Howard Baldwin

We come to praise Howard Baldwin, not to bury him. Mr. Baldwin, who energized Hartford three decades ago by bringing the Hartford Whalers of the World Hockey Association to town and then ushering the team into the National Hockey League, came back to...

Hockey is a family sport to me. I've had a lot of fun at hockey games with my family at various venues from watching amateurs at a local skating rink in Bolton to the Bruins at the Boston TD Garden. I was a regular at the Civic Center when Ronnie...

As the green-and-blue uniforms hit the ice a few minutes before 7 p.m. Saturday, "Brass Bonanza" filled the XL Center and 13,089 fans reveled in the nostalgia of the moment. "It feels like old times," Howard Baldwin said. And there was indeed a sense...

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....

As Thomas DeFranzo sees it, the biggest obstacle between him and his Hollywood dream is obscurity. "No one knows we're here," he said of an enterprise he calls Windsor Worldwide Studios. "That's the biggest thing." He is less concerned that the movie...

The New England Whalers completed negotiations with the Springfield Civic Center Friday and announced their remaining home games, plus all playoff games, will be played there. The Whalers thus erased the last wisps of doubt about the team's future in the...

Reluctantly, wistfully, and perhaps a bit skeptically an era officially came to end Wednesday. Gordie Howe, in the wanning stages of his fantastic and almost unbelievable 32-year career, often joked that he would retire when everybody else did -- at the...

The biggest shock arrived 10 minutes after the Whalers had dusted off Quebec in three straight. The Whalers had eliminated the Nordiques from the Adams Division semifinals with a 9-4 thrashing Saturday night and had advanced to the divisional finals...

November 1971 -- The World Hockey Association awards franchise to sports enthusiasts and businessmen Howard Baldwin, John Colburn, Godfrey Wood and William Barnes. January 1972 -- Jack Kelley, a successful coach at Boston University, joins the New...

— If the Whalers could have a Mount Rushmore, this would be it. Displayed side-by-side were three original World Hockey Association era jerseys — the logo with the W and the harpoon — on a table for fans to admire. "It's the greatest...

1 star (out of four) In any era, the time-travel adventure movie "A Sound of Thunder" is just awful. Set in 2055 Chicago and in an undisclosed location 63 million years ago, it follows a team of temporal safari guides trying to save the world after a...