FROM THE CREASE with Bruce Berlet

Everyone likes to be wanted. After two tumultuous seasons in the Big Apple with the Rangers, Wade Redden has that feeling again. Redden, a 13-year NHL defenseman with the Ottawa…

FIRSTS ALL AROUND

     VERSUS      Sunday afternoon’s Hartford Wolf Pack contest with the Providence Bruins provided for a lot of firsts. It was the Wolf Pack’s first shutout of the young season. It…

HOBBIT DELIVERS WIN

     VERSUS      With star forward Dale Weise sidelined with a hand/wrist injury, someone on the Hartford Wolf Pack roster was going to need to step up. That’s the long…

SHOT OUT

      VERSUS        The Hartford Wolf Pack played their first game on the road in this early 2010-2011 season and came up on the short-end of a 3-2 score, losing…

KENNEDY TO THE PACK

By Bruce Berlet  The Hartford Wolf Pack will have a new player at practice Thursday morning. With Rangers captain/Trumbull native Chris Drury returning from a broken left index finger for…

A NIGHT OF FIRSTS

      VERSUS         AND THEY’RE OFF… The Howard Baldwin era in Hartford hockey has resumed and the infusion of new faces and new energy had a big payoff Saturday night…

BERLET’S CORNER

By Bruce Berlet When not battling injuries, Hartford Wolf Pack left wing Justin Soryal is known mainly for his toughness and ability to battle the opposition with lefts and rights.…

END OF THE PRESEASON

      VERSUS     By Bruce Berlet In keeping with the theme of change surrounding the Hartford Wolf Pack/Connecticut Whale franchise this season, captain Dane Byers decided on a new look, a…

WOLF PACK / WHALE CUTS

The first cuts have been made. No real surprises. Probably the only name here that anyone knows is Tysen Dowzak who was sent to Dayton of the CHL. The rest…

REDDEN SPEAKS…PEOPLE LISTEN

By Bruce Berlet Wade Redden was less than 10 minutes into his first minor-league interview when three playful new Hartford Wolf Pack teammates made the veteran defenseman feel as if…