2003-04 Hartford Wolf Pack Bryce Lampman Jersey

July by the Numbers travels east for jersey #26.

When the Hartford Whalers of the NHL departed for North Carolina to become the Carolina Hurricanes, the New York Rangers immediately sized the opportunity to immediately fill the void of professional hockey in Hartford with the relocation of the Binghamton Rangers of the AHL for he 1997-98 season.

It was a time when minor league franchises began to realize the value of having their own unique identities, rather than simply adopting the name of their parent club, as had long been the case for many clubs, particularly those in minor league baseball. This opened the door for an increase in revenues from selling their own branded merchandise, such as caps, shirts and jerseys, and creating a stronger connection with their local fanbase, as they could now avoid having to change their name on a periodic basis as their affiliations evolved over time.

With the new approach to independent name for minor league clubs, the franchise was christened the Hartford Wolf Pack for the 1997-98 season following a name the team contest, with the name Wolf Pack being a reference to a class of submarines, as Connecticut is home to the main builder of submarines as well as the US Navy's primary submarine base.

The club got off to a strong start in Hartford, totaling 99 points in their first season as well as making it to the Calder Cup Semifinals in their first try.

Two seasons later the Wolf Pack led the AHL with a 49-22-7-2 record to lead the league with 107 points as goaltenders Milan Hnilicka and Jean-Francois Labbe combined to hold opponents to just 198 goals, the only team to allow less than 200. The Wolf Pack then eliminated Springfield, Worcester and Providence to reach the finals, where they defeated the Rochester Americans to capture the Calder Cup in their third season in Hartford as Derek Armstrong was named the playoff MVP.

Ken Gernander accepts the 2004 Calder Cup

With a strong supply of players from the Rangers organization, the Wolf Pack was a consistently strong club, with just one season with less than 95 points over the next nine seasons, which included winning Atlantic Division titles in 2003-04 and 2008-09, including four seasons of over 100 points, with their 110 points in 2007-08 setting a team record, thanks to 50 wins in 80 games.

Current Rangers captain Ryan Callahan while with the Wolf Pack

Playoff success would remain elusive however, with first or preliminary round exits in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007-2009 and only one trip to the semifinals in 2004, which came up short in a seventh game.

Their average attendance their first two seasons in Hartford was 7,100 compared to 12,500 during the final few seasons of the Whalers. Despite the continued and consistent competitive level of play, their attendance numbers were one long, slow nearly uninterrupted decline, drifting down from 7,100 the year following their championship to 6,700 to 5,800 by 2003. It sank to 4,500 in 2007 and 4,188 in 2009-10 after which the club was sold to Whalers Sports and Entertainment.

Bizarrely, the team started the 2010-11 season still known as the Hartford Wolf Pack, playing 22 games from early October until their return from a five game road trip when the club was re-branded as the Connecticut Whale beginning with their game on November 27th against Bridgeport!

The club was rebranded the Whale following a change in ownership

The highly unusual mid-season name (and color) change brought to an end the team's 13 1/4 seasons as the Wolf Pack, leaving behind a history of competitive play and excellent jerseys.

But then something most unusual took place again, as the ownership group who changed the name to The Whale were out after 2 3/4 seasons and it was announced that the franchise would be reverting back to the Hartford Wolf Pack name beginning with the upcoming 2013-14 season!

Despite the turmoil of the change in ownership and name, the Wolf Pack franchise is actually the oldest continuously operating minor league franchise in North America, as they can trace their lineage back to their formation as the Providence Reds in 1926. This also makes them older than all other professional hockey franchises except the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins.

The 1929-30 Providence Reds, the first

championship team in franchise history

Armstrong holds the records for most points in a season with 101, while Brad Smyth has the career mark with 365. Jason LaBarbera's 91 wins lead all goaltenders in Wolf Pack history and Ken Gernander played the most games with 599 first playing for the franchise in Binghamton in 1994-95 and came to Hartford with the franchise when it relocated. In all, he played for the franchise for 11 seasons and was team captain for ten of them. He was named the club's head coach in 2007 and is the only player to have his number retired by the team when they raised his #12 to the rafters.

Today's featured jersey is a 2003-04 Hartford Wolf Pack Bryce Lampman jersey. While many minor league teams have their own unique jersey sets, completely separate from their parent club, others adopt the look of their NHL big brothers, sometimes with very poor results aesthetically.

