Feb 3, 2022
If you’ve been following along on our social media channels, or on the AHL transaction wire, you’ll have seen over 100 transactions since the holiday break involving the Hartford Wolf Pack. On Tuesday night, when the New York Rangers skated to victory over the Florida Panthers, they entered the All-Star break. As a result, the taxi squad was parked, and reinforcements made the trip to Hartford.
Jonny Brodzinski, Tim Gettinger, Nils Lundkvist, Adam Húska, Tarmo Reunanen, Lauri Pajuniemi and Zac Jones have all returned to the Pack, and outside of Jones, all played a key role in Hartford’s 3-2 shootout victory over the Hershey Bears on Wednesday night. Brodzinski scored to send the game to overtime, while Gettinger tallied the shootout winner for Hartford’s fourth win in five tires. It was an impressive and important result in a couple of different ways.
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I’m not sure about you, but Friday night at the XL Center was arguably the most fun I have had this season. After giving up an early goal to Andrew Peski, the Wolf Pack scored three of the next four goals in the game to take a 3-2 lead into the third period. The Bruins scored twice in the final period, but Hartford got to overtime thanks to Patrick Khodorenko’s redirection on the powerplay.
Those final 40 minutes will stick with me for the rest of this season. Down to just 12 forwards, six defensemen and two goalies on the roster, the Wolf Pack faced a largely healthy Bruins group that had beaten them three straight times. Mike O’Leary, Aaron Luchuk, Jeff Taylor and Khodorenko all stepped up with goals in regulation, while Taylor won it in the shootout. How about his performance? Taylor hadn’t scored an AHL goal in three seasons, and potted both his first as a member of the Wolf Pack and his first career shootout goal.
The penalty kill got a huge 90 second kill at the end of overtime, with Zach Giuttari’s sliding block in the final…
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