AETNA INSURES WHALE AMATEUR PROGRAM CONTINUES STRONG

WHALERS SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT WELCOMES AETNA AS FIRST “WHALERS ALLIANCE” PARTNER Multi-faceted Commitment Includes Title Sponsorship of CT Whale’s Amateur Hockey Initiatives HARTFORD, Conn., August 3, 2011― Aetna (NYSE: AET)…

BACK TO THE FUTURE – CATCHING UP WITH MICHAEL DEL ZOTTO

BY: Mitch Beck with Adam Gavriel For athletes looking to develop a professional career, the path to achieving it, in many ways, resembles the four-year high school matriculation process. As…

TESSIER SIGNS

The Connecticut Whale announced the resigning of forward Kelsey Tessier, returning to Head Coach Ken Gernander one of his most versatile and hardest working players for a second season on…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

BY: Bruce Berlet HOWE TO THE HALL Mark Howe was making the one-hour drive from his beach house in Beach Haven, N.J., to his home in Jackson, N.J., on Tuesday…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

By Bruce Berlet The cause of Derek Boogaard’s death was never going to be easy to accept, but it was especially sad to hear that it was from an accidental…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, CT – June 2 will mark the first anniversary of Whalers Sports and Entertainment chairman and CEO Howard Baldwin announcing his group’s plans to assume business…

A WHALE OF A PRESS CONFERENCE

The Connecticut Whale held their post-season press conference Wednesday afternoon at the Hilton Hotel in Hartford just across the street from the XL Center. Among those in attendance were Whalers…

YOU KNOW IT’S OVER WHEN…

…the ice is removed off the XL Center floor until next season. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0E6i7O_D8Y&w=448&h=252&hd=1] Here construction crews are about an-hour from finishing all of the work to restore the floor back…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, CT – There’s bad luck, and there’s REALLY bad luck. Then there’s the bizarre one-in-a-million bad luck that Connecticut Whale wing Mats Zuccarello suffered Thursday night…

FROM THE CREASE with BRUCE BERLET

By Bruce Berlet The headlines Tuesday night at the XL Center were the Connecticut Whale’s continued penalty killing excellence backstopped by goalie Dov Grumet-Morris, the return of their two most…