By: Mitch Beck, Publisher of Howlings
With the summer coming up there are lots of all kinds of camps for kids to go to…especially hockey camps.
If you have a son or daughter who’s a goaltender and you want them to go to one of the best goaltending schools there is, Howlings HIGHLY recommends former NY Rangers and Hartford Wolf Pack goaltender Steve Valiquette‘s goaltender’s school/camp that’s coming up this August. Continue reading
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Special to Howlings
Break-up day at the end of there regular season is a part of the hockey player experience. That’s the case in most places, but not in Hartford where the good-byes don’t usually come until the end of playoff hockey. But not this season.
For just the second time in franchise history there will be no post season to reflect upon. For the Whale, there’s just an excruciating, inexplicable six game slide at the end of the season that cost them a spot in the Calder Cup playoff dance.
The cloudy, chilly gray skies outside painted the scene well for what went on inside the XL Center. Continue reading
VERSUS 
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Special to Howlings
The Connecticut Whale 2012-2013 regular season came to a crushing end in Portland with a 5-1 loss to the Pirates at the Cumberland County Civic Center before 6,085 Saturday night.
The Norfolk Admirals’ lost earlier in the day to the Albany Devils 2-0 and the Binghamton Senators beat the Hershey Bears, both helping the New York Rangers’ AHL affiliates, but the Whale were unable to seal the deal in securing themselves the last playoff spot with a win. Continue reading
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Special to Howlings
HARTFORD, CT – For the Connecticut Whale there’s just two games left in the 76 regular season schedule and those two games are going to be the difference between early vacation or participating in playoff hockey.
You can use every sports cliché known to man and they would probably all apply as the Whale travel to Albany for a tilt tomorrow night at 7pm with the Devils in what can be clearly be stated as a MUST win game. Continue reading
Posted in AHL, College Hockey, Connecticut Whale, CTWhale, ECHL, Greenville Road Warriors, Hartford Wolf Pack, Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Sports
Tagged AHL, American Hockey League, Cameron Talbot, ConnecticutWhale, Ken Gernander, Niklas Svedberg, Providence Bruins, Ranger, Scott Stajcer, Stu Bickel, Svedberg, Whale
VERSUS 
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Special to Howlings
SPRINGFIELD, MA – This was as bitter a pill as one could swallow.
The Connecticut Whale lost 4-3 in the final minute of regulation to the Springfield Falcons which took control of their post season destiny and placed it in the hands of the teams they have been battling with when they play their last two games of the regular season next weekend.
The Whale (35-20-6-3, 79 points) are still perched in the eighth spot in the conference, but have lost four in a row and got just a single point in Saturday’s OT loss to Adirondack out of a possible six on the weekend and watched the Norfolk Admirals jump ahead of them to the seventh spot. The Admirals have two more wins as well as a crucial game-in-hand. Right behind the Whale are the Manchester Monarchs in ninth spot with 79 points, the same as Hershey, but the Monarchs have one more win than the Bears. Each of those teams also holds a game-in-hand on the Whale. Continue reading
VERSUS 
BY: Bruce Berlet, Special to Howlings
HARTFORD, CT. – It’s not often you tie a franchise record for fewest shots in a period while falling behind by two goals and still manage to win.
But the victory-desperate Connecticut Whale pulled off that stunt against nemesis Curtis McElhinney on Friday night en route to a 4-3 win over the Northeast Division-leading Springfield Falcons before 6,052 at the XL Center.
The Whale was outshot 12-1 in the first period, tying their all-time low for shots in a period in the franchise’s 16-year history as the Falcons took a 2-0 lead on goals by Spencer Machacek and former Hartford Wolf Pack wing Matthew Ford 21 seconds apart. 
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BY: Gerry Cantlon, Special to Howlings
HARTFORD, CT – The Connecticut Whale start their the final portion of their home schedule Friday night against the Springfield Falcons with the playoff picture tighter than it was last week and a line-up that has undergone a serious makeover in the past 48 hours.
Home ice was tough for the Whale earlier in the season. With a home record of 5-10-0-0, but have since reversed direction and have since gone 14-3-2-2 for an overall home record of 19-13-2-2. Continue reading
Posted in AHL, College Hockey, Connecticut Whale, CTWhale, ECHL, Greenville Road Warriors, Hartford Wolf Pack, Hockey, Junior Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Sports, USA Hockey, World Junior Championships
Tagged Blake Parlett, ConnecticutWhale, Gernander, Ken Gernander, Ranger, Springfield Falcon, Whale, XL Center
Mitch Beck was a standup comedian and radio personality for over 25 years. His passion for hockey started with Team USA in 1980 when they defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid. He is now self-employed and has been reporting on the New York Rangers, and exclusively on the Hartford Wolf Pack / Connecticut Whale since 2005.
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