Worst Loss in CT Sports History

[pnow15]

When Steve Young went to BYU instead of UConn.

 

[Sky ball]

Our first shot at a F4? So '89-'90 was just a dream? Damn, seemed real enough to me.

The Miami game was in 2001, Darius Rice with the buzzer beater. Deep foul trouble forced Shamon Tooles to be in a situation he was not prepared for. Still, had Taliek (and others) made some free throws, Miles' heroics would have been moot.

OK Mr Wonderous memory a little fuzzy..long time ago. Still Donyell makes a FT we are in 1st F4.

 

[Bezzz]

Still Donyell makes a FT we are in 1st F4

Beating Florida would not have put us in the Final Four as we still needed to beat BCU in the elite eight. Tough loss though.

 

[August_West]

Beating Florida would not have put us in the Final Four as we still needed to beat BCU in the elite eight. Tough loss though.

We were in the middle of a 20 something game winning streak against BCU. It would have been a cakewalk.

 

[August_West]

Small portion of my liftetime "ticket wall"

 

[Gurleyman]

We were in the middle of a 20 something game winning streak against BCU. It would have been a cakewalk.

One of those 20 something was in double overtime earlier in that season when we came back from down 19 in the second half. Needed clutch threes from Sheffer and Donyell to force both overtimes. Granted that was at BC, but they wouldn't have rolled over for us.

 

[mauconnfan]

Small portion of my liftetime "ticket wall"


Bob Dylan Woosley Hall and U of H - very cool

Lionel Ritchie HCC - not as cool but not bad. lol

 

[WhiteDressWes]

One of those 20 something was in double overtime earlier in that season when we came back from down 19 in the second half. Needed clutch threes from Sheffer and Donyell to force both overtimes. Granted that was at BC, but they wouldn't have rolled over for us.

BCU had a history of losing their legs when playing with 48 hours rest. They would have folded by halftime.

 

[amory]

I was 10 when they moved, so I don't really remember the Whalers. Would've been awesome if they had stuck around.

It's kinda ok that they left though. It helped turn CT into the college sports bastion of the northeast. We got nothing else.

 

[LIUCHusky]

We were in the middle of a 20 something game winning streak against BCU. It would have been a cakewalk.

It wouldn't have been a cakewalk as Donny Marshall was hurt in the Florida game and would not have been able to play against BC.

 

[Northbound]

Small portion of my liftetime "ticket wall"

I've been rooting around trying to find my brass bonanza 45. The flip side is the call of the fight versus the Minnesota Fighting Saints - classic.

 

[Devland]

The Patriots were never moving to Hartford. Bob Kraft was just using us to get a better deal. John Rowland being the that he is lost the only major league team that Hartford ever will see. Hartford would be so much better if The Whalers were still here.

The whole Patriots to Hartford thing got the UConn football to D1 conversation started. If the Patriots moved to Hartford UConn football would have been second fiddle to the Patriots. In the end it was the perfect storm for UConn football.

 

[Devland]

I've been rooting around trying to find my brass bonanza 45. The flip side is the call of the fight versus the Minnesota Fighting Saints - classic.

I think I may have it but it is a cassette tape. I don't have a cassette player though.

 

[The Viking]

The other OT game 7 loss to Montreal - where Russ Courtnall slipped an innocent shot through a crowd and ultimately Frank Pietrangelo

I was at game 6, a 1-0 win by the good guys. Unbelievable atmosphere. It was the loudest crowd of any game I have ever been to. Man, did I love the Whalers. F... Karmanos and F... Rowland.

Lowell Weicker had more to do with the Whalers leaving than Rowland. That sonofabitch.

 

[Waquoit]

Lowell Weicker had more to do with the Whalers leaving than Rowland. That sonofabitch.

I didn't find out until later that Weicker was on the Compuware Board of Directors for years. Bastard.

 

[BugsyCT]

The Whale's best NHL regular season was a year later in '86-'87. Won the Adams division and finished 4th overall in the league. Lead Quebec 2-0 in the 1st round series and promptly lost 4 straight. That was a huge bummer. Never got back to that level again.

 

[Tommyboy]

Cup. It's the ultimate "what if" game. If the Whale wins that game, they win the Stanley Cu (the Habs only lost 2 games the rest of the way). And if they won the Stanley Cup the would still be in Hartford, in a new building. Hartford would have become the Green Bay of the NHL.

Small portion of my liftetime "ticket wall"

I saved all my tickets growing up too. Kinda makes me sad today that I hardly ever have these types of tickets anymore. Now its all print at home or electronic.

 

[NCHusky91]

I was at that game. It was sickening.
The worst part was bus loads of black clad young Bruin fans came down and took over the Civic Center.
We were pelted by debris until that group was finally ejected.
I also was at the parade ,accidentally.
A couple of us were at a software show in the Civic Center and actually caught the parade.

A worse group of mutants I've never seen at a sporting event. My brother used to say he took less grief wearing a Whalers jersey at Boston Garden than at the Civic Center.

An epic meltdown, and the beginning of the end for the franchise, fast-tracked by the worst trade in NHL history a year later.

 

[willie99]

The other OT game 7 loss to Montreal - where Russ Courtnall slipped an innocent shot through a crowd and ultimately Frank Pietrangelo

Lowell Weicker had more to do with the Whalers leaving than Rowland. That sonofabitch.

Weiker's trifecta

1) implemented a state income tax, after promising he would do no such thing
2) fought the Indians all the way to the SC, thus losing out of table game revenues from the casinos
3) hand picked Peter Karmoanscum to buy the Whalers, and then gave him state money too

idiocy on steroids

and then he wins an award for courage for lying to the taxpayers and screwing the citizens, only in the world of delusional politicians can this stuff be real

 

[UConnStats]

Surprised Chief hasn't come here to say Bunk yet.