Now, it is time to make it our agenda for the Carolina Hurricanes to stop wearing their Hartford Whalers throwbacks. In 1997, the Whalers relocated to North Carolina to become the Hurricanes.

They have been gone longer than they were with us, but the Hartford Whalers live on in the hearts and minds of the fans that loved them. The 50th anniversary of the birth of the franchise will be ...

The Carolina Hurricanes can have their one Whalers retro night complete with Whalers jerseys and “Brass Bonanza,” because in the final analysis Raleigh did Hartford a favor by not taking the name.

The story of the Carolina Hurricanes cannot be told without the Hartford Whalers. The former Whalers organization relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina in the late 1990's after 25 seasons in ...

Carolina hosted its first Whalers Night in 2018, beating Boston 5-3 in Hartford's late-1980s era jerseys. The Hurricanes have held Whalers Night in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Officials announced plans Friday to honor one of Connecticut's most beloved sports teams. Jan. 11, 2025 will mark 50 years since the Hartford Whalers took the ice for the first time.

Mar. 26, 2023 | CAR 3, BOS 4 (SO) Alas, all good things must come to an end, and in 2022-23, the Whalers Night winning streak became a Whalers Night point streak in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Bruins.

In 1997, the Whalers relocated to North Carolina to become the Hurricanes. All of their history moved to a new city, a city where the majority of the people probably had no clue who the Whalers were.