The Wolf Pack however, have a history of some of the most striking and attractive jerseys in all of minor league hockey, generally taking a basic jersey from their parent club the New York Rangers, and then apply a mix and match program of their own logo or wordmarks done in the classic Rangers dropshadowed font.

This particular example finds it's basis in the Rangers dark blue "Lady Liberty" alternate jersey. They then added the name "Hartford" in the Rangers traditional, diagonal style and finish it off with the name and number customization in the style of the Rangers jerseys to create an instantly familiar-looking, yet brand new style to great affect.

If anything, the Wolf Pack could be accused of overdoing it, as it seems like they have had more jerseys than nearly any team in recent memory. Documenting them all would be a research project that would certainly be a challenging undertaking, as nearly every basic jersey style seems to have been used with a rotation of "Hartford", "Wolf Pack" and the team's wolf head logo at some point!

Today's video segment is a look back at some of the early years of the Hartford Wolf Pack in anticipation of the 2002 playoffs.

This next video is their opening video from the 2009-10 season.

The History of Hockey in Connecticut

With today's NCAA championship final taking place between Quinnipiac and Yale, located a mere seven miles apart in New Haven, Connecticut, we thought it would be an ideal time to take a look at the history of hockey in New Haven, and quite a history it is.

As we documented previously, the Yale University Bulldogs hockey program can be traced back to 1893. They joined their current conference, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) in 1961 and have won three ECAC regular season titles and two conference tournaments. They have made six NCAA appearances and are looking to win their first national championship tonight.

The earliest professional club to call Connecticut home were the New Haven Eagles of the Canadian-American Hockey League. They were founded along with the league in 1926 and immediately finished with the best record in the highly competitive CAHL with an 18-14 record. After 10 seasons as the CAHL, the league would evolve into the International-American Hockey League for four years before becoming the American Hockey League.

The 1938-39 New Haven Eagles

The Eagles would operate continuously through the 1942-43 season before taking a two year-hiatus during World War II, but would return to action in 1945-46 as the Eagles, but would change their name for four seasons to the New Haven Ramblers. The Eagles name would return to the 1950-51 season, but the team would fold halfway through the schedule with a dismal 5-23 record.

The Eastern Amateur Hockey League (EAHL) has also had a number of teams based in Connecticut, beginning with a team also named the New Haven Eagles, who played one season (1943-44) while the AHL's Eagles were on hiatus during World War II. After the demise of the AHL's Eagles in 1951, a new EAHL team attempted to fill the void, but the New Haven Tomahawks also ended up being a one season only operation. Next to give it a go were the New Haven Nutmegs, who also were in operation for just a single season.

After the league did not operate in 1953-54, pro hockey returned to New Haven yet again, this time in the form of the New Haven Blades, also of the now renamed Eastern Hockey League (EHL). The Blades managed to succeed where the Eagles, Tomahawks and Nutmegs had failed, and not only lasted beyond one season, but won the league championship in only their second try in 1956, bringing Connecticut it's first championship in state history.

The Blades were a competitive operation, making the playoffs in 15 of their 18 seasons, including three additional appearances in the finals (1960, 1961 and 1971) before the league folded following the 1971-72 season.

The New Haven Blades of 1965-66

On the collegiate level, the University of Connecticut Huskies began play at the Division II level in 1964. In 1998 the Huskies moved up to Division I and joined the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, which became the Atlantic Hockey Association in 2003. UConn won the MAAC playoff championship in 2000 and has announced their move to Hockey East for the 2014-15 season.

The AHL returned to New Haven with the New Haven Nighthawks for the 1972-73 season. The Nighthawks existed for 20 years, reaching the Calder Cup Finals on four occasions (1975, 1978, 1979 and 1989). Notable players for the Nighthawks included Bobby Nystrom and Billy Smith, who would go on to win multiple Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders. The Nighthawks would change their name to the New Haven Senators for the 1992-93 season before the franchise was moved out of Connecticut.

The Fairfield University Stags in Fairfield, Connecticut began their hockey program in 1974, moving up to Division I status in 1997 before joining the Metro Atlantic conference in 1997 along with UConn. The program was disbanded for financial reasons following the 2002-03 season.

