Well, God bless Howard Baldwin. If nothing else, the man dreams big. What you see here (via the Hartford Courant) is the interior of a proposed $105 Million renovation to Hartford's XL Center, with the intention of scoring an NHL franchise by 2017. Ignoring the return of the Whalers for a second, from personal experiences at Monster Jam, the XL is well past due for a renovation to stay relevant, and this would be a welcome change. Bringing NHL hockey back is still a pipe dream, but doing it with a comparitively low-cost renovation to the existing building would make Baldwin a New England hockey hero. Make sure you check out the gallery of the arena and planned adjoining plaza and full plan and cost breakdown.
To be honest, I never cared for Seinfeld. It was funny at times, but I was both too young for it, and found the characters mostly unappealing. But the whole Festivus thing has become a much...
This isn't really Bruins related, but it's New England hockey, so I'm going to indulge here. I decided this weekend to show some vintage love and wore my Adams Division t-shirt with a Whalers hat...
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Photo Credit: AP (found via Yahoo! Sports)Yesterday Greg Wyshynski wrote a story about filmmaker Kevin Massicotte's new short documentary "Bleeding Green" which chronicles Hartford Whalers fans as...
