UConn huskies 2020-21 Hockey Game Notes Men's Hockey Contact: Bill Peterson GAME 7 [email protected] Office: 860-486-9109 Cell: 860-465-7539 / 203-558-3215 2020-21 Schedule UConn Huskies (1-4-1, 1-4-1 HEA/0-1 OW-OL/1 SW) vs. No. 15/13 Providence Friars (2-2-1, 2-2-1 HEA/0-0 OW-OL/0 SW) November (0-1-1, 0-1-1 HEA) December 28, 2020 | 3 pm | Storrs, Conn. | Freitas Ice Forum 20 at No. 7/7 UMass * (TV: NESNplus) L, 5-1 21 vs. No. 7/7 UMass * T, 2-2 Media Coverage... December (1-3-0, 1-3-0 HEA) Video Stream: CollegeSportsLive.com/HockeyEast Audio Stream: TuneIn.com 11 at No. 2/2 Boston College * (TV: NESN) L, 4-3 ot (pxp) Randy Brochu Live Stats: UConnHuskies.com 12 vs. No. 2/2 Boston College * (TV: CW20) W, 3-1 Radio: UConn Sports Network from Learfield IMG Twitter: @UConnMHOC 21 vs. No. 15/15 UMass Lowell * L, 2-1 College - ESPN 97-9 FM Hashtags: #IceBus #BleedBlue 23 at No. 10/10 UMass * (TV: NESN) L, 6-2 (pxp) Bob Joyce; (color) Rob Joyce Instagram: UConnMHOC 28 vs. No. 15/13 Providence * 3 pm January (0-0-0, 0-0-0 HEA) 1 at New Hampshire * (TV: NESN) 4 pm Ice Chips... 2 vs. New Hampshire * 4 pm » The UConn Huskies return home to the Freitas Ice Forum on Monday afternoon to take on the No. 15/13 7 at UMass * 6 pm nationally ranked Providence Friars. The Huskies are looking to end a five-game winless streak against the 9 vs. UMass * 4 pm Friars (0-4-1) dating back to the 2017-18 season. » After beating No. 2 Boston College back on December 12, the Huskies have dropped two-straight, falling to 15 vs. New Hampshire * 6 pm nationally ranked teams UMass Lowell, 2-1, and Massachusetts, 6-2 last week 16 at New Hampshire * 7 pm » UConn comes into Monday's tilt off a 6-2 loss at No. 10 UMass last Wednesday. UMass dominated on special 22 vs. UMass Lowell * 6 pm teams, scoring three power play goals while killing off all five UConn power play chances. The Huskies scor- 23 at UMass Lowell * TBA ing came from junior Jonny Evans and freshman Hudson Schandor, his first collegiate goal. » The Huskies and Minutemen have now played three times this season. The Minutemen posted a 5-1 series 29 vs. Northeastern * 6 pm opening win on their home ice in Amherst and the Huskies battled back from a two-goal third period deficit to 30 at Northeastern * 6 pm earn a 2-2 tie before notching their first Hockey East shoot-out win, 2-1, in four rounds. » In the 2-1 loss at home to the No. 17 UMass Lowell River Hawks, the two teams were tied at 1-1 late into the third period before a Zach Kaiser goal with 2:50 left to play sealed the UML win. UConn junior Carter February (0-0-0, 0-0-0 HEA) Turnbull scored his second goal of the season, and his first on the power play, in the loss. 5 vs. Boston University * 6 pm » Junior Jonny Evans is currently on a career-best four-game point streak and has tallied at least a point in five 6 at Boston University * TBA of the six games this season. Evans notched his second goal of the season at UMass and currently leads the 12 vs. Providence * 6 pm team in scoring with six points (2g/4a). Evans came into the season as the Huskies leading career goal scorer and now has 19 goals in 55 career games. 13 at Providence * TBA » Junior Carter Turnbull has a pair of goals and a pair of assists in the early going while classmates Marc Gat- 19 at UMass Lowell * TBA comb and Kale Howarth also have scored twice this season. 20 vs. UMass Lowell * 4 pm » The Huskies will make a roster addition for the second semester with the addition freshman forward Ryan 26 at Northeastern * 6 pm Tverberg. Tverberg was announced as signing an NLI with UConn back in November and will enter school for the spring semester and bring added depth to the Huskies forwards. The 5-11 righty shot forward is from 27 vs. Northeastern * 4 pm Richmond Hill, Ontario and spent the 2019-20 season playing for the Toronto Jr. Canadians of the OJHL and piled up 51 points in 47 games. He scored 26 goals and added 25 assists and was named to the OJHL All- March (0-0-0, 0-0-0 HEA) Prospect first team. In the 2020 NHL Draft, he was taken in the 7th round by the Toronto Maple Leafs. 