Hockey at it's highest level to date arrived in Connecticut on January 11, 1975 when the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association played their first game, only based in Hartford, not New Haven. The Whalers were an annual contender in the WHA, having won the league's inaugural championship prior to moving to Connecticut. The Whalers qualified for the playoffs annually, again making it to the Avco Cup Finals in 1978.

Memorably, the Whalers signed hockey legend Gordie Howe, along with his sons Mark and Marty in 1977. Other notable names to have played for the Whalers in the WHA include Dave Keon, John Garrett, Gordie Roberts, Tom Webster. Larry Pleau, Rick Ley and John McKenzie.

Mark, Marty and Gordie Howe with the New England Whalers

The Whalers were one of four WHA clubs to gain entrance into the NHL in 1979, but one of the terms of the expansion of the NHL decreed that the club change it's name to the Hartford Whalers. While a number of notable played suited up for the Whalers throughout their time in the NHL, including Ron Francis, Kevin Dineen, Pat Verbeek, Geoff Sanderson, Bobby Holik, Chris Pronger, Brian Propp and Brendan Shanahan, the Whalers never found success on the ice, missing the playoffs 10 times and won but a single playoff series in 18 seasons before relocating out of state in 1997.

Connecticut's best known team, the NHL's Hartford Whalers

Later in 1975, the Quinnipiac Bobcats from Hamden, Connecticut, a suburb of New Haven, began their hockey program at the Division III level, moving up to Division I in 1998 in the Metro Atlantic conference, which became Atlantic Hockey in 2003. They then joined the ECAC in 2005 and will be looking to capture their first national championship tonight when they take on their neighbors Yale tonight in the championship game of the Frozen Four.

Quinnipiac has two regular season MAAC championships and one MAAC Playoff title, as well as one Atlantic Hockey and one ECAC regular season crown to date.

Also located in Fairfield, the Sacred Heart Pioneers began their varsity hockey program in 1993, moving up to Division I in 1998 in the Metro Atlantic conference, which became Atlantic Hockey in 2003.

The AHL returned to New Haven in 1997, with the bizarrely named Beast of New Haven, who lasted two seasons. They faced an interstate rivalry from the Hartford Wolf Pack, who also came into being that same season. While the Beast was as short-lived proposition, the Wolf Pack, with the support of their parent club, the New York Rangers, were a much more successful operation. The Wolf Pack never had a losing record in 13 seasons and won the Calder Cup in 2000, just the second major championship in state history after the Blades title back in 1956.

Wolf Pack team captain Ken Gernander accepts the 2000 Calder Cup

Notable NHLers to have played for the Wolf Pack include Ryan Callahan and Brandon Dubinsky.

Current New York Rangers captain, Ryan Callahan while with the Wolf Pack

Following a change in ownership the Wolf Pack was renamed the Connecticut Whale during the 2010-11 season in honor of the old Whalers of the WHA and later the NHL.

The New Haven Knights of the United Hockey League called Connecticut home for the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons.

While the Beast did not provide the Wolf Pack an intra-state rival for long, a new club, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL, the first professional team to call Bridgeport home, filled that role admirably. the Sound Tigers made a splash on their arrival in 2001-02, making it all the way to the Calder Cup Finals during their first season of play. Notable players for Bridgeport have been Rick DiPietro, Kyle Okposo and Trent Hunter.

The Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL

Another short lived squad was the 2004-2006 Danbury Trashers of the UHL, who memorably had a hockey playing garbage can for a logo! Danbury also had the Danbury Mad Hatters of the Eastern Professional Hockey League in 2008-09 and now the Danbury Whalers of the Federal Hockey League, who began play in 2010-11.

With only the Blades having won the EHL championship in 1956 and the Wolf Pack capturing the Calder Cup in 2000, titles for Connecticut have been few and far between, but tonight Quinnipiac and Yale will battle it out for the rights to join the exclusive ranks of championship teams from Connecticut. as the teams battle it out on ESPN at 7:00 PM Eastern. Too bad with both schools being located just seven miles part in New Haven, the game could not be moved there rather than being played 450 miles away in Pittsburgh.

#1 ranked Quinnipiac will battle Yale for the NCAA Championship tonight on ESPN

For more on the history of hockey in Connecticut, we recommend a visit to the Connecticut Hockey Hall of Fame online at cthockeyhof.org.

Today's featured jersey is a 1999-00 Hartford Wolf Pack Ken Gernander jersey from the high point in Connecticut hockey history, the team's American Hockey League Calder Cup championship.

