University of Connecticut
Merrimack College
10/29/2026 3:25:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
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Ice Chips...
» The Huskies are set for a rematch of the 2025-26 Hockey east Championship game as they hit the road for a two game weekend series vs. Merrimack.
» The Huskies are coming off a 1-1 weekend vs. #15 Boston University. The Huskies won game one of the weekend series by a final of 5-4 as Joey Muldowney scored the game winner in overtime.
» Shahan stays Hot: Shahan has continued to impress early in the season as the junior currently leads the team with five goals. Shahan is currently riding a three-game goal streak scoring four goals across those three games.
» These two teams faced off three times last season with the last matchup being in the Hockey East Championship game at the TD Garden. Merrimack defeated the Huskies by a final of 2-1 for their first Hockey East title
» This will be the Huskies first road trip of the season. Prior to the two-game road trip, the Huskies had five of the six games to start the season at the Toscano Family Ice Forum. UConn is currently 3-0 on Friday's and 0-3 on Saturday.
» UConn's incoming class features five draft picks, highlighted by Charlie Morrison who was most recently selected in the 3rd round of the 2026 NHL Draft by the New York Rangers. Other drafted
players include, Will McIsaac, Jeremy Loranger, Lirim Amidovski, and Veeti Louhivaara.
» Voted by the players, Joey Muldowney, Mike Murtagh and Trey Scott have been named the captains for the 2026-27 season. Muldowney will wear the "C" while both Murtagh and Scott will wear the "A"
» Huskies in the NHL: Viking Gustafsson Nyberg and Ryan Tverberg have become the 10th and 11th Husky to reach the pros. Both had their NHL debuts on the same night as Gustafsson Nyberg appeared with the Minnesota Wild and Tverberg was called up by the Toronto Maple Leaf's. Gustafsson Nyberg and Tverberg join Marc Gatcomb, Chase Bradley, Ruslan Iskhakov, Yan Kuznetsov, Todd Krygier, Cole Schneider, Max Letunov, Adam Huska, and Tage Thompson as former Huskies to make it to the league.
