Six games into his freshman year, Matthew Wood is demonstrating what kind of difference elite talent makes for the team.
When Matthew Wood committed to UConn in August 2020, he’d never stepped foot on the campus. In fact, he’d barely even seen pictures of it.
Wood didn’t even know what the hockey facility looked like until he walked into it for the first time after he moved in for the fall semester. In terms of facilities, Wood only had one requirement.
“As long as there’s a rink, as long as I can skate, I didn’t really care what it looked like,” he said.