The Wolf Pack always had beautiful jerseys, which drew from the templates and tradition of the jerseys of their parent club, the New York Rangers, but injected enough of their own logo elements to make the jerseys their own, with striking and memorable results.

Gernander became property of the Rangers in 1994, playing for the Binghampton Rangers for three seasons, which included 10 regular season and 15 playoff games. He moved with the club to Hartford in 1997 to fill the void created by the departure of the NHL's Whalers and remained with the team as a player through 2004-05, appearing in a pair of games for New York in 2003-04.

On his retirement as a player, he became first an assistant coach for the club before becoming their head coach in 2007, a position he still holds today through the change in ownership and name change to the Connecticut Whale.

Gernander is the only player to have his number retired by the Wolf Pack.

photo courtesy of CalderCup2000.com

No history of hockey in Connecticut would be complete without a mention of the Whalers iconic goal song, Brass Bonanza.

Finally, here is the complete game when the Hartford Wolf Pack won the Calder Cup in 2000. Skip ahead to 2:06:00 to see the conclusion of the game and the trophy presentation.

2003-04 Hartford Wolf Pack Paul Healey Jersey

July by the Numbers makes it's way to Connecticut for jersey #16.

Founded in 1926 as the Providence Reds, the club played in the Canadian-American Hockey League, which was renamed the International-American Hockey League in 1936 and finally shortened to the American Hockey League in 1940. The club remained the Providence Reds for 50 years, winning Calder Cups in 1938, 1940, 1949 and 1956, before a name change for one season to the Rhode Island Reds prior to relocating for the first time for the 1977-80 season.

The 1948-49 Calder Cup champion Providence Reds

The team's new home was Binghamton, New York where they were named the Binghamton Dusters in reference to their location in Broome County. After three seasons, the club changed it's name to the Binghamton Whalers to reflect it's affiliation with the NHL's Hartford Whalers. In a clever bit of thinking, Binghamton took the Hartford Whalers "W" logo and turned it on it's side, creating a "B", which not only illustrated it's ties to the parent club in Hartford, but saved the team from having to design a new logo of it's own!

The Binghamton Whalers clever recycling of the Hartford Whalers logo

Following the 1989-90 season, the franchise was sold to the New York Rangers, who simply renamed the team the Binghamton Rangers and carried on for seven more seasons until the franchise was on the move for a second time, seizing the opportunity to immediately fill the vacancy created when their former parent club, the Whalers, left Hartford to become the Carolina Hurricanes.

The early 1990's was a time when minor league franchises began to realize the value of having their own unique identities, rather than simply adopting the name of their parent club, as had long been the case for many clubs, particularly those in minor league baseball. This opened the door for an increase in revenues from selling their own branded merchandise, such as caps, shirts and jerseys, and creating a stronger connection with their local fanbase, as they could now avoid having to change their name on a periodic basis as their affiliations evolved over time.

With the new approach to independent name for minor league clubs, the franchise was christened the Hartford Wolf Pack for the 1997-98 season following a name the team contest, with the name Wolf Pack being a reference to a class of submarines, as Connecticut is home to the main builder of submarines as well as the US Navy's primary submarine base.

The club got off to a strong start in Hartford, totaling 99 points in their first season as well as making it to the Calder Cup Semifinals in their first try.

Two seasons later the Wolf Pack led the AHL with a 49-22-7-2 record to lead the league with 107 points as goaltenders Milan Hnilicka and Jean-Francois Labbe combined to hold opponents to just 198 goals, the only team to allow less than 200. The Wolf Pack then eliminated Springfield, Worcester and Providence to reach the finals, where they defeated the Rochester Americans to capture the Calder Cup in their third season in Hartford as Derek Armstrong was named the playoff MVP.

Ken Gernander accepts the 2004 Calder Cup

With a strong supply of players from the Rangers organization, the Wolf Pack was a consistently strong club, with just one season with less than 95 points over the next nine seasons, which included winning Atlantic Division titles in 2003-04 and 2008-09, including four seasons of over 100 points, with their 110 points in 2007-08 setting a team record, thanks to 50 wins in 80 games.

Playoff success would remain elusive however, with first or preliminary round exits in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007-2009 and only one trip to the semifinals in 2004, which came up short in a seventh game.

