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Jason Muzzatti was the first former Hartford Whaler to play for the Wolf Pack. The ex-Calgary Flames first round pick played a career total of 62 NHL games, with the Flames, Whalers, Rangers and San Jose Sharks.
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Bruising defenseman Eric Cairns, 6-6 and 241 pounds, played 18 games with the Wolf Pack during the 1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons.
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Defenseman Ronnie Sundin, a mainstay on the Wolf Pack's inaugural-season 1997-98 team, was a member of the gold medal-winning Swedish squad at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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A typical view of Wolf Pack fan favorite P.J. Stock (5-10, 190)...tussling with one of the biggest players on the opposing team. His dance partner in this case is Beast of New Haven defenseman John Jakopin (6-6, 245), who would later go on to become a member of the Wolf Pack himself, playing 42 games in a Wolf Pack uniform in 2003-04.
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Goaltender Robb Stauber pitched the first shutout in Wolf Pack history, a 2-0 win in Syracuse February 27, 1998 in which the former Hobey Baker Award-winner made 34 saves.
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Long-time Pack star Derek Armstrong is shown wearing number 27. He wore his more familiar #17 upon first being acquired by the Pack in October, 1997, then switched to 27 for the rest of that season after relinquishing 17 to Peter Ferraro when he joined the Wolf Pack. Armstrong was back in 17 for the start of the next year and for the rest of his Pack career.
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Christian Dube, the parent Rangers' top pick in the 1995 NHL Draft, scored a total of 108 points in 137 games for the Wolf Pack during the 1997-98 and 1998-99 campaigns. He still owns the longest point-scoring streak in Wolf Pack history, a 17-gamer in November and December of 1997.
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Among Pierre Sevigny's 18 goals in 40 games for the Wolf Pack in 1997-98 was the first tally in Wolf Pack history.
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Peter Ferraro, a first-round pick by the parent Rangers in 1992, played 36 games for the 1997-98 Wolf Pack after being reclaimed on waivers by the Blueshirts from Pittsburgh.
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Dan Cloutier, a Ranger first-rounder in 1994, played 24 games for the Pack in 1997-98 and made 52 saves in a series-saving playoff victory in Worcester in that year's second round.
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Current Boston Bruin Marc Savard spent most of his rookie season of 1997-98 with the Wolf Pack and led the club in scoring, with 21-53-74 in 58 games.
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Pack defenseman Brent Thompson helped anchor the Wolf Pack blueline from 1997-99 and was the 1998-99 winner of the Yanick Dupre Award for AHL Man of the Year.
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Brad Smyth, wearing the #14 that he was assigned upon first being acquired by the Wolf Pack in November, 1997, scores one of his 29 Wolf Pack goals that year.
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Hamden, CT native Todd Hall was a regular for the Wolf Pack throughout their first four seasons of play and scored the game-winning goal in the Pack's Calder Cup-clinching, Game Six victory at Rochester in 2000.
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All 1997-1998 Photos by Diane Sobolewski
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