How Jonny Evans became UConn’s first Division I All-American

Ian Bethune/The UConn Blog After UConn men’s hockey’s 2019-20 season came to an abrupt end, Jonny Evans sat down for his end-of-year meeting with the coaching staff. Together, they went over his entire sophomore campaign and looked at the good, the bad, and the best opportunities for improvement.

One thing stood above all: Though Evans finished the year with nine goals — tied for fourth-most on the team — and 19 points overall, six of those goals in two games with two hat tricks: One against Vermont in December and another against UNH in January. Outside of those two performances, Evans scored just three goals in 25 games.

The coaching staff emphasized that if Evans wanted to take the next…