Their average attendance their first two seasons in Hartford was 7,100 compared to 12,500 during the final few seasons of the Whalers. Despite the continued and consistent competitive level of play, their attendance numbers were one long, slow nearly uninterrupted decline, drifting down from 7,100 the year following their championship to 6,700 to 5,800 by 2003. It sank to 4,500 in 2007 and 4,188 in 2009-10 after which the club was sold to Whalers Sports and Entertainment.

Bizarrely, the team started the 2010-11 season still known as the Hartford Wolf Pack, playing 22 games from early October until their return from a five game road trip when the club was re-branded as the Connecticut Whale beginning with their game on November 27th against Bridgeport!

The highly unusual mid-season name (and color) change brought to an end the team's 13 1/4 seasons as the Wolf Pack, leaving behind a history of competitive play and excellent jerseys.

Armstrong holds the records for most points in a season with 101, while Brad Smyth has the career mark with 365. Jason LaBarbera's 91 wins lead all goaltenders in Wolf Pack history and Ken Gernander played the most games with 599 first playing for the franchise in Binghamton in 1994-95 and came to Hartford with the franchise when it relocated. In all, he played for the franchise for 11 seasons and was team captain for ten of them. He was named the club's head coach in 2007 and is the only player to have his number retired by the team when they raised his #12 to the rafters.

Today's featured jersey is a 2003-04 Hartford Wolf Pack Paul Healey jersey. The Wolf Pack had a history of some of the most striking and attractive jerseys in all of minor league hockey, generally taking a basic jersey from their parent club the New York Rangers, and then applying a mix and match program of their own logo or wordmarks done in the classic Rangers drop shadowed font, none more successful than this gorgeous effort.

This particular example finds it's basis in the Rangers classic blue jersey. They then added the name "Wolf Pack" in the Rangers traditional, diagonal style and finished it off with the name and number customization in the style of the Rangers jerseys to create an instantly familiar-looking, yet brand new style to great affect.

As this jersey is done so close to the style of their parent club, the New York Rangers, a casual observer may assume it is simply a Rangers jersey, but careful examination will be rewarded with various details, such as the name "Wolf Pack" on the front, the Wolf Pack secondary shoulder logo on one side and the stylish Rangers alternate logo on the other.

If anything, the Wolf Pack could be accused of overdoing it, as it seems like they have had more jerseys than nearly any team in recent memory. Documenting them all would be a research project that would certainly be a challenging undertaking, as nearly every basic jersey style seems to have been used with a rotation of "Hartford", "Wolf Pack" and the team's wolf head logo at some point!

Paul Healey, a winger originally from Edmonton has had a well travelled career, having played for 18 teams in 7 leagues in 5 countries! He does have 77 NHL games to his credit, divided between the Philadelphia Flyers (6), the Toronto Maple Leafs (65), the New York Rangers (4) and the Colorado Avalanche (2), with 6 goals and 14 assists for 20 points.

He has also played in the Western Hockey League in Canadian Juniors, the American Hockey League, the International Hockey League and the Swedish, Finnish and Austrian leagues.

During his one season in Hartford wearing today's featured jersey, Healey played 50 games with 11 goals and 10 assists, while his best pro season was in 2001-02 for the Hamilton Bulldogs, when he had 39 goals and 71 points.

Today's video segment is a look back at the early days of the Wolf Pack when their jerseys were more closely aligned with the Rangers, with those being based on the Rangers third Liberty jerseys, both blue and white versions, being particularly attractive.

2003-04 Hartford Wolf Pack Bryce Lampman Jersey

July by the Numbers travels east for jersey #26.

When the Hartford Whalers of the NHL departed for North Carolina to become the Carolina Hurricanes, the professional hockey void in Hartford was filled by the relocation of the Binghamton Rangers of the AHL for he 1997-98 season.

The Rangers were renamed the Hartford Wolf Pack and remained the Rangers top farm club. During their 13 seasons in Hartford, the Wolf Pack have never had a losing record and qualified for the playoffs 12 consecutive seasons. Five times the club has topped 100 points in the standings, including a Wolf Pack best 110 in 2007-08.

In 1999-00, Hartford finished with the best record in the AHL with 107 points and were led in scoring by Derek Armstrong, whose 82 points were good for third overall in league scoring.

