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Pucky in 2011. Wally was the Hartford Whalers only physical mascot. He appeared starting at the 1991-92 season, but disappeared after that year. Hartford attendance was at its worst at this point after the Ron Francis trade. Wally wore a fisherman's rain coat with a sailing shirt and his hat had the Hartford Whalers logo on it.
The New England Whalers renamed themselves the Hartford Whalers in May 1979, [6] at the insistence of the Boston Bruins who objected to the team naming themselves for New England. [7] Connecticut-based graphic designer Peter Good (1942–2023) [8] was hired by the Jack Lardis Associates advertising agency to design a new logo for the team.
The Wolf Pack had a previous relationship with Hartford in the 1980s as the Whaler's AHL affiliate, the Binghamton Whalers, until they started their current affiliation with New York Rangers in 1990. In 2010, the team announced it was changing its name to the Connecticut Whale , to honor hockey tradition in Hartford started by the Whalers. [ 12 ]
The Hartford Whalers were an ice hockey team who played in both the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA). This is a list of the head coaches they had during their existence.
This is a list of seasons completed by the Hartford Whalers of the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League.This list documents the records and playoff results for all 25 seasons that the Hartford Whalers completed from their founding in 1972 (then known as the New England Whalers) in the WHA until the franchise relocated to Greensboro, North Carolina, and eventually Raleigh to ...
The 1979–80 Hartford Whalers season although 1975 was the Whalers' first season in the National Hockey League (NHL), first as the "Hartford Whalers", and eighth overall. The Whalers were one of four World Hockey Association (WHA) franchises (with the Edmonton Oilers , Quebec Nordiques , and Winnipeg Jets ) that joined the league for the 1979 ...
The agreement resulted in the Oilers, Whalers, Nordiques, and Jets joining the NHL for the 1979–80 NHL season, increasing the league's membership to 21 teams following the prior merger between the Barons and North Stars franchises. The NHL, however, insisted on treating the WHA teams' arrival as an expansion, not a merger, and refused to ...
Game Two at Hartford on April 11 went to overtime and the Whalers won in the extra period 3–2. The game was famous for a huge brawl early in the second period that involved both benches and lasted nearly five full minutes; the primary fighters were Nick Fotiu, Bill Butters, and Jack Carlson that raged on the ice and even in the penalty boxes. [1]