Huskies Set for Home Opener Against Colgate
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» 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.
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