Hartford opened the Calder Cup playoffs with a first round 3-2 defeat of Springfield prior to knocking out Worcester 4-1. They then eliminated Providence 3-2 in overtime of Game 7 to advance to the Calder Cup Finals. In the finals, they met the Rochester Americans, who they defeated 4 games to 2 to capture their only Calder Cup championship with Armstrong being named as the playoff MVP.

The Wolf Pack have retired one number in their history, the #12 of Ken Gernander.

Gernander first played for the franchise in Binghamton in 1994-95 and came to Hartford with the franchise when it relocated. In all, he played for the franchise for 11 seasons and was team captain for ten of them. He was named the club's head coach in 2007.

Today's featured jersey is a 2003-04 Hartford Wolf Pack Bryce Lampman jersey. While many minor league teams have their own unique jersey sets, completely separate from their parent club, others adopt the look of their NHL big brothers, sometimes with very poor results aesthetically.

The Wolf Pack however, have a history of some of the most striking and attractive jerseys in all of minor league hockey, generally taking a basic jersey from their parent club the New York Rangers, and then apply a mix and match program of their own logo or wordmarks done in the classic Rangers dropshadowed font.

This particular example finds it's basis in the Rangers dark blue "Lady Liberty" alternate jersey. They then added the name "Hartford" in the Rangers traditional, diagonal style and finish it off with the name and number customization in the style of the Rangers jerseys to create an instantly familiar-looking, yet brand new style to great affect.

If anything, the Wolf Pack could be accused of overdoing it, as it seems like they have had more jerseys than nearly any team in recent memory. Documenting them all would be a research project that would certainly be a challenging undertaking, as nearly every basic jersey style seems to have been used with a rotation of "Hartford", "Wolf Pack" and the team's wolf head logo at some point!

Today's video segment is a look back at some of the early years of the Hartford Wolf Pack in anticipation of the 2002 playoffs.

This next video is their opening video from the 2009-10 season.

2003-04 Hartford Wolf Pack Paul Healey Jersey

July by the Numbers visits the AHL for jersey #16 today.

The Hartford Wolf Pack, previously known as the Binghamton Rangers (from 1990-1997) and Binghamton Whalers (1980-1990), the were originally founded as the Providence Reds way back in 1926, where they played until 1977, were founded in 1997 after the NHL Hartford Whalers relocated to Carolina.

The always competitive Wolf Pack, the top minor league affiliate of the New York Rangers, have made the playoffs every season since moving to Hartford, never finishing lower than second place in their division, save for but one season in third.

The Wolf Pack have won one regular season title in the AHL, three division championships and one conference championship, which led to their AHL Championship in 1999-00, earning them the Calder Cup, the world's second oldest continuously awarded hockey trophy.

It's hard to think of the Wolf Pack and not think of Ken Gernander. Gernander played 11 seasons with the franchise, beginning in Binghamton, and was team captain for 10 years, including the Calder Cup winning team in 2000. He is the all-time franchise record holder in games played with 599 and the AHL's all-time leading American-born scorer with 624 points. He is now the head coach of the club and the only player to have his number retired by the Wolf Pack.

Today's featured jersey is a 2003-04 Hartford Wolf Pack alternate Paul Healey jersey.

We really like this jersey, as it is one of those minor league jerseys done so close in style to the parent club, in this case the New York Rangers, that at first glance you may not realize it is not actually a Rangers jersey. Careful examination of this jersey will be rewarded with various details, such as the name "Wolf Pack" on the front, the Wolf Pack secondary shoulder logo on one side and the stylish Rangers alternate logo on the other.

Paul Healey, a winger originally from Edmonton has had a well travelled career, having played for 18 teams in 7 leagues in 5 countries! He does have 77 NHL games to his credit, divided between the Philadelphia Flyers (6), the Toronto Maple Leafs (65), the New York Rangers (4) and the Colorado Avalanche (2), with 6 goals and 14 assists for 20 points.

He has also played in the Western Hockey League in Canadian Juniors, the American Hockey League, the International Hockey League and the Swedish, Finnish and Austrian leagues.

During his one season in Hartford wearing today's featured jersey, Healey played 50 games with 11 goals and 10 assists, while his best pro season was in 2001-02 for the Hamilton Bulldogs, when he had 39 goals and 71 points.

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Here is a nice video of Healey scoring his first NHL goal on a fantastic setup by Mats Sundin.