usual free agency carnival has come and gone. Incredibly, over 150 players changed addresses, and close to a billion…
CHAIMOVICH: CARBERRY – AHL COACH OF THE YEAR
BY: Jason Chaimovich, AHL, VP Communications SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Spencer Carbery of the Hershey Bears is the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award winner as the AHL’s outstanding coach for the 2020-21 season.…
CANTLON’S CORNER: ARMSTRONG ON BEING HONORARY AHL ALL-STAR CAPTAIN
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – His happiness resounded off the Colorado mountains he was in. Former Hartford Wolf Pack legend, Derek Armstrong, was ecstatic after learning that he and former Pack teammate, goalie, Robb Stauber, were…
CANTLON’S CORNER: WOLF PACK TRAVEL TO PA TO BREAK STREAK
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Kris Knoblauch, the Hartford Wolf Pack’s (11-4-0-5) first-year head coach, is taking the Wolf Pack’s first losing streak, currently three games, as calmly as he took their nine-game winning streak to…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet Don’t ever say hockey players, or even coaches, aren’t some of the toughest hombres in all of sports. Getting stitched up and returning to the ice by the next period is common for most players, but Worcester Sharks coach Roy Sommer earned…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet The stunning news out of Providence again emphatically demonstrated how precious life is. Tom Cavanagh, the all-time leading scorer for the Worcester Sharks (46 goals, 92 assists in 202 games), was found dead Thursday of an apparent…
FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet
By Bruce Berlet CROMWELL, Conn. – The blood between the Hartford Wolf Pack/Connecticut Whale and Worcester Sharks has been worse than the Hatfields and McCoys, and it only got worse on Monday. Whale wing Mats Zuccarello, second on the team in goals (13)…
WHALE WEEKLY: November 29-December 5, 2010
After a 4-3 shootout loss in Bridgeport Friday in the last game as the Hartford Wolf Pack, the franchise won its first two games as the re-branded Connecticut Whale, both at home. A crowd of 13,089, the second-largest in team history, saw the Whale…