CANTLON: WOLF PACK PRESEASON VOLUME 3
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The first baby steps on an AHL 2020-21 season are about to be taken. In what will be the first hockey action since March 12, 2019, on January 31st, the Hartford Wolf Pack will play in a pre-season tilt…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF-SEASON NEWS & NOTES – VOL 32
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – There will be a new captain for the Hartford Wolf Pack next season. Last year’s captain, the 13th in Wolf Pack history, Steven Fogarty, has signed a one-year, two-way deal with the Buffalo Sabres…
CANTLON: FREE AGENCY FRENZY – PART TWO
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The cyclonic activity of roster changes during free agency continued even into Monday. With a pandemic and large economic worldwide distress, salaries in the NHL and AHL are off the chart. On Saturday, the…
CANTLON: NHL FREE AGENT FRENZY OKTOBERFEST STYLE
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The end of a very busy week in pro hockey as free agency for the NHL and AHL kicks off the official start of the 2020-21 season which still has no schedule but does have a tentative start date of January…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF-SEASON NEWS & NOTES VOL 29
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Tampa Bay Lightning won their second Stanley Cup in tema history this past week with three Connecticut connections earning Championship rings. In 2010, Ryan McDonagh played half of a season with the…
CANTLON’S CORNER: NHL RETURN IMMINENT AND OTHER HOCKEY NEWS
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – For the first time since March, professional hockey is so close to being played for fans that you can almost reach out and touch it. With that start rapidly approaching, there’s plenty of news…
CANTLON: HOCKEY NEWS & NOTES OFF SEASON – VOLUME 17
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The NHL took a big step forward on Friday, July the 10th, as the owners and players ratified the “Return-To-Play” package and a six-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that will keep…
CANTLON: HOCKEY OFF SEASON NEWS AND NOTES VOLUME 15
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – As Connecticut prepares to move to the next stage of it’s opening up, the hockey world continues to make plans, not only for the upcoming playoffs, set to begin at the end of July but for the…
CANTLON’S CORNER: HOCKEY NEWS AND NOTES OFF SEASON Volume 10
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – After a vote by its membership, the NHLPA has approved the NHL’s decision to move to a 24-team playoff format to bring to a conclusion the 2019-20 NHL season. With that announcement coming earlier…
CHAIMOVITCH: SAN JOSE BARRACUDA’S JOHN McCARTHY VOTED WINNER OF AHL’S FRED T. HUNT MEMORIAL AWARD
BY: Jason Chaimovitch, American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that John McCarthy of the San Jose Barracuda is the 2019-20 winner of the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award as the AHL player who best exemplifies the…