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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.
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 Wolf Pack have honored a number of former Hartford Whalers players by hanging their jerseys in the rafters, without formally retiring their numbers. In 2006, Ulf Samuelsson (#5), Ron Francis (#10) and Kevin Dineen (#11) were honored by the team in this way, joining Rick Ley (#2), Gordie Howe (#9) and John Mckenzie (#19) whose numbers had ...
Major league teams are franchises that played in the National Hockey League or the World Hockey Association. Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, was bereft of a professional ice hockey team until 1974, when the Whalers franchise from the World Hockey Association came to town, occupying the newly built Hartford Civic Center.
This is a list of players who played at least one game for the Hartford Whalers (1979–80 to 1996–97) of the National Hockey League (NHL). For a list of players who played for the Whalers in the World Hockey Association, see List of New England Whalers players.
To appease and satisfy the Bruins, however, the NHL insisted that the Whalers drop "New England" from their name and they entered the league as the "Hartford Whalers" instead. The NHL continues to recognize all four franchises as having been founded on June 22, 1979, which is also the date the WHA and its six remaining teams are reckoned 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 1979–80 season.
Hartford ended their winless skid with a 4–3 overtime win over the New York Rangers on November 26 as Blaine Stoughton scored the winning goal. In their final game of November, the Whalers lost to the Vancouver Canucks 6–2. Hartford has a record of 5-6-1 during November, bringing their overall record to 9-11-2 through the month.