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XL's Bedfellows Bring Puzzling Name Change
The Hartford CourantThoughts and some juicy Connecticut building speculation while we await the American Athletic Conference to announce its move of the annual UConn women's basketball tournament from the XL Center to the Mohegan Sun. There is a great reason to change...Tags: Reebok Ltd., Hockey (music group), Hartford Wolf Pack, Philadelphia Flyers, Basketball
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Give Howard Baldwin Credit For Trying, But The NHL Dream Is Dead — For Now
The Hartford CourantMajor league dreams, it turns out, came with minor-league bills Howard Baldwin could not pay. And 2 1/2 years after Baldwin stuck his hockey banner back into downtown Hartford's soil, we can safely say the NHL isn't walking through his door. But plenty...Tags: AEG, Connecticut Whale, Sports, XL Center, Banking
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Finally, A Day To Celebrate Hockey In Hartford
The Hartford CourantIt was 1989 and Todd Krygier, a little-known NHL newcomer, was sitting among a handful of Canadian teammates on the Whalers team bus. They wanted to know where he was from, so the American kid told them. "UConn," Krygier said. They thought he meant...Tags: Boston College, College Sports, Staples Center, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Danbury
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Secrecy On XL Center, Rentschler Plans Isn't Helping Matters
The Hartford Courant— The lack of substantive public debate on the future of two of the state's most public structures worries me. In fact, it bothers the hell out of me. There I said it. After two months of entertaining secret bids, the Capital Region...Tags: AEG, New York Islanders, College Sports, Sports, Atlantic Coast Conference
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Trying To Figure Out Who Will Manage XL Center
The Hartford CourantAs a sports story, this isn't as sexy as Howard Baldwin's loud, failed notion that if you give him a remodeled XL Center, he'll bring you the NHL. Nor is it nearly as blah as management behemoths bidding against each other for the right to turn the lights...Tags: AEG, Connecticut Whale, Media Industry, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Sports
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Howard Baldwin Knows It Wouldn't Pay To Fight For Two Letters
The old Howard Baldwin probably would have fought this fight. In those days, the 30-year-old blond WHA rebel would be told he shouldn't do something by the hockey establishment, do the opposite and then dare the old codgers to do something about it....Tags: AEG, Madison Square Garden, Sports, XL Center, National Hockey League
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LETTER: Congratulations, Sacramento
I'd like to extend a huge congratulations to the city of Sacramento, and the state of California. In a state that's in more financial disarray than Connecticut, they were able to fend off Seattle to keep the heart of their city -- the NBA's Sacramento...Tags: National Basketball Association, Connecticut Whale, Sports, XL Center, National Hockey League
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Bruins Or Rangers? In Hartford, There's Another Choice, Too
The Hartford CourantTo the north is the team that was the Hartford Whalers' most heated rival. To the south is the franchise that houses its minor league affiliate in Hartford. So for a certain faction of Greater Hartford hockey fans — those who lament the loss of the...Tags: Madison Square Garden, Carolina Hurricanes, New England Patriots, Ryan McDonagh, Ryan Callahan
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Schoenfeld Happy In Hartford
The Hartford CourantNew York Rangers assistant general manager Jim Schoenfeld said Wednesday that he's happy the team's American Hockey League affiliate is remaining in Hartford. But Schoenfeld, who acts as GM of the Connecticut Whale, said it's too soon to say whether...Tags: AEG, Connecticut Whale, Madison Square Garden, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), XL Center
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Multiyear Deal Keeps Whale In Hartford
The Hartford CourantProfessional hockey will remain in downtown Hartford, at least for the next three years. After weeks of high-level negotiations between Madison Square Garden Co. and Comcast Spectacor, a deal was reached Tuesday to keep the New York Rangers' American...Tags: AEG, Connecticut Whale, Madison Square Garden, New York Islanders, Sports
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Hartford's XL Center Faces Daunting Challenge For Redevelopment
The Hartford CourantFrom the street, the XL Center in downtown Hartford exudes recent redevelopment, all stainless steel and glass, opening into an airy atrium. But walk a little farther through the interior doors of Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, and it might as well be the...Tags: AEG, Connecticut Whale, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Taylor Swift, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
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Return Of The Wolf Pack?
pdoyle@courant.comGlobal Spectrum, which will take control of the XL Center later this year, is on the verge of keeping the New York Rangers' American Hockey League affiliate in Hartford beyond this season. A deal is close and an announcement from Madison Square Garden...Tags: AEG, Connecticut Whale, Madison Square Garden, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), XL Center
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