University of Connecticut Athletics
Monday, December 21
Storrs, Conn
5:00 PM
University of Connecticut
vs
UMass Lowell
Photo by: Stephen Slade
Huskies Host UMass Lowell Monday Night
12/20/2020 11:28:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
Media Coverage
Video Stream: CollegeSportsLive.com/hockeyeast (pxp) Randy Brochu
Live Stats: UConnHuskies.com
Twitter: @UConnMHOC
Game Notes: UConn UMass Lowell
Ice Chips
- The UConn Huskies are back on the ice this Monday hosting the No. 15 nationally ranked UMass Lowell River Hawks at the Freitas Ice Forum. The Huskies also added another game this week, heading to the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday afternoon for a match-up live on NESN.
- The Huskies come off a series with Boston College where they took four-of-six points from the No. 2 ranked Eagles. In the opener at BC, the Huskies came back from two goals down in the third to force overtime and grab a point before falling 4-3.
- UConn snapped a six-game BC win streak in the all-time series thanks to a 3-1 win at home to wrap the weekend. The Huskies got second period goals from junior Jonny Evans, junior Marc Gatcomb and freshman Nick Capone to fuel the upset win. UConn outshot BC, 42-28
- Junior Jonny Evans had two points (1g/1a) in the win over Boston College and has had at least a point in three of UConn's four games. Evans leads the team with a goal and three assists. He came into the season as the Huskies leading career goal scorer and now has 18 goals in 53 career games.
- Junior Marc Gatcomb scored in both games against BC shares the team lead with classmate Kale Howarth who has also scored twice this season.
- Sophomore defenseman Roman Kinal matched his career-high with a pair of assists in the 3-1 win over BC. Kinal returned to the Husky lineup after missing all of 2019-20 with an injury. During his freshman season, he was the only UConn rookie to play in all 34 games and finished with seven points (1g/6a).
- Junior goaltender Tomas Vomacka was named the Hockey Defensive Player of the Week after making 59 saves on 64 shots to earn four out of six points from No. 2/2 Boston College. The junior stopped 32 shots, including all 19 he saw in the first period, as the Huskies lost, 4-3, in overtime at Boston College. He came back and kicked out 27 shots and kept BC off the scoreboard for the first two periods in a 3-1 win over the Eagles.
- In the season opening series against UMass, freshman Cassidy Bowes had an assist in game and picked up the first Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week award handed out by Hockey East this season after his first collegiate points. Against Boston College, fellow rookies Nick Capone, John Spetz, Artem Shlaine and Hudson Schandor joined Bowes by recording their first collegiate points. Capone scored his first goal in the 3-1 win while Spetz came up with a power play goal in the third period to help the Huskies come back and send the game to overtime. Both Schlaine and Schandor had assists in the BC win.
- UConn will be without a pair of sophomores in forward Vladislav Firstov and defenseman Yan Kuznetsov who are currently with Team Russia at the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championships being held in Edmonton, Alberta, Dec. 25 through Jan. 5. Both Firstov and Kuznetsov were named to the final roster making history as the first Russian born NCAA student-athletes to make Russia's national team for the annual event. The Huskies previously have had three players appear in the prestigious international tournament under head coach Mike Cavanaugh (Tage Thompson - Team USA/2017*; Adam Huska - Team Slovakia/2016&2017; Jachym Kondelik - Team Czech Republic/2019). *-Won the gold medal
- The Huskies are back on campus for the first time since the 2013-14 season as they will play all their home games at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum in Storrs. UConn has called the XL Center in Hartford home since joining Hockey East in 2014-15. Only two Hockey East schools have played games at Freitas in UMass Lowell and Merrimack.
- In the 2020-21 HEA Preseason Coaches' Poll, the Huskies were picked to finish seventh in this year's polling of the league's head coaches. This will be the Huskies seventh season of play in Hockey East and in five of their first six seasons in the league, the Huskies have outplayed their preseason prediction.
- The Husky lineup will feature eight NHL draft picks in 2020-21, a new program-high. That number climbed by three last month as sophomore Yan Kuznetsov (Calgary/2nd Rd) and freshmen Artem Shlaine (New Jersey/5th Rd) and Nick Capone (Tampa Bay/6th Rd) heard their names called in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.
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