WHALE WEEKLY: February 27 – March 4, 2012
BY: Bob Crawford, Voice of the CT Whale The Whale split two games this past week, easily handling the Portland Pirates, 5-1, at the XL Center on Friday, before dropping a 2-0 decision to their I-91 rivals, the Springfield Falcons, on Saturday.…
PROUGH RECALLED
According to the CTWhale and the AHL website, Jeff Prough has been recalled from the Greenville Road Warriors. Best guess is Friday night’s injury against the Portland Pirates that took down forward Andres Thuresson and that Head Coach Ken…
BLAKE PARLETT REASSIGNED TO ECHL GREENVILLE
BY: Bob Crawford, Voice of the Connecticut Whale Connecticut Whale general manager Jim Schoenfeld announced today that the parent New York Rangers have reassigned defenseman Blake Parlett from the Whale to its ECHL affiliate, the Greenville Road…
WHALE SINK PIRATES SHIP
VERSUS BY: Bruce Berlet Special teams often are the difference at all levels of hockey these days, and the Connecticut Whale proved that again Friday night against the Portland Pirates. Andre Deveaux and Brendan Bell scored the game’s first two…
IMPORTANT TIME CHANGE FOR CTWHALE
START TIME CHANGED FOR WHALE’S HOME GAME APRIL 1 * * * * Sunday Faceoff with Providence will now be 2:00 PM HARTFORD, February 24, 2012: Whalers Sports & Entertainment president and COO Howard Baldwin, Jr. announced…
SPOTLIGHT: CHAD KOLARIK
BY: Bruce Berlet One of the Beatles’ most famous songs in a litany of platinum recordings was entitled “The Long and Winding Road.” The creation of songwriters Paul McCartney and the late John Lennon was released 16 years before Chad Kolarik was even…
WHALE WEEKLY: February 21 – 26, 2012
BY: Bob Crawford, Voice of the Connecticut Whale The Whale posted another successful week as they entered the third weekend in February, winning two out of three games on their slate. Connecticut began the weekend with a 6-3 defeat of the Springfield…
THE PLAN IS COMING TOGETHER.
VERSUS Winning is contagious. Much like Ronald Reagan’s trickle down economics, the same seems to be the case with the Connecticut Whale. After a horrendous January where they were winless, going 0-6-3-2, the Whale benefitted from the…
JOHNSON INJURED, MISSIAEN RECALLED
Chad Johnson was injured late in the first period of Friday night’s 6-3 Connecticut Whale victory over the Springfield Falcons at the XL Center. The injury has resulted in the immediate recall of Jason Missiaen from the Greenville Road Warriors as a…
SPOTLIGHT: WADE REDDEN
BY: Bruce Berlet In 13 seasons in the NHL, Wade Redden never missed more than 18 games. In fact, in 10 of those seasons, the defenseman played at least 75 of 82 games. So the 22 games that Redden has had to sit out since he was injured in the Connecticut…