Lee Baldwin Reassigned from Whale to ECHL Greenville
March 17, 2011 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Connecticut Whale News Release
HARTFORD, March 17, 2011: Connecticut Whale general manager Jim Schoenfeld announced today that the parent New York Rangers have reassigned defenseman Lee Baldwin from the Whale to the team's ECHL affiliate, the Greenville Road Warriors.
Baldwin, a rookie out of the University of Alaska-Anchorage, has skated in 21 games for the Whale this season and is scoreless, with 17 penalty minutes and 13 shots on goal. In 18 ECHL games earlier this year with the Road Warriors, Baldwin, who signed with the Rangers as a free agent March 22, 2010, had one goal and five assists for six points, along with six PIM.
The Whale's next action is tomorrow night, Friday, March 18, a visit to Manchester to take on the Atlantic Division-leading Monarchs (7:00 PM faceoff, WTIC HD-2, www.ctwhale.com, www.wtic.com ). The next home game for the club is this Saturday night, March 19, as the arch-rival Providence Bruins visit the XL Center for a 7:00 game. Click It or Ticket will be giving away 3,000 bobbleheads of Whale mascot Pucky at this game, and Saturday will also feature the first annual "Guns and Hoses Cup", as police and fire department personnel from numerous different Connecticut localities battle it out before the Whale-Bruins game. The police-fire game faces off at 4:30, and tickets can be purchased at CTHeroescup.com for $20, with half of that going to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Tickets for the benefit game are also good for the Whale-Bruins game, and Whale season seat-holders can receive free admission to the police-fire game by presenting their season ticket at the gate.
Tickets for all 2010-11 Whale home games are available now at the XL Center box office, through Ticketmaster Charge-by-Phone at 1-800-745-3000 and on-line at www.ctwhale.com . Tickets start at $7 each at the XL Center ticket office on game day.
For information on Whale ticket packages, group sales and VIP packages, call (860) 728-3366.
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