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…
CANTLON: (FRI) PACK GET BACK TO WINNING WAYS
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings SPRINGFIELD, MA – The Mass Mutual Center has haunted the Hartford Wolf Pack teams the past three seasons, but the 2019-20 edition of the New York Rangers’ AHL affiliates vanquished some ghosts and ended a five-game…
CANTLON’S CORNER: THE HUMBOLDT TRAGEDY
CANTLON’S CORNER: The Humboldt Tragedy BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT –Â The eyes of the hockey world are now focused on Humboldt, Saskatchewan, whose population of 6,000 was stunned by the frightening tragedy of the horrible bus…
SPECIAL TEAMS COST WHALE STANDINGS POINT
      VERSUS     (We apologize as we’re unavailable for our normal direct CTWhale coverage for the next couple of games due to scheduling conflicts…) BY: Brian Ring The Connecticut Whale were defeated by the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, 4-3 in overtime,…
WHALE BRUIN TROUBLE
     VERSUS     (We apologize as we’re unavailable for our normal direct CTWhale coverage for the next couple of games due to scheduling conflicts…) BY: Brian Ring The Connecticut Whale were defeated by the Providence Bruins, 3-2, Saturday night at…
DESPERATE PIRATES FILET WHALE
     VERSUS     BY: Bruce Berlet The Portland Pirates, involved in a wild, multi-team chase for the final Eastern Conference playoff spots, parlayed goals from four different players and 29 saves from Peter Mannino into a 4-1 victory Friday over the…
REDEMPTION
     VERSUS    (I feel like I need to apologize to the readers of Howlings. I haven’t written my normal stories for the games on Friday and last night. This is as some of you may or may not know, started as a hobby for me but has progressed to the…
THE ROAD AHEAD
     VERSUS   The Connecticut Whale currently sit in the third position in the AHL standings. How they’re doing that is a testament to the character of this team, because based upon the way they played at the XL Center Saturday night in a 3-0 loss to…
TWO POINTS ARE TWO POINTS
     VERSUS     The Connecticut Whale should be happy they came away with the two points they got for the 5-3 win Sunday afternoon in Manchester when they faced the Monarchs at the Verizon Wireless Arena, because they certainly weren’t going to be…
CLASH OF THE TITANS
     VERSUS     It doesn’t get more exciting than that! The Connecticut Whale came from behind three separate times capped by Kris Newbury’s goal off a fluke bounce with 4.9 seconds left in regulation to send the game to overtime and then after a…