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Soon after the Whalers' departure, the Binghamton Rangers relocated to Hartford and began to play at the vacated Hartford Civic Center (today known as the XL Center).įollowing a 'name-the-team' contest, the franchise became the Hartford Wolf Pack, a reference to a submarine class as well as the tactic known as ' wolfpacking'.

An affiliation change to the Rangers in 1990 - one that continues to this day - brought another new name, the Binghamton Rangers.Īfter the 1996–97 NHL season, the Whalers moved to Raleigh, North Carolina as the Carolina Hurricanes. After securing an affiliation with the Hartford Whalers in 1980, the team changed its name to the Binghamton Whalers. Shortly afterward, the owners of the Broome Dusters of the North American Hockey League bought the Reds franchise and moved it to Binghamton, New York as the Binghamton Dusters. The Reds - known as the Rhode Island Reds in their later years - folded after the 1976–77 season. In 1936, the Northeast-based CAHL merged with the Midwest-based International Hockey League to form the International-American Hockey League, which dropped the 'International' from its name in 1940. The franchise that became the Wolf Pack was founded in 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island as the Providence Reds, one of the five charter members of the Canadian-American Hockey League.

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The Wolf Pack is the top affiliate of the NHL's New York Rangers and is one of the four professional hockey teams in Connecticut. The franchise was renamed the Connecticut Whale in October 2010, in honor of the former Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League (NHL), but reverted to their current name after the 2012–13 AHL season. It is one of the oldest professional hockey franchises in existence, and the oldest continuously operating minor league hockey franchise in North America.

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After a series of relocations, the team moved to Hartford in 1997 as the Hartford Wolf Pack. The team was established in 1926 as the Providence Reds.

A member of the American Hockey League (AHL), they play their home games at the XL Center. The Hartford Wolf Pack are a professional ice hockey team based in Hartford, Connecticut. American Hockey League team in Hartford, Connecticut Hartford Wolf Pack