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ICE CHIPS

» The Huskies kick off the 2024-2025 season against the Colgate Raiders. This will be

the second consecutive season that these two teams have faced off to open the regular

season.

» New Faces: The Huskies have 14 new athletes to this years team. The group consists of

3 goalies, 5 defenseman, and 6 forwards

» Despite the number of new swimmers joining this years team, the Huskies returned

experienced players, including Hudson Schadnor, John Spetz, Tom Messineo, Jake

Richard and Jake Percival

» Despite adding 14 new faces, in that group comes 4 transfers from NCAA D1 schools.

Hugh Larkin joins UConn after spending time at Western Michigan, Nick Carabin joins

the Huskies from Princeton, Tyler Muszelik from New Hampshire, and then Viking

Gustafsson Nyberg comes to the huskies after spending one year at Northern Michigan.

» Last season in the opening weekend matchup, the Huskies went 1-0-1 against Colgate.

UConn opened the series with a 4-2 win and then erased a two goal deficit to force a 3-3

tie in game two.

» Of the Huskies first 8 games of the season, UConn will spend 6 at home. The two road

games being a non-conference matchup against Holy Cross and a matchup against

Boston University to open Hockey East Action on October 18.

» Huskies in the NHL: Ruslan Iskhakov and Yan Kuznetsov became the 6th and 7th

Huskies to reach the pros, having most recently been called up by the New York Island-

ers and Calgary Flames. They join, Todd Krygier, Cole Schneider, Max Letunov, Adam

Huska, and Tage Thompson as former Huskies to make it to the league.