5 vs. Merrimack * 6 pm » 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, 6 at Merrimack * TBA 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 Hus- Date and Times are subject to change kies previously have had three players appear in the prestigious international tournament under head coach Times listed are EST Mike Cavanaugh (Tage Thompson - Team USA/2017*; Adam Huska - Team Slovakia/2016&2017; Jachym Home games in bold and will be played at Mark Edward Kondelik - Team Czech Republic/2019). *-Won the gold medal » Junior goaltender Tomas Vomacka was named the Hockey Defensive Player of the Week after making 59 Hockey East is partnered saves on 64 shots to earn four out of six points from No. 2/2 Boston College. The junior stopped 32 shots, in- with NESN and ViacomCBS cluding all 19 he saw in the first period, as the Huskies lost, 4-3, in overtime at Boston College. He came back Digital to provide fans across and kicked out 27 shots and kept BC off the scoreboard for the first two periods in a 3-1 win over the Eagles. the world the opportunity to view every single Hockey East » The Huskies are back on campus for the first time since the 2013-14 season as they will play all their home game in 2020-21. games at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum in Storrs. UConn has called the XL Center in Hartford home Each game will be streamed live online for free on one since joining Hockey East in 2014-15. Only two Hockey East schools have played games at Freitas in UMass of several ViacomCBS Digital properties. All games will Lowell and Merrimack. be made available across the U.S. and internationally on » In the 2020-21 HEA Preseason Coaches' Poll, the Huskies were picked to finish seventh in this year's polling SportsLive, while all games televised on NESN and NESN+ of the league's head coaches. This will be the Huskies seventh season of play in Hockey East and in five of and other select matchups will also be made available on CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports app outside of New their first six seasons in the league, the Huskies have outplayed their preseason prediction. England. » 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 Full How to Watch details and direct links to each game Jersey/5th Rd) and Nick Capone (Tampa Bay/6th Rd) heard their names called in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. will be updated every week in the Watch tab of the league's website, HockeyEastOnline.com. 2020-21 Roster No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht/Wt Hometown/Last Team Alphabetical Roster 1 Ryan Keane So. G 5-9/160 Coppell, Texas / Jamestown Rebels (NAHL) 2 Yan Kuznetsov So. D 6-4/215 Murmansk, Russia / Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) 23 Carter BERGER So. D 3 Adam Karashik (C) Sr. D 6-0/200 Ridgefield, Conn. / Chicago Steel (USHL) 9 Cassidy BOWES Fr. F 4 Roman Kinal So. D 6-2/190 Waterford, Mich. / Dubuque Fighting Saints (USHL) 21 Nick CAPONE Fr. F 5 Eric Linell So. F 5-8/165 Great Neck, N.Y. / Penticton Vees (BCHL) 6 Ryan Wheeler Jr. D 5-10/180 Lancaster, N.Y. / New Jersey Junior Titans (NAHL) 7 Jonny EVANS Jr. F 7 Jonny Evans Jr. F 5-9/170 North Delta, British Columbia / Powell River Kings (BCHL) 10 Vladislav FIRSTOV So. F 8 Carter Turnbull (A) Jr. F 5-8/180 Nanaimo, British Columbia / Powell River Kings (BCHL) 16 Jake FLYNN So. D 9 Cassidy Bowes Fr. F 5-10/185 Sturgeon County, Alberta / Whitecourt Wolves (AJHL) 10 Vladislav Firstov So. F 6-1/185 Yarolavl, Russia / Waterloo Black Hawks (USHL) 17 Marc GATCOMB Jr. F 11 Jáchym Kondelík Jr. F 6-6/225 Budějovice, Czech Republic / Muskegon Lumberjacks (USHL) 29 Kale HOWARTH Jr. F 12 Gavin Puskar Fr. F 6-2/180 Farmington, Conn. / The Hotchkiss School (USHS-Prep) 3 Adam KARASHIK Sr. D 13 John Wojciechowski Jr. F 6-3/210 Mamaroneck, N.Y. / Langley Rivermen (BCHL) 14 Zac Robbins (A) Sr. F 5-10/180 Glenview, Ill. / Cedar Rapids Roughriders (USHL) 1 Ryan KEANE So. G 16 Jake Flynn So. D 6-0/180 Bridgewater, Mass. / Thayer Academy (USHS-Prep) 4 Roman KINAL So.