Inopportune turnovers plagued UConn as they spotted No. 12 Vermont a three-goal lead Friday night in a loss at Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, 5-4.
Karl El-Mir and Maxim Letunov each added a goal and an assist while Evan Richardson had two assists.
It appeared as though UConn had a goal inside the first five minutes of the game but it was waved off due to a hand pass. Vermont took advantage of its good fortune and got on the board 7:49 into the game off of a Johnny Austin mistake.
Austin coughed up the puck just inside the UConn blue line to Ross Colton, who got the puck over to Mario